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Oops, I forgot I was in a WPF app when I did that second ComboBox

Tuesday, 20 January 2009 15:06 by hadi

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A style missing perhaps? I mean honestly!

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XAML Power Toys

Monday, 8 December 2008 08:45 by hadi

I've been dabbling in WPF lately. Nothing too fancy, just fixing up some parts of an application we're currently working on and integration with Reporting Services. One of the things that is quite time-consuming in WPF is layout, specially when it comes to laying out business forms (i.e. a set of fields on a form to collect data). An alternative to a writing all this by hand (or using some flavor of Expression) is to use the XAML Power Toys, which generates the XAML for you based on a series of input values.

Instead of explaining all the cool features it has here, just go to the site

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WPF and Business Logic

Monday, 14 July 2008 10:50 by Hadi

I read something interesting on Scott Hanselman's blog the other day regarding WPF. It was in relation to activating and dis-activating some controls based on the value of other ones. And I "quote":
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His proposed solution is taking advantage of WPF's extremely powerful binding capabilities. I "quote" again:

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He's happy with that. I'm not! He's putting business logic inside the view. And it scares me to see things like this because it tends to non-testable and "obscure" problems.

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