Tag Archive: wpf

MVVM Session 01 – Introduction to Model-View-ViewModel Pattern for WPF

I will be doing a in-depth series on WPF MVVM Pattern, and here is the first video of the series. View the video on YouTube for full 1920×1080 resolution and HD quality. Video Watch on YouTube now. Demo Code DCOMProductions.MvvmDemo.zip

Working with the WPF TextBlock control.

Introduction Setting a TextBlock’s Content Formatting Text Using Controls with Formatted Text Introduction In WPF there are two very similar controls Label and TextBlock, and I’m going to cover TextBlock and why its so useful. First, what is the TextBlock…
Read more

Avoiding a deadlock when creating a STA thread and using Dispatcher.

I have always been pretty articulate and careful when writing multi-threading code, but today I wrote my first deadlock that had me baffled for a few minutes. I’m working on a licensing dll that handles a lot of processing, and…
Read more

Showing a splash screen in WPF from an external assembly or class library.

This isn’t anything special, but the documentation on Msdn for System.Windows.SplashScreen is lacking. Basically I am writing a licensing system and during debugging the WPF stack can take many seconds to load. When making changes to this system sometimes it…
Read more