Category Archives: C#

Dial Gauge is a ProgressBar

By tewari | Published: June 10, 2008

I am not just being philosophical here. In WPF, ControlTemplates allow you to transform a control’s appearance. This is not the same as applying stylesheets. This is an entirely new level of customization. What you see in the screenshot below looks like a Dial but is actually a simple ProgressBar control wearing a “Dial” template. [...]

Also posted in code, WPF, xaml | Tagged .NET, C#, code, Dial, Gauge, ProgressBar, WPF, xaml | Leave a comment

PostSharp with SharpDevelop

By tewari | Published: April 28, 2008

SharpDevelop3.0 uses MSBuild. Including PostSharp in your build process is transparent if you are doing a global install using PostSharp installer. If you are doing a per-project installation using “Binary – No Installer” download, you will need to import the PostSharp targets into your .csproj file - True C:\code\PostSharp-1.0.8.316-Binary\ For more details, read the install [...]

Also posted in AOP, code | Tagged AOP, Aspect, MSBuild, PostSharp, SharpDevelop | Leave a comment

Using Custom Converter in XAML

By tewari | Published: April 15, 2008

In my previous post : WPF-LINQ To SQL Sample, I had to resort to modifying .dbml file to get the images stored as varbinary into the WPF ListView control. I had to change the Type of image fields to System.Byte[], instead of using System.Data.Linq.Binary. A better way to do this is to use a custom [...]

Also posted in code, WPF, xaml | Tagged Binding, ImageDataConverter, ListView, WPF, xaml | Leave a comment

WPF – LINQ to SQL Sample

By tewari | Published: March 7, 2008

This exercise in binding a WPF ListView control with LINQ to SQL was a lot of fun ! The following image shows data from AdventureWorks sample database displayed in the ListView control. The end result is very admirable, even in this very basic demo. Feeling a complete sense of freedom is unavoidable when working with [...]