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MDI in WPF via Dragablz
Dragablz is more than just a Chrome style TabControl for WPF. Via it’s Layout control it provides docking and tool windows. Taking the tool windows a step further, they can be used to provide an MDI...
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How to use the Material Design theme with Dragablz Tab Control
In this post I will demonstrate how to – very quickly – combine Dragablz and MaterialDesignColors in WPF to create a great looking control which supports full tear out and can use the Google Material...
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Dragablz Meets MahApps, pt II.
In a previous post I showed Dragablz and MahApps working together with a few basic pointers. In this post I will illustrate the specific MahApps styles included in Dragablz, and show how to get a...
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Material Design In XAML – Mash Up!
I have previously posted about the Material Design theme for Dragablz. In this post I will describe how I arrived at this application mock-up, by combining Dragablz, Material Design in XAML Toolkit,...
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Material Design DatePicker/Calendar Style for WPF
Howdi, After a bit of toil I have the DatePicker and Calendar WPF control styles done for Material Design in XAML Toolkit. I hope you guys like it! (Edit: TimePicker & Clock now also available,...
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Material Design Themed TimePicker and Clock Controls for WPF
I’ve managed to get the existing WPF controls; DatePicker & Calendar themed as part of Material Design in XAML Toolkit as described in this blog post. But the fun part was cranking a couple of...
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Open Sourcing a Logo
Open source doesn’t have to just apply to code. I’ve been applying my XAML skills to Material Design In XAML Toolkit to help other developers quickly craft good looking user interfaces in WPF. I’m...
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Using MahApps Dialog Boxes in a MVVM Setup
Finally, after a couple of years of take, take, take; I’ve made a contribution to MahApps. Working in a financial institution it’s not always easy to commit back to open source projects, so with a...
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Dealing with RX Exception, “Failed to start monitoring system clock changes”
With some pain we recently uncovered a risk in using Observable.Timer(...) in Reactive Extensions. The system is a WPF real-time trading system, utilising RX heavily. Some of our users access the...
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React.js and Material Design Lite
I’m a bit of a React.js fan lately, and with the arrival of Google’s Material Design Lite, I decided to combine them for a little project I’m throwing together. Turns out to be pretty easy. To...
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Version 1.0 of Material Design In XAML has arrived!
Well, this project kinda came out of nowhere, but has proven to be pretty popular and I’ve really enjoyed getting it to this state: version 1.0! It’s officially a non-alpha, non-beta, totally live...
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Bending the WPF ProgressBar
There’s plenty progress loop controls around for WPF, but for Material Design In XAML Toolkit I really wanted to stick to “themeing” existing framework controls where-ever possible. Here’s examples of...
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WPF Dialog Boxes In Material Design In XAML Toolkit
(Note this article refers to a pre-release version, which can be found on nuget provided pre-release versions are included in your search.) Message boxes. Ever a source of frustration in WPF. MahApps...
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Resolving A Dead Lock Is Your Number 1 Priority.
If your app deadlocks during development you might not want the added distraction. Surely you’ve got some feature which you need to get finished off in a hurry that your boss is pressurising you for....
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Material Design In XAML Toolkit: version 1.2
I’m happy to say that Material Design In XAML Toolkit version 1.2 has rolled, bringing yet more polish and features that are hopefully going to help people bring their desktop applications to life....
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ViewModelBase: go away.
So yeah, this isn’t directed at people doing cool Flux models with React.js, no, this is for those of use still plying the MVVM pattern with rich clients using XAML. I hate “ViewModelBase”....
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Generate a C# Enum with Rosyln
I’m currently working on an Icon Pack for my Material Design library and need to generate an enum containing a list of all the icons. Before you delve into this code you should know that the same...
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Icon Pack – Material Design In XAML 1.4
New for release 1.4 of Material Design In XAML Toolkit is a full icon pack. Icon design is a skill itself and finding or creating good icons when designing an application can be a time consuming task....
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Material Design In XAML – 1.5
It’s a big new release for MD in XAML Toolkit! This release focuses on a new transitions API (when I say API, I mean fully usable from XAML), which takes the pain out of WPF storyboard-ing, making...
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SemVer, MVP and finally, Material Design In XAML 2.0.
This release of Material Design In XAML has taken way longer than I hoped, and contains less than I had hoped, so I apologise for that. I’m trying to follow SemVer, and a couple of breaking changes...
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