Vincent Sibal's Blog

So what else is new in WPF 3.5 SP1? Here is a smaller but pretty nice feature for you ItemsControl fans: alternating rows. This alternating row feature has been added in WPF 3.5 SP1 to make it easier to set properties like Background, Foreground, etc...

I recently got a question on how to implement IEditableCollectionView with GridViewColumns that are dynamically created. Creating the columns dynamically actually doesn’t really have a big impact on IEditableCollectionView implementation. I have a sample...

So far for the new WPF 3.5 SP1 features, I've surveyed Item Container Recycling , Data Formatting , and IEditableCollectionView . Next on my list is Non-live Scrolling! What is it? Before 3.5 SP1, the WPF ScrollViewer only supported live scrolling...

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Motivation A CollectionView is your interface into manipulating a collection of data items in an ItemsControl. Common tasks with this view often involve applying sorting, filtering, and grouping. In lieu of supporting a DataGrid control, transactional...

A friend from my previous team was asking about some resources relating to WPF as his team will be ramping up for WPF/Silverlight in their future releases. I think that's awesome and quite a shift in paradigm (COM/Win32 => .NET/WPF/Silverlight). Anyway...

Background Formatting data can be a pretty cumbersome task in WPF. To illustrate with a very simple example, let’s say I want to display the dollar value of some item in a TextBlock: < StackPanel > < TextBlock Text ="Choose a number...

Here are some pretty comprehensive resources on the new features in our WPF 3.5 SP1 release. Scott Guthrie's blog post on installation issues, features in Visual Studio and the .NET framework. Jossef Goldberg's blog post on performance improvements...

Item container recycling is a one of the many new features in SP1. I'm going to talk a little bit about it here. What is it? As a little background, the VirtualizingStackPanel ’s virtualization scheme basically works like this: generate containers...

My name is Vincent Sibal and I am a recent addition to the WPF test team. Previously I was working in Windows Mobile and helped ship the T-Mobile Shadow and WM 6.1. There are a lot of exciting things going on in the WPF world and I hope that I can offer...