Windows Presentation Foundation User Education

You may have a scenario that requires you to find an element within a ControlTemplate. To do that, you use Template.FindName. Say you have a simple ControlTemplate for a Button, like the following: < Style TargetType = " {x:Type Button...

Introduction In WPF, when you navigate to a page, you use a special type of URI known as a pack URI to do so. A pack URI is a URI that uses the pack scheme (for more information on the pack scheme in WPF, see this discussion ). Pack URIs can be used...

I just created a sample that serves as a walkthrough wizard for teaching WPF animations. Besides teaching you the basics of WPF animations in an interactive and relatively entertaining way, there are a bunch of cool effects integrated into the wizard...

Introduction Windows Presentation Foundation features quite a variety of different mechanisms that provide notifications of when a property changes its value. These mechanisms come from several different feature areas: from data binding, from the WPF...

Great news! You can now download WPF samples individually. From the WPF samples page on MSDN , just go to the sample topic of your choice, click the “Download sample” link on the page, and follow the instructions! It’s fast and easy! Note that if...

I’m going to be a bit indulgent and climb on my soap box for a minute. Making sure your application is accessible for tools like screen readers is important, and it’s important to address the issues up front when designing and developing the app. In my...