You want a custom control to behave like a Popup and appear over your application and other windows? So you should inherit from Popup, right? Not necessarily. Another approach is to create your custom control, add a Popup to it, and use the popup...

Chris Anderson, an architect on the WPF team at Microsoft, wrote Essential Windows Presentation Foundation , which has just hit the bookstores. WPF is as much a philosophical shift from other UI technologies (WinForms etc) as it is a technical shift...

The latest version of the WPF Performance Suite has just be released in the Windows SDK for Windows Server and .NET Framework 3.5 ! If you install the SDK, you'll find WpfPerf.msi , which lets you install the latest perf suite. The accompanying “Performance...

This post shows you how to find a named element within a DataTemplate. In Part I , we discussed how to find a named element within a ControlTemplate. That was fairly simple; you’d call Template.FindName on the control that the ControlTemplate has...

This post demonstrates how to manually center a window with respect to both a WPF and non-WPF owner window. Centering a Window with a WPF Owner Window To center a window over another window in WPF, you need to do two things. First, you need to set...