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September 2009 - Posts

Tip: creating your own snippets

I recently showed how to use the "Define a Dependency Property" snippet in VS to save time/frustration creating a new property on your control. I often need a property changed event as well, and it's a bit of a pain to go back and add it. I just figured Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 2:14 AM by jfoscoding | 1 Comments
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Tip: quickly create a dependency property

If you want to make a property that can be styled from XAML - you need to create a dependency property on your control. This can be a tricky syntax, but fortunately the C#/VB editor have "snippets" that allow you to really quickly create one. Let’s assume Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 2:11 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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Creating a custom control in Cider

Here's the quick way to create a custom control in Cider. Right click on project in Solution Explorer Choose “Add > New Item” Choose “Custom Control (WPF)” Two files will be generated – CustomControl1.cs and Themes\Generic.xaml In the Themes\Generic.xaml Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 2:01 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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OnRender is not as cheap as OnPaint

If you’re an old windows forms or GDI/Win32 person, you may be tempted to override OnRender for more complex UIs . A long long time ago I wrote how to create a custom control in Windows Forms . I showed the technique for calling Invalidate() to call OnPaint Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 1:56 AM by jfoscoding | 4 Comments
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Avoiding throwaway layout/painting/mouse code

I’m not normally a Hungarian fanatic or anything, but it is quite easy to create “write once” layout/painting code. If there’s ever a problem with the math the code needs to be tossed out because it’s too confusing or too difficult to update. I think Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 12:20 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments

How can I remember which order Margin properties are set?

Often you can stare at a margin property "10,20,30,40" in XAML and be slightly confused as to which is which property. If I have to deal with a format over and over again I will come up with a trick to remember how to work with it. My trick is to remembering Read More...
Posted Monday, September 07, 2009 10:10 PM by jfoscoding | 1 Comments

Demystifying WPF/Silverlight layout properties

What is the difference between ActualSize, RenderSize, LayoutSlot? There are quite a few properties in WPF and Silverlight for layout, and it is confusing. It helps me to think of them in two separate categories – layout input properties (control layout), Read More...
Posted Monday, September 07, 2009 7:31 PM by jfoscoding | 3 Comments
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G'Day from Australia!

...and I'm back. Well not back back in Redmond back, but back doing the things I love with great people, just at a great distance. I want to apologize for my hiatus from blogging. I have been busy at work on the next version of the Cider designer for Read More...
Posted Monday, September 07, 2009 7:13 PM by jfoscoding | 1 Comments
 
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