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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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