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Sunday, November 08, 2009 9:21 PM

Get whole sets of vector icons using … Fonts!

Finding icons is a tedious task for most developers. In this post I will demonstrate how to use “symbolic” fonts in your WPF or Silverlight applications, which provide the following benefits: Vector icons that are smoothly scalable Potentially better
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Attachment(s): FontsAsVectorIcons.zip
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:03 AM

Silverlight: Accessing files outside of the ClientBin directory of your website using a relative URI

Accessing an arbitrary file on your website is a very common need in RIA scenarios. This is easily done from Silverlight when the files you are trying to access are under the ClientBin directory, or given an absolute URI path to the targeted file. Unfortunately,
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Attachment(s): RelativeExternalUris_en.zip
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:33 AM

Reading a configuration file from an abitrary path

Here a a few, but often useful, lines of code that open a .NET configuration file from any given path. Just use the OpenMappedExeConfiguration method : var configFileMap = new ExeConfigurationFileMap (); configFileMap.ExeConfigFilename = @"C:\TEMP\MyApp.config"
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 10:01 AM

WPF: Some terms defined for Rudy

I received a mail from Rudy, who asked me for some clarifications on several WPF definitions: « The terms for which I would like to have some details, relations and usage are DataTemplate, ContentControl, ControlTemplate and Content » A DataTemplate is
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 11:44 AM

Enumerations (enum) en XAML

La syntaxe du XAML ne se prêtant pas particulièrement à ce type de données, l'utilisation des enums en code déclaratif n'est pas instinctive. Le code de ce post démontre plusieurs utilisations d'enums en XAML. Le premier exemple est un ObjectDataProvider
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Attachment(s): EnumDataTrigger.zip
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 7:52 PM

Réduire le temps de démarrage perçu avec System.Windows.SplashScreen

La nouvelle classe System.Windows.SplashScreen du framework .NET 3.5 SP1 permet d'afficher très rapidement et avec une grande facilité un écran d'accueil lors du démarrage de vos applications WPF. Ceci permet de réduire le temps de démarrage perçu par
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Attachment(s): SplashScreenWpf.zip
 
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