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Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:19 PM

Implicit Styles, Templates, Controls and FrameworkElements

Even though I've been working with WPF for over 3 years, I'm still learning some of its idiosyncrasies. A discussion came up recently about whether implicit styles are applied to elements in a template. It turns out that the answer is, it depends on whether
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 6:07 PM

Wha' Happened Part Two: More Property Changes in WPF

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
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Monday, January 15, 2007 1:26 PM

Maximizing WPF 3D Performance on Tier-2 Hardware

Members of the WPF 3D team have provided a list of 3D classes and properties with performance implications, along with recommendations for optimizing performance when you use them.
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Friday, January 05, 2007 2:11 PM

"Styling" the content of a ContentControl

People have occasionally asked about using a Style to set the content of a control. For example, suppose you want all of your buttons in an application to have the same content. You can do something like this (As usual, this doesn’t make sense for a real
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007 12:54 PM

Interactive 2D Controls on 3D Surfaces in WPF

One of the really cool features of WPF is its ability to place 2D content on 3D surfaces. For example, you can place a button control on a sphere or arrange images on a cube. However, w ith V1 of WPF, you couldn't interact with this 2D content. You could
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Thursday, November 30, 2006 7:58 AM

Are You My Mother? A look into how property inheritance works with the logical and visual element trees.

I was recently working on an article for the SDK and noticed some unexpected behavior in one of my examples. After a long discussion with a developer on the team, I caught onto some concepts that weren’t readily obvious to me. I’m going to share my findings
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:35 PM

Using XamlPad to Test Content

XamlPad is a Windows SDK tool that gives you a simple way to experiment with creating XAML content--the XAML can be instantly displayed as WPF content. For example, I use XamlPad to test WPF features, such as OpenType fonts. By changing differing property
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Thursday, July 06, 2006 4:35 PM

Best Practices for Globalization and Localization in WPF

You can make the most of the globalization and localization functionality that is built into Windows Presentation Foundation by following the UI design and localization-related tips that this section provides. Best Practices for WPF UI Design When you
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