How Do I Set Up Grid Lines for my ListView?
So you want grid lines in your listview, huh? Something that looks a little like this? OK, we can do this the easy way and the hard way.
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Getting the Popup to Close When It Loses Focus
On a recent project, I spent (I kid you not) over three hours trying to get a stinking popup to close when I clicked somewhere else in the application. Figuring it was a focus issue, I tried the following triggers: IsFocused IsKeyboardFocused IsKeyboardFocusWithin IsMouseCapture IsMouseCaptureWithin All to no avail. Turns out that the only thing…
WPF Contest… Everyone Look Away Now
There is a WPF contest over at Lab 49 on visualization in the financial sector. “WPF technology has the potential to revolutionize the visualization of data in the financial services industry and we’re looking for the best examples of WPF working with financial data that we can find to illustrate this.” The prizes are pretty cool,…
The WPF Designer Guide To Styling the (your-favorite-adjectival-swear-word-here) ListView
So, after months of delay I finally figured that there are probably some people out there who want to figure out how to make the WPF listview look the way they want it to look. A quick note: I will be dealing almost entirely with the listview look. If you want the listview to do something…
Announcing Designer WPF
This is a blog dedicated to WPF guidance for designers. The reason I’m creating this blog is because there seems to be almost nothing out there in helping designers to really get into WPF in a meaningful way. Which is because there aren’t enough good WPF designers to write blogs. Which is because there aren’t enough good…