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INotifyPropertyChanged Snippets (And Why You Should Use These Instead of DependencyProperties)

First things first, here are my INotifyPropertyChanged snippets. INotifyPropertyChanged snippet (PropertyChangedEventHandler and RaisePropertyChanged method) INotifyPropertyChanged Property snippet Just download them into your "Visual Studio 2008CodeSnippetsVisual C#My CodeSnippets" folder and they… Read More »INotifyPropertyChanged Snippets (And Why You Should Use These Instead of DependencyProperties)

WPF Wii Multi-Point Tutorials, Part 2: Writing a Code-less Wiimote Program

 OK, I hope no one is using my last post as an example of what you should be doing when interfacing the Wiimote with WPF. Because it was completely hack-tastic.

 Instead, use my new WPF/Wii library. It uses the WPF INotifyPropertyChanged interface to act as an interface so that we can bind the Wiimote data directly to the XAML. More on that in a little bit, but first…

In this post, we’ll walk through creating a basic multi-point capable app that uses the Wiimote as an input device. What is really unique about this post is the fact that we’re going to do this in a way that requires absolutely no code whatsoever on your part.

That’s right. No code. At all. Zero knowledge of C# required.

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Embedded ListView Columns (Columns Within Columns)

Please Read: Strangely, when you do a Google search for “wpf” and “listview”, this is one of the top links. This is odd because this particular post is kind of an advanced tutorial. If you’re looking for more general information on styling the wpf listview, check out this post. It is probably much closer to what you’re looking for.

This is a bit of an advanced tutorial. I’m putting it up because I just figured out how to do it and I want to share. You can also download the project files for this tutorial (in zip format… requires .Net 3.5).

Recently, I received from my user experience designers a wireframe that looked something like this:

EmbeddedWireframe

As you can see, there are embedded categories (categories within categories) here. I considered many solutions (hacks), but I found that a deeper understanding of the ListView and how it works would allow me to resolve this issue very simply (and without even touching the code behind).Read More »Embedded ListView Columns (Columns Within Columns)