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WPF – Automatic ViewModel Resolution with Autofac
In MVVM there are lots of elaborate ways to make sure our XAML’s DataContext is correctly instantiated, and if you are using IoC then you should be letting the IoC container instantiate your viewmodel,...
View ArticleINotifyPropertyChanged – Not Required!
Here’s another quickie Question : Does your DataContext (or ViewModel if you’re doing MVVM) have to implement INotifyPropertyChanged in order to participate in XAML data binding and change...
View ArticleWPF / MVVM – Property Changed To Command Behavior
Ok, its been a while since my last post, so Ive got a lot of saved-up article ideas to write – so here comes the first (many more to follow). MVVM – its now ubiquitous in WPF ‘line of business’...
View ArticleMVVM – DataContext Outside The Visual Tree With Freezables
Often in WPF development I am looking for ingenious ways to maximise my data usage opportunities within XAML. I try hard not to add additional code or inflate my ViewModel if I can use XAML to achieve...
View ArticleSplitView Menu in Universal Windows (UWP) – Part1
Hi All It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, primarily because the WPF world had become very stagnant and uninteresting. After a brief flirtation with XAML in Xamarin, I am back with renewed...
View ArticleSplitView Menu in Universal Windows (UWP) – Part2
In part 1 (SplitView Menu Control – Part 1) I showed code for implementing my SplitView Menu control in a simple ‘standard’ scenario. As mentioned in the first part of this series, the ‘Universal...
View ArticleSplitView Menu in Universal Windows (UWP) – Part3
In part 1 (SplitView Menu Control – Part 1) I showed code for implementing my SplitView Menu control in a simple ‘standard’ scenario. In part 2 (SplitView Menu Control – Part 2) I showed code for...
View ArticleWPF – Accessing DataContext Within Grid Columns
Its a common enough scenario, you are writing the XAML for a data grid (maybe the WPF DataGrid, maybe the WPF ListView/GridView, or maybe a 3rd Party Grid component) which is within a WPF Window, Page...
View ArticleMVVM Dialogs with IDialogFactory
Here’s the problem – system Dialogs (MessageBox.Show) and custom Dialogs (Window.ShowDialog) dont fit very well into the MVVM design pattern, and it is notoriously hard to test ViewModels that need to...
View ArticleWPF – Enum ItemsSource With Custom Behavior
Hi All, I’m writing a post today about a common problem with MVVM and Enums. Sometimes you want a Selector control (ListBox, ComboBox) to bind to an Enum value in your ViewModel, with the Selector’s...
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