Most of our WPF projects end up with a lot of xaml resources. I do my best to try to keep them organized and easy to navigate. In many ways though, I am still learning . I often have a resource dictionary containing all of my default styles for a given application. When I collapse everything, the nodes...

This is a somewhat made-up scenario based on a recent project. My client has not given me permission to discuss the specifics of the application (yet), so I apologize for keeping it vague. I hope you don't give up before the payoff. The Problem Imagine an application, where a user can create "styles"...

Separators are the little tiddly-bits that, um, separate items in a menu or tool bar. The intention is to divide the items on the menu or toolbar into logical groups. Separators are controls, but they don't have any real behavior. One of our current projects includes an exhaustive custom styling...

I'm currently writing the chapter about control templates in our WPF book , and I wanted to include a list of all of the named parts that are hidden away in the dark recesses of the various controls. Before I even started googling, I had an idea that I thought I'd share. For those of you not...

If you are WPF developer and you are not familiar with Costa's blog , you should really check it out. Lots and lots of good posts about data binding in WPF. The most recent post is about debugging data binding, which has been a personal pain point on recent projects. (Really it was more testability...