WPF Disciples

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03/31/08--09:20: WPF Disciples in 3D (chan 2720194)

Welcome to the blog of the WPF Disciples group! This is the first post to our group’s blog. Recently, Josh Smith posted on his blog about an application that displays the items of an ItemsControl in a 3D panel. You can check it out here. One thing that he did not mention is that the [...]


Josh Smith

WPF Disciples in 3D

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04/01/08--19:27: WPF Disciples has a 3D blogroll (chan 2720194)

Josh has been at it again. This time he took all of the WPF Disciple member bio’s and turned it into an interactive 3D blogroll! Check it out here.


Josh Smith

WPF Disciples 3D Blogroll (Screenshot)

04/03/08--00:35: Handling and Reporting WPF Data Binding Validation Errors and Exceptions (chan 2720194)

This last month Karl has been obsessed with WPF business object data binding, and the .NET 3.5 support for the IDataErrorInfo interface. He posted an informative article entitled Handling and Reporting WPF Data Binding Validation Errors and Exceptions. This article, which includes a Silverlight video, challenges the reader to fully understand what messages the WPF [...]


Karl Shifflett

04/04/08--13:56: Debugging in WPF – WPF Disciples tips and tricks (chan 2720194)

It is proven that we software developers spend more time debugging than actually writing code. Guess what?!! WPF is no different… We have to debug and debug and debug! So the WPF Disciples decided to make a list of articles that can help WPF developers make the debugging process easier. Debugging DataBinding - Marlon Grech [...]


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04/24/08--09:46: Why WPF is ready for LOB (chan 2720194)

A rather interesting, though horribly misnamed, thread started on the WPF Forum. The “Why WPF is not ready for LOB” thread contains quite a few insightful perspectives on the topic of WPF’s viability for line-of-business (LOB) development. The thread also contains links to blog posts that carry the discussion out further. If you have something [...]


Josh Smith

10/09/08--05:12: FrameworkElement vs. FrameworkContentElement (chan 2720194)

FrameworkElement (FE) derives from UIElement.  FrameworkContentElement (FCE) derives from ContentElement.  Since the framework is not built on a language that supports multiple inheritance (and thank god for that!), the divergence was necessary.  There are parts of ContentElement that you wouldn’t want in every FE and there are parts of UIElement that you wouldn’t want in [...]


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