WPF is a successor of Windows Forms. Earlier Windows Forms uses the Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI+) for rendering any graphics, and drawing text. WPF is a new framework for developing rich Windows smart client applications that uses the DirectX technology behind the scene. WPF is resolution-independent because WPF uses …
To build more responsive WPF UI, we have to use multiple threads that can work in the background and update the UI when the work completed. But background threads can’t access the objects created in the STA. Then how can we update the UI when the background threads completed their …
Label control is used for showing the text data in the WPF application. It also provides support for Access Keys. Content Property Label is directly inherit from ContentControl class which provides the Content property to Label control. In the Content property, you can set the string or host any type of …
WPF ListView does not support Filtering by default. ListView does not have their own methods to filter the bounded list. But WPF has a very special class CollectionViewSource which supports Filtering very effectively and in very easy way. What is CollectionViewSource class? CollectionViewSource is a class which we can use …
WPF ListView is a very popular tool for showing list of items. Sometimes we need to hide the ListView column headers and only show the list of items. But ListView does not provide any default behavior or property for hiding the column headers. By applying a simple style you can …
WPF TabControl provides two templates property for changing the UI for Header and Content area. ItemTemplate ItemTemplate is used for changing the DataTemplate of Header section of TabItem. By default, Header DataTemplate call the ToString method of binded object to get the content of it. You can define your custom …
TabControl provides two main properties for selection of Items. TabControl SelectedItem SelectedItem property is used for getting and setting the selected object of WPF TabControl. You bind item list into the ItemsSource property of TabControl and set the SelectedItem property to object which you want to selected first. Below is …
FlowDirection in WPF TabControl is used for setting the content flow direction of UI elements in header and content area. FlowDirection is an enum which has only two values: LeftToRight By default, any TabControl set the FlowDirection property to LeftToRight. In this, all the UI controls in header and content area are …
TabStripPlacement is an important propety of TabControl. It is used for setting the Header alignment relative to tab content. You can set below four values in TabStripPlacement. I have given all four examples of TabStripPlacement. Left Set header to left position like below: Top Set header to top position. It is …
Reflection in C# is a big topic in itself. I’ll summarize a little list of what you can do with reflection. .NET assembly is a collection of types and its metadata. Metadata describes all the types and its structures like methods, fields, events, and properties. Metadata also defines all the attributes defined …