One of the upcoming additions in .NET 3.5 SP1 is a StringFormat parameter you can pass along with your bindings. Sacha Barber has an example of how to use it:
<TextBlock
Text="{Binding Path=AccountBalance, StringFormat=’You have {0:c} in your bank account.’}"
/>
However, if you can’t install the service pack or you […]
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These are my thoughts about drop 03-25-2008 of Prism, patterns & practices’ composite WPF application guidance. I understand that this is only a preview release, and it is likely the code will change in the future, rendering these thoughts obsolete.
Before I get into the code, I want to prefix this post with thoughts on […]
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Windows Presentation Foundation has copped a lot of criticism over designer support in the past year, and from my experiences with Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, I don’t expect that will change. Even as it stabilizes, I don’t see the current incarnation of the designer actually making developers more productive.
I believe that WPF does […]
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Update: this bug is no where near as bad as I first suspected. I am instead going to supercede this post with a post about event handlers.
Update: I have reported this bug to MSDN Connect here. If you are a WPF developer please vote, as I can virtually guarantee this will affect your […]
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This page originally housed a XAML and WPF Coding Guidelines page, which has now been moved to the WPF Disciples group to create a better consensus around conventions.
Check out the revised page at:
http://groups.google.com.au/group/wpf-disciples/web/wpf-and-xaml-coding-guidelines
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My name is Paul Stovell, and I am a software developer from Australia. I work for Readify, a .NET consulting company specialising in technical readiness. I am also a Microsoft MVP. In my spare time I work on Bindable LINQ, a set of open source extensions that enable data binding over LINQ queries.
