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Get started with WPF and MVVM – Build a Music Library using a DataGrid

Peter AkarakiriNovember 29, 2016Leave a Comment

Who is this blog post for? You are a beginner in creating Windows desktop application. You are interested in writing…

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Want to bind to a WPF ConverterParameter?

PeterSeptember 18, 2014August 29, 2015Leave a Comment

The other day I was working on a WPF functionality that requires me to format a user input from a DatePickerTextBox.…

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Did You Know Series Tips Tutorials WPF

WPF did you know series #3: the following code snippets are the same

PeterAugust 31, 2014October 24, 2018Leave a Comment

Snippet 1:

&lt;Button xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation” Content=”OK”&gt;<br />  &lt;Button.Background&gt;<br />    &lt;SolidColorBrush Color=”White”/&gt;<br />  &lt;/Button.Background&gt;<br />&lt;/Button&gt;

1	<Button xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation” Content=”OK”><br /> <Button.Background><br /> <SolidColorBrush Color=”White”/><br /> </Button.Background><br /></Button>

Snippet 2:

&lt;Button xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation”<br />Content=”OK”&gt;<br />  &lt;Button.Background&gt;<br />    &lt;SolidColorBrush&gt;<br />      &lt;SolidColorBrush.Color&gt;<br />        &lt;Color A=”255” R=”255” G=”255” B=”255”/&gt;<br />      &lt;/SolidColorBrush.Color&gt;<br />    &lt;/SolidColorBrush&gt;<br />  &lt;/Button.Background&gt;<br />&lt;/Button&gt;

<Button xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation”<br />Content=”OK”><br /> <Button.Background><br /> <SolidColorBrush><br /> <SolidColorBrush.Color><br /> <Color A=”255” R=”255” G=”255” B=”255”/><br /> </SolidColorBrush.Color><br /> </SolidColorBrush><br /> </Button.Background><br /></Button>

Snippet 3:

System.Windows.Controls.Button button = new System.Windows.Controls.Button();<br />button.Content = “OK”;<br />button.Background = (Brush)System.ComponentModel.TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(Brush)).ConvertFromInvariantString(“White”);

1	System.Windows.Controls.Button button = new System.Windows.Controls.Button();<br />button.Content = “OK”;<br />button.Background = (Brush)System.ComponentModel.TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(Brush)).ConvertFromInvariantString(“White”);