Series
A series of articles imported from my previous blog hosted at https://www.talkingitthrough.co.uk.
WPF provides some really nice features allowing us to create dynamic user interfaces. In the next 3 posts I will demonstrate how to create a dynamic menu bar [or tool-bar] that we can add and remove items to at run time. For brevity I have limited th...
In part 1 I introduced the idea of a dynamic menu build using WPF and the hierarchical data template. In this, part 2 I will carry on putting the foundations in place for the menu, and in part 3 I will link everything together. Firstly I shall cove...
In the first part of this series, I introduced the menu service and the menu item base class. In the second part I introduced the command implementation and the hierarchical data template. In this third and final part, I will bring it all togethe...
When I first started out as developer, the usefulness of interfaces was one of the things I never quite worked out. However, as I got more into design and testing then everything suddenly became much more clear. By developing to interfaces we can m...
Language integrated queries are a very simple but powerful way to manage custom collections. Whilst this is only one use for LINQ (it can be used for database connection and all manner of other data driven queries), it is probably the way I use it mo...
Often, when building visual applications I find that as I build the applications in stages, there are often times when I’d like to be able to quickly view what data is in the application memory without having to build the UI and link the data to a se...
