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The Techdays’ code is here !

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:06:49 +0000

Hi everyone, The techdays are over and it was a very good year ! I was a speaker in two sessions, one with Thomas on WPF 4.5 and one another with Luc on WPF Memory Leaks. A lot of people asked me...

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The Techdays 2012 are coming !

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:02:10 +0000

Hello everyone, The 2012 Techdays are coming, 7 more days and it’s here ! This year I am proud to be speaker on two sessions and I hope to see you there ! WPF 4.5 : Quoi de neuf pour les...

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Coded UI Tests : WPF Utilities

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:40:55 +0000

I played a lot with Coded UI Tests API on WPF applications these last weeks. It turned out that this is a really powerful framework available to use but that we need to write a lot of code...

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Coded UI Tests : Property “ReadOnly” cannot be retrieved due to the current state of Edit

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:03:04 +0000

Did you ever encounter this error while trying to retrieve a property value from an AutomationElement ? I did ! Don’t worry, there is always a work-around, and I’ve found one. In this...

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[WP7] Quick tip : how to set 32 bits per pixel for your app.

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:54:59 +0000

Something new which came with Mango is the ability for the developers to set the number of bits per pixel our app use. By doing this, your app will have shiny graphics! This increase the color depth...

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3D and Azure : yes we can ! (Help me win a Nokia Lumia !)

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:16:24 +0000

In the past, I played a lot with 3D inside WPF. A few days ago, I discovered something awesome : using the power of the Cloud to create beautiful 3D scene. (This is also a part of a contest and you...

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WPF 4.5 – Part 13 : binding to types that Implement ICustomTypeProvider

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:19:25 +0000

This is the part number 13 of the serie on the WPF 4.5 new features. ICustomTypeProvider is an interface already known in the Silverlight 5 world but it is shipped with full support in WPF 4.5...

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How to bind an ItemsControl to an Enum with localized descriptions

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:38:12 +0000

Today, it’s a blog on a tip to use the values of an enum as the source of an ItemsControl (ListBox, ComboBox, ListView, etc.) and display them nicely using attributes. We’ll provide a...

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Coded UI Tests : the recorder encountered a wrong control while recording the last action.

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:55:56 +0000

One more quick post on Coded UI tests recording issue. Today, the coded UI test builder tool said to me “The recorder encountered a wrong control while recording the last action.”...

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Coded UI tests : my TextBlock is not found, how to find it ?

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:16:59 +0000

In the previous post, we have seen that setting the AutomationId can greatly help us when we want to perform some UI Tests. Todyay, I struggled with a problem which seems common after some digging...

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The blog is dead, long live the blog !

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:32:00 +0000

Hello everyone, The blog is dead... This is the last post I'll do on this particular blog. After some year using Dotclear as a blog engine, I decided to move to Wordpress because of its...

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MANGO live tile: use a picture in the IsolatedStorage as a background for your tile

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:25:00 +0000

One on the nice feature coming with WP7's mango is "live tiles". You can create tiles directly from your application and update them from a background agent. Here is the sample which creates...

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Amazing WPF Controls / JetPack Theme updated !

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:56:00 +0000

Hello, I have updated my previously introduced control library on codeplex. I received a lot of comments because the jetPack theme was not working fine bacause of some animation. It is now fixed...

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[UPDATED] How to call the method from the base of the base of the current class ? (base.base.MyMethod)

Wed, 11 May 2011 21:56:00 +0000

Today I encountered a tricky need in some custom control. It was inheriting from the TabControl but I didn’t want all its feature. Especially I didn’t want it to update the SelectedContent dependency...

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What ? Dynamic resources creates Memory leaks in WPF 3.5 (SP1) ???

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 06:12:00 +0000

Everyone is told to not use DynamicResource during its childhood in WPF-(wonder)land. They are simply evil and they kill the app performance. Sometimes, we fall in the dark side of the force and use...

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UIAutomation, Coded UI tests, AutomationPeer and WPF/silverlight custom controls

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:04:00 +0000

The Coded UI Tests, available in Visual Studio Ultimate or Premium, enable the creation of automated tests for the User Interface. This is a really nice feature because you are no more forced to make...

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[Announcement] : Live Meeting in French about WPF 4.0 and Multitouch.

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:12:00 +0000

For those who are interested by WPF and Multitouch : I will animate a LiveMeeting on this subject tuesday 18 january in french. You can subscribe to it on this page. I hope to see you there.......

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News, news and news !

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 16:54:00 +0000

First of all, I wish and happy new year to everyone ! It started very nice for me because I received and email from Microsoft telling me that I had been given an MVP award for 2011! I am very...

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[RIA Services] Why the client extended entities won't use the default backing store value ? EDITED

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:13:00 +0000

The title may not be clear but I am talking about the entities that you extends on the client side using the fact that they are partial class. You may think as I was that if you add properties in...

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VS Tip : how to locate the active document in the solution explorer using a shortcut

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:39:00 +0000

When you have multiple projects in your solution, you often want to locate the active document in the solution explorer. There is a great option in Visual Studio which can do it for you all the time...

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Introducing the amazing WPF controls library on Codeplex !

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 23:19:00 +0000

Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce you the creation of the Amazing WPF controls library on Codeplex ! It will contains the differents controls I describe and/or peel on this blog. I will try...

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How to create an hand writing to text control (ink recognizer)

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:01:00 +0000

When building a (multi)touch application you may need one nice feature : translate hand-written text to real words. This open a whole new world full of possibilities like starting some actions when...

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[RIA Services] How to force the validation of my entities (and just the validation !)

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:22:00 +0000

RIA services solves for you a lot of problems and one of them is to add validations rules on the entities both on the client and on the server side. These differents rules are checked when you submit...

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Migrate the Jetpack theme from Silverlight to WPF

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:54:00 +0000

There is a great theme named Jetpack available for Silverlight applications which can be found on the Tim Heuer web site. I was wondering if it can be used in WPF applications and the answer is yes !...

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How to create your own control library (how-to + tips)

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 21:27:00 +0000

Reusability and factorizing are maybe the most commons things you want and use when you are developing applications. In WPF it often means creating controls library (i don’t mean UserControl) that...

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WPF tip : How can I use static/dynamic resources in my tests

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:33:00 +0000

You are surely, as I am, creating a lot of units tests in your WPF applications. Some of the tests may use statics or dynamics resources declared in your application and when you launch the tests,...

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Quick tip : My WPF Fullscreen window still display a border on right and bottom side... how to remove them

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:35:00 +0000

Creating a fullscreen window in WPF is quite simple, you just have to set WindowState to Maximized and WindowStyle to None. But in my current project I was facing a little drawback : a border was...

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How to create an animated expander

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:02:00 +0000

The expander control can be used in a lot of situations but the one proposed by default is quite "rigid". In this post we will discover how to animate it quite simply just via XAML ! The WPF...

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UserControl/Control : how to get a reference to an element of the template

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:42:00 +0000

When you want to create your own custom control you have two choices : create an UserControl or inherit from one of the "Control's classes" (ContentControl, ItemsControls or Control itself). When...

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.NET Framework 4, Windows Applications Development

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:35:00 +0000

I am now certified " .NET Framework 4, Windows Applications Development". I passed the certification during the beta process and the results are out. I can now use this nice logo anywhere ^^ :......

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