Articles having tag: HOW-TO

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

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 post, we'll dig a little more into this issue and give...

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

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.

WPF 4.5 – Part 8 : No more airspace problems (Integrating WPF with win32 : finally I can use the WebBrowser control !)

Integrating win 32 component is already possible in WPF 4.0, even in WPF 3.5 but there is the well-know issue : airspace problems. Each render technology belongs to only one airspace only. So when you place Win32 components in your WPF application they behave...

WPF 4.5 – Part 7 : Accessing collections on non-UI Threads | Yet Another Blog About...

Here is the seventh (OMG !) post on the WPF 4.5 new features. Collections are a part of every application and their management is maybe the first thing you learn to deal with in WPF. To begin, you put everything on the main(the UI one) thread and it works...

Convert in code as in XAML: how to get the XAML processor’s converter

Sometimes you need to set property on controls from the code and then you realize that this is not like in XAML: these are not strings? No, they are not! This is because the XAML processor convert the string to the correct type when it process the XAML. In...

Refreshthe WPF UI now: how to wait for the rendering to finish ?

WPF is really awesome to build reactive applications and data binding is here to push useful information inside of the User Interface. All is done magically and it's wonderfully simple to create an application without knowledge of the internals of the...

New Tools For Managing Screen Sizes

By Tim Bray

[This post is by Dianne Hackborn and a supporting cast of thousands; Dianne’s fingerprints can be found all over the Android Application Framework — Tim Bray]Android 3.2includes new tools for supporting devices with a wide range of...

Visual Studio’s Best Kept Secret – Compare

When working with different iterations of a SQL database running on Internal, Staging and Production infrastructure it can become a pain in the ass rolling out updates at deployment time or keeping them in sync. Developers often use third party tools to help...

Android 3.0 Hardware Acceleration

By Romain Guy

[This post is byRomain Guy, who likes things on your screen to move fast.\xa0\u2014Tim Bray]One of the biggest changes we made to Android in this release is the addition of a new rendering pipeline so that applications can benefit from hardware accelerated...

Video Training – Windows Phone 7 Development series for Android Developers

By mitchp

MSDev has released the new videos on Windows Phone 7 for Android Developers which helps the Android developers to kick start the Windows Phone 7 Development .