Questions tagged [wpf]
WPF is a graphical subsystem for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications.
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Async-ifying WPF Window.Show()?
I'm working on a WPF application which has many user interactions which start with opening a non model window, allowing some interaction with the window and the rest of the application (think ...
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How should multiple ViewModels communicate in a larger WPF MVVM application?
I’m working on a WPF MVVM application that has grown beyond just one or two User Controls. I now have multiple ViewModels that need to react to each other’s actions (e.g., selecting a customer in one ...
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Screen share with Windows Remote Desktop Services
I need to create a WPF application that gives me the possibility to connect to other computers in the same network. I'm looking into Windows Remote Desktop Services, but it seems like it doesn't have ...
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How can I keep accurate time in a Windows Forms (WinForms) application?
I am an inexperienced developer fresh out of college. I was handed a Windows Forms Application to work on.
The application previously relied on system time. They wanted me to make it so that we could ...
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WPF MVVM - Pass data from child-view to parent
I'm trying to implement the MVVM-pattern in a new WPF-application.
I'm using the MVVM Community Toolkit to reduce boilerplate code that comes with the pattern.
In my application, I'd like to have a ...
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Dependency Injection Usage
I'm very new to DI, and must admit, am having a hard time understanding to what extent it should be used in an application.
Even in a basic project, you can have hundreds of classes that have ...
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Dependencies traveling through hierarchical viewmodels
Often I want to open a new window from within some view.
I see opening a window as view logic. So I don't want code in my viewmodel that creates/opens/changes Windows or anything else that
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WPF plugin system - Dependency injection in plugin class libraries
The main application loads plugins, list them and when user selects one it is initialized and displayed. Each plugin is a complex class library which contains several views/viewmodels/repositories/etc....
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What approach for this kind of drawing application in C#/WPF
I've got experience with WPF, but I have always been creating standard UI's. I want to build a drawing application for electrical wiring diagrams (single-wire diagrams).
Example of the kind of ...
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Folder and Project Structure in MVVM for WPF Solution
I know there are already questions about file structure in MVVM but I haven't found the pros and cons for the following two structures. What would be better for a large-scale project, and why choose ...
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Direct Database Access for Desktop GUI or via Application Server?
We have a scenario that is in a VERY tightly controlled industrial environment. This is all C# on Windows.
We gather data from different types of sources - sensors monitoring environmental data, ...
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MVVM - Wrapping Class For ViewModel
I am using a networking library I created which contains a Client class. I have a GUI which will display all these clients in a ListView with columns, such as one containing their online status. The ...
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Clean code and SOLID principles in WPF/MVVM view models?
I'm currently reading "Clean Code" by Robert Martin (which I should have read years ago), and it's given me a bit of a wakeup call, especially regarding keeping methods and classes small, ...
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How Should I Go About Refactoring My Code With Dependency Injection? [closed]
I work on WPF applications used in testing hardware. I need to make my code base more testable and re-usable. I believe DI would help, but I'm not quite sure where to start. I've done my best with the ...
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WPF Best way to create viewmodel from another viewmodel
Often I want to open a new window from within some view.
I see opening a window as view logic. So I don't want code in my viewmodel that creates/opens/changes windows or anything else that interacts ...
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