In our WPF application we wanted to bind ComboBox and ListBox controls to enums. The WPF way to set up such a binding is described here. This solution works absolutely fine but it requires the definition of an ObjectDataProvider for every enum. This in turn leads to lower maintainability and the code is not reusable. […]
WPF Series -4- MahApps.Metro and MahApps.Metro.Resources
2017-11-24 by 3 Comments
To have a modern look and feel we decided to align our WPF application to Microsoft Metro style. To achieve this, we used the open source toolkit MahApps.Metro. MahApps.Metro is a toolkit for creating Metro / Modern UI styled WPF applications. The MahApps.Metro project was started back in 2011 by Paul Jenkins. The source is […]
WPF Series -3- MVVM Pattern
2017-11-17 by 3 Comments
As mentioned in the previous post of this series the WPF application we implemented follows the MVVM pattern. MVVM stands for Model-View-ViewModel. The MVVM patterns intent is to provide a clean separation of concerns between UI and the business logic. It can be used on all XAML platforms. About MVVM Pattern Microsoft describes the motivation […]
[HOWTO] Access Azure File Share in PowerShell Script executed by a Scheduled Task
2017-11-13 by Leave a Comment
Last week I had to set up an Azure File Share for data transfer purposes. Clients will upload data to the Azure File Share and the data will then be moved from the share to a local drive by a PowerShell script. The PowerShell script gets invoked every 15 minutes by a Scheduled Task. The […]
[Bug] “Task Scheduler service is not available” Error, if specifying Network Connection Condition
2017-11-13 by 1 Comment
There is a bug in Task Scheduler of Windows 10. If the network condition of a Scheduled Task gets enabled and a specific network connection gets selected, the corresponding Scheduled Task will not run anymore. To reproduce the problem open properties of any Scheduled Task (right click on Scheduled Task -> Properties) and switch to […]
WPF Series -2- WPF Application Design
2017-11-10 by 3 Comments
Beside the vision and the requirements you also have to have an idea how the WPF application should look like in the end. For that purpose we created a few mock ups during first exchange with the customer in the early stages of the project. In the same stage we also created a process diagram […]
WPF Series -1- Project Setup
2017-11-01 by 2 Comments
Before starting development we first had to set up a new WPF project. The projects target framework is .NET Framework 4.6.2 and we used Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015 as IDE. In this post I’ll quickly go through the necessary steps for setting up a WPF project at d-fens. Source Code Repository Creation For version […]
