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 […]
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 […]
WPF Series – Introduction
2017-10-31 by 2 Comments
In the first half of 2017 we implemented a WPF project for one of our customers. The aim of the project was to develop a Surface Pro compatible desktop application for data collection in context of civil engineering. The application allows the user to create, save, edit and export protocols of specific buildings. Furthermore it’s […]
[HOWTO] Control the GPIO Interface of a Raspberry Pi 3 using UWP
2017-10-30 by Leave a Comment
In a project of ours I stumbled across the topic on how to control the GPIO interface of a Raspberry Pi 3 using the Windows.Devices.Gpio namespace. The mentioned namespace contains a class called GpioController. This class enables you to establish connection to any pin on the Raspberry Pi. You have to use the static method […]
Fix Null Reference Exception in XAML Designer
2017-05-03 by Leave a Comment
During developing a user control for a WPF UI I encountered a strange null reference exception in the XAML designer. Strange thing was, that when I started the application and switched to the control which contained the user control, everything worked fine. I could’ve just ignored this problem. However since it is very inconvenient writing […]
Manual JWT Validation against Azure Active Directory
2017-04-13 by Leave a Comment
For our current WebApi project we decided to implement OAuth2 authentication with Azure Active Directory. As our API needs to support other authentication mechanisms like Basic and Negotiate beside OAuth2 we implemented multiple authentication filters that, where each filter is responsible for a specific authentication mechanism. One of these authentication filters, the BearerAuthenticationFilter, is responsible […]
[HOWTO] Set Cookie Header on DefaultRequestHeaders of HttpClient
2016-12-27 by Leave a Comment
For one of our customers we had to implement Cookie handling for authentication purposes. This means reading the session token out of the Set-Cookie header and send the session token in the Cookie header of every request. When using the HttpClient from System.Net.Http there are two possibilites to do that. Either by passing a HttpClientHandler […]
d-fens Hackathon 2016
2016-12-19 by Leave a Comment
On Monday and Tuesday, the 21st and the 22nd of November, our company organized an event. A Hackathon. What’s a Hackathon? “A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest or codefest) is a design sprint-like event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, interface designers, project managers, and […]
