Keep your temp folder clean

Temporary folders in your system are used to store temporary files obviously. Unfortunately those temporary files, very often, stays there for ever and makes your hard drive wasted.

One collection – many views

Let’s imagine we have a huge collection of some objects (may be our data objects) and we need to filter this collection and display only a part of its elements in different places in our WPF application. Instead of creating many different instances of sub collection we can use the benefits of collection views.

knockout cart

I recently had an opportunity to put some new knockout knowledge into use.  Tekpub has a very nice training video on the subject, which was a great starting point, so let me show you the result.

TabControl and selected tab index

It was obvious for me that a TabControl in WPF, which is a container for TabItems, has a dependency property indicating the index of current tab.

Plugins in WPF MvvM with MEF

In this post I will show you the way we can implement a plugin functionality in WPF MvvM application with use of Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF).

Cross-property validation in WPF MvvM

In a previous post I have described hot to utilize a INotifyDataErrorInfo interface. Today I will show you my solution for automated cross-property validation integrated with the ModelValidation base class from previous post.

Utilizing INotifyDataErrorInfo in WPF MvvM app

Today I will show you how I utilize the INotifyDataErrorInfo interface to accomplish validation mechanisms in WPF application.

Dynamic fuzzy search with LINQ and entity framework and jQuery autocomplete part 4

Search has always been my most desired feature in applications and if I were to guess, I’m not the only one with this craving. The comfort and flexibility it gives you is enormous under one condition – it’s smart enough.

Time for part four

Dynamic fuzzy search with LINQ and entity framework and jQuery autocomplete part 3

Search has always been my most desired feature in applications and if I were to guess, I’m not the only one with this craving. The comfort and flexibility it gives you is enormous under one condition – it’s smart enough.

Part three is up

Dynamic fuzzy search with LINQ and entity framework and jQuery autocomplete part 2

Search has always been my most desired feature in applications and if I were to guess, I’m not the only one with this craving. The comfort and flexibility it gives you is enormous under one condition – it’s smart enough.

It’s time for part 2