Why does the binding get updated only once in WPF user control?

Recently I struggled on my user control trying to make the dependency property be updated when I change the source of the binding. That confirmed my belief that WPF does not forgive any single developer’s mistake.

By Mirek on 7/16/2015 (tags: dependency property, user control, WPF, categories: code)

Strange phenomenon after moving to Visual Studio 2012

Recently we moved our main WPF project to .net framework 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012. Then when I tried to preview some of basic views in Visual Studio designer I faced some strange problems. We have several user controls that we use in our views.

By Mirek on 10/25/2012 (tags: .net 4.5, user control, Visual Studio 2012, WPF, categories: architecture)