WPF Style Inheritance

A style in WPF can be inherited. Usually, in real world scenarios most of the theme related styles will be merged in App.xaml. In such cases, if style needs to be defined again in scope of a view. That particular style will override the style defined in App. For example, the following style for ListBoxItem... Continue Reading →

Splash screen for Windows 8

When users launch an app, they are immediately welcome by the splash screen. Every Windows 8 app has a splash screen, which consists of a 620x300 image and solid background color. Windows presents the splash screen on your behalf in order to welcome users while your app is activated. The activated event is received by... Continue Reading →

Character Map in WPF

Introduction   (View this article in code project)The Character Map utility is free on all Windows machines and can be used to copy and paste accented letters and other foreign language characters into any Windows application. The Character Map is similar to the Insert Symbol tool found in some Windows applications such as Microsoft Word.This article explains how to implement this tool using WPF... Continue Reading →

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