Josh Smith

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June 2008 - Posts

Data Binding the IsVisible Property of ContextualTabGroup
XamRibbon allows you to have groups of tabs that only display when the application is in a certain state or condition. In other words, it offers context-sensitive tab groups. You can use them by adding ContextualTabGroup objects to the ContextualTabGroups Read More...
Persisting XamDataGrid Field Widths between Runs of an Application
XamDataGrid has many great features, but as of NetAdvantage for WPF v7.2, it does not yet provide a generic way to save and load user settings. A common requirement for a grid-centric application is that the columns/fields in the grid retain their widths Read More...
Putting a CheckBox in the cells of an UnboundField of XamDataGrid
This blog post demonstrates the correct way to put a CheckBox into the cell of an unbound field for each row in a XamDataGrid. The demo application allows the user to dynamically add and remove customers from a 3D Pie Chart, to compare their total sales Read More...
Binding a XamDataGrid Field Property
I recently needed to bind the Visibility of a Field in a XamDataGrid to a property on my ViewModel. I wanted to provide a way for the user to show/hide a column of images in the data grid. My ViewModel object is a POCO (Plain Old Clr Object) that implements Read More...