In the WinForms ages, when you needed a TextBox control with some special built-in additional functionality, the only option you had was to create a new control by inheriting from the TextBox control. Moreover, in cases where you needed to change the visual appearance of a control (for e... [More]

In the previous post, I have presented a basic intro to DataBinding in WPF. This post, extends the previous one by adding a brief introduction on data validation using WPF. When it comes to data validations, one is faced with the following concerns: Where the validation logic will resi... [More]

Data Binding in WPF has been through a substantial change compared to Data Binding in Windows Forms. It kinda became simpler mainly due to the fact that a BindingSource is no longer needed for the job. In this post we will cover the basic elements of databinding in WPF. The first thi... [More]

Welcome back from Part 1 or from anywhere... Here we will see how to install your first skin for the DotNetNuke engine. You will find a lot of tutorial on the internet about implementing your own skin for DotNetNuke. The problem is that only few of them have in mind that most os us are the &qu... [More]

Ok. I have finally managed to write down the steps needed in order to install a local copy of the very useful DotNetNuke engine and apply a skin to it. For those out there wondering what is so special about the DotNetNuke engine in site development I briefly state the following: As a web developper,... [More]

Suppose you have a picture control in your form (WinForms) / window (WPF) and want to display the following picture in it (logo.png): In a Window Forms application you create a PictureBox control in your form, and in the code file you want to do something like the following: ... [More]