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Although Microsoft delivered Composite WPF with the unity container it is possible to use a different IoC container. In this post I will explain how it can be done and what caveats you are going to encounter when replacing the IoC container in Composite WPF with Spring.NET Where to start Replacing the IoC container is somewhat more advanced than ...

Vacation is the best time to solve some serious puzzles, at least it is for me. The problem I was having with Composite WPF was the fact that I could create composite user interfaces, but there wasn't any support for showing views in dialogs. And because dialogs are widely used I had to come up with a fix for this.In this post I will talk ...

Using a tabcontrol as a region for views in a CompositeWPF application is one thing, making them closeable can be a bit trickier. The sample in this article will show how you can modify a tabcontrol to allow closeable items. Step 1: Make the custom header template and tabitem style The first step is to modify the look of a tabitem header so it ...

Most people who know me, also know that I like to fiddle with technology in my own free time. It's one of those things that I simply can't let go, maybe later but certainly not at the moment. One of the things I'm currently quite enthuisastic about is the new version of Silverlight. Microsoft has finally come up with a technology ...

One of the very cool features of modular application in my opinion is the possibility to install features when they are actually required by the application. Microsoft uses this since Office 2000 to provide the user with the possibility to install a module on demand when the module is marked install on first use. To make on demand ...

CompositeWPF offers modularity by making it possible to load modules from disk on demand or loading a set modules at startup of the application. One thing that I was missing with this was the possibility lookup the status of modules and which modules are actually available to the application at the moment. To solve this I wrote a new extension on ...

CompositeWPF works with regions to make the user interface composable. Standard you have the itemscontrol that can be used as a region for views. This control is already very flexible and best of all, there are a lot of WPF controls based on the itemscontrol so you should be able to come up with a lot of possible schemes in your user interface. I ...

A few days ago I starting writing down stuff about the Composite WPF framework from Microsoft. A lot has happened in the mean time; I've joined up with a few other people including Microsoft developers to further expand activities surrounding the CompositeWPFContrib project. This project contains extensions on the Composite WPF framework that ...

CompositeWPF is a new framework created by Microsoft to allow developers to build composite user interfaces and modular applications in WPF. Or as I like to call it, build higher quality WPF applications. The framework is quite easy to get running, I got a sample working in under an hour complete with some pretty cool tricks. One of the things I ...