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The photoviewer application is getting closer to a version 1.0 release and I'm anctious to get it all done. The list of TODO items is stable now and will soon start to drop towards zero. In this 4th part I want to show a little about the new drag and drop feature I added to the collage view.Idea behind the featureThere are quite a few demos ...

You might be wondering, what is he talking about? Was there a part 1 about this application? Yes there was and it wasn't actually called part one. It was an article about custom windows in WPF and how I made one myself for my photoviewer application. This part however is going to be about the collage view I created for the photoviewer ...

In my spare time I have been working on a photoviewer application. The main reason for spending time on this project was to check out the functionality offered in Composite WPF and WPF in general. This is sort of a way for me to discover what is missing in Composite WPF. But the main reason for having this application is because I needed some way ...

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 ...

Composite WPF comes with the notion of modules, but without any standard classes for controllers and/or viewmodels. This might sound weird to developers who have worked with the Composite Application Block before. In this post we will talk about how you can create them yourself and why base classes for these constructions aren't actually ...

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 ...