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Data Binding In Windows 8. Part 3–Element Binding
In my previous post, I discussed the three modes of DataBinding for Windows 8. Today we’ll take a brief look at binding not to data, but rather binding one UI element to the value of another. In this example, we’ll bind the IsActive property of the ProgressRing to the IsChecked property’s value in a CheckBox. <StackPanel> <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Left" > <TextBlock ...August 15, 2012 -
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Windows 8–Data binding Part 2
In my previous blog post I introduced data binding. It worked, but there was no mechanism for updating. Updating comes in two flavors, and these are often confused by folks new to databinding: Someone else updates the underlying data; we’d like the display to be updated The user updates the data on the display, we’d like the underlying data to be updated The first case arises because most of the time you are not the only user of your program – other users may be connected to the same data and while you are looking at your data someone else...August 13, 2012 -
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Windows 8 Primer–Data Binding (Part 1)
Data-binding is often thought of as an advanced topic, but there really is no reason for that. data-binding is Critical to writing XAML applications Not very difficult to learn A very powerful technique Note to Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone Programmers: Nothing Here Is New. Data-binding in Windows 8 works exactly as you expect. The basic idea behind data-binding couldn’t be simpler: we are going to provide values to UIElements based on the values of objects or of other UIElements. In this first tutorial, we’ll keep it simple and bind the value of POCO (Plain Old CLR Objects) to UI elements. For example, if I have...August 10, 2012 -
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From Soup To Nuts with RadControls for Metro (XAML)
In this second “From Soup To Nuts” post we’ll look at Windows 8 applications built using the C#/XAML RadControls for Windows 8. For information on using the HTML5/JS/CSS3 version, see Michael Crump’s blog post. Setting up Your Development Environment Before getting started, you will need to download and install the following items: The Windows 8 Release Preview can be downloaded from the Windows 8 Download Center. MSDN subscribers can download the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) version from their accounts. Either version will work with the RadControls. Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate We’ll be using Visual Studio 2012 throughout this and future blog posts. You can download...August 09, 2012
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