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WPF: Adventures in Theming (Part 1)

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I just finished doing a ton of styling/theming work in WPF, after doing so I had many thoughts and experiences on the subject that I thought I would share. S...

The Tale of the Transmogrifier

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World Builder has this great little feature (with a good back story) in it that I added in the early days of its development. The idea started with a challen...

WPF: Overlay Control

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If you haven’t had a chance to mess around with an AdornerDecorator, I highly recommend that you do.  They’re extremely useful because they allow you to over...

WPF: Kaxaml

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I have been using XamlPadX to test out XAML ideas.  But lack of updates had me looking around for a new tool, turns out there is one.  [Kaxaml] has some nice...

WPF: Change TextBox Selection Highlight Color

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So if you’ve ever tried to change the selection color of the TextBox in WPF, you’ve probably found out really quickly that it’s not really doable in .Net 3.5...