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PDC 2008 : sessions videos are available online !

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Since a few days now, videos from PDC 2008 sessions are available online (hosted on Channel9) !

Many videos seems to be very interesting and I wish I could have more time to take a look at them. The good news is that the material hosted on Channel9 will be online for a looooong time, so there is absolutely no need to download everything as quickly as possible.

Here is my personal list of the sessions that I watched or I’m going to watch (hoping that next year, I’ll have the luck to watch them in live from L.A :p)

I Paris, next february there will be the TechDays (lot of technical sessions during 3 days). I hope I’ll have the opportunity to go there with the members of .Net team of my company.

Thinking in WPF: more attached properties

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In my last blog post, I wrote an article about attached properties. Today at work, I encountered a problem that can be solved in a nice way using an attached property. Because the functionality I wanted to implement is also very simple, I decided to blog about it to give a concrete example.

I wanted to use a TextBox to allow the user of my application to give a description for any item he selects in a TreeView. Because the TextBox’s content could be changed very frequently by the user, I thought it might be useful to select all the TextBox’s text when the user click in the control (so that as soon as he types something, the old content is cleared).

In this article, I will describe various way to implement this feature and I will detail the way I prefer, using of course an attached property !

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Thinking in WPF: attached properties

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Today, I decided to start a series that I’m calling “Thinking in WPF”. As you already know, I do NOT consider myself as a WPF specialist, so those blog posts don’t aim at giving a perfect knowledge of the “best” (if there are any) ways of thinking in WPF. I’d just like to share what I’m experiencing 🙂

In my previous post, I started to write about things that I think makes WPF different. In the current project I’m working on at work, I had a good example of a new way of thinking with WPF. Todays article deals with a new WPF concept called Attached properties.

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