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This question comes up every so often in the forums and it's one of those things that you'd think should be easy, but actually isn't. Well, it isn't until you know how - like most things in devel...

PerformClick is one of the many casualties of a move from Windows Forms to WPF. Of course, it's probably not something you would need to use often, but just in case you do then there is a way.
I...

My .Net Journal blog posts will be made to the new vbCity blog site from now on.
Here's the link to my new blog site: Mike McIntyre's .NET Journal

It is a little longer than I expected to get the the project that goes along with this post about background colours in WPF but as they say better late ....
The project can be downloaded from here.

I got caught the other day with a "what the heck" moment.
I was trying to display "Mr & Mrs" as an Item in a ComboBox but it just was not happening.
I suppose that this would not have come to light...

Continuing my look at features that seem to be Missing in Action (MIA) from Windows Forms, vbCity colleague Matt pointed out to me that the Anchor property seems to have disappeared.
I'm really...

One of the things that first caught me out in WPF was the simple topic of colors. For example, let's say you want to reset the BackColor of a Form in Windows Forms. Easy enough. This will do the ...

For some time now, I've been promising myself that one day I will create a list of what I like to think of as "WPF MIA" - those basic elements that I am totally familiar with in WindowsForms, but ...

Example:
' Create a LINQ query.
Dim buttonQuery = From control In Me.Controls Where TypeOf (control) Is Button
' Create a list of object.
Dim buttonList = buttonQuery.ToList
' Iterate through...

My makes it easy to use .Net. Here's an example that uses My to rename a file:
Syntax:
Public Shared Sub RenameFile ( _ file As String, _ newName As String _)file is the file path to the file to b...