Articles Tagged “WPF”
13 articles tagged “WPF”, newest first.
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CI/CD for WinForms / WPF Apps in Practice — Automating from Build to Signing and Distribution with GitHub Actions
A practical guide to setting up CI/CD for WinForms / WPF apps with GitHub Actions. Covers a minimal YAML for build+test on windows-latest, tag-driven version...
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System Tray Icons and Toast Notifications in Windows Apps — NotifyIcon Pitfalls and Choosing the Right AppNotification API
A practical guide to keeping a business Windows app resident in the system tray and notifying users with toast notifications. Covers the correct use of Notif...
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Localizing WinForms/WPF Apps — resx, Satellite Assemblies, and Culture Switching in Practice
A practical guide to localizing Windows desktop apps, covering the difference between CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture, how resx and satellite assemblies ...
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Printing and PDF Output in Windows Business Apps — Choosing Between System.Drawing.Printing, WPF, and Report Libraries
Organizes WinForms printing with PrintDocument, WPF FlowDocument/FixedDocument printing, and PDF output options into a requirement-based decision table. Cove...
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Integrating Entra ID Authentication into WinForms/WPF Apps — A Practical Architecture with MSAL.NET and the WAM Broker
A practical, hands-on look at integrating Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) authentication into WinForms/WPF desktop apps: the public client mindset, where ROPC s...
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UI Automated Testing for Windows Desktop Apps — How UI Automation Works and Building Robust Tests with FlaUI
A practical guide to UI automated testing for WinForms/WPF apps, working from how Windows UI Automation itself works (the tree, AutomationId, control pattern...
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WPF High-DPI Support — Why It Still Blurs and Bleeds Despite Being 'Supposedly DPI-Aware,' and How to Fix It
WPF lays out UI in DIPs (1/96 inch) and is System DPI Aware from the start, but moving a window to a monitor with a different DPI blurs the whole screen, and...
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Is WebView2 the Right Successor to IE Mode? — The ActiveX Constraint and a Realistic Migration Design
A rundown of WebView2's basic architecture, the Evergreen vs. Fixed Version distribution strategies, the user data folder trap, how native code talks to web ...
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Windows App Outsourcing and Contract Development: What to Sort Out Before You Ask
Before commissioning Windows app outsourcing or contract development, here is how to sort out existing software modification, device integration, COM/ActiveX...
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Choosing Between WinForms, WPF, and WinUI - A Practical Decision Table
How to decide between WinForms, WPF, and WinUI, organized from the perspectives of new development, existing assets, deployment, UI expressiveness, and team ...
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Choosing Between .NET's Three Timers - PeriodicTimer/Timer/DispatcherTimer
Which .NET timer should you use? PeriodicTimer for async loops, Timer for ThreadPool callbacks, DispatcherTimer for WPF UI, plus a decision table and code.
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Why Use the .NET Generic Host and BackgroundService in Desktop Apps
How to use the Generic Host and BackgroundService to organize startup, periodic processing, shutdown, logging, configuration, and DI in Windows tools and res...
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WPF/WinForms async and the UI Thread on One Sheet
After await in WPF or WinForms, which thread runs your code? Covers Dispatcher.Invoke, ConfigureAwait(false), and why .Result and .Wait() deadlock.