Articles Tagged “WPF”
18 articles tagged “WPF”, newest first.
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Dark Mode and Contrast Themes in Windows Apps — DWM Dark Title Bars, System Theme Tracking in WinForms/WPF, and Drawing under High Contrast
How to make WinForms/WPF apps follow the dark mode and contrast themes of Windows 11. Covers DWM dark title bars, SetColorMode and ThemeMode in .NET 9/10, de...
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End of Servicing for Windows Printer Drivers — How Business Apps Should Prepare Their Report and Label Printing
Microsoft is phasing out v3/v4 printer drivers. What Windows protected print mode removes, and how to inventory and prepare report and label printing in busi...
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What "Not Responding" Really Is — How Windows Decides an App Has Hung, and How to Design Apps That Don't
Windows marks a window Not Responding after 5 seconds without message retrieval and shows a ghost window: the check, hang causes, UI-thread design, and inves...
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How the Clipboard and Drag & Drop Work — Handling OLE Data Transfer Correctly in Business Apps
Why Excel pastes break and paste fails once the source closes: clipboard formats, delayed rendering, OLE drag and drop, and clipboard history and cloud sync ...
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Windows App Accessibility Basics — UI Automation and Preparing for Mandatory Reasonable Accommodation
How screen readers read Windows apps via UI Automation: WinForms/WPF naming, keyboard, contrast, and verification tools, under Japan's amended disability law...
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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 Custom Software Development: What to Sort Out Before You Ask
Before commissioning Windows app outsourcing or custom software development, here is how to sort out existing software modification, device integration, COM/...
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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.