RadioButton IsChecked Binding Problem in .NET 3.5 RTM

I have written two posts in the past about a bug in WPF’s RadioButton IsChecked property change notification.

On my first post I described the problem and in second post I proposed and demonstrated a workaround to the problem.

Now after the release of the .NET Frameworks 3.5, I checked it again and hoping that it was fixed, but unfortunately it wasn’t fixed . But the same workarounds that I described in my previous post in this issue still do the jobs.

Visual Studio 2008 RTM is available for MSDN subscribers

The Visual Studio 2008 RTM is ready and available to download for MSDN subscribers.

Update:

if you are not a MSDN subscribers then you have the following alternatives:

1. A 90-day free trial edition of VS2008 Team Suite (here).
2. Visual Studio 2008 Express which is completely free (here).
3. or just the .NET Framework 3.5 runtime (here)

Pistachio

Grant Hinkson from Infragistics created Pistachio, a resource visualizer utility, which identifies all resources defined within the project and show you which resources are used and where they are used.

It’s a helpful tool to clean up unused resources and to understand the current resource structure, especially when working with large WPF projects where resources are extensible use.

It’s free to download at the moment and worth to try it!

                           

Microsoft Surface SDK

If you were wondering about how you can develop software for the Microsoft Surface….

Matt Davey pointed on his blog to the Surface team blog. The place, you may what to follow and catch up on the new developments of the Surface SDK.

From what I have read the SDK is divided in two layers, core and WPF. The core layer supports any .NET UI Framework that provides an hwnd and its XNA oriented, the WPF layer supports all the functionality of the core layer but it remains consistent with WPF’s methodology.

Also don’t miss to cool Hello world demo video!

Visual Studio 2008 and Framework 3.5 to RTM in November

At last for all of you that were waiting… the Visual Studio 2008 and the .Net Framework 3.5 are going to be released by the end of November 2007.

Read the press release for more info here.

.NET Framework 3.5 Types and Namespaces

Paul Andrew has posted an updated poster of the Commonly Used Types and Namespaces in .Net Framework 3.5, you can download it from here

Enjoy!

ScrollViewer Frustrations Moments

Let say that you have a custom control that uses the command ApplicationCommands.Copy, and you expects that when you press Ctrl+C the command is executed, so far so good.

Now you want to wrap your control with ScrollViewer, that’s ok.

And you expect that the Ctrl+C will be handled, yes?

Well… NOOOOO!

Why! Because ScrollViewer overrides the OnKeyDown method and it’s preventing it to bubble any further.

Not an expected behavior in my opinion.

What to do? Set the Focusable property of the ScrollViewer to false, and it’s done.