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The Missing .NET #3: An AutoComplete TextBox in WPF, Part 4 - WPF Flourishes

15 May 2008

The .NET framework is huge, but not so huge that it does everything for everyone; there are things that they in Redmond miss or don’t do for whatever reason but is still generally applicable to many developers. So, dear reader, I present to you a new series of posts on stuff I find missing in [...] Read more »

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The Missing .NET #3: An AutoComplete TextBox in WPF, Part 3 - Control Templates

14 May 2008

The .NET framework is huge, but not so huge that it does everything for everyone; there are things that they in Redmond miss or don’t do for whatever reason but is still generally applicable to many developers. So, dear reader, I present to you a new series of posts on stuff I find missing in [...] Read more »

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The Missing .NET #3: An AutoComplete TextBox in WPF, Part 2 - Making it reusable

13 May 2008

The .NET framework is huge, but not so huge that it does everything for everyone; there are things that they in Redmond miss or don’t do for whatever reason but is still generally applicable to many developers. So, dear reader, I present to you a new series of posts on stuff I find missing in [...] Read more »

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The Missing .NET #3: An AutoComplete TextBox in WPF, Part 1 - A rough first draft

12 May 2008

The more I use WPF, the more I’m impressed and confounded by it. Impressed because it is really well-designed, thoughtful, and quite rich right out of the gate; I’m confounded by the things it’s lacking. I realize they had to ship something sooner than later, but some of the things Microsoft left out seem pretty trivial to implement given what I know about WPF. One of these is an auto-completing TextBox (It was even late to the Windows forms party, but still…). The most famous example is the address ComboBox in the browser. Start typing to see that the computer remembers what you typed previously. Auto-complete is everywhere in the OS, and you can see it on the web in spots too, now: Compose a message in Facebook and you’ll see your contact list drop down and filter out as you type. Read more »

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Subtext to WordPress: Converting blog engines

27 February 2008

I think my mom is my only constant reader, but if you used to read jasonkemp.ca when I was writing it more frequently than the last year and a half, you’ll notice a few changes in appearance that only scratch the surface of the changes that I’ve made.
I moved hosts; I moved OSes; and I [...] Read more »

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