In the section I will discuss the topic of freezing columns. At the beginning I will demonstrate the result that I want to achieve. Unfrozen columns: Freezing second column: Frozen second column: You can see the bottom scrollbar became shorter. To im... [More]

Microsoft has provided DataGrid for WPF within the Framework 4.0, but unfortunately it is lacking some useful features. This article demonstrates how to enhance the DataGrid with the following features: Showing and hiding columns by user Freezing columns Saving settings ... [More]

Usually, when you create a user interface that allows users to view the information stored in their database, you deal with what can be called one dimensional views. By that I understand a well known grid with fixed number of columns and properties and varying number of records. Recently I have tak... [More]

In .NET application every thread contains the information about the Principal under which it is being executed. This can be easily checked using following property CurrentThread.CurrentPrincipal of the System.Threading.Thread class. Usually it points to an instance of the System.Security.Pri... [More]

I proudly announce a first series of blog posts to be published on our new company blog. Each of the posts will introduce different helper and extension classes that we use everyday in out projects. I hope you find some of them useful and chose to introduce them in your own libraries. The series w... [More]