WPF

I’ve always published content targeted to mid-level C# developers. However quite a chunk of emails that I receive are from people getting started with C#. Hopefully this article will be a path for these people, a guide on learning how to do an HMI step by step and get consistent ...

In this article we will see how to record a video and a snapshot from a camera (USB or IP camera), with C# and AForge. AForge is a library used for image acquisition and Image Processing, for example to analyse images and detect objects with a Camera. In a previous ...

In the previous articles of this series we saw how to communicate with a single Siemens S7 plc. But it happens frequently to have to communicate with multiple PLCs. In that case, our HMI has to read and aggregate the data that are coming from the field and to react/notify ...

This article is part of a series that explains how to write an HMI with C# and WPF. Part 1: getting started with MVVM and plc driver Part 2: this article Navigation in WPF is one of the most complicated topics, because it can be implemented in many different ways, ...

This article is part of a series that explains how to write an HMI with C# and WPF. Part 1: this article Part 2: Create multiple pages and navigation with PRISM In this article we will see how to create from scratch a simple HMI software, which communicates to a ...

This article explains how to create dialogs and modal windows in a WPF application that uses dependency injection. We will use services and factories to abstract the creation of windows and MessageBoxes. We will also see how to write unit tests for MVVM navigation. This is the second part of ...

This article explains some approaches to create the architecture for a WPF application when using dependency injection. In particular we will see how to navigate through views and how to deal with dialogs, both windows and system dialogs. This article is divided in 2 parts. Part 1 (this article): Creation ...

One of the interesting fields in industrial automation is real time image processing and computer vision. It’s quite simple to write applications that access to a camera in C#, both with Windows Forms and WPF, and in this article we will see how to connect to a USB camera (or ...

WiX Toolset is a free installer. It is xml-based, which means that instead of a UI you can use a single xml file to create your installation package. There is a wide choice of installers on the market, but I prefer WiX, especially when I need to distribute large applications ...

In this article i will analyze two techniques that can help you on writing a DPI-aware application and how to scale it properly. There are two common scenarios which force you to make your application to scale to fit the screen: Different resolution Different DPI In fact it’s very common ...