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 ...
Read More »WPF touch-friendly controls for resistive touch-screen
While it’s fairly common, when working in automation field, to make software that runs on resistive touch-screens, I admit that it’s not a trivial task to make a good user experience, especially with a desktop technology like WPF and C#. In this article I posted some of the problems that ...
Read More »OxyPlot: a new open source chart library for WPF
If you need charts in your application, OxyPlot is probably what you are searching for. You can find the source code on CodePlex and there is an extensive explanation on how to get started in this blog post.
Read More »How to use Windows 7 dialogs with WPF
Wpf is an advanced technology to build responsive user interfaces, but for many tasks (MessageBox, Folder Browser, Progress Dialog) you still have to use the old Windows Forms dialogs. Windows 7 replaced this old forms with new ones to provide a better User Interface and a better feeling to their ...
Read More »Real-time Line charts with WPF and Dynamic Data Display
When logging datas from sensors it’s important to visualize them with a powerful real-time chart. In automation especially it’s common to analyze processes with the help of charts to predict and regulate the process. One of the most powerful charts (and for many the best) is Dynamic Data Display, an ...
Read More »WPF Touch Keyboard
As i previously did with Keypad, i rewrote the code of the for a WPF touch keyboard based on Wosk project on Codeplex. This keyboard both support upper and lower case letter, it’s completely sizable and it’s good-looking. I packed this together with keypad for convenience, and you can download ...
Read More »Keypad for WPF applications with touch-screen
This is a keypad that i often use in my applications. You can download the source code and a sample application from here:https://www.mesta-automation.com/Downloads/keypad.rar The original graphic and concepts has been taken from here: http://wosk.codeplex.com/ (check for the latest source code) and this control comes with the original license attached (it’s a free ...
Read More »WPF Gauge with samples
Get the latest source for CircularGauge.dll with samples from my github repository. As i mentioned in an earlier post i often use EvelynT Gauge for my industrial software. Because of the limits of the original source code i made some changes to scale it automatically, to use databinding on min-max values ...
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