WPF - Tips & Tricks (March 2020)

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The following is a list of the most interesting support tickets we answered in March. We hope you’ll find them useful as you explore and use our WPF product line. If you’d like to share a support ticket with other members of the DevExpress dev community, feel free to comment below or email us at wpfteam@devexpress.com.

WPF Data Grid

• How to specify different data sources for WPF ComboBoxEdit editors per individual row (T868447)
• How to bind the Format property to a property in a ViewModel (T873237)
• How to automatically apply best fit to columns when GridControl is bound to InfiniteAsyncSource (T871658)
• How to maintain ButtonEdit button visibility within a GridColumn (T870277)
• How to declare an inplace hyperlink so it opens an email client with the specified address automatically (T868389)
• How to hide the Expand button in certain nodes (T868174)

WPF Editors

• How to apply the ItemTemplate to an item in the ComboBoxEdit editor box (T872289)
• How to select a null or empty value in ComboBoxEdit (T869067)
• How to specify custom check/uncheck glyphs for items in the drop-down popup when ComboBoxEdit is in Checked mode (T874806)

WPF MVVM

• How to use DialogService in an async method (T874300)
• Should I use PRISM for dependency injection? (T871521)
• How to display a transparent dialog window using DialogService (T870513)

Other Controls

• How to execute a command when a tab item is selected (T868931)
• How to prevent badges from being drawn over expanded auto-hidden panels (T867809)
• How to handle the ProcessNewValue event when ComboBoxEdit is defined in BarEditItem (T872336)
• How to bind elements in LayoutGroup.HeaderTemplate to the view model (T875360)
• How to make custom inner editors read-only depending on DataLayoutControl's IsReadOnly property (T870129)
• How to hide the Time Ruler in WeekView (T874699)
• How to specify width for an expanded auto-hidden panel (t874609)
• How to access properties of a property definition in PropertyDefinitionTemplate (T873609)

Should you have any questions or issues related to any of these tickets, feel free to submit a comment below or respond directly to the ticket within Support Center.

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