If you set a parent window’s Opacity, any child windows can only have an opacity equal to or below the parent window’s. So if you want to keep the main window background transparent but leave the child controls (such as a text box) fully opaque, it will not work as you expect. One solution (there [...]
Entries from July 2008
WPF : Opaque child windows on a transparent parent background
July 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Tags: WPF (Avalon)
C++/CLI Article : Deriving from a C# disposable class
July 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Last week at work, I had to work on a C++/CLI class that derived from a class written in C# which implemented IDisposable. I got it wrong at first (yeah, same guy who wrote a book on the subject a couple of years ago) and my boss and I spent some time going through the [...]
Tags: C++/CLI