WPF

Some of the big additions to the .NET Framework in .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 were the Charting Components that give a rich, out-of-the-box solution for displaying charts in your application.  However, one thing that I've always found very hard is locating information on how to control the look and feel of the individual charts.  In this posting I'll show you how to style the following elements of a chart: Title, Legend, Independent Axis, and Dependent Axis.  This will show the key areas of styling.

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So as I have mentioned in previous blog postings and on Twitter, I have been working a lot more recently in WPF than in recent months due to a big project I had been completing. One of the final "Client Review" items that I had to resolve was that they didn't like the way that the textboxes worked. The default behavior for textboxes in WPF when tabbing into them was to put the cursor at the beginning of the field. I agree that the usability was not good, but I had over 400 textboxes and didn't want to have to change all of them. SO I went digging for a solution....

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Over the past few months I have been working on more projects using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and I have ran into numerous fun "learning experiences".  Of of these recent ones prompted me to put up a "Quick Tip" posting.  The quick tip in this posting is around formatting of custom font structures within a WPF TextBlock.  Specifically around sub-scripting, super-scripting, and internal font variants.

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