Cantecele

Cantecele

Ursul pacalit de vulpe

Mergeam odata linistit
Mergeam spre casa mea
Cand dintr-o data am simtit
A peste mirosea!

Ce mult mi-ar placea
Sa mananc un peste afumat
Dar nu stiam de un’sa-l iau
Si iata ce-am aflat

Mor, mor, mor
Acum veti afla
Mor, mor, mor
Veti sti povestea mea
Mor, mor, mor
Cum coada mi-am pierdut
Mor, mor, mor
Am tras pana s-a rupt

Vecina vulpe tot manca
Si nu se satura
Cu peste ea se indopa
Intruna mesteca

La peste am poftit si eu
Caci peste vezi ca nu-i
Dar ea sireata mi-a raspuns
“Mai pune-ti pofta in cui!”

Mor, mor, mor
Acum veti afla
Mor, mor, mor
Veti sti povestea mea
Mor, mor, mor
Cum coada mi-am pierdut
Mor, mor, mor
Am tras pana s-a rupt

De vrei mult peste tu sa stii
Sa stai cu coada-n lac
O noapte’ntreaga sa le vii
Toti pestilor de hac

Pe data eu am alergat
Spre apa de la lac
Si coada toata am bagat
Apoi am asteptat

Mor, mor, mor
Acum veti afla
Mor, mor, mor
Veti sti povestea mea
Mor, mor, mor
Cum coada mi-am pierdut
Mor, mor, mor
Am tras pana s-a rupt

O noapte’ntreaga-am tremurat
Crezand c-am pescuit
Tragand de coada am simtit
Cum ea s-a’ntepenit

Din rasputeri m-am opintit
Si-am tras cat am putut
Dar lacul tot era’nghetat
Si coada mi s-a rupt

Mor, mor, mor
Ce rau ma doare-acum
Mor, mor, mor
Pe vulpe ma razbun
Mor, mor, mor
Nimic n-am pescuit
Mor, mor, mor
De vulpe-s pacalit

[1][1] Routed Events

• Events in WPF are called routed because there is a brand new process to handle these events.
• In WPF, the parent element can provide information to child elements, providing usage, customization, and visibility to the potentially smaller, nested objects.
• Instead of just calling handlers attached to the element that raised the event, WPF walks the tree of user interface elements, calling all handlers for the routed event attached to any node from the originating element right up to the root of the user interface tree.
• The C# compiler would generate a hidden private field to hold the event handler, meaning that you pay a per-object overhead for each event whether or not any handlers are attached.
• There are three types of routed events:
• Tunneling
• It fires in the opposite direction from the top of the visual tree down.
• Tunneling events can be easily identified because, by convention, they are named with a Preview prefix
• Bubbling
• It provides event handling from the originating element of a visual tree to the root of the tree.
• Direct
• Direct events represent the typical approach to which .NET programmers
• To suppress the handling of an event, you need to set that Handled property of the RoutedEventArgs parameter

private void PreviewMouseDownButton(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

{

    e.Handled = true;

}

• Although setting the RoutedEventArgs parameter’s Handled property to true in a routed event handler appears to stop the tunneling or bubbling, individual handlers further up or down the tree can opt to receive the events anyway
• This can only be done from procedural code, using an overload of AddHandler that adds a Boolean handledEventsToo parameter
• If you set the Handled flag in a Preview handler, not only will the tunneling of the Preview event stop, but also the corresponding bubbling event that would normally follow will not be raised at all.
• Find the Source Element in an Event Handler: you need to access the Source property of the RoutedEventArgs parameter
• These are the properties of RoutedEventArgs that are most useful:
• Source—The element in the logical tree that originally raised the event.
• OriginalSource—The element in the visual tree that originally raised the event
• Handled
• RoutedEvent—The actual routed event object (such as Button.ClickEvent), which can be helpful for identifying the raised event when the same handler is used for multiple routed events.
• Routed events are represented as public static RoutedEvent fields with a conventional Event suffix
• The routed event is registered much like a dependency property in the static constructor and a normal .NET event—or event wrapper—is defined to enable more familiar use from procedural code and adding a handler in XAML with event attribute syntax
• There are used AddHandler and RemoveHandler.
• These methods are inherited from System.Windows.UIElement
• static Button()
  {

  // Register the event
  Button.ClickEvent = EventManager.RegisterRoutedEvent("Click", RoutingStrategy.Bubble, typeof(RoutedEventHandler), typeof(Button));

  …
  }
  // A .NET event wrapper (optional)
  public event RoutedEventHandler Click
  {

  add { AddHandler(Button.ClickEvent, value); }
  remove { RemoveHandler(Button.ClickEvent, value); }

  }
  protected override void OnMouseLeftButtonDown(MouseButtonEventArgs e)
  {

  …
  // Raise the event
  RaiseEvent(new RoutedEventArgs(Button.ClickEvent, this));
  …

  }
  
  
• Most of the bubbling events are used in pair with tunneling event
• The idea behind having a pair of events for various activities is to give elements a chance to effectively cancel or otherwise modify an event that’s about to  occur.

Attached Events

• This is the routed-event equivalent of an attached property: an event defined by a different class than the one from which the event will be raised.
  
• It keeps system open for extension
• 
  
  <Grid Mouse.PreviewMouseDown="PreviewMouseDownGrid" Mouse.MouseDown="MouseDownGrid">
• The code behind it is :
  
  _grid.AddHandler(Mouse.PreviewMouseDownEvent, new MouseButtonEventHandler(PreviewMouseDownGrid));
  _grid.AddHandler(Mouse.MouseDownEvent, new MouseButtonEventHandler(MouseDownGrid));
  
  
  or
  
  
  Mouse.AddPreviewMouseDownHandler(_grid, PreviewMouseDownGrid);
  Mouse.AddMouseDownHandler(_grid, MouseDownGrid);
  
  

Mouse Inputs

Event	Routing	Meaning
GotMouseCapture	Bubble	Element captured the mouse.
LostMouseCapture	Bubble	Element lost mouse capture.
MouseEnter	Direct	Mouse pointer moved into element.
MouseLeave	Direct	Mouse pointer moved out of element.
PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown, MouseLeftButtonDown	Tunnel, Bubble	Left mouse button pressed while pointer inside element.
PreviewMouseLeftButtonUp, MouseLeftButtonUp	Tunnel, Bubble	Left mouse button released while pointer inside element.
PreviewMouseRightButtonDown, MouseRightButtonDown	Tunnel, Bubble	Right mouse button pressed while pointer inside element.
PreviewMouseRightButtonUp, MouseRightButtonUp	Tunnel, Bubble	Right mouse button released while pointer inside element.
PreviewMouseDown, MouseDown	Tunnel, Bubble	Mouse button pressed while pointer inside element (raised for any mouse button).
PreviewMouseUp, MouseUp	Tunnel, Bubble	Mouse button released while pointer inside element (raised for any mouse button).
PreviewMouseMove, MouseMove	Tunnel, Bubble	Mouse pointer moved while pointer inside element.
PreviewMouseWheel, MouseWheel	Tunnel, Bubble	Mouse wheel moved while pointer inside element.
QueryCursor	Bubble	Mouse cursor shape to be determined while pointer inside ele

      

Visitor Pattern

About

• defines and performs new operations on all the elements of an existing structure, without altering its classes
• the visitor design pattern is a way of separating an algorithm from an object structure it operates on
• using the visitor pattern allows to conform with the open/closed principle
  
• "software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification"
  
• inheritance
• use interfaces/abstract classes -- change the implementation if it is needed / multiple implementation could be created

Client:

• initiate and manage the element (objectStructure)
• Call Visitor methods on objectStructure

Visitor:

• Classes that contain methods that iterate through the object structure and apply operations to its elements

Element1, Element2
implements an Accept operation that takes a visitor as an argument

class ConcreteElementA : Element

{

  public override void Accept(Visitor i_visitor)

  {

    visitor.VisitElement1(this);

  }
...
}

Samples:

• Animals that do different things: barks, run, ...
• Different operation (getWage(), getPTO() ) on different type of employees (manager, programmer, tester)

Visitor Pattern in C#:

• System.Reflection API
  
• Viewing metadata
• Performing type discovery
• Late binding to methods and properties
• Creating types at runtime with Reflection.Emit

            Type[]: Will hold a list of type names

            GetType( ): Will return a class name

            MethodInfo: Can return all parameters and the return type of a method

            Invoke: Will call the method described in a variable of type MethodInfo

• Use Visitor Pattern to do different operation on tree (binary tree)

Shortcomings of the Visitor pattern

• The return type of visiting methods have to be known in advance. 
• A lot of code has to be written to prepare the use of visitors: the visitor class with one abstract method per class, and a accept method per class. This code is tedious and boring to write. 
• If a visitor pattern has not been written in the first time, the hierarchy has to be modified to implement it.

Comparison between .NET Memory Profiler 3.5 (SciTech) - ANTS Memory Profiler 6.0

Both tools

• work with memory snapshots
• can make difference between snapshots
• give information about the:
• live instance
• instance difference (between snapshots)
• you have info related to types that are reference and the types that are referred by another type (instance)
• you have details related to type instance
• Integration with Visual Studio
• Time to save a session is consistent

.NET Memory Profiler 3.5 (SciTech)

• Even you can set filters for memory snapshot the time needed to take a snapshot was about 3 hours
• You can attached to an existing process (with ANTS Memory Profiler 6.0 seems that you can attached only to a .NET 4 process)
• Even, you can start an executable, in my case, starting IxNetwork from SciTech tool has seldom succeeded (almost of time starting IxNet failed)
• You can filter objects by name and by namespace
• It gives some information related to Direct/Indirect Event Handler roots, Direct/Indirect Delegate roots (these roots are more likely to be the root of a leak)
• it is better highlight the object with problems
• also, you have the chance to see which instance are with problem/s
• You can see instance values at a moment
• Check the memory usage

ANTS Memory Profiler 6.0

• Time to take a snapshot: 1-2 minutes
• Visualization tools are much better (diagrams, graphs)
• easy to identify the root object that it is keeping a reference (to an event handler for example)
• Easy to navigate to the objects that refers an instance type of to object that are referred by an instance type (SciTech tool is not so “user friendly” in this case)
• easy to see referenced object/ object that refer that object (a graph) -- in SciTech tool there is a tab system and it is a annoying to navigate between tabs.
• In my case there were some issues with AutoResetEvent. With this tool, I have found the root object that keeps those events in less then 5 minutes. With SciTech tool, when I have analyzed the root object for this event, I have come to have some supposition and not a clear picture of the problem.
• You can filter object by name (full name)
• It is working harder when you apply filters (in SciTech tool this operation are working a little bit faster)
• I had some failures with saving a session
• Save pics/pdf files for a diagram (that, for example, identifies a leak)
• No way to cancel a snapshot (in my case, the application has crashed, but the snapshot appeared that it is still collecting data. I have to close the the ANTS application).

From ANTS Memory Profiler 6.0 web page

• Obtain clear, meaningful results
• Get results fast – With a footprint of less than 32 MB (With SciTech tool the session (compose of 2 snapshots) is about 300 MB)
• Quickly visualize the relationship between your objects
• Summary information
• Powerful filtering options to narrow your search down to the objects you really need to know about. Standard object filters and advanced object filters available.
• Supports .NET 1.1 to .NET 4.0

DispatcherTimer

About

• A timer that is integrated into the Dispatcher queue which is processed at a specified interval of time and at a specified priority.
• It raise time notification using Dispatcher class
• Timers are not guaranteed to execute exactly when the time interval occurs.
  
• If a System.Timers.Timer is used in a WPF application, the System.Timers.Timer runs on a different thread then the user interface (UI) thread.
• In order to access objects on the user interface (UI) thread, it is necessary to post the operation onto the Dispatcher of the user interface (UI) thread using Invoke or BeginInvoke.
• priority field- used with constructor: you can set it DispatcherPriority.Background priority
  

Sample

private readonly DispatcherTimer m_dispatcherTimer;

ctor

{

  

     m_dispatcherTimer = new DispatcherTimer(DispatcherPriority.Background, Dispatcher)

                                    {Interval = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 0, 300)};

}

         private void Start()

         {    

             Stop();

             m_dispatcherTimer.Tick += DispatcherTimer_Tick;

             m_dispatcherTimer.Start();

         }

         private void Stop()

         {

            m_dispatcherTimer.Stop();

            m_dispatcherTimer.Tick -= DispatcherTimer_Tick;

        }

        private void DispatcherTimer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            //do something ...

        }

        private static void IsRunningPropertyChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)

        {

            if ((bool)e.NewValue)

            {

                Start();

            }

            else

            {

                Stop();

            }

        }

        public bool IsRunning

        {

            get { return (bool)GetValue(IsRunningProperty); }

            set { Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(new Action(() => SetValue(IsRunningProperty, value))); }

        }

       public static readonly DependencyProperty IsRunningProperty =

            DependencyProperty.Register("IsRunning", typeof(bool), typeof(ProgressCtrlData), new UIPropertyMetadata(false));

References:

Chris Sells and Ian Griffiths, "Programming WPF", SECOND EDITION, O’Reilly Media

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.threading.dispatchertimer.aspx

  

[3][2]System.Threading.DispatcherObject

• Most objects in WPF derive from DispatcherObject, which provides the basic constructs for dealing with concurrency and threading.
• It is the base class for any object that wishes to be accessed only on the thread that created it
• WPF is based on a messaging system implemented by the dispatcher
  
• WPF dispatcher uses User32 messages for performing cross thread calls.
  
• Thread affinity happens when a component uses the identity of the executing thread to store some type of state. The most common form of this is to use the thread local store (TLS) to store state. Thread affinity requires that each logical thread of execution be owned by only one physical thread in the operating system, which can become memory intensive. In the end, WPF’s threading model was kept in sync with the existing User32 threading model of single threaded execution with thread affinity.
  
• WPF requires Single Threaded Apartment (STA) threading, so you must apply a [System.STAThread()] attribute to your Main method.
• The dispatcher is a basic message dispatching system, with multiple prioritized queues. Examples of messages include raw input notifications (mouse moved), framework functions (layout), or user commands (execute this method).
• DispatcherObject defines a Dispatcher property (of type Dispatcher) containing several overloads of Invoke (a synchronous call) and BeginInvoke (an asynchronous call).
• BeginInvoke has no corresponding EndInvoke
  
• To know when an async operation is finished we can use DispatcherOperation class
• Dispatcher.BeginInvoke method returns a DispatcherOperation object
  
• Status property of type DispatcherOperationStatus enumeration (Pending, Executing, Completed, Aborted)
  
• DispatcherOperation.Abort method
  
• method
• CheckAccess method returns true if you are on the correct thread, false otherwise.
• VerifyAccess method is intended for when you think you are already on the right thread, and it would be indicative of a problem in the program if you were not. 
• It throws an exception if you are on the wrong thread.
• It used by many WPF type when they are used
• The Dispatcher class:
• it lives in the System.Windows.Threading namespace
• it defines a Dispatcher property, which returns the Dispatcher object for the thread to which the object belongs
• Dispatcher.CurrentDispatcher static property
• Dispatcher.Wait method: wait for the operation to complete
  

References: 

Chris Sells and Ian Griffiths, "Programming WPF", SECOND EDITION, O’Reilly Media

Adam Nathan, "Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed", Sams Publishing

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.threading.dispatcherobject.aspx

2010 Septembrie - 10 ani

Improve appearance/behavior of Properties for a Custom Control at design time using attributes

Improve appearance/behavior of Properties for a Custom Control at design time using attributes

• Description
• Category
• set the cathegory under which the property appears
• DefaultValue
• AmbientValue (true|false)
• indicates that the value for a property is derived from parent control
• Browsable (true|false)
• if false, the property should not be shown in the Properties window
• DesignOnly (true|false) 
• if true, the property is only available at design time
• ImmutableObject
• Shows if subproperties of this object are displayed as read-only (e.g.: Point with X,Y properties)
• Localizable 
• Shows if the design time va;lue for thios property is stored in a resource file instead of in the generated code
• MergableProperty
• Configures how the properties window behaves when more than one instance of this control is selected at once
• NotifyParentProperty (true|false)
• Notify the parent property about changes of property(for example Size property should be inform when Height or Width has been changed)
• ParenthesisPropertyName
• name of the property is displayed in parenthesis
• ReadOnly
• RefreshProperty 
• you could specify if the rest of property should be updated when this property is changed
• Attributes to be applied at the class level
• DefaultEvent
• When the control is double-clicked in designed an event is automatically added to the code
• DefaultyProperty
• Default property highlighted in Properties win

References:

Matthew MacDonald, User Interfaces in C#—Windows Forms and Custom Controls, Chapter 8: Design-Time Support for Custom
Controls

How to change the Shape of your appli...

How to change the Shape of your application?

• Create a Form
• Add namespace System.Drawing.Drawing2D
• Assign a new shape to its Region Property

You can do this on Load event:

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            GraphicsPath _graphicsPath = new GraphicsPath();

            _graphicsPath.AddArc(0, 0, Width, Height, 20, -270);

            Region = new Region(_graphicsPath);

        }

This is the result:

Mic dicţionar  pentru inţelegerea Biancăi

La un an si şase luni:

mama	mama
tata	tata
mamaia	mamaia
nana	nana
nanu	nanu
a'o	alo
mo'cov	morvov
'biţă	ciorbiţă
că'niţă	cărniţă
apa/apă	apă
mă'	măr
pepe'	pepene
ba'	banană
'apte	lapte
peşte	peşte
caca	caca
pipi	pipi
Tichi	Tigrilă
Ba'bi	Bambi
Ma'io	Mario
Ana	Ana
Adi	Alexandra
Adu	Alejandro (în general vrea Lady Gaga)
acasă	acasă (primul cuvânt mai complex)
Hai!	Hai!
agu	topogan
Pa Pa!	Pa Pa!
gaca	gata
'mesc!	Multumesc!
Bau!	Bau!
No'oc!	Noroc!
B'avo!	Bravo!
Da	Da
Nu	Nu
Mingea	Mingea
Go'!	Gol!
sus	sus
păseri	păsări
cocoş	cocoş
căţel	căţel
pisi	pisică
mu	mu
cotcodac	cotcodac
cu-cu	cucurigu
i-ha	i-ha
ham	ham
miau	miau
mor-mor	mor-mor
şase	şase
şapte	şapte
doi	doi
na-na-na	na-na-na
nani	nani
gu'	gură
nas	nas
bebe	bebe

GUI Usability (Part I)

• Use tabs - only one line of tabs / not too many - use scroll tabs
• Use wizard (to teach the user how to use something. Where it is the case)
• not too many windows/not too less
• use wizard to perform a complicated task
  
• restrict wizard to a single task
• Do not force the user to enter a field after he/she completed another field if those field are not related 
• Sample: force to enter the name before the phone no.
• Reduce as much as possible the text
• User do not usually read notes, observation, long stories
• Have a logo/motto:
• this may give a hint about the contain of the page/application
• should be short: "Leader in IP network testing"
• Think the application for people that cannot:
• read
• use a mouse (they may not have it)
• Do not force the user to choose if it is not really necessary
• Affordances:
• User expect the windows to have a bar - so he/she can move it
• little grip at the edge: to grap it/wide the window
• Metaphors:  
• Buttons are something that can be pushed
• Navigation tabs
• Be consistence:
• Take the most known applications: use as sample
• Use common used short-cut
• Use common used images for icons 
• Sample: 
• a cart for the shooping chart
• a floppy disk for save, ...
• OK button is always to the left, Cancel button is on the right
• Make your application intuitive
• Use short-cuts / do not force the user to use mouse
• Use tab indexes
• Use appropriate font / font size
• Do not ask user to remember things that computer can remember
• Use ribbon control (at least menus/toolbars):
• functionality is better expose to the user
• better categorized 
• Less more clicks
• Use autocompletion whenever is possible
• Advanced user are not usually annoyed by the explanation for beginners
• Think in terms of activities that the user can perform - you as programmer - (not the task that you have to complete)
• Samples: Cards for greeting/anniversary .... , not put a text, put a image, sent email/print it 
• Figure out most important activities that the users will perform
• Have a search box on your web page
• Use common used words:
• Do not use "Go" instead "Search". User is searching your page for a "Search" word
• Do usability testing (5-6 testers (usually, common people) seems to be enough)
• Use brighter colors (there are studies that shows that usability is raised with 5%)
• Usability tests measure learnability 
• A programmer is better if the user learn / became comfortable with it.
• What are you(developer) created in day, the user appreciate it in seconds
• Don't consider that things that seem to you to be obvious are also obvious for the user
• Use heuristics 
• Replace "teh" with "the"
• "Design black and white"
• Use colors for emphases. 
• People have problem remembering color codes
• Image on icons should be self-explanatory for the icon functionality
• When user press on web page logo, he/she is expecting to go to Home page
• No one likes to be asked a question they can't answer 
• GUI is the era of WIMP (windows, icons, mouse, and pointers).
• Create real-word analogy (Outlook calender looks like a wall calendar)
• Use conventions:
• it is the way that users learn to work with a variety of software.
• Windows developers have to "Act-Like-Microsoft"
  
• Microsoft is generally the standard.
  

 

Biography:

 Joel Spolsky, "User Interface Design for Programmers", Appress

 Steve Krug, "Don’t Make Me Think! a common sense approach to web usability", SECOND EDITION, New Riders Publishing, Berkeley, California USA

 Matthew MacDonald, "User Interfaces in C#—Windows Forms and Custom Controls", Appress, 2002

Singleton <-> Static classes 

When singleton and not static classes:

• Create multiple singletons that start from the same class ()
• Instance returned by the Instance property could be an interface (the class can be an implementation of an interface)
• You can use singletons with interfaces just like any other class
  
• You can derived the singleton class (in order to extend the functionality)
• Unlike static classes, we can use singletons as parameters or objects

See also: http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Java/comp.lang.java.programmer/2007-12/msg00697.html

WPF ViewTree with TreeViewItems of Different Types

[WPF][Sample]WPF ViewTree with TreeViewItems of Different Types

1. WPF ViewTree with TreeViewItems of Different Types
1. What I want to do
2. Problem: Create a List of Views: but views are of different types
3. Classes Hierarchy
4. Create the collection of views with markup
5. Create the collection of views in code behind file
6. Create the templates for displaying each class
8. Initiate the view tree

What I want to do

A View Tree that contains Collection of different types, but I still want to use the binding facility offer by WPF

Problem: Create a List of Views: but views are of different types

Views are of two different types:

• Grid
• Chart

Grid Views have the following properties:

• Caption
• Editable
  
• ShowRowIndicator
  

Chart Views have the following properties:

• Caption
• ChartType

Classes Hierarchy

IView	Base View Interface public interface IView { string Caption { get; set; } }
IGrid	Interface for Grid view public interface IGrid : IView { bool Editable { get; set; } bool ShowRowIndicator { get; set; } }
IChart	Interface for Chart view public interface IChart : IView { string ChartType { get; set; } }
Grid	Grid View class public class Grid : IGrid { #region Implementation of IView public string Caption { get; set; } #endregion #region Implementation of IGrid public bool Editable { get; set; } public bool ShowRowIndicator { get; set; } #endregion }
Chart	Chart View class public class Chart : IChart { #region Implementation of IView public string Caption { get; set; } #endregion #region Implementation of IChart public string ChartType { get; set; } #endregion }
Views	Collection of IView items public class Views : ObservableCollection<IView> { }
ViewCollection	Collection of a certain type of Views (Grid or Chart) public class ViewCollection { public String ViewCollectionName { get; set; } public bool IsSelected { get; set; } public Views Views { get; set; } }
ViewCollectionList	Collection of ViewCollection items public class ViewCollectionList : ObservableCollection<ViewCollection> { }

Create the collection of views with markup

<Window.Resources>

<Classes:ViewCollectionList x:Key="ViewCollectionList">

<Classes:ViewCollection ViewCollectionName="Grid Views" IsSelected="True">

<Classes:ViewCollection.Views>

<Classes:Views>

<Classes:Grid Caption="Grid 1" Editable="True" ShowRowIndicator="True" />

<Classes:Grid Caption="Grid 2" Editable="False" ShowRowIndicator="False" />

<Classes:Grid Caption="Grid 4" Editable="True" ShowRowIndicator="False" />

</Classes:Views>

</Classes:ViewCollection.Views>

</Classes:ViewCollection>

<Classes:ViewCollection ViewCollectionName="Chart Views" IsSelected="False">

<Classes:ViewCollection.Views>

<Classes:Views>

<Classes:Chart Caption="Chart 1" ChartType="Line" />

<Classes:Chart Caption="Chart 4" ChartType="Bar" />

<Classes:Chart Caption="Chart 2" ChartType="Pie" />

</Classes:Views>

</Classes:ViewCollection.Views>

</Classes:ViewCollection>

</Classes:ViewCollectionList>

</Window.Resources>

Create the collection of views in code behind file

var _list = new ViewCollectionList();

var _collection = new ViewCollection

{

ViewCollectionName = "Grid Views",

Views = new Views

{

new Grid

{

Caption = "Grid 1",

Editable = false,

ShowRowIndicator = true

},

new Grid

{

Caption = "Grid 2",

Editable = false,

ShowRowIndicator = false

},

new Grid

{

Caption = "Grid 3",

Editable = true,

ShowRowIndicator = true

}

}

};

_list.Add(_collection);

_collection = new ViewCollection

{

ViewCollectionName = "Chart Views",

Views = new Views

{

new Chart

{

Caption = "Chart 1",

ChartType = "Line"

},

new Chart

{

Caption = "Chart 2",

ChartType = "Bar"

}

}

};

_list.Add(_collection);

_tree.DataContext = _list;

Create the templates for displaying each class

<Window.Resources>

....

<HierarchicalDataTemplate DataType="{x:Type Classes:ViewCollection}"

ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Views}"

>

<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">

<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=ViewCollectionName}" FontWeight="Bold"/>

<TextBlock Text=" " />

<Border Background="LightCyan" >

<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">

<TextBlock Text="Is selected: " />

<CheckBox IsChecked ="{Binding IsSelected}" />

</StackPanel>

</Border>

</StackPanel>

</HierarchicalDataTemplate>

<DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type Classes:Grid}">

<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">

<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Caption}" FontWeight="Bold"/>

<TextBlock Text=" Is Editable: " />

<CheckBox IsChecked="{Binding Path=Editable}" />

<TextBlock Text=" Show Row Indicator: " />

<CheckBox IsChecked="{Binding Path=ShowRowIndicator}" />

</StackPanel>

</DataTemplate>

<DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type Classes:Chart}">

<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">

<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Caption}" FontWeight="Bold"/>

<TextBlock Text=" Chart Type: " />

<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=ChartType}" Background="LightGreen"/>

</StackPanel>

</DataTemplate>

</Window.Resources>

Initiate the view tree

<DockPanel>

<TreeView DataContext="{StaticResource ViewCollectionList}" x:Name="_tree">

<TreeViewItem ItemsSource="{Binding}" Header="Views" />

</TreeView>

</DockPanel>