Quick challenge #2: how to truncate a string in C# and keep word boundaries (do not split a word in two)

[Q] How to truncate a string in C# with more than 10 characters and keep word boundaries (do not split a word in two)?

[Examples] "Good morning test." -> "Good morni..." (wrong), "Good morning..." (correct)

How to make a consistent bind in WPF.

Hello everyone, to make your first bind can be a very traumatizing experience and even for someone with a little more experience a simple mistake can drive you crazy. So in this post we are showing some tips and good practice to make a consistent binding. First of all we recommend the Josh Smith post, that in fact is one of our references for this little post.

Quick challenge C#: how to truncate a string with more than 10 characters by adding an ellipsis to its end?

[Q] How to truncate a string with more than 5 characters by adding an ellipsis to its end?

[Example] "1234567" -> "12345..."

How to Bind to a DataGrid when its columns are not known at compile time (ItemsSource is bidimensional)

Making a Bind in a WPF DataGrid is not the the most difficult task. In fact, there are dozens of posts explaining how to do it (http://wpftutorial.net/DataGrid.html, http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/30905/WPF-DataGrid-Practical-Examples). However, they all have one detail in common: they assume that the columns of the DataGrid are known at compile time, ie., each column is a reference to a property of class that represents a row in the DataGrid.

An example: the class Customer has the properties Id, Name and Age. The DataGrid displays a list of customers. Therefore, it is necessary to create a column for each property. To do so, simply create in xaml, three instances of the class DataGridTextColumn and make a bind to each of the 3 properties, like following code:

How insert a button in a datagrid row header

Sometimes we need to do some strange things, like adding a button in a row header of a datagrid. In my case I am looking for something like a treeview datagrid, and adding a button in a datagrid row header is one of the things we need to do (here the part 1 of my saga, where we show how to collapse lines in a datagrid). So, in this post we are going to show some tricks to let you bind your View Model Property with your button properties.