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While working on any XAML based app, first thing which comes into mind is Binding . There are lot many articles on what is Binding and how it works. Don’t worry, I am not going to repeat all that stuff again. But definitely, I would like to touch upon few things which are base of my today’s write-up. To make any property bindable or let’s say to propagate property change, we usually follow one of the below two options: Implement INotifyPropertyChanged interface or Create an event with name PropertyNameChanged Point to notice here is, both the above options will work only on instance properties. Now what if my property is Static??? INotifyPropertyChanged is not going to work for static properties. None of the above options will make x:Static extension work. What to do now ? No worries, all these hazards can easily be overcome when you will jump to .Net 4.5. Approach 1: Property specific static event for each and every static property Let’s have a look a...

If you want to figure out the current version of WPF installed on your machine, then one has to navigate to registry for below path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v3.0\Setup\Windows Presentation Foundation Version value on above path will give your the required information.

Microsoft recently released .Net Fx 4.5.2 which is in-place update for .Net Framework 4, .Net Framework 4.5 and .Net Framework 4.5.1 and is ready for download on below links: .Net Framework 4.5.2 Offline Installer .Net Framework 4.5.2 Web Installer This includes updates for ASP.Net, Windows Event Tracing (ETW), better profiling as well as for DPI settings. Enjoy...