I liked the idea of binding to properties in WPF or Workflows. So implemented something similar (although less powerful) in my code: I had a list of tasks and their data context, so I needed somehow to “bind” data from context to properties of tasks. As a part of implementation, I have created a method that allowed me to take an object (task), take one of its properties by name and assign that property a value. Everything in reflection, since property name nor its value is not known at design time and only evaluated at runtime. Remembering that my value is...

I had some WPF dialog that I need to show from older WinForms application, or more precisely from some WinForms UserControl. The problem was to set Owner of that dialog, GetWindow() didn’t work (of course) and leaving dialog without an owner, made it possible to disappear when user switch from application to application. And I didn’t want to show it in task bar either. Thankfully, there is a very easy way, which, for some reason, I didn’t find quite fast – use WindowInteropHelper class. Here is an example: ...