One thing has been really annoying me for a long time – when I was setting IsEnabled property on some WPF container to false all its contained controls automatically became disabled as well. Ok, that really wasn’t a source of my annoyance – it was rather expected. Really frustrating thing is that you are unable to scroll a DataGrid, to copy and paste a text from TextBox etc. One can say – but there is a ReadOnly property – and he’s going to be right, but unfortunately it’s available on only few of these controls. TextBox for instance has an...

We all struggle when it comes to user interface design. There is a tendency that brilliant ideas when compared with gray matter dissolve into something like this. I bet that you all seen (done) something similar. Well, let’s face the truth, unless you are making another search engine, FPP shooter or tic-tac-toe game you are probably building another enterprise app, and they are called enterprise because they tend to swallow a lot of data (over generalization was intended ;-). And yes, that data should be entered in them somehow, usually by human beings sitting in front of a computer. So...