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In WPF, how can I determine whether a control is visible to the user?

I'm displaying a very big tree with a lot of items in it. Each of these items shows information to the user through its associated UserControl control, and this information has to be updated every 250 ...
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How do I invert BooleanToVisibilityConverter?

I'm using a BooleanToVisibilityConverter in WPF to bind the Visibility property of a control to a Boolean. This works fine, but I'd like one of the controls to hide if the boolean is true, and show if ...
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C#/.NET - WinForms - Instantiate a Form without showing it

I am changing the Visibility of a Form to false during the load event AND the form still shows itself. What is the right event to tie this.Visible = false; to? I'd like to instantiate the Form1 ...
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What does a public constructor on an internal class mean [duplicate]

I've seen some C# code that declares a class with an internal modifier, with a public constructor: internal class SomeClass { public SomeClass() { } } What is the point of having a ...
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How can I determine programmatically whether the Windows taskbar is hidden or not?

I need to know whether the Windows taskbar is hidden or not. I believe there is no .NET method to do this, and also I have come across a lot of "how to hide and show the taskbar" samples, but I haven'...
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Overriding an internal abstract method in another assembly

Im currently working on a c# project that uses another .net library. This library does (amongst other things) parse a sequence into a tree. All items are of some type that inherits from the abstract ...
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Make GridView footer visible when there is no data bound

how to show footer when there is no data in gridview for inserting data from footer.
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TargetNullValue for Visibility that's bound to a boolean

I have a Grid whose Visibility property is bound to a boolean property of a certain model using a Converter: <Grid Visibility="{Binding ElementName=MyTreeView, Path=SelectedItem.MyBoolProperty, ...
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How can I detect the visibility of a control?

How to detect if a control is visible to a user? I have a control that displays status of application, and I want it to be updated (it's value to be updated, for example, increase the value of a ...
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2 answers
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Why do Columns not stay hidden after calling DataGridView.Columns.Clear()?

I have seen a lot of posts on SO about weird behaviour of Columns and their visibility in particular when refreshing the grid and dynamically building the columns in the list, but haven't found a ...
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Update WPF from .NET 4 to 4.5.2, DataGridTextColumn Visibility DataContext reference broken

I've upgraded a WPF project to .NET 4.5.2. In a xaml file, I have the following line. <UserControl x:Class="Casa.Project.Client.Views.Projects.ProjectSearch" xmlns="http://schemas....
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