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Automatically Filtering a ComboBox in WPF

Haven’t you always wanted to use a combo box like the one in Start menu’s Run dialog?… You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it. Context: This post was automatically imported from my old blog, which was originally hosted on Microsoft’s ASP.NET Community Blogs. When they shut it down, I dumped all of my old posts to Wordpress. You can still check out the original blog on the Wayback Machine.

Quickly Find a Type’s Assembly and Namespace

Sometimes you want to know a type’s exact namespace and assembly (for instance, in order to find it in Reflector). Instead of waiting forever for Visual Studio’s Help to load (that is, if you haven’t already disabled F1) or searching Google for the answer, simply click on Go To Definition (or F12 in the default C# scheme), and hover over the meta data file’s tab page header…. You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it.

Referencing Nested Types With x:Type

If you have a nested type, VS2008 beta 2’s designer will tell you that you can’t reference it using x:Type, stating that “Type X was not found.”… You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it. Context: This post was automatically imported from my old blog, which was originally hosted on Microsoft’s ASP.NET Community Blogs. When they shut it down, I dumped all of my old posts to Wordpress. You can still check out the original blog on the Wayback Machine.