Blossom Programming

NopCommerce an open source ecommerce platform on the web. I have discussed the features of it in my previous blog. If you have missed it you can find it here In this blog, we will configure the setting for displaying  currency  symbol. I will take example of displaying indian rupee symbol. In the admin panel open Currencies section from Configuration -> Currencies                                                                                                                                    You can open the demo admin panel from here Add new Currencies by clicking the add new button on top right corner as shown in below image. Below are the setting which we have to insert while adding new currency. Name: India Currency Code: INR Rate: 1 (this is for my case as INR is primary currency ) Display locale: English en-IN Custom Formatting: leave blank Below is the screenshot

Visual studio comes with feature to customize font and size. Let us see how we can change the font and size in visual studio. We can do that by going to        tools -->  options                                                                                                                                 Below is the screenshot for reference: Under environment tab select Font and color section.         environment --> font and color                                                                                                         Below is the screenshot for reference Save changes after selecting your desired font and size.

In our previous article learned how to position list  of control using Canvas and ItemsControl,In this article we willlearn how to resize and repositions the control using canvas and save their positions i.e. Height/Width of the control  and top/left positions of control as per a canvas. As Controls get the positions from their immediate parent canvas. So we will not be using Itemcontrol to display the controls so that canvas can have full control on the children(the controls that needs to get resized and reposition) Below are the steps we need to follow for this: Step 1: Lets use the same MainWindow and add a canvas control to it.The xaml for MainWindow.xaml should look like as below:         <Grid>             <Grid.RowDefinitions>                 <RowDefinition Height="*"></RowDefinition>             </Grid.RowDefinitions>                     <Canvas x:Name="DesigningCanvas" >                     </Canvas>    

The best way to position different controls using Canvas in MVVM is using ItemsControl.We need to bind ItemsControl with the list of controls and using Canvas control as the ItemsTemplate.Lets understand it in more details using an example. Step 1: Add an ItemsControl in MainWindow. Step 2: Lets create a list containing the different heights, width,top and left poistions for the controls and this list we will be using as the ItemsSource to bind the ItemsControl. Step 3: Lets Create a class under ViewModel folder only named as “ControlDetails”, Class should look like: namespace WpfApplication1.ViewModel {   public class ControlDetails     {         public double Height         {             get;             set;         }         public double Width         {             get;             set;         }         public double Top         {             get;             set;         }         public double Left         {             get;             set;      

DataGrid in MVVM As we know datagrid plays a vital role in displaying data in our apllications. In this article we will get to know how to bind a datagrid in WPF MVVM. Step 1: Lets add a DataGrid Control in Main Window as below: <Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.MainWindow"         xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"         xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"         xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"         xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"         xmlns:local="clr-namespace:WpfApplication1" xmlns:i="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Interactivity;assembly=System.Windows.Interactivity"         mc:Ignorable="d"         Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">     <Grid>         <Grid.RowDefinitions>             <RowDefinition Heig