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Architecture

• Layered Architecture
• Modular Architecture
• Model-View-ViewModel Pattern
• DataModel-View-ViewModel Pattern
• Introduction of the IoC container concept

Waf Knowledge Base

Foundation

• How should a class expose a collection?
• Implementing and usage of INotifyPropertyChanged
• Cache Pattern
• Implement IDisposable
• ObservableListView: Provide change notifications for sorting and filtering
• Object.ToString and IFormattable

Asynchronous Programming

• Freezable Pattern
• Throttling to improve responsiveness
• Unobserved Exceptions
• Exception Handling

Localization

• CurrentCulture vs. CurrentUICulture
• Localize a WPF Application
• Should exception messages be localized?

UWP (Universal Windows Platform)

• UWP vs. WPF

WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)

• WPF vs. Windows Forms
• WPF XAML resources for modular applications
• WPF Design Time Support (Part 1)
• WPF Design Time Support (Part 2)
• WPF Design Time and Internet Security
• WPF ShowDialogAsync
• WPF Dispatcher BeginInvoke vs. InvokeAsync
• WPF Plugin Sample - Process isolation of Plugins

Interoperability

• Using Windows Runtime in a .NET desktop application
• Create an Any CPU Wrapper with PInvoke
• Integrate a CPU dependent assembly into an Any CPU Application

Misc

• Tree traversal
• Improve startup time with the Multicore JIT
• Automatic Equals and GetHashCode of Properties
• Gist - Useful Code Snippets