Dynamically Localizing a WPF Application at Runtime

Tim Williams Articles, Programming, Tutorial Leave a Comment

Today, almost every facet of life deals with technology. Because of this, there is a necessity for applications to be accessible and usable by all people around the world. This means that software developers write need to provide a tailored experience for the end-users that is easy to use, provides output, and effectively captures user input. One important part of that process is localization, which will be explained later on.

The main focus of this article is to provide a solution for localizing a WPF application at runtime. This allows users of the application to change the culture/language of the UI elements through interactions, such as button clicks or menu items.

Kendo Grid: A Primer For First-Time Users

Brian Jacobs Articles, Cloud, Development Technologies & Tools, Tutorial, Vue.js Leave a Comment

This is my take on working with Kendo Grid in a Vue 3 project. While I have not explored the grid functionality to the nth degree, these are some things I like about the grid, some difficulties I had implementing it, and some workarounds and quirks I have discovered. Specifically, I will be referring to the Vue implementation of Kendo Grid and the Native Components. This is not to be confused with the Kendo UI for Vue Wrappers.

Kendo Grid is a very robust tool for displaying data in table format. Out-of-the-box features include sorting, filtering, and pagination. Simply defining the column schema with a few config options will have the grid set up quickly. A few features that require more coding and configuration are column collapsing, adding a toolbar, displaying aggregated fields, using custom cell components, implementing column groups, and exporting grid data to a file.

Let’s get started!

React Hooks Form

React Hook Form

Braden Niswonger Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, React Leave a Comment

In this blog, we will explore React Hook Form, an extremely lightweight and effective form building library using React. This open-source, third-party library has no dependencies and can be integrated with most existing forms or libraries. It provides the ability to subscribe to individual components, limiting the frequency of re-renders and making it more efficient.

Below, we will learn some of the basic usages of React Hook Form, some more in-depth features, and then look at an example form integrated with an existing UI library.

Improving iOS/Android Numeric Keyboards With KeyboardActions

Flutter: Using Keyboard Actions To Improve Mobile User Experience

Ryan LaRue Articles, Design, Development Technologies & Tools, Flutter, Mobile, UI/UX 1 Comment

This post covers three options for customizing an iOS or Android keyboard in a Flutter mobile application, with a code walkthrough of using the Keyboard Actions package to easily add keyboard features that increase user efficiency.

Mobile app developers, have you ever noticed that the native iOS numeric keyboard does not include certain features that might be helpful? For example, a Done button? Or how about arrow buttons to traverse form fields? To jog your memory, hereโ€™s what the native iOS numeric keyboard looks like…