How many times did you use a desktop application to end up with a frozen unresponsive window? This article is about what we are to do when our .NET application freezes. We're going to explore tools and debugging techniques to see where the program is stuck and to find the core cause of the issue.

Desktop application development dominated the software world for many years. However, with the rise of the internet, web applications took over with an incredible pace. When smartphones became popular, mobile applications came to be in huge demand, pushing desktop applications into third place. While the previous statement might be true to startups, there is still an incredible amount of software development happening in desktop applications. Consider programs like Excel, Adobe Photoshop and the Chrome browser.

In my last post . I talked about navigation techniques in MVVM and how I didn’t like them too much. I also talked about learning Asp.NET Core is and how good the navigation / routing system is in there. So, following the pain, I decided to create a lightweight navigation WPF framework similar to the one in Asp.NET Core. We’re still using MVVM, but adding controllers which makes it MVVMC, Model-View-ViewModel-Controller (This is how the library is called as well).

In WPF you can do everything in many different ways. It's not always clear what is better. We got many different ways to reuse a UI component, which is better?

Provides a tutorial on building a WPF resources hierarchy with Merged Dictionaries. Shows common problems and solutions for that.