David Padbury

Value converters allow you to modify the value of the source property of a binding before it is applied to the target. As shown in my previous WPF examples, you would normally write a new class implementing the IValueConverter interface which will do the conversion. For simple transforms such as performing basic arithmetic or formatting [...]

I often find myself wanting to pluralize text in my applications such as displaying either ‘1 Message’ or ‘2 Messages’. Anyone who has played with Rails will have likely came across the Infector which, among other things, is capable of taking a singular word and returning its plural – message => messages and mouse => [...]