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Making WPF applications look Metro-styled, even in Windows 7? (Window Chrome / Theming / Theme)

What I did was creating my own Window and Style. Because I like to have control over everything and I didn’t want some external libraries just to use a Window from it. I looked at already mentioned MahApps.Metro on GitHub and also very nice Modern UI on GitHub. (.NET4.5 only) There is one more it’s … Read more

Is it possible to await an event instead of another async method?

You can use an instance of the SemaphoreSlim Class as a signal: private SemaphoreSlim signal = new SemaphoreSlim(0, 1); // set signal in event signal.Release(); // wait for signal somewhere else await signal.WaitAsync(); Alternatively, you can use an instance of the TaskCompletionSource<T> Class to create a Task<T> that represents the result of the button click: … Read more