Last week I was faced with a problem. I needed to implement a MouseDoubleClick Event on a WPF Grid. I said Ha, easy but as i went on to implement it i realized that the Grid has no MouseDoubleClick Event! So how am I supposed to implement it? I came up with 2 solutions and so here goes:

1. the first thought i had was to create a User Control that held only a grid and implement the MouseDoubleClick on the User Control itself so what you will get is this Xaml code:

<UserControl x:Class=”CustomDoubleClick.GridWrapper”
    xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation”
    xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml”
    Height=”300″ Width=”300″>
    <Grid>

    </Grid>
</UserControl>

Since the Grid takes the…

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Since we got so many comments with lots of useful information on our Visual Studio Shortcuts post we decided to use those comments and some other shortcuts we found and compile another list so lets get going

April is gone and we are definitely on the go!

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