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Bonus personal info for friends/family - we got a frog, and I discovered I dislike crickets :). I was thankful we had a dustbuster to take care of them.

Two things in working with WPF that took me a while to figure out.

First, I had a bug where _'s were going missing in a button's label. I'd read about the keyboard accelerator stuff, but it didn't occur to me because I was putting a directory name in there. Quick fix was to make a converter:

  public class NoMnemonicConverter : IValueConverter
  {
     public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
     {
        return ((string)value).Replace("_", "__");
     }

     public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
     {
        return ((string)value).Replace("__", "_");
     }
  }

Second, I was trying to put some of my common controls and some I'd borrowed from others into a single library. My generic ResourceDictionary just would not get recognized. I googled and grepped until my eyes fell out, then I found this segment to put into the library's AssemblyInfo.cs:

[assembly: ThemeInfo(
    ResourceDictionaryLocation.None, //where theme specific resource dictionaries are located
   //(used if a resource is not found in the page, 
   // or application resource dictionaries)
    ResourceDictionaryLocation.SourceAssembly //where the generic resource dictionary is located
   //(used if a resource is not found in the page, 
   // app, or any theme specific resource dictionaries)
)]

What a relief!