![]() ![]() This column is about what you can do to combat those performance issues. If you need to display lots of data, you might discover that the ItemsControl and DataTemplate don't scale well. The disappointment might come a little later. If the items in the collection implement some kind of property-change notification (most often by implementing the INotifyPropert圜hanged interface), the Items-Control can dynamically respond to changes in the items. The DataTemplate consists mostly of a visual tree of one or more elements, with data bindings that link the items in the collection with properties of these elements. ![]() The DataTemplate defines how each item in the collection is displayed. This epiphany is usually accompanied by the realization, "Hey, I can use a DataTemplate to create a bar chart or a scatter plot with virtually no coding."Ī DataTemplate is most commonly created in conjunction with an ItemsControl or a class that derives from ItemsControl, which includes ListBox, ComboBox, Menu, TreeView, ToolBar, StatusBar-in short, all the controls that maintain a collection of items. There comes a time in the life of every Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) programmer when the true power of the DataTemplate suddenly becomes evident. Volume 24 Number 03 Foundations - Writing More Efficient ItemsControls ![]()
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![]() ![]() He was appointed the Senior Director of Finance in 2012 and named Vice President of Customer Solutions in 2015. Christie joined Avista in 2005 and held various leadership roles in Avista’s natural gas business. Christie’s promotion to CFO comes after serving in his current role as Senior Vice President, External Affairs and Chief Customer Officer for Avista, where he’s been responsible for regulatory affairs, customer service, customer experience, communications, community outreach and philanthropy, as well as customer energy efficiency and conservation activities, and new products and services. Thies will stay on as Executive Vice President until his official retirement on October 1, 2023. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although his daily responsibilities will transition on May 11, 2023, following Avista’s Annual Meeting, Mr. ( NYSE: AVA) announced that Senior Vice President of External Affairs and Chief Customer Officer Kevin Christie, age 55, will become Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Senior Vice President Regulatory Affairs effective May 11, 2023, after Avista’s Annual Meeting of shareholders.Īvista’s Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Mark Thies has decided to retire. SPOKANE, Wash., (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Avista Corp. ![]() ![]() Sarah Lotz: The initial idea came from the fact that I'm flight phobic and have always wanted to write a novel about air disasters as a way to cope with this irrational fear. It's an interesting piece of zeitgeist-tapping that's getting a big release and promotion from a big publisher. The novel is written in the form of news reports, emails, interview transcripts, social media posts as the author herself becomes a character in her own novel, gathering it all together and conducting interviews in a way that reflects the sprawling, epic quality of an interconnected world. From there, a ripple effect of cryptic messages, signs and portents, religious extremism, apocalyptic prophecies and murderous conspiracies run side-by-side as the story hops from one part of the world to another. ![]() ![]() The plot involves four planes crashing at the same time in different parts of the world and one person from each crash miraculously survives: four children and a woman. The Three is one of the more interesting mainstream apocalyptic thrillers out right now, garnering good reviews and major promotions on Amazon and the like. ![]() Every now and then, I get sent advance copies of books and graphic novels and offered a chance to interview the authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() Powell later reprised the role in the ITV series Hannay which ran for 13 episodes from 1988 to 1989. It is known for the Big Ben sequence near the end, inspired by the film My Learned Friend (1943) starring Will Hay, although this is its most fundamental deviation from Buchan's original story, which reaches its culmination in a coastal location in Kent. It also introduces a different meaning for the "thirty-nine steps", although unlike its filmed predecessors it returns to Buchan's original notion of being an actual staircase. The early events and overall feel of the film bear much resemblance to Buchan's original story, albeit with a few changes such as the re-casting of Scudder as a more immediately sympathetic character and the introduction of a love interest. It is generally regarded as the closest to the novel, being set before the Great War. This version of Buchan's tale starred Robert Powell as Richard Hannay, Karen Dotrice as Alex, John Mills as Colonel Scudder, and a host of other well-known British actors in smaller parts. It was the third film version of the 1915 novel. ![]() The Thirty Nine Steps is a British 1978 thriller film directed by Don Sharp, with screenplay by British playwright Michael Robson, based on the novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. $10 million (outside US as at April 1980) ![]() ![]() ![]() Roma knows it’s his fault for letting the ruthless Juliette back into his life, and he’s determined to set things right-even if that means killing the girl he hates and loves with equal measure. ![]() Roma is still reeling from Marshall’s death, and his cousin Benedikt will barely speak to him. If Juliette were actually guilty of the crime Roma believes she committed, his rejection might sting less. The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the Scarlets is to have him want her dead for murdering his best friend in cold blood. ![]() One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang’s heir. The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution.Īfter sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on a mission. Shanghai is under siege in this captivating and searingly romantic sequel to These Violent Delights, which New York Times bestselling author Natasha Ngan calls “deliciously dark.” ![]() ![]() The novel and world hit all of the buttons for me, from an Epic Fantasy perspective. ![]() a bold, audacious, and fantastic way for James Rollins to carve a path back into Epic Fantasy. I got a sense he was having fun, and sometimes the best thing a writer can. What I appreciated the most, though, was how much Rollins’s love for Epic Fantasy came through in the entirety of the novel. There were some slower patches of the novel that brought down things a bit, but those were few and far between. I immediately fell in love with the immersive, appropriately detailed world-building, found the characters to be empathetic and fascinating, and found the plotting to mostly be breakneck. ![]() Hint, I liked that element of the novel! I found a lot to like in The Starless Crown. The plot, at times, felt like a RPG adventure, with the monstrous attacks, the importance of magical objects, but a really well-written, imaginative, and gripping adventure. ![]() |