This post provides a simple IValueConverter implementation that makes use of the framework type converters in order to convert between a large range of source / target types. This converter can be used both within bindings and in code-behind to give more concise property setters. 

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Understanding Prism 

Modern, animated, responsive, easy to customize, easy to use, MVVM orientated, free, .Net charts, LiveCharts listens for any change in your data and updates the UI automatically, for now only available for WPF and WinForms 

Since October 2015, the WPF designer from SharpDevelop has been a standalone component that can be re-used in any application that needs to integrate a XAML designer. That component is now free of dependencies.

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