Do ControlTemplates in WPF require a TargetType? I am restyling some controls, and notice that the comboboxitem, listiviewitem and listboxitem all have the same template: <ControlTemplate x:Key="ListBoxItemCT" TargetType="{x:Type ListBoxItem}"> <Border x:Name="Bd" SnapsToDevicePixels="true" Background="{Templa...
I'm trying to create a custom combobox that shows a loading animation when a bool property is set on it (e.g. IsLoading). I've created a control template in Blend based on the combobox, and added a textblock inside the togglebutton template. In the code behind I'm calling VisualStateManager.GoToState but it always returns false. I was t...
Hi. I'm trying to make a ControlTemplate for a GroupBox such as if a TextBlock is declared in the Header it's background should be set to yellow. The problem is that, although I define a style for TextBlocks in the ContentPresenter for the Header, it's not applied except on those TextBlocks which are autogenerated by WPF. Here is the...
Any ideas regarding why the WPF XAML code I have is not working. I'm trying to override the WPFToolkit charting display, and have taken their default XAML and included in my Grid.Resources section as a means of overriding. Specifically I'm wanting to remove the graph markers, but this specific question pertains to clarifying my underst...
Hello Stackoverflow users, What I am trying to do is to create some sort of "rooms"(like a chat group, a sharing center or whatever you want). All the room are created the same way, but each one of them contains different informations. Each of these rooms is contained in a TabItem. I managed to create dynamically all the Tabitems, to gi...
When I use the following line, implementing a templated control from a Silverlight class library; <labelSliderControl:SliderControl x:Name="sldX" Label="X" Value="4" /> I see in the VS Disign view the Slider getting the value of 4. But when I run the app the Slider starts at 0. So when I change the attribute in XAML I can see the c...
I'm trying to make and use templated controls in an application but I seem to run into timing isssues. When I use a custom templated control, in XAML <local:MyControl> and through code (new MyControl()), and call a method on the control that tries to do something with a control in the Controltemplate, a control in the template is almost ...
Ok, this is sort of a follow-up to my first question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3827701/modify-or-tweak-an-existing-treeviewitem-control-template but since it is technically a new question, I'm told a good S/O visitor should create a new one, so here it is! Ok... the existing template for a TreeViewItem is based on a grid, a bor...
Using Silverlight 4 & WPF 4, I'm trying to create a button style that alters the text color of any contained text when the button is mouseover'd. Since I'm trying to make this compatible with both Silverlight & WPF, I'm using the visual state manager: <Style TargetType="{x:Type Button}"> <Setter Property="Template"> <Setter.Value> ...
Hi. I am trying to add a button to a custom ListView (MyListView) which triggers a command (MyCustomCommand) defined in MyListView. I have added the button (and a title text) by applying a ControlTemplate. The problem is that I have not found a way to trigger MyCustomCommand when clicking the button. What I eventually want to achieve is ...
I'm new to WPF control template and need your help on this. I got a sample Microsoft Ribbon project here. I tried to change the color of the ribbon menu button but I can not make the yellow border goes off. Please see screenshot below. If you have a work-around, please help! You can get MS Ribbon from: http://www.microsoft.com/dow...
this is my code: <Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.MainWindow" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525"> <Grid> <ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding Persons}"> <ListBox.ItemContainerStyle> ...
I'm trying to get a combobox to match a visual design, so its togglebutton has a blue border when the combobox has focus. I can't figure out how to do this and can't find an example. When the combobox gets focus, the textbox inside gets the dashed focus visual. How do I pass the combobox focus state down to the togglebutton, so that it'...
I created a custom RenderingTemplate "viewInventory" copy of ListForm rendering template. It looks like below. Then I associated the Rendering Template to a content type (this is list type content type) EditFormTemplateName. But it seems the list is not even using this controltemplate because I put a vogus name for editformtemplatename a...
I'm trying to switch between 2 templates on the basis of a data trigger. But I app crashes with the "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." If I comment out the setter for the template it runs fine. Here's my XAML: <Style x:Key="ListViewItemStyle" TargetType="{x:Type ListViewItem}"> <Setter Property="Template" V...
I am making a template control so that I can have a button with an image that changes when you click it. I also am trying to get text on top of the button that can change at run time. I have the button images and everything working but I can't seem to get that label at runtime so I can change the text. Here is the code in the xaml. I...
I have a requirement to retemplate the Scrollbar so that only one template is required, instead of separate horizontal and vertical ones. The designer's assertion is that the scrollbar can be rotated on a trigger (Orientation = Horizontal), and the commands swapped on the buttons. Since the single template is set up as a grid with rows,...
I have problems accessing images in the ControlTemplate of a "Silverlight Templated Control" I implemented. The Style for my control called "ControlDragger" is the following: <!-- ControlDragger Menu button style --> <Style x:Key="MenuButtonStyle" TargetType="Button"> <Setter Property="Margin" Value="5,0" /> <Setter Property="Te...