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WPF - Grid - updating Row and Column number attached properties on child controls each time a new Row/Column is adeed removed

I have a WPF Grid with a XAML similar to this: <Grid width=200 Height=200 > <Grid.ColumnDefinitions > <ColumnDefinition Width="1*" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="2*" /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition Height="Auto" ...

WPF4 DatePicker - adding time

Now that there is an official MS DatePicker in WPF4, I was wondering if there was a way to let it edit the Time part of a DateTime as well. I can't see anything, but it seems rather obvious to have missed out? ...

General Question About WPF Control Behavior and using Invoke

I have been putting off activity on SO because my current reputation is "1337". :) This is a question of "why" and not "how". By default, it seems that WPF does not set focus to the first control in a window when it's opening. In addition, when a textbox gets focus, by default it does not have it's existing text selected. So basical...

Using WPF TextSearch.Textpath within combo boxes to autopopulate selection

Hello all I am trying to get the TextSearch.Textpath property to work within a WPF applcication but I am running into a wall on searching a bound field. Basically I have bound to some test data and I want to key the search off of the first property which contains a users ID. Here is the xaml I have so far: <Window.Resources> <DataTe...

Scaled ellipse over button, button not clickable

Hi, I'm scaling an ellipse in an animation with the following code: ScaleTransform myScTransform = new ScaleTransform(); TransformGroup myTransGroup = new TransformGroup(); myTransGroup.Children.Add(myScTransform); newPHRadio.RenderTransform = myTransGroup; newPHRadio.RenderTransformOrigin = new ...

WPF how to see last added text line in TexBox

I would like simmulate Console text output in my WPF app but when I add new lines in TextBox I should use scroll bar to see last added text but I want to see last added text but for firsts lines use scroll bar <TextBox TextWrapping="Wrap" AcceptsReturn="True" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" Text="{Binding Path=Data...

Is there some kind of a common WPF stylesheet?

I have a simple window. <Window x:Class="WPFTest.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" SnapsToDevicePixels="True"> <Grid> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition Height="*" /> <RowDefinition Height="Au...

Creating a WPF Textbox Control like Outlook email recipient textbox

Hi, I'm looking to create a WPF textbox control that acts similar to the email recipient textboxes in Outlook (the To, Cc and Bcc inputs). I don't necessarily care that much about auto-completion (i've found millions of examples for that), but what I'm really struggling with is how to have delimited text entries in the textbox behave as...

Use a user control as a dataTemplate within a WPF application

Hello, I am trying to create a user control within a WPF application that will serve as a data template for a listbox item. The user control a grid with 4 textblocks. This control also contains other shapes and images more for visual aid than anything so I am omitting them from the code in this question for clarity. When I drop the use...

Inheriting System.Windows.Controls.Panel

I use the Panel to provide custom layout of UIElements. For this, I override MeasureOverride and ArrangeOverride. In ArrangeOverride proper locations are given to Children. In my application, there is a bunch of rather heavy (by number of visuals) children inside the panel, but only 2 of them are located inside the visible region at a t...

How to listen changes in Observable collection in WPF?

I have user control in which I have placed a Listview and Richtext box control. ListView is binded to my custom collection. Below the listview I placed a richtext box in which I want to display my custom text. The custom text is created from the custom collection. I want to recreate the custom text whenever any thing change in my cus...

How to force uniquness in collection Item

Hi I have scenario in project where we need to fetch all active book records from database and hold in observablecollection. This observale Collection is bound to grid control in WPF application where user can add remove books. We need to persist all added, removed and modified records in collection till user hit the save to database. O...

How to draw connecting lines between two controls on a grid WPF

Hi, I am creating controls (say button) on a grid. I want to create a connecting line between controls. Say you you do mousedown on one button and release mouse over another button. This should draw a line between these two buttons. Can some one help me or give me some ideas on how to do this? Thanks in advance! ...

WPF: Buidling my own paging itemlist....;)?

Hello, for reasons based on storabiligty I have the following objects in a XAML graph: A WorkArea, Containing WorkSheets, Containing WorkItems WorkArea, workSheets are ItemsControl instances. To start: The reason that I am not using standard elements here is that mine are going to get loaded / saved - they represent a business cont...

Listbox of comboboxes and binding them WPF

Hello, I have a situation where i have a listbox of comboboxes , mainly it binds to a bridge entity so the object contains foreign keys . What i need to do is that i need to bind the display of the combos to the respective entities and their value members to the foreign key values in the bridge entity that i bind the listbox to. the co...

Binding to RadioButtons IsChecked gets cleared after uncheking.

I have a radioButton group and each Button is binded to an Enum property <RadioButton Name="rbFixedDiscount" IsChecked="{Binding Path=DiscountType, Mode=TwoWay, Converter={StaticResource EnumConverter},ConverterParameter=Fixed, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}" >Fixed:</RadioButton> <RadioButton Name="rbPercentDiscount" Grid.Row="1...

Cross Thread Exception in PropertyChangedEvent in WPF

I have a ListView that is binded to my custom collection. At run time , I am updating the certain properties of my entity in my custom collection in my ViewModel. At the same time , I am also doing the custom sorting in the listview. The custom sorting is applicable when I click on the any column header of the listview. For example, ...

How do you show progress when Indeterminate="True" in a WPF Progress bar?

This has to be the simplest of all questions, but I can not seem to figure it out. I have the progress bar in place, how do I make it show progress. How do I start the thing? <ProgressBar x:Name="ProgressUpload" Margin="5" IsIndeterminate="True" ></ProgressBar> ...

Rendering order in ContentControl - WPF

Hi, There is something that I don't understand regarding ContentControl: I've a class that inherits from ContentControl, and it overrides the OnRender method. And although I don't call base.OnRender(drawingContext) still the content is being rendered... How come? What am I missing? Thanks, Eden ...

how to use multiple tab controls, and to be able to call a selected tab control with buttons.

Please I am trying to assign each button on the left its own Tab control. That is for example, when the Intake form button is pushed, it will have its own set of tabs (its own tabcontrols) am i supposed to place multiple tab controls on the artboard, or is there a way to programatically change the names of the tabs, and there contents, ...