I have a tabcontrol where the tabitem's are datatemplated. The template seems to work correctly, in that the usercontrol I want to show in the tabitem is showing correctly. What I am not sure of is how to get a "x" to show up in the tabitem so I can close each tab, since they are dynamically generated through a template. Being fairly ...
I'm writing a WPF application with a RichTextBox and a Toolbar (a VERY simple RichText Editor). Anyway, I want to put 6 unicode characters in the ToolBar that can be clicked and will be inserted at whatever point to the RichTextBox. This seems like something that should be fairly simple to do (without a lot of codebehind). Is it, or do ...
I want to center my WPF app on startup on the primary screen. I know I have to set myWindow.Left and myWindow.Top, but where do I get the values? I found System.Windows.Forms.Screen.PrimaryScreen, which is apparently not WPF. Is there a WPF alternative that gives me the screen resolution or something like that? ...
Hi, what am I doing wrong here? I'm trying to create a DataTemplate using a collection inside the DataContext object, like the following: C#: namespace StackOverflowTests { /// <summary> /// Interaction logic for Window1.xaml /// </summary> public partial class Window1 : Window { public Window1() { I...
Hi, Related to this question I asked earlier, I wonder if it's possible to also dynamically load a code-behind file that is paired with a XAML file. Can it work this way or would it just be better to compile both into a DLL?. Thanks! ...
Hi, I have been trying to add components from a third party application but they never seem to work or they draw incorrectly. I can take my xaml file and move it to the sample project that came with the third party control and it would perfect but just not in my own project. (I am using Visual Studio 2008). I have tried numerous times t...
Is there a way to hide or move the PasswordBox's caret? ...
Hi, How do I get the width available for the children of a scroll viewer in XAML? Thanks. ...
Currently I have a Winforms app which relies on transpareny effects. However this is proving to be an absolute pain in the preverial behind! Winforms as Im learning doesn't deal with transparency particularly well. I was wondering whether or not this would be any easier using WPF components for the transparency bit and winforms for the ...
I'm building a dashboard'ish application for a special purpose hardware that has physical buttons that are bound to F1-F10, Up, Down, Backspace, Enter. The application consists of a few views (implemented using the MVVM-pattern) and most of the user interaction are done with menus that are aligned near the physical buttons. I'm trying to...
I have a custom control that is derived from TabItem, and I want to databind that custom TabItem to a stock TabControl. I would rather avoid creating a new TabControl just for this rare case. This is what I have and I'm not having any luck getting the correct control to be loaded. In this case I want to use my ClosableTabItem control in...
I'm having a hard time binding a simple static string property to a text box. Here's the class with the static property: public class VersionManager { private static string filterString; public static string FilterString { get { return filterString; } set { filterString = value; } } } In my xaml, I j...
I have a WPF control that I would like to overlay onto a WinForms application. So I have dutifully created a Element Host that can show the following WPF object: <UserControl x:Class="LightBoxTest.LightBox" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" ...
Hi All, Does anyone know how to convert a string that represents a color into a SolidColorBrush in wpf? For e.g: string colorRed = "Red"; SolidColorBrush fromStringToColor = new SolidColorBrush(colorRed); That's sort of what I'm trying to accomplish. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. ...
Hi, Is there a way to modify the behavior of the OpenFileDialog so that it looks inside the files in the folder it opens to and then ignores certain ones based on their content? One example would be to open to a folder full of Zip files but only show the ones that contain a certain file. From the documentation, there's the HookProc b...
I have two functions, horizontal and vertical, for laying out controls. They work like this: let verticalList = vertical [new TextBlock(Text = "one"); new TextBlock(Text = "two"); new TextBlock(Text = "three")] Now verticalList is a control that displays the three textblocks ...
Hi I have different tabItems in a TabControl and each tabItem has some input fields. I am moving between the tabItems programmatically (like a wizard to move from the first to the next) I am using this code inside the "Next" button tabItem2.isSelected = true; my problem that when I move between the tabItems by clicking on them, the ...
How can I send the window minimized to tray when on click close button? Also how to show icon in tray when application start? ...
How can I make a WPF textbox cut, copy and paste restricted? ...
I found solutions for Windows Forms with AppDomain but what would be the equivalent for a WPF Application object? ...