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What kind of application would benefit from being written in F# opposed to the more conventional languages?

Possible Duplicates: What is F# being used for? What are the benefits of using C# vs F# or F# vs c# I have recently studied C#, WPF, a little bit of WCF and now I have read that Visual Studio 2010 will also support F#. My question is: what kind of application is likely to need F# instead of C# or Visual Basic? Is F# necessary...

How can I produce a "print preview" of a FlowDocument in a WPF application?

Various WPF applications of mine display FlowDocument's. I'm able to print them, using the approach described in the answer to Printing a WPF FlowDocument. Now I'd like to add a "print preview" capability. In the normal case, I am printing the FlowDocument that is displayed in the Window, and so I wouldn't need a Print Preview then....

Getting window screenshots, but text portions are transparent

This is a followup to this question. The code shown there has been very useful in obtaining a bitmap from a window and applying it as a BitmapSource on a WPF Image control. However, I'm finding that many areas of the image are showing up as transparent, particularly any areas of text. I've posted a sample of what I'm seeing here: http:/...

Loading listboxes inside tabitems - which event to use?

Lets say I have an application which comprises one window. Inside the window is a tabcontrol, with three tabitems. Inside each tabitem is a usercontrol. In one tab I have Add color. In the next tab I have add Fruit. In the third tab I have relationships, where the user can add links between the fruit and the colors. This relationship is...

Will WPF Ribbon work on a machine with no office?

Hello! I've been looking on the site http://wpf.codeplex.com/ and found the Ribbon control finding my needs. I was wondering if it requires any Office licence things etc. on the machine, or this just needs the toolkit dll. Does it require Win-7 or is compatible on XP machine as well? ...

WPF: How can I remove the searchbox in a DocumentViewer?

My XAML code is like this: <Window xmlns ='http://schemas.microsoft.com/netfx/2007/xaml/presentation' xmlns:x ='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml' Title ='Print Preview - More stuff here' Height ='200' Width ='300' WindowStar...

WPF- Resizing Listbox Contents according to Listbox dimensions

Hello, I am attempting to resize the contents of my listbox according to the listbox itself. This is being done in WPF. Any ideas on how this might be possible? I have been searching and have not come up with anything obtainable... Any helpful ideas are appreciated, Thanks! ...

WPF: What distinguishes a Dependency Property from a regular CLR Property?

In WPF, what, really, does it mean to be a "dependency property"? I read Microsoft's Dependency Properties Overview, but it's not really sinking in for me. In part that article says: Styles and templates are two of the chief motivating scenarios for using dependency properties. Styles are particularly useful for setting properties...

WPF Application Settings File

I'm writing a WPF application with C# as the code behind and I want to give the users the option to change certain settings in my application. Is there a standard for storing settings within an application that will be read and written to constantly? ...

Can I convert XML/XAML into WPF controls at runtime?

Is there a way to take a chunk of XML/XAML and load it as WPF controls at runtime? Related: Can I use XamlReader.Load or InitializeFromXaml from a WPF Window, for the Window definition? ...

Reuse my wpf Binding factory in other code

I've got user-definable columns for my data grid, which basically boils down to a switch(column_title) { case "foo": binding = new Binding("Model.Fonz"); //etc. } and the binding gets applied to the column. Now I need to dump to csv, with the configured columns. As it may be a different column set that being used in my ui and I def...

Negate or Not Condition-Element for MultiTrigger

I´m currently learning WPF and the use of MultiTrigger and Conditions to set some properties of the styled control. I know that the Conditions of an MultiTrigger must all met (AND-Operator) to set the value specified by the Setter. But does there exists a Condition if the value is not met (Lets name it a NotCondition). I have a small ex...

I still don't get MVVM!

Perhaps I have been doing Flex development with Frameworks like Cairngorm too long but I still don’t get MVVM. I am aware that Cairngorm is a framework and MVVM is a design pattern, but what I am comparing here is Cairngorms implementations of design patterns, mainly the model view controller and the command pattern. Don’t get me wrong,...

WPF DataGridTemplateColumn databind to control outside?

Well i have a control thats placed in a usercontrol and it exposes a ICommand with a DepenceyPropety(ShowCommand), and then i have a datagrid (wpf toolkit) with a few columns and one of them has a delete button <Custom:DataGrid Margin="0" ItemsSource="{Binding Todos}" AutoGenerateColumns="False"> <Custom:DataGrid.Columns> <Cu...

Load Module Default Views In Region to Create Menu

I am builng an M-V-VM application with Dynamic Loading of modules at runtime. Each of these Modules has a default view which individulally they show on the selected region when I go _regionManager.Regions["BottomMenuRegion"].Add( Container.Resolve<AdminModuleView>(), "AdminView", true); However, When the Next Module loads it ove...

How can I define how many spaces a TAB jumps in a XAML TextBox?

When the user presses a tab in this textbox, the cursor jumps an equivalent of 8 spaces. How can I change it so it jumps only 4 or 2? <TextBox Width="200" Height="200" Margin="0 0 10 0" AcceptsReturn="True" AcceptsTab="True" Text="{Binding OutlineText}"/> ...

Setting and displaying a property in a WPF UserControl

Am i missing something here? I have created a usercontrol with a property and for arguments sake it has a text box in it. <UserControl x:Class="Isd.Utility.SystemMonitorWpf.Bar" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"&gt; <TextBlock x:Name="txtExpected" G...

A better design of this SQL query builder UI.

I'm in the process of redesigning a SQL query builder UI for a application that I use, well it's a third party app but has a plugin model so I writing my own to replace the standard one. One area I am not very good at when it comes to application design is the UI. I would be really interested to see/hear how other people would layout t...

WPF InvalidateMeasure not called during or after animation

I have a custom ListBox whith the following ListBoxItem style. It contains a few animations to scale the ListBoxItem when the mouse hovers over it. <Style x:Key="notesListBoxStyle" TargetType="{x:Type ListBoxItem}"> <Setter Property="Template"> <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ListBoxItem}"> ...

Is there a way to get the state of which TreeView nodes are expanded/collapsed?

This code example shows how to get the position of the scrollbar in a ScrollViewer (with ScrollToVerticalOffset) so that e.g. you can reset the scrollbar to this position if you need to recreate it. Is there any way to do this for a TreeView control, i.e. get a collection of node indexes which the user has expanded? ...