So I'm just starting out with WPF, and I'm really annoyed by the fact that if I lay two Grids on top of one another, the top Grid isn't opaque. It makes designing extremely annoying. Can this be turned off somehow? I'm just building your standard Winforms STYLE application, but in WPF. I'm just trying to start bridging the gap here. In ...
I simply have two grid on top of one another. Given one state of the world, I want grid A to be on top, given another state of the world, I want grid B to be on top. In the old days we could just call grid.BringToFront(), but that doesn't exist anymore, and I can't figure out any way to make that happen. The best I can figure, I need to...
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Hi, Maybe someone has an answer for this. I am designing user controls that are to be added to other containers and they are to fit the availalbe space of there container. So this means not setting the height and width of the user control. But when I am designing the control I want to see it with a width and height. So surely I don...
Hi, How do I capture to a string of when someone hits shortcut keys in say a textbox? Like when you assign a shortcut key to a application in the Properties of a shortcut in Windows. Malcolm ...
I'm trying to toggle the display of a small window based on the click of a notify icon in a system tray app. This is simple enough to implement, however when the small window is displayed and another application takes focus and therefore moves in front of it (z-order) I want the toggle to assume that the small window is now hidden, even ...
In the MVVM pattern for WPF, handling dialogs is one of the more complex operations. As your view model does not know anything about the view, dialog communication can be interesting. I can expose an ICommand that when the view invokes it, a dialog can appear. Does anyone know of a good way to handle results from dialogs? I am speakin...
I'm currently looking for a Syntax highlighter for a WPF application. A textbox will be available for the user to type into which would hopefully recognise code and highlight syntax accordingly. I would like to support C# initialy and other languages later. Duplicate of Question 394751 ...
I have the TabControl on which I am setting the ContextMenu. All ContextMenu elements have commands set. <ContextMenu x:Key="tabMenu"> <MenuItem Command="{x:Static tabs:TabCommands.Close}" /> <MenuItem Command="{x:Static tabs:TabCommands.CloseAllButThis}" /> <MenuItem Command="{x:Static tabs:TabCommands.CloseAll}" /> </ContextMen...
I have been having real problems getting the WPF designer to work in VS 2008 when i use the entity framework. I have a user control that gets data from an entity model. The user control designer loads fine but the main window throws the following error "Could not create an instance of type 'CampaignList". When i compile the project there...
I have a object in a presenter connected to a view. Inside my XAMTL I have the following: <Label Content="{Binding ElementName=PSV, Path=Presenter.Portfolio.Name}"/> Now when the control is created, Portfolio is null, then i run another method which sets Portfolio. I've implemented INotifyPropertyChanged but so far, I've not been able...
Hi all, I'm still fumbling my way around WPF at the moment, and can not figure out why this context menu item is disabled: <Window x:Class="DisabledMenuItemProblem.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:local="clr-na...
There are many articles that described how to create a custom shaped window in WPF but none of them (at least I can't find any) described how can build a reusable one such as inheriting from it in other windows. I have tried to create a ControlTemplate from my custom window. The problem is with the Close button and the MoveDrag() metho...
I have a WPF RichTextBox that is dynamically built in a WPF web service. This web service accepts a xaml string that is extracted from the contents of a third-party silverlight RichTextBox control. <Paragraph TextAlignment=\"Left\"><Run FontFamily=\"Comic Sans MS\" FontSize=\"16\" Foreground=\"#FF0000FF\" FontWeight=\"Bold\" >This text...
My application (written in WPF/C#) will monitor a live video source and will need to store small video segments and image stills. I'm hesitant to use a user defined "temp" directory since this would potentially allow a user to modify or delete these files causing major issues with my application. Alternatively, I have attempted to store ...
I am learning Silverlight and WPF on my own to expand my programming base. I am following this tutorial, and I am currently stuck on part 3. I am up to the point where my application requests and receives a response from digg.com, but I cannot figure out how to properly dimension the XDocument class (as the tutorial shows) to read the x...
Is there a way using WPF to get a video element to start playing when a user puts there mouse pointer over the element? I am wanting to make an interactive digital resource and want a clip of the movie to play when the mouse over the element to click to take them to the movie section. Any help would be great. This is going to all be con...
In my WPF ListBox, I have a style with a ControlTemplate for a ListBoxItem. Inside that ControlTemplate I have a label defined. Based on some details, I need to change the font size of the label. So from my code-behind, I need to determine what the font should be and then set it. Here is my style with the ControlTemplate (I've stripp...
The built-in WPF TreeView control does not allow for multi selection, like a ListBox does. How can I customize the TreeView to allow for multi selection without rewriting it. ...
DISCLAIMER: The following code is not something I would ever use in a real application. I stumbled on this problem and would like to know what's happening under the hoods. Let's assume that for some crazy reason we had the following code... using (System.Net.WebClient webClient = new System.Net.WebClient()) { bool done = false; ...