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Starting an animation from the ViewModel in WPF/MVVM

I'm writing a MVVM app and have started putting in a few animations. I want to call something on the ViewModel which starts the a storyboard. This blog had a promising approach to it, but it doesn't actually work. The IDChanged handler never fires for some reason. I also found that you could start animations on EventTriggers, but I don'...

Should I inherit from a stackpanel instead of a stack panel, grid or other UI element or UserControl?

So I'm building a peice of UI that might me in a dialog window or might be in embedded in part of a bigger page. I don't have alot of experience with WPF, but in ASP.NET you always used UserControls, because their wasn't anyt really generic UI inherit to inherit from (and in a way UserControl was just a div). My coworker has written ...

how do you implement Async Operations in C# and MVVM?

hi what is the easiest way to implement asynch operations on WPF and MVVM, lets say if user if user hits enter when on a field i want to launch a command and then return back while a thread will do some search operations and then come back and update the properties so notification can update the bindings. thanks! ...

selected checkbox in wpf

am having a set of checkbox in a stackpanel, i want to get the selected checkbox in my code.. how i can get those selected checkbox in a stackpanel ...

binding a WPF ListBox SelectedItem to a list

I have a listbox that has its SelectionMode property set to Multiple. Is it possible to bind the SelectedItem property to a List? and not to a single item? Thanks ...

Best aproach for multi-page WPF application

How do i create multislide application in WPF? What is beast approach? What i need is something very similar to having tabcontrol with multiple pages and navigation buttons bellow, but i dont think that tab control is best for this task. I would like to have each view to be in seperate .xaml + class file. AND- it would be cool to have so...

Opening a file from a pack URI in WPF

Hi All, I am looking to open a .csv file from the application pack to do some unit testing. So what I would really love is some analog to File.ReadAllText(string path) which is instead X.ReadAllText(Uri uri). I haven't as yet been able to find this. Does anyone know if it is possible to read text / bytes (don't mind which) from a file ...

What is better in WPF for UI layout, using one Grid, or nested Grids.

I am making a UI in WPF, I have a bunch of functional areas and I use a Grid to organize it. Now the Grid that I want is not uniform, as in, some functional area will span multiple cells in the Grid. I was wondering what the best practise is in solving this. Should I create one grid and then for each functional area set it to span multi...

Image (?) File(?) Metadata(?) Properties(?)

Sorry for the question marks, but a simple (I think) question has an impossible solution. From file system, if I click on an image file "Properties | Details tab" I access to many metadata. I need to access from a WPF application to the Description properties (Title, Subject, Rating, Tag and Comment). In particular Tag. I have found a l...

WPF Dialog Box Property Value Editor access source(parent) control

Hello, I have User control in WPF with dependency property DEP1 on which i set value by DialogPropertyValueEditor(code below): Public Class OPCItemDialogPropertyValueEditor Inherits DialogPropertyValueEditor Private res As New EditorResources() Public Sub New() Me.InlineEditorTemplate = TryCast(res("OPCItemInlineE...

How to declare combobox itemTemplate that has Itemsource as Enum Values in WPF?

I have a enum let's say enum MyEnum { FirstImage, SecondImage, ThirdImage, FourthImage }; I have binded this Enum to my combobox in XAML. While defining an combobox I have defined an ItemTemplate of combox to take Two UI element: TextBlock that show the enum value (Description) Image I have done this much in XAML. I am...

Using the same style in many listviews

I want to use the same style in many listviews. And in my style i have defined the gridview columns also. But when i try to run, it throws an exception: View can't be shared by more than one ListView. How can i solve this? XAML: <Style x:Key="articleList" TargetType="{x:Type ListView}"> <Setter Property="Vir...

Programmatically creating a clickable area on an image.

Hi, I'm trying to create "imagemaps" on an image in wpf using codebehind. See the following XML: <Button Type="Area"> <Point X="100" Y="100"></Point> <Point X="100" Y="200"></Point> <Point X="200" Y="200"></Point> <Point X="200" Y="100"></Point> <Point X="150" Y="150"></Point> </Button> I'm trying to translate this to a but...

WPF: Link from grid to form

What I need is a grid with all employees data, and a link to a single employees form. I'm ok with filling the grid with data. my questions are: how to create the link? how to send the parameter (employeeid) to the single-employee page, and make it open with the correct data. Thanks, Ron ...

Modify a ListBox's item from a button in it's template?

In my Silverlight 3 project, I'm using a ListBox to display results of a Get() operation form a WCF WebService. The ListBox's item template is the following : <ListBox x:Name="m_listview" ItemsSource="{Binding Users, Mode=TwoWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=Default}" Foreground="{StaticResource EnergyBlue}" Background="{StaticResource EnergyBa...

WPF: how to find an element in a datatemplate from an itemscontrol

Hi, I have the following problem: the application is using the custom itemscontrol called ToolBox. The elements of a toolbox are called toolboxitems and are custom contentcontrol. Now, the toolbox stores a number of images that are retrieved from a database and displayed. For that I use a datatemplate inside the toolbox control. However,...

Create ControlTemplate programmatically in wpf

Hi, How can I programmatically set a button's template? Polygon buttonPolygon = new Polygon(); buttonPolygon.Points = buttonPointCollection; buttonPolygon.Stroke = Brushes.Yellow; buttonPolygon.StrokeThickness = 2; // create ControlTemplate based on polygon ControlTemplate template = new ControlTemplate(); template.Childeren.Add(button...

How can I modify my classes to use it's collections in WPF TreeView

Hello, i'am trying to modify my objects to make hierarchical collection model. I need help. My objects are Good and GoodCategory: public class Good { int _ID; int _GoodCategory; string _GoodtName; public int ID { get { return _ID; } } ...

Why cant I get a Thumb to be larger on a styled scrollbar in WPF.

I have taken the MSDN templates for styling a scrollbar and have been trying to apply my different styles (Image on each track repeater and separate Image on the thumb) but I am unable to make the thumb change size. I have tried setting the Width on the Track.Thumb style and also in the ControlTemplate of the Thumb itself. For some re...

WPF Drag and drop to Datagrid

Hi. I have been searching the internet high and low but can find some examples that can help me, I'm developing an application in wpf, in it I use a datagrid, each cell as a datatemplate with and image, in a mosaic style, on the side of the grid I have some tiles to use on the grid, I'm able to drag the tiles but can't drop then on the g...