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How to make "mouse-transparent" panel?

Hi everybody, I'm new to WPF so I've got a problem: I need to create a grid. This grid should contain a column with a kind of thumbnails. When I move mouse over a thumbnail, there should appear a panel with a big image. This panel will cover all grid. But this will make thumbnail think that mouse already has gone. After mouse's gone, p...

Showing all open windows in main page WPF

We have an application developed in WPF. i wanted to implement one functionality here. From main page, Main page has quick links to all child windows. if i open 20 windows, i wanted to see all the opened windows listed on mainpage. My main page is blank now so i can show in any way possible. Does WPF has this functionality??? please help...

WPF Application : How to add items to the "Application Menu" ?

I am sorry I don't know the right name of it I just keep calling it "Application Menu". It's the menu you get when you click the applications icon in the top left corner or when you right-click on the application in the task bar. Anyway, in my WPF application I want to add items to that menu. In my old MFC C++ days this was an easy task...

Columns definition for DataGrid bound to DataTable with unknown columns?

I have a DataTable which is going to be bound to a DataGrid. I don't know what the columns will be in advance, however I do know the first column will be a boolean value that should be bound to a CheckBox. Is there an easy way to create a DataGrid that will generate the unknown columns, but not show the first column? The unknown column...

Why does an IEnumerable<T> require a call to ToList to update the listview?

I'm sure there is good explanation for this. I'm guessing it has something to do with me having a cold and missing something obvious... I have a simple window: <Window x:Class="WpfIdeas.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:w="...

RibbonWindow transparent fonts

I create RibbonWindow with Ribbon toolbar. When I deploy my app and start it, all fonts in all nested controls dont shows. When I insert Ribbon toolbar in simple Window class, fonts shows, but toolbar work not correctly. What I need do to solve this problem? ...

VB.NET - For Each in WPF-Controls

Hey people, I want to check some childelements in my WPF-Form. In WindowsForms that was quite easy with (like): For Each control as Textbox in Me control.text = "hello people" Next How do I do that in WPF within my XAML.VB-File? I got a listbox with some childelements here which I want to analyse. Greetz and thanks for your ideas! ...

How to print a Visual with pagination in WPF?

I have a ScrollViewer and very "long" content in it. I wrote a class that inherits from DocumentPaginator, but I don't understand how do I create a "frame" for every part of this Visual? I mean, how do I "look" at the next page of the control? I tried this, but with no success: public override DocumentPage GetPage(int pageNumber) ...

Misunderstanding databinding fundamentals and DataContexts -- long story

I've been using databinding in several simple situations with pretty good success. Usually I just use INotifyPropertyChanged to enable my codebehind to modify the GUI values on screen, rather than implement dependency properties for everything. I am playing with an LED control to learn more about databinding in user controls, and was f...

Error Binding ContentControl to Image from Resource Dictionary

<Grid x:Name="ContentGrid"> <Grid.Resources> <Image x:Key="art" Source="art.png" Stretch="None" /> </Grid.Resources> <ContentControl Content="{Binding MyImg}" /> </Grid> public Image MyImg { get { return (Image)GetValue(MyImgProperty); } set { SetValue(MyImgProperty, value); } } public static readonly Dependenc...

WPF - ScrollViewer - how to enable horizontal scrolling with mouse

Hello, i cant find how to set scrollbar to scroll horizontaly with mouse. Vertical scrolling works good allways, but i need to scroll my content horizontaly. My code looks like this: <ListBox x:Name="receiptList" Margin="5,0" Grid.Row="1" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource...

Why does my busy indicator work when I click but not for the default button?

Hard question to describe in one line so here's the detail. I asked a question before about showing a busy indicator in a WPF window whilst doing some long-running action. The original question is here. I followed some advice from a comment that suggested a kind of "DoEvents" style workaround. I know this isn't ideal but I only have a ...

WPF Real Time Multithreaded Stock Trading Application

Hi All I am building a real-time multi-threaded application in WPF, but i am having difficulties in updating the UI. I have a background worker thread that contains logic which determines what trades to send into the market. When a valid trade is sent to the market, i receive status updates on these trades via events in my main applica...

Apply a style to TextBlocks within a ContentPresenter in Silverlight

If I have the following style defined: <UserControl.Resources> <Style TargetType="TextBlock" x:Key="ProblemStyle"> <Setter Property="FontSize" Value="40"/> <Setter Property="FontWeight" Value="Bold"/> </Style> </UserControl.Resources> Then when I have a ContentPresenter data bound to a string, in WPF I can get ...

Consuming Ruby on Rails SOAP services in Silverlight 4

Hello, I don't know how it is possible but services provided by Rails are different consumed in WPF and Silverlight. When I seek for ****.com/api/wsdl/ (it is Rails SOAP service) WPF generates all the methods, events etc. When I seek for the same URI in Silverlight I have only: [System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System....

How would I use a pack uri resource with media player?

I have some very simple code which just needs to play a sound with a specified volume, as follows : var mp = new MediaPlayer(); mp.Open(uri); mp.Volume = volume; mp.Play(); The problem arises because this is part of a Prism module. I don't know where the executing assembly is going to be so I can't use a relative Uri or siteoforigin a...

Reactive framework and WPF conflicts?

I do not have much experiece of WPF, and I consider it as an easier way to markup/coding UI in .net. I have install the lastest Rx release, and play it using Console application without any issue, when I used it in a simple WPF application, it seems that 'Observable' is not liked by WPF... I have added both reference to: System.CoreEx ...

How to display search results in a WPF items control with highlighted query terms

I'd like to display search results within a WPF ItemsControl with the query terms highlighted. The search engine I use, Lucene.Net with the Highlighter plugin, returns strings with the query terms marked up like so: ...these <Bold>results</Bold> were found to be statistically significant... I can instruct the Highlighter plugin to us...

In WPF how do I bind a Content Property of the UserControl to the internal control.

I Have a user Control which Contains a ScrollPanel. And I want to bind the userControl's content property to the ScrollPanel. So my xaml would look like: <CustomControl> <StackPanel/> </CustomControl> and in my UserControl my ScrollPanel child is set to StackPanel. ...

WPF change left margin of textbox

Hi, I want to change the just the left margin of a WPF textbox via XAML: This code obviously does not work : <TextBox Margin.Left ="0"/> What would be the correct code, does anyone here know ? Regards, MadSeb ...