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ICommand in MVVM WPF

Hello everybody, I'm having a look at this MVVM stuff and I'm facing a problem. The situation is pretty simple. I have the following code in my index.xaml page <Grid> <ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding}"> <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> <view:MovieView ></view:MovieView> ...

Find ItemTemplate control in TreeView

My tree definition is: <TreeView Name="tree" ItemsSource="{Binding Children}" > <TreeView.ItemTemplate> <HierarchicalDataTemplate ItemsSource="{Binding Children}"> <CheckBox Name="foo"></CheckBox> </HierarchicalDataTemplate> </TreeView.ItemTemplate> </TreeView> Having a TreeViewItem element, I try t...

How to keep WPF TextBox selection when not focused?

I want to show a selection in a WPF TextBox even when it's not in focus. How can I do this? ...

WPF - PageFunctions. Why are they needed?

I've been dabbling in WPF for a couple of months now and I've managed to grasp most of what's about and why/when it's used but I'm still struggling to see the value of the PageFunction class. Can someone give me a simple, but concrete example of when a PageFunction might be the correct tool for the job? ...

WPF Grid Question, can I determinate the absolute position of something, which is positioned automatically in a WPF Grid?

I like to use a grid to position some objects in WPF, because it cares about the position and stuff. In addition, however I also like to be able to draw accross the cells with a Canvas. I figured out that this can be done by embedding the grid in a canvas. However in order to connect two elements, I need then the absolute position in pi...

Override default styling in WPF TextBox, based on PresentationFramework.Aero

I want to use the Aero textbox styling, but still override some properties. I try to accomplish this by: <ResourceDictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"&gt; <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries> <ResourceDictionary Source=...

How to move from WinForms to WPF

I used WPF very little before and some stuff seemed very different to achieve. Coming from a winforms background, what things will seem different and take you a while to figure out. Off top of my head, I remember not being able to specify which nodes are selected in a treeview control the way it's done in winforms, if I am not wrong. ...

Attach ICommand in WPF UserControl

Hi everyone, I implemented a simple button with an image in it: <Button Command="{Binding ButtonCommand, ElementName=ImageButtonControl}"> <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"> <Image Source="{Binding ButtonImage, ElementName=ImageButtonControl}"/> <TextBlock Text="{Binding ButtonText, ElementName=...

Dynamic controls and sliding panels/rollouts in WPF

Is it easy to do sliding panels, such as the one show in this video, where the controls are populated dynamically but also expanded/collapsed when the user is clicking the panels. It also allows scrolling if the height of the visible panels is larger than the application height. ...

DataBinding in a List View

Hello All, Am new to XAML/WPF and have come across this weird issue: I have a list view to which I set a DataSource. The DataSource is an arraylist of "CatalogPartRows". I create my columns in the code. I then set their cell templates (some of my columns contain combo boxes and check boxes). My problem here is that I need to call a fu...

Experiences with UI Automation and WPF

We are developing a rather large WPF based application and would like to include some automated UI testing in our test suite (which already contains a number of unit tests). The UI Automation Framework from Microsoft partly sounds like a perfect fit for programatically launching and interacting with the application in a test setup. Ho...

What's the best way to target both WPF and Web apps?

We are currently designing a business application that has two primary requirements for it's UI: 1) run on the Desktop (WPF) for enterprise users to provide a rich user interface, interoperate with other applications, access the filesystem, work offline, work with special local hardware, etc. 2) run on ASP.NET/Ajax to provide several c...

WPF Image displays smaller than when viewed in external viewer

When I display a JPEG in my WPF application (using the following code), it is shown significantly smaller than if I open the JPEG in the Windows Picture Viewer at actual size. I've drilled into the properties of my ImageSource at runtime and my image has: a DPI of 219 a Height of 238.02739726027397 a Width of 312.54794520547944 a Pixe...

Where is the System.Windows.Forms.Integration namespace?

I can't seem to find it, trying to keyboard input in a wpf form spawned from a winforms form. Found this: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpf/thread/442782b1-00a1-4e2e-9cc6-ae99b6699126/ But when I try to use it, VS2008 complains about not being able to find the System.Windows.Forms.Integration namespace. I couldn't find ...

Local Database vs Service-based database when building a WPF Client application

I'm building a simple WPF client application that is going to store data locally. My question is Local Database enough? I don't know the amount but there could be a few lines in the future when I'm tracking time. Except some performances issues like stored procedures what else do I lose when choosing the local version? I'm boxing mysel...

Failed while publishing clickonce application.

I get the following error while trying to publish a wpf clickonce application. Error 1 Publish failed with the following error: Unable to cast COM object of type 'EnvDTE.DTEClass' to interface type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop.IServiceProvider'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the in...

How can a ViewModel know when data in a service is updated?

In my application, I've got several ViewModels that have a single service (repository, DAO, whatever), let's call it the WidgetService, injected into them. Let's say that one of these ViewModels is a listing of all of a users widgets. Another could be the ViewModel for editing/creating a single one of these Widgets. The user can vie...

EntityFramework many-to-many with junction table

Hello, I have two tables, in a many-to-many relationship, with a junction table, as follows: Member MemberGroup Group ========= ============ ======= PK | ID PK | ID PK | ID | Name | Member | Name | Group | MemberSince I need to add all the member...

Resources for WinForms/WPF dev trying to learn ASP.NET

What are your best resources for a WinForms/WPF developer to come up to speed on ASP.NET? Will it take a complete paradigm shift for me to learn how to use ASP.NET or will it be a slight adjustment? I will award the answer flag to the post with a resource that gets me up to speed in the shortest amount of time. Downloadable code and c...

I want to learn WPF. Do you have any starting project suggestions?

So far, most of my GUI programming has been done in C++ with the Qt Framework, I'd like to branch out a little bit and do some C# with WPF. Originally, I wanted to write something like Adium for Windows, but that seems a tad...ambitious for a starting project. I'm not even sure if you can call libpurple stuff from C#, but I'd like to fin...