I have a ListBox with a custom data template which contains a CheckBox, a TextBlock and a TextBox. Normally when you select an item in a ListBox, the underlying ListBoxItem is actually what has the focus and as such, it responds to the up and down keys. Additionally, if the CheckBox has focus, since it doesn't do anything with the up a...
Hi everybody I want to realize context help for application View based on flow documents. For example, user presses Ctrl+F1 and context help about current View appears over this View. The help content must must be localized. In window markup can looks like this: <Window x:Class="UdkppReports.Window2" xmlns="http://schemas.microsof...
I have a multi window application, which fills the entire screen, I want it to be usable on all screen sizes, so I would like to resize it according to the screen size. How can I solve this? ...
Hi, I am trying to migrate from WinFroms to WPF. I have an application developed in C# with GDI+ (similar to MS paint). I want to write the same application in WPF but I don't know how to perform graphics operation like GDI+? ...
Hello, I have bound at top the Width of the UserControl to the Width of the ButtonGrid at top. It does not work. I want my UserControl always that wide as the width of the ButtonGrid. The problem is loading documents with a long name > Sum(Width of 3 buttons) makes the UserControl as wide as the document name. Now imagine having docume...
I have two dimensional data with varying number of rows and columns and must display it to the user for editing. The format of the data itself is essentially described by a list of row and column descriptors with a header text for each row or column. I derived a control from Grid that has two properties for the row and column descriptor...
I create separate Window, design it with XAML and when I invoke ShowDialog from main form it seems like my dialog (Window) blinks once and then shows itself. Is it a common behavior? I didn't notice that in while working with Windows Forms. I also ran application on another computer, and get the same thing. It bothers me, cause I was dev...
How to build vertical tab sets in WPF? The tabs will stack up in top-to-bottom just like the "Properties" of a project shown in visual studio. ...
I'm using WPF 4's (in .NET 4) ribbon control, version 3.5.40729.1, in my application. (Edit: I also tested the newly released version 4.0.0.11019 to no avail.) The application menu and all sub-menu popups align as far left as possible, usually far outside the ribbon window. The expected location is that the application menu's left edge a...
Let's say we have a grid XAML like below - eg. a generated string returned from a method. <Grid> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width='*' /> <ColumnDefinition Width='*' /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <TextBlock Text='id' Grid.Column='0'/> <Rectangle Fill='Black' Grid.Column='1' /> </Grid> What...
Hi all. I have a custom ClockFace UserControl which has properties to allow colors, font and hands (as a Path objects) to be changed. This is used in custom TimePicker and Clock UserControls. In these parent controls, the ClockFace properties can be set on the ClockFace object in xaml just fine. What I'm trying to do is expose these Cloc...
We are using Glyphs inside the Canvas to display Unicode string. Is there any way to enable string selection in UI <Canvas Width="793.76" Height="1122.56" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/xps/2005/06"> <Glyphs Fill="#ff000000" FontRenderingEmSize="16" StyleSimulations="None" OriginX="75.68" OriginY="90.56" FontUri="/Resources/b...
This may be seen as a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3423248/thread-safety-lists-binding-and-wpf, but I post it anyway since I'm not fully happy with the accepted response, and I might be able to express what I suspect is the same question more exactly. Any operations related to UI in WPF/Silverlight must be performed o...
I want to develop Video slots Game (Vegas style casino slots) where - Various skins can be changed easily to give slots game a different look/feel to user - Game is playable on computer with Win 7 (Xbox/Zune/Linux is not the target platform) - client/server application where new skin on all clients can be installed from server ...
Does anyone have a working WPF4 version of the DataStateSwitchBehavior? This was part of the Expression Blend Samples for Siverlight at: http://expressionblend.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Behaviors%20and%20Effects&referringTitle=Documentation Thanks! ...
Hi, My WPF desktop-based application uses ADO.Net Entity Framework in order to connect with SQL Server database. In one of the windows I have a DataGrid with all data from tbl_users, when user selects one of the row (record) and clicks on Edit, application opens a new window with form, that includes all data that user can edit/update. ...
Instead of using all the base wpf controls such as Label, TextBox, Grid, ect. I want to create a sub class of all these base controls and use the sub class. e.g. public class MyTextBox : TextBox {} They would be dummy classes for now, but it leaves room to be expandable in-case I need to in the future. Is this recommended or is it unn...
Im building a WPF 3.5 desktop app that has a self-hosted WCF service. The service has an PollingDuplexHttpBinding endpoint defined like so: public static void StartService() { var selfHost = new ServiceHost(Singleton, new Uri("http://localhost:1155/")); selfHost.AddServiceEndpoint( typeof(IMyService), ...
In my apps I use CircularProgressBar from http://sachabarber.net/?p=639. In one app I place it on AdornerLayer I get from Image element and it works as expected (i.e. the element is animated by rotation driven by a timer). In another app I place it on AdornerLayer I get from ListBox element and it's shown but not animated. It does get ...
I need to make the DataGrid, so if I am in edit mode, and the current row is not valid, the user should not be able to select a different row. In fact, I think that the DataGrid is supposed to avoid selection of another row once the CollectionChangingEventArgs of the CollectionView is flagged for cancellation, the DataGrid should stick ...