Hi all, I am trying to create a generic "overview" control for any XAML. A good example of the desired effect would be on Google Maps or Bing maps: The main map zooms into some content, while a small "overview" block is docked to one of the map corners, showing the user where he/she is zoomed into. My content is all placed inside a <C...
In a ResourceDictionary, is there any way to specify an alias for a resource? For example, <Color x:Key="BorderColor">#FF000000</Color> <Color x:Key="AlternateBorderColor">{StaticResource BorderColor}</Color> I don't really want another resource called "AlternateBorderColor", I would just like to be able to refer to the original reso...
Hello My motivation for this question is really just to specify an image to be used in a user control via a dependency property for ImageSource. I'm hitting some pain points involving the management, access, and unit testing for this. Is the resource editor a good tool to use to maintain images for the application? What is the best...
I have a wpf tab control which is highly customized through styles. I have referenced those styles in a resourcedictionary "TabControlResources". How do I reference "TabControlResources" in another resourcedictionary?. I have a resourcedictionary called "MainViewResources" and I would like to reference the tab style from my "TabContro...
Hi there: I defined in my code two classes: a "Person" class with public "Age" and "Name" property, and a "People" class that inherits from Generic.List(of T). The code for People class is as followed: Public Class People Inherits Collections.Generic.List(Of Person) ... End Class What I want to achieve is to directly initia...
Hey everybody, this is not really a question, I have just written an article on Code Project on how to create rich interactive backgrounds for Silverlight applications. This background reacts to a users mouse movements and causes a fluid animation of the background elements. ...
I want to create a list of logically related RadioButtons. The RadioButtons are bound for MVVM use. There's ToolTips on each RadioButtons. ...
Hi, I've been using C# for a while and began a program now to learn WPF-which means I know almost nothing of it. I used this tutorial as a guide to do what I wanted to do (which is binding a database to a datagrid), after a hard struggle to add the adapter as the source of the datagrid I now want to enable editing with validation on som...
I'm trying to create a site that requires login. Its entirely designed in silverlight. So my first page, home.xaml loads in mysite.aspx and it basically has a login page. AFter login, the user is redirected to another page user.aspx. in that page, i've embedded another silverlight control called nav.xaml. so now when user.aspx loads...
Here is my xaml that tells the collectionviewsource sort property name. <CollectionViewSource Source="{Binding Contacts}" x:Key="contactsCollection" Filter="CollectionViewSource_Filter"> <CollectionViewSource.SortDescriptions> <scm:SortDescription PropertyName="DisplayName" /> </CollectionViewSour...
This is quite obscure, I may just be missing something extremely simple. Scenario 1 Lets say I create a gradient brush, like this in my <Window.Resources> section: <LinearGradientBrush x:Key="GridRowSelectedBackBrushGradient" StartPoint="0,0" EndPoint="0,1"> <GradientStop Color="#404040" Offset="0.0" /> <GradientStop Color="#4...
I have the need to draw shapes in XAML that are always relative to the container window/canvas size. For example, I need a window to show a 3x3 grid on it, where the grid always splits the window into 3 equal parts. Can I create lines that are bound to 1/3 the width of the grid? thank you ...
Hi All, I've created a Resource Dictionary that I want to merge with multiple usercontrol xaml files. I want only one instance of this Resource Dictionary to be created. Any idea how to do this? Note: Merge should happen through xaml only and not through code. Thanks & Regards, Vishal ...
UPDATE: See the bottom of this question for what I did to solve the problem. I'm trying to understand how the ItemsSource and DataContext properties work in a Silverlight Toolkit DataGrid. I'm currently working with dummy data and trying to get the data in the DataGrid to update when the value of a combo box changes. My MainPage.xaml....
I'm learning WPF and would like to have a collection similar to a LinkedList, to where I can add and remove strings. And I want to have a ListView that listen to that collection with databinding. How can I do bind a simple list collection to a ListView in XAML? My idea (not working) is something like this: <Window x:Class="TestApp.Main...
I'm trying to set the ItemsSource property of a DataGrid named dgIssueSummary to be an ObservableCollection named IssueSummaryList. Currently, everything is working when I set the ItemsSource property in my code-behind: public partial class MainPage : UserControl { private ObservableCollection<IssueSummary> IssueSummaryList = new O...
hello, i narrowed down what i want my wpf button to look like using XAML. now i would like to create a sub classed button control that i can just re-use w/out having to write all that markup <Button Click="TestGridColumnButton_Click" Background="Transparent" Width="16" Height="16" Margin="0,0,0,0" Padding="0,0,0,0" BorderBrush="{x:N...
For event handling, I am starting to see many coders doing this: XButton.Click += OnXButtonClicked() ... void OnXButtonClicked() { ... } Where did this On_ convention come from? It just doesn't feel right in terms of methods. I am starting to see this as well and am wondering what others thought: XButton.Click += HandleXButtonClick...
I'd like to set a style on all my TextBox controls that does the following when it receives keyboard focus: 1) Change the background color 2) Call .SelectAll() to highlight all text I have this so far: <Style TargetType="TextBox"> <Style.Triggers> <Trigger Property="IsKeyboardFocusWithin" Value="True"> <Se...
How do I turn off a custom IValueConverter at design time? Basically I want to write this: Public Class MethodBinder Implements IValueConverter Public Function Convert(ByVal value As Object, ByVal targetType As System.Type, ByVal parameter As Object, ByVal culture As CultureInfo) As Object Implements IValueConverter.Convert ...