I have an object tree which is included in a ResourceDictionary in my application. The root node of this object tree has an x:Key associated with it. I want to bind a control to a property of one of the nested items in this tree. How can I get access to a child element of a keyed ResourceDictionary to allow me to do this? ...
Hey, I want to use background music in my WPF Application. Like you can see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3148965/how-to-do-background-music-for-my-wpf-application So I use a MediaElement. Now I want to change the source of it while running the Application. I'm already doing something similar with some background pictures....
I've got a View (MainView) which contains a kind of main content area (MainContent). The View is backed by a corresponding ViewModel (MainViewModel). The main content changes, of course, based on the current state of the application and is represented in the ViewModel as a property (CurrentPrimaryViewModel). The content of MainContent...
Hi, I have a ContentControl element whose ContentTemplate is determined at run time from the Resource Dictionary. In the datatemplate I have a visual (Convas) and what I want is to also have a button in datatemplate which when clicked should print the visual element(canvas). As I said that the DateTemplate is inside the Resource Diction...
Hi, I have a simple template for a combobox structured in this way: <ComboBox DockPanel.Dock="Left" MinWidth="100" MaxHeight="24" ItemsSource="{Binding Actions}"> <ComboBox.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"> ...
I have a WPF app that works beautifully if I "debug" (F5) in Visual Studio (Debug and Release mode both work), but if I try to double-click the .exe in the bin\Release folder, Windows kills the application immediately. The problem appears to be that the executable can't find "PresentationFramework.Aero", which I added to my App's resour...
I have the situation where a SolidColorBrush (defined in App.xaml) cannot be resolved during runtime, when i use the Brush in a Style as StaticResource. During designtime (using Visual Studio 2010) the brush is found, cause when i change the color of the brush the UIElement with the styles are updated with the new color. During runtime...
Hello, I have the following ResourceDictionary that gets merged into my Themes/Generic.xaml file <DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type model:RequirementResourceRelation}" x:Key="{x:Static local:Resources.RequirementResourceRelationListTemplateKey}"> <Grid> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" /> ...
I need to add code behind class to Resource Dictionary as described in this question. (I know that this is not a good practise but it should work based on the comments for linked question) .I'm referencing the code with x:Class attribute: XAML (separate Resource Dictionary file): <ResourceDictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft....
Hey all, quick question about Silverlight Resource Dictionaries. So in resource dictionary number 1, I have a data template. That data template contains a hyperlink button. My hyperlink button style is defined in resource dictionary number 2. Could someone explain how I have to set up my dictionary references and merges and all that st...
I can't seem to be able to add a merged dictionary to a collection of merged dictionaries within XAML. Theme.xaml <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries> <ResourceDictionary Source="/Mine;component/Themes/Palette.Blue.xaml"/> <ResourceDictionary Source="/Mine;component/Themes/Template.xaml"/> </ResourceDictionary.MergedDiction...
Morning folks, I've been trying to cut out some of my app's processing when I stumbled upon a suggestion on SO to load all images into a resource dictionary via BitmapImages, then referencing them rather than loading an image each time. My problem is that I need to do this all programmatically, so: <BitmapImage x:Key="MyImageSource" Ur...
Hi, I saw in Silverlight 4.0 Business application that is it possible to have all the strings in one resource file that you could , potentially, change depending of the user so that each user has its own experience (ie langauge for example) I'de like to be able to do this in WPF also, so I though about moving that stuff from Silverlig...
The same line of code in the same assembly works for one test fixture but not another. Here is the line of code: var dic = new ResourceDictionary { Source = new Uri("pack://application:,,,/MyApp.Wpf;component/ImageResources.xaml") }; The error I get in the other test fixture is System.UriFormatException : Invalid URI: Invalid port spe...
I have four datagrids on a Silverlight 4 page. I'm trying to set different column header styles for each grid. I found this XAML which works when I embed it in each DataGrid inside <sdk:DataGrid.ColumnHeaderStyle> tags: <Style TargetType="primitives:DataGridColumnHeader" > <Setter Property="Template"> <Setter.Value> ...
Christian Moser provides on his page a SharedResourceDictionary for WPF so that resource are only initialized once. I´ve tried to use this ResourceDictionary in my Silverlight 4 application, but i´m getting COMExceptions in Visual Studio or a message that the element is already a child of an other element. Has anyone successfully used ...
I'm trying to set the current WPF Application ResourceDictionary programatically. (I have a WindForms project, so no "App.xaml" to do that for me). Note: If anyone knows how to bind the equivalent of an Application.Resources to a ElementHost and all of its child controls hierarchy, this is the ultimate objective here. I added to my cod...
I have a WPF application made up of around seven user controls, each with a variety of different controls on each (textbox, combobox, radio button etc). Across the entire app I have applied a set of control styles take from the WPF Themes on CodePlex, however I have noticed a bit of a slowdown on the app since applying these styles. The...
I have several ListBoxes and have set up the group style to make the groups expanders. I want all of the ListBoxes to use the same style information to make them all expanders, but i want to be able to change the content of the header to be custom for each use of the style. Is there any way i can take the out of the but still edit the...
I have encountered a situation where it would be very useful to specify a floating point value directly in XAML and use it as a resource for several of my UI pieces. After searching around I found a good amount of information on how to include the proper assembly (mscorlib) in your XAML so you can do just that. Unfortunately, I am gett...