To get a scrollbar for an ItemsControl, you can host it in a ScrollViewer like this: <ScrollViewer VerticalScrollBarVisibility=”Auto”> <ItemsControl> <uc:UcSpeler /> <uc:UcSpeler /> <uc:UcSpeler /> <uc:UcSpeler /> <uc:UcSpeler /> </ItemsControl> </ScrollViewer>
A ListView is basically like a ListBox (and inherits from it), but it also has a View property. This property allows you to specify a predefined way of displaying the items. The only predefined view in the BCL (Base Class Library) is GridView, but you can easily create your own. Another difference is the default … Read more
You can render a WPF control to a bitmap using RenderTargetBitmap, then this image can be copied to the clipboard, saved to a file, or used as part of your GUI Check out Get a bitmap image from a Control view Beware with this that you can hit problems when parts of the control you … Read more
There are two types of focus in WPF – Keyboard Focus and Logical Focus. This link can give you more information about focus in WPF. You can either do this: ListViewItem item = myListView.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromIndex(index) as ListViewItem; item.Focus(); It’s also possible to call Keyboard.Focus(item); If you also want to scroll the ListView to the item’s position, … Read more
The reason this doesn’t work is that the Label.Content property is of type Object, and Binding.StringFormat is only used when binding to a property of type String. What is happening is: The Binding is boxing your MaxLevelOfInvestment value and storing it the Label.Content property as a boxed decimal value. The Label control has a template … Read more
Set the ItemsPanel to a Canvas and bind the containers instead of the TextBlock in the DataTemplate <ItemsControl ItemsSource=”{Binding Path=ItemsToShowInCanvas}”> <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel> <ItemsPanelTemplate> <Canvas/> </ItemsPanelTemplate> </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel> <ItemsControl.ItemContainerStyle> <Style TargetType=”ContentPresenter”> <Setter Property=”Canvas.Left” Value=”{Binding Left}”/> <Setter Property=”Canvas.Top” Value=”{Binding Top}”/> </Style> </ItemsControl.ItemContainerStyle> <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> <TextBlock Text=”{Binding Path=Text}” /> </DataTemplate> </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate> </ItemsControl>
Viewbox is FrameworkElement which cannot belong to multiple parents. Every time buttons request a resource {StaticResource SampleViewbox} they get the same instance. to change that behavior add x:Shared=”False” attribute <Viewbox x:Key=”SampleViewbox” x:Shared=”False”>
Direct answer to your question is “yes, you can define a binding as a resource”. The problem here is how do you then make any use of it? One possibility is to create an extension class which would pull the binding from the resources and apply it: public class BindingResourceExtension : StaticResourceExtension { public BindingResourceExtension() … Read more
use a ViewBox to render in memory Grid grid = new System.Windows.Controls.Grid() { Background = Brushes.Blue, Width = 200, Height = 200 }; Viewbox viewbox = new Viewbox(); viewbox.Child = grid; //control to render viewbox.Measure(new System.Windows.Size(200, 200)); viewbox.Arrange(new Rect(0, 0, 200, 200)); viewbox.UpdateLayout(); RenderTargetBitmap render = new RenderTargetBitmap(200, 200, 150, 150, PixelFormats.Pbgra32); render.Render(viewbox);
All it takes is a bit of XAML… <Window x:Class=”WCSamples.Window1″ xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation” xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml”> <Window.CommandBindings> <CommandBinding Command=”ApplicationCommands.Close” Executed=”CloseCommandHandler”/> </Window.CommandBindings> <StackPanel Name=”MainStackPanel”> <Button Command=”ApplicationCommands.Close” Content=”Close Window” /> </StackPanel> </Window> And a bit of C#… private void CloseCommandHandler(object sender, ExecutedRoutedEventArgs e) { this.Close(); } (adapted from this MSDN article)