It is fairly straightforward to host WPF controls in a WinForms app with an ElementHost adapter or WinForms controls in a WPF app with a WindowsFormsHost adapter. There are not too many resources on the web showing how to do either of these, however. In the process of learning how to do this for myself … Read more
In the code-behind file of the control, try: this.Style = Resources[“ResourceName”] as Style;
Here’s a basic MVVM compliant way of getting the behaviour you want: MainWindow.xaml <Window x:Class=”WpfApplication1.MainWindow” xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation” xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml” Title=”MainWindow” Height=”350″ Width=”525″> <StackPanel> <ComboBox Margin=”30,5,30,5″ IsEditable=”True” ItemsSource=”{Binding Items}” SelectedItem=”{Binding SelectedItem}” Text=”{Binding NewItem, UpdateSourceTrigger=LostFocus}”/> <TextBox Margin=”30,5,30,5″ /> </StackPanel> </Window> MainWindow.cs public partial class MainWindow : Window, INotifyPropertyChanged { private string _selectedItem; private ObservableCollection<string> _items = new ObservableCollection<string>() { … Read more
You can grab the UI Dispatcher from the static application instance: Application.Current.Dispatcher You may want to check Application.Current for null first, as it can be cleared during a shutdown sequence.
In 3.5SP1 / 3.0SP2, they also added a new property to the ValidationRule base, namely, ValidatesOnTargetUpdated=”True”. This will call the validation as soon as the source object is bound, rather than only when the target control is updated. That may not be exactly what you want, but it’s not bad to see initially all the … Read more
The setters in WPF styles are checked during compile time; CSS styles are applied dynamically. You have to specify a type so that WPF can resolve the properties in the setters to the dependency properties of that type. You can set the target type to base classes that contain the properties you want and then … Read more
Like you, when I was getting started and wanted to understand how / what was going on and working with templates, it took a lot of trial and error. Hopefully my research and some step-by-step components can help you customize to your liking and KNOWING where things are coming from. First, when trying to understand … Read more
There might be an easier way to do this but I got it to work by using the GetIndex() method on the DataGridRow class. This returns the index in to the data source so might not be exactly what you’re after. the xaml <Window x:Class=”WpfApplication1.MainWindow” xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation” xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml” xmlns:sys=”clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib” xmlns:local=”clr-namespace:WpfApplication1″ Title=”MainWindow” Height=”350″ Width=”525″> <DataGrid> <DataGrid.Columns> <DataGridTextColumn … Read more
You need to define the data template as CellTemplate for your column: <ListView x:Name=”lbDatabases” Height=”138″ Width=”498″ Canvas.Left=”44″ Canvas.Top=”146″ > <ListView.View > <GridView > <GridViewColumn Header=”Databases” Width=”498″> <GridViewColumn.CellTemplate> <DataTemplate> <CheckBox IsChecked=”{Binding IsActive}” Checked=”AnyChange” Unchecked=”AnyChange” Style=”{x:Null}” Content=”{Binding DbName}” Width=”{Binding CheckWidth}” /> </DataTemplate> </GridViewColumn.CellTemplate> </GridViewColumn> </GridView> </ListView.View> </ListView>
You can use a CompositeCollection to do this, you can combine different Collections and add static items in the xaml. Example: Xaml: <Window x:Class=”WpfApplication8.MainWindow” xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation” xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml” Title=”MainWindow” Height=”233″ Width=”143″ Name=”UI”> <Window.Resources> <CollectionViewSource Source=”{Binding ElementName=UI, Path=Windows}” x:Key=”YourMenuItems”/> </Window.Resources> <Grid DataContext=”{Binding ElementName=UI}”> <Menu Height=”24″ VerticalAlignment=”Top”> <MenuItem Header=”_View” > <MenuItem Header=”Windows”> <MenuItem.ItemsSource> <CompositeCollection> <CollectionContainer Collection=”{Binding Source={StaticResource YourMenuItems}}” /> … Read more