You can’t style the DataGridTextColumn because DataGridTextColumn does not derive from FrameworkElement (or FrameworkContentElement). Only FrameworkElement, etc supports styling. When you attempt to create a style in XAML for any type that is not a FrameworkElement or FrameworkContentElement you get that error message. How do you solve this? As with any problem, where there is … Read more
Update 2011-11-14 I recently came upon the same requirement again and I wasn’t very happy with the solution I posted below. Here is a nicer way to get the same behavior without re-templating the ComboBoxItem. It uses a DataTemplateSelector First, specify the regular DataTemplate, the dropdown DataTemplate and the ComboBoxItemTemplateSelector in the resources for the … Read more
Define a CustomControl like this in .cs public class MyButton : Button { static MyButton() { //set DefaultStyleKeyProperty } public ImageSource ImageSource { get { return (ImageSource)GetValue(ImageSourceProperty); } set { SetValue(ImageSourceProperty, value); } } // Using a DependencyProperty as the backing store for ImageSource. This enables animation, styling, binding, etc… public static readonly DependencyProperty ImageSourceProperty … Read more
From Capture and Uncapture the Mouse on MSDN: When an object captures the mouse, all mouse related events are treated as if the object with mouse capture perform the event, even if the mouse pointer is over another object. Only the capturing control receives the mouse events until released. Capturing the mouse is useful for … Read more
I discovered a simple workaround for this. For any elements that are not able to search outside the data template encapsulation boundary (i.e. are not being implicitly styled), you can just declare an empty style within the data template for that element type and use the BasedOn attribute of the style to find the correct … Read more
DisplayMemberPath specifies the path to the display string property for each item. In your case, you’d set it to “Name”, not “{Binding Name}”.
The thing is that if you were following MVVM, you would have a BookViewModel for your Book model class. So you would have a INotifyPropertyChanged implementation on that view model. Exactly for that purpose MVVM exists (but not only). That being said, the INotifyPropertyChanged has to be implemented on view model classes, not models. UPDATE: … Read more
<ListBox.ItemContainerStyle> <Style TargetType=”ListBoxItem”> <Setter Property=”IsSelected” Value=”{Binding Content.IsSelected, Mode=TwoWay, RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}}”/> <Setter Property=”Template”> <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate TargetType=”ListBoxItem”> <ContentPresenter/> </ControlTemplate> </Setter.Value> </Setter> </Style> </ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
Those are “non-client” areas and are controlled by Windows. Here is the MSDN docs on the subject (the pertinent info is at the top). Basically, you set your Window’s WindowStyle=”None”, then build your own window interface. (similar question on SO)
You can set the caret position using CaretIndex property of a TextBox. Please bear in mind that this is not a DependencyProperty. Nevertheless, you may still set it in XAML like this: <TextBox Text=”123″ CaretIndex=”{x:Static System:Int32.MaxValue}” /> Please remember to set CaretIndex after Text property or else it will not work. Thus it probably won’t … Read more