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I made two programs, one C++ console and one C#/WPF windows desktop. How can I integrate them?

The C++ program reads a file, processes the content and safes the result in another file.The filenames have to be typed in the console. The program works fine, but typing the filenames can be pretty unpleasant if the file and the program are not in the same directory.
Therefore I made the C#/WPF windows desktop program.You can open a file browsing your computer. The program puts the filename in a textbox so you can copy it. The same with the output file.
I start both programs, and when the C++ program asks the filename I use the other program to find the filename,copy it and paste it in the console. The same with the output file.
This works fine, but how can I merge the two programs?
Here is the second program:
Layout in xaml:
<Window x:Class="Cx_desktop_for_tracebitmap.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Cx_desktop_for_tracebitmap"
mc:Ignorable="d"
Title="MainWindow" Height="450" Width="800">
<StackPanel DockPanel.Dock="Top">
<Label Content="Click input file or output file" ></Label>
<Button Click="input_Click" Content="input file" Name="Button_Input" Width="60" Margin="10" HorizontalAlignment="Left"/>
<Button Click="output_Click" Content="output file" Name="Button_Output" Width="60" Margin="10" HorizontalAlignment="Left"/>
<Label Content="Input Filename" DockPanel.Dock="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Center" ></Label>
<TextBox Name="inputname" Text="" Margin="10" Width="500" DockPanel.Dock="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Center"></TextBox>
<Label Content="Output Filename" DockPanel.Dock="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Center" ></Label>
<TextBox Name="outputname" Text="" Margin="10" Width="500" DockPanel.Dock="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Center"></TextBox>
Button Click="Go_Click" Content="GO" Name="Button_Go "Width="60" Height="60" Margin="10" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Visibility="Hidden"/>
</StackPanel>
</Window>
C# in Mainwindow:
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Windows;
using Microsoft.Win32;
namespace Cx_desktop_for_tracebitmap
{
/// <summary>
/// find filenames
/// </summary>
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private string file_in = "";
private string file_out = "";
private bool BoolIn = false;
private bool BoolOut = false;
private void input_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
OpenFileDialog openFileDialog = new OpenFileDialog();
if (openFileDialog.ShowDialog() == true)
{
file_in = fix_filename(openFileDialog.FileName);
inputname.Text = file_in;
BoolIn = true;
if (BoolOut) Button_Go.Visibility = Visibility.Visible;
}
}
private void output_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
SaveFileDialog saveFileDialog = new SaveFileDialog();
if (saveFileDialog.ShowDialog() == true)
{
file_out = fix_filename(saveFileDialog.FileName);
outputname.Text = file_out;
BoolOut = true;
if (BoolIn) Button_Go.Visibility = Visibility.Visible;
}
}
private string fix_filename(string fixme)
{
char quote = (char)34;
string fixed_filename = quote+fixme+quote;
return fixed_filename;
}
private void Go_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
string arguments = file_in + " " + file_out;
Process pBPM_reader; pBPM_reader = new Process();
pBPM_reader.StartInfo.FileName = #"BMP READER versie 4.exe";
pBPM_reader.StartInfo.Arguments = arguments;
pBPM_reader.Start();
}
}
}
I edited the program to show how I did it:
I added a new button (GO) to start the C++ program.
It is hidden at startup and apears when both files are chozen.
The filenames can contain spaces.
They must be wrapped between quotationmarks.That happens in the fix_filename method
The click on the GO button starts a new Process that runs the C++ program.
The Arguments take only one string, and the arguments are separated bij spaces.
Here is the heather and the first line od the C++ file. It shows how to extract the arguments
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
std::vector<std::string> argList(argv, argv + argc);
.
.
.
}

You have to either create a CLI-Intermediate code wrapper assembly that bridges between safe to unsafe code and converts (marshalls) types, etc. This allows you to represent a property C# interface to your C++ code. This blog has some more detailed information.
Or you can try to use P-Invoke to call C++ code from C# directly (see the docs here).
See this stackoverflow question for decision help.
For more information see the CLI documentation, P-Invoke documentation, this blog and this Microsoft forum.

API for MessageBox/Notification in Windows 10 style

I wonder is there an API for creating custom notifications in Windows 10 style like the one showing when updates are available for example?
I know that Citrix can send messages showing like that and it seems they use the sessionmsg.exe. Unfortunately, I cannot find any help on the parameter the exe supports.
Also, an API would be preferred.
Another thing: How do you call this kind of message? Banner? Message? MessageBox? SystemMessage?

After reading the question, I found it interesting my selves to investigate possibilities and share my founds as the answer.
As you tagged your question with C#, my solution will be based on C#. By and btw I was not able to find the default api to do the job, if other finds a solution with an example I will be happy to vote for it.
I started with the UWP solution and created a very simple information dialog using ContentDialog. Create a UWP project and add the following code:
private async void ShowMessage()
{
ContentDialog dialog = new ContentDialog
{
Title = "Title",
Content = "Content text",
Width = 200,
Height = 600,
Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.CornflowerBlue),
Foreground = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.White),
BorderThickness = new Thickness(1),
BorderBrush = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.White),
CloseButtonText = "Close",
};
await dialog.ShowAsync();
}
public MainPage()
{
this.InitializeComponent();
ShowMessage();
}
This will create something like
But that content dialog appears as a part of the application and not the windows system as I tried to solve.
Adding the following lines before the ShowMessage method will maximize application to the whole background of the screen.
ApplicationView.GetForCurrentView().SuppressSystemOverlays = true;
ApplicationView.GetForCurrentView().FullScreenSystemOverlayMode = FullScreenSystemOverlayMode.Minimal;
ApplicationView.GetForCurrentView().TryEnterFullScreenMode();
But IMO it is not the best solution. I thought, there might be another way, I tried with WPF instead.
I created a WPF project, my strategy was to start MainWindow in minimized mode and the content dialog to appear. Hence there is no content dialog in WPF like UWP, I created something similar (look and feel).
Here is the code in my MainWindow
private readonly string _title;
private readonly string _message;
public MainWindow()
{
_title = "Updates are available";
_message = "Required updates need to be downloaded.";
InitializeComponent();
string[]? args = App.Args;
if (args != null && args.Length > 0)
{
_title = args[0];
_message = args[1];
}
MinimizedMainWindow();
ShowContentDialog();
}
protected void MinimizedMainWindow()
{
AllowsTransparency = true;
WindowStyle = WindowStyle.None;
WindowState = WindowState.Maximized;
Background = Brushes.Transparent;
Topmost = true;
}
public void ShowContentDialog()
{
ContentDialog dialog = new ContentDialog
{
Background = new SolidColorBrush((Color)ColorConverter.ConvertFromString("#FF0066CC")),
Foreground = new SolidColorBrush((Color)ColorConverter.ConvertFromString("#FFFFFFFF")),
WindowStartupLocation = WindowStartupLocation.CenterScreen,
SizeToContent = SizeToContent.WidthAndHeight,
WindowStyle = WindowStyle.None,
Padding = new Thickness(20),
Margin = new Thickness(0),
ResizeMode = ResizeMode.NoResize,
Width = 600,
Height = 200,
Title = { Text = _title },
Message = { Text = _message }
};
dialog.Show();
}
And here is my ContentDialog.xaml
<Window x:Class="NotificationSol.ContentDialog"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:NotificationSol"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
xmlns:av="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
mc:Ignorable="d"
Title="ContentDialog"
av:DesignWidth="600"
av:DesignHeight="200"
>
<Grid>
<TextBlock x:Name="Title" Margin="30,22,30,118" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="Title" FontSize="28"/>
<TextBlock x:Name="Message" Margin="30,70,30,70" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="Content" FontSize="16"/>
<Button x:Name="Button" Click="CloseButton_Click" Content="Close" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,0,30,20" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Width="75" Background="#FF0066CC" BorderBrush="White" Foreground="White" Padding="8,4"/>
</Grid>
</Window>
And ContentDialog.xaml.cs
public ContentDialog()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void CloseButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
Close();
base.OnClosed(e);
Application.Current.Shutdown();
}
To let my application take parameters in the command line, I made the following changes to App.xaml.cs:
public static string[]? Args;
void AppStartup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Args.Length > 0)
{
Args = e.Args;
}
}
And to App.xaml adding as the startup
<Application x:Class="NotificationSol.App"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:NotificationSol"
StartupUri="MainWindow.xaml"
Startup="AppStartup">
<Application.Resources>
</Application.Resources>
</Application>
Running this code from the visual studio I get the:
If you run the software with 2 parameters from the command line, you can pass the title and the message. You have the code, where you can create other method actions or buttons with other features. Right now my button is just closing the dialog box and the application. Here I have put both examples on my repo:
https://github.com/maythamfahmi/BlogExamples/tree/master/Stackoverflow/ContentDialog

You need to create a function using Winforms and WPF assemblies to create the pop up.
Functions
Function New-WPFDialog() {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
This neat little function is based on the one from Brian Posey's Article on Powershell GUIs
.DESCRIPTION
I re-factored a bit to return the resulting XaML Reader and controls as a single, named collection.
.PARAMETER XamlData
XamlData - A string containing valid XaML data
.EXAMPLE
$MyForm = New-WPFDialog -XamlData $XaMLData
$MyForm.Exit.Add_Click({...})
$null = $MyForm.UI.Dispatcher.InvokeAsync{$MyForm.UI.ShowDialog()}.Wait()
.NOTES
Place additional notes here.
.LINK
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles-tutorials/netgeneral/building-powershell-gui-part2.html
.INPUTS
XamlData - A string containing valid XaML data
.OUTPUTS
a collection of WPF GUI objects.
#>
Param([Parameter(Mandatory = $True, HelpMessage = 'XaML Data defining a GUI', Position = 1)]
[string]$XamlData)
# Add WPF and Windows Forms assemblies
try {
Add-Type -AssemblyName PresentationCore, PresentationFramework, WindowsBase, system.windows.forms
}
catch {
Throw 'Failed to load Windows Presentation Framework assemblies.'
}
# Create an XML Object with the XaML data in it
[xml]$xmlWPF = $XamlData
# Create the XAML reader using a new XML node reader, UI is the only hard-coded object name here
Set-Variable -Name XaMLReader -Value #{ 'UI' = ([Windows.Markup.XamlReader]::Load((new-object -TypeName System.Xml.XmlNodeReader -ArgumentList $xmlWPF))) }
# Create hooks to each named object in the XAML reader
$Elements = $xmlWPF.SelectNodes('//*[#Name]')
ForEach ( $Element in $Elements ) {
$VarName = $Element.Name
$VarValue = $XaMLReader.UI.FindName($Element.Name)
$XaMLReader.Add($VarName, $VarValue)
}
return $XaMLReader
}
Function New-PopUpWindow () {
param(
[string]
$MessageText = "No Message Supplied")
# This is the XaML that defines the GUI.
$WPFXamL = #'
<Window xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="Popup" Background="#FF0066CC" Foreground="#FFFFFFFF" ResizeMode="NoResize" WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen" SizeToContent="WidthAndHeight" WindowStyle="None" Padding="20" Margin="0">
<Grid>
<Button Name="OKButton" Content="OK" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,0,30,20" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Width="75" Background="#FF0066CC" BorderBrush="White" Foreground="White" Padding="8,4"/>
<TextBlock Name="Message" Margin="100,60,100,80" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="_CONTENT_" FontSize="36"/>
</Grid>
</Window>
'#
# Build Dialog
$WPFGui = New-WPFDialog -XamlData $WPFXaml
$WPFGui.Message.Text = $MessageText
$WPFGui.OKButton.Add_Click( { $WPFGui.UI.Close() })
$null = $WPFGUI.UI.Dispatcher.InvokeAsync{ $WPFGui.UI.ShowDialog() }.Wait()
}
Example call and result
New-PopUpWindow -MessageText "Hey there, I'm a pretty blue form"

Interested in that too.
Finished with simple WinForms C# app though I'm not in code. It covers every screen with 50% transparent black fullscreen form and then opens modal (OnShown TopMost) blue borderless 678x165 form from the primary screen form. Picked almost same colors and fonts (Segoe UI title + Calibri text and bold buttons) so it is pretty simple and similar phoney. And I've added second red button with some special functionality, what is of course impossible via standard API.
Another way is to know that such a message can be called with Send-RDUserMessage powershell cmdlet from RemoteDesktop module. I opened the module source code and understood that it uses wtsapi32.dll. I stopped pushing that direction because of:
RemoteDesktop module requires admin elevation, maybe wtsapi calls in general requires that too; but I want banner to launch in user context from task scheduler;
Cast Send-RDUserMessage on Windows 10 desktop OS results in small "msg.exe"-like (not sessionmsg.exe) messagebox but I want that banner on Windows 10 workstations too, not only on terminal servers. But workstations use the same banner to say about updates and activation so it is definitely not server unique function.
I am not into coding at all. Someone can try to get along with that dll, maybe WTSSendMessageA and WTSSendMessageW methods which are documented at learn.microsoft.com. Maybe it calls another API because such messages are not only for RD/TS purposes. But I got tired dealing with it.
Still interested in oneliner :)

"XamlParseException in UWP class library dll

I am working on a universal class library , targeted to use UWP apps.
In this am trying to use Content Dialog to get some user input.
All works good in debug, when I pack my library as dll and distribute, the ContentDialog not showing from the app which refers my dll.
I am getting Windows.UI.Xaml.Markup.XamlParseException: XAML parsing failed exception, i got this through log file.
Here is my code
ContentDialog
<ContentDialog
x:Class="xxxx.yyyy.InputContentDialogue"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d"
x:Name="dialog"
Title="Title">
<ContentDialog.Resources>
<Style x:Name="ButtonStyleNoTabFocus" TargetType="Button">
<Setter Property="FocusVisualPrimaryBrush" Value="Transparent" />
<Setter Property="Margin" Value="5"/>
</Style>
</ContentDialog.Resources>
<!-- Content body -->
<Grid Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}" Margin="0,20" MinWidth="550">
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
<TextBlock TextWrapping="WrapWholeWords" Margin="5,0,0,10">
shkgdsakjfdhgsajkfdhkasd sadkfjahsdkj asdfjasfdja asdkfjasdf asdkjfnas asdkjfnasd
</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Margin="5,0,0,10">sjkdhfkjsdf sdajfakjdsb sadfkajsdfa.
</TextBlock>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Button TabIndex="0"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
Content="hey there"
Style="{StaticResource ButtonStyleNoTabFocus}"
x:Name="btn1"
Click="btn1_Click"
GotFocus="Btn_GotFocus"
LostFocus="Btn_LostFocus"/>
<Button HorizontalAlignment="Center"
Content="Hi"
x:Name="btn2"
Style="{StaticResource ButtonStyleNoTabFocus}"
Click="btn2_Click"
GotFocus="Btn_GotFocus"
LostFocus="Btn_LostFocus"/>
<Button HorizontalAlignment="Center"
Content="Hello"
Style="{StaticResource ButtonStyleNoTabFocus}"
x:Name="btn3"
Click="btn3_Click"
GotFocus="Btn_GotFocus"
LostFocus="Btn_LostFocus"/>
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
ContentDialog.cs
public sealed partial class InputContentDialogue : ContentDialog
{
public UserConsentContentDialogue()
{
this.InitializeComponent();
this.Result = -1;
this.Closing += ContentDialogue_Closing;
}
private void ContentDialogue_Closing(ContentDialog sender, ContentDialogClosingEventArgs args)
{
if (args.Result == ContentDialogResult.None && this.Result == -1)
{
args.Cancel = true;
}
}
public int Result { get; set; }
// Handle the button clicks from dialog
private void btn1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
this.Result = 0;
// Close the dialog
dialog.Hide();
}
private void btn2_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
this.Result = 1;
// Close the dialog
dialog.Hide();
}
private void btn3_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
this.Result = 2;
// Close the dialog
dialog.Hide();
}
private void Btn_GotFocus(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
Brush _blinkBrush = Application.Current.Resources["SystemControlHighlightAccentBrush"] as SolidColorBrush;
(sender as Button).BorderBrush = _blinkBrush;
}
private void Btn_LostFocus(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
(sender as Button).BorderBrush = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Transparent);
}
}
And am creating a new instance and try to show the dialog , like this
internal static async Task<int> ShowMyContentDialog()
{
try
{
InputContentDialogue dialogue = new InputContentDialogue();
await dialogue.ShowAsync();
return dialogue.Result;
}
catch(Exception e)
{
FileOperations.WriteToLogFile("ERROR occurred "+ e.ToString());
}
return -1;
}
Everything works good , if I refer this library in code base.
If I get release dll and refer it from a test app, am getting the xaml parse exception.
Can anyone help me in this.
Thanks in advance.

Everything works good , if I refer this library in code base. If I get release dll and refer it from a test app, am getting the xaml parse exception.
Great question, the problem is your dll file miss Xaml Content. When you compile a dll with xaml file in it, it will be recorded into xxxx.xr.xml files, and those files must be copied as well to the bin directory (BUT NOT Obj folder)of your app with relative path. After build the class library, please check if the bin folder contains dll, pdb, pri and dll resource folder like the following.
For the testing, it will work, if you directly add the dll file where in the class library bin folder to your project reference.

Finally, I found the solution.
Thanks #Nico for the answer, its almost answered the question.
Here is the link which gives you the clear picture about the issue
Missing xaml.xr of a class library file in UWP
Steps
1) Check "Generate library layout" in your project properties
2) While copy your dll from bin/release folder, copy these files too
ClassLibrary1(Class Library name) Folder
ClassLibrary1.xr.xml
2.UserControl.xaml (UserControl XAML file)
ClassLibrary1.dll
ClassLibrary1.pri
Keep all these files in the same folder where you keep your library dll.
Just refer your library dll alone to the referrer project.
All other files will be automatically referred .

How to close WPF window without shutdown .NET Application in IronPython

So I'm writing a WPF application with IronPython. Everything works great if I run the script outside of IronPython REPL via command "ipy.exe wpf.py". However, if the script were run inside IronPython REPL via command "execfile('wpf.py')", the first time it runs OK, the second time it errors out "SystemError: Cannot create more than one System.Windows.Application instance in the same AppDomain."
From my understanding, it's because it'll create a new AppDomain every time you run it outside REPL while it'll share the same domain when running inside REPL, and you can initialize Application twice. The problem is I have to run it inside the same AppDomain many times as it's not a standalone IronPython application. I've tried many things such as change shutdown mode by add app.ShutdownMode = ShutdownMode.OnExplicitShutdown after app=Application(), but that just hang the whole REPL.
Can someone please help shed some light? Thank you very much!
import clr
clr.AddReference("PresentationFramework")
clr.AddReference("PresentationCore")
clr.AddReference("System.Xml")
from System.Xml import XmlReader
from System.IO import StringReader
from System.Windows.Markup import XamlReader
from System.Windows import Application
s = XmlReader.Create(StringReader('''
<Window
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="IronPython MVVM Demo2"
Width="450"
SizeToContent="Height">
<Grid Margin="15" x:Name="grid1">
<StackPanel Margin="5">
<Button Margin="5">One</Button>
<Button Margin="5">Two</Button>
<Button Margin="5">Three</Button>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</Window>
'''))
win = XamlReader.Load(s)
app = Application()
app.Run(win)
print("The End.")

I believe you need to create a long-running STA thread to host the Applilcation, and communicate with it through the Applciations's Dispatcher. Here's an example in C#:
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading;
using System.Windows;
using System.Xml;
namespace ConsoleApp1
{
class Program
{
static void ShowWindow(string Xaml)
{
var s = XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(Xaml));
var win = (Window)System.Windows.Markup.XamlReader.Load(s);
win.ShowDialog();
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Application app = null;
var UIThread = new Thread(() =>
{
app = new Application();
app.ShutdownMode = ShutdownMode.OnExplicitShutdown;
app.Run();
});
UIThread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
UIThread.Start();
while (app == null )
Thread.Sleep(100);
app.Dispatcher.Invoke(() => Console.WriteLine("Started"));
var xaml = #"
<Window
xmlns = ""http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation""
xmlns:x = ""http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml""
Title = ""IronPython MVVM Demo2""
Width = ""450""
SizeToContent = ""Height"">
<Grid Margin = ""15"" x:Name = ""grid1"">
<StackPanel Margin = ""5"">
<Button Margin = ""5""> One </Button>
<Button Margin = ""5""> Two </Button>
<Button Margin = ""5""> Three </Button>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</Window>";
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
Application.Current.Dispatcher.Invoke(() =>
{
ShowWindow(xaml);
});
}
Application.Current.Dispatcher.Invoke(() =>
{
Application.Current.Shutdown();
});
}
}
}

It runs in VS2012 but hides the form's GUI at design-time; in Visual C# Express 2010 it doesn't even compile

Since the xaml window stopped showing my wpf form using VS 2012 (after I added some comments to the top of the main .cs form), I reverted back to C# Express 2010.
I copied my xaml and code and pasted them into the new project.
However, I'm getting err msgs such as:
*'duckbilledPlatypusInfoMailer_Express.MainWindow' does not contain a definition for 'MainWindow_Loaded' and no extension method 'MainWindow_Loaded' accepting a first argument of type 'duckbilledPlatypusInfoMailer_Express.MainWindow' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)*
and:
The name 'InitializeComponent' does not exist in the current context
I get the same err msg about two controls, my label and button (but not the DatePicker!)
So both of my event handlers, and two of my three controls, as well as the 'InitializeComponent' have been rendered in a cloak of invisibility, as far as VC#2010 is concerned...???
Here is my xaml and code (minimal, so p[a,o]sting all of it):
XAML:
<Window x:Class="duckbilledPlatypusInfoMailer_Express.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="Duckbilled Platypus Info Mailer" SizeToContent="WidthAndHeight" WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen" MinHeight="350" MinWidth="525" Loaded="MainWindow_Loaded" >
<StackPanel>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Button x:Name="btnSelectPDFFile" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Padding="4" Margin="4" Width="120" Click="btnSelectPDFFile_Click" IsDefault="True">Select PDF File
</Button>
<Label x:Name="lblPlatypusSheetFile" Margin="4" >[Selected File]</Label>
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<DatePicker ></DatePicker>
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
</Window>
CODE:
using System;
using System.Windows;
using duckbilledPlatypusInfoMailer;
namespace PlatypusInfo_Express
{
/// <summary>
/// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml
/// </summary>
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void MainWindow_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
btnSelectPDFFile.Focus();
}
private void btnSelectPDFFile_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
var dlg = new Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog
{
InitialDirectory = #"C:\Scrooge\McDuckbilledPlatypus\",
DefaultExt = ".pdf",
Filter = "Platypus Data Sheets (sa*.pdf)|sa*.pdf"
};
bool? result = dlg.ShowDialog();
if (result == true)
{
string pdfFilename = dlg.FileName;
// Show just the file name, without the path
string pdfFileNameOnly = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(pdfFilename);
lblReviewSheetFile.Content = pdfFileNameOnly;
string textFilename = String.Format(#"C:\Scrooge\McDuckbilledPlatypus\{0}.txt", pdfFileNameOnly);
var pdfParser = new PDFParser();
if (pdfParser.ExtractText(pdfFilename, textFilename))
{
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(textFilename);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("There was a boo-boo, Yogi!");
}
}
}
}
}
BTW, I did add the necessary 3rd party file to my solution (PDFParser.cs) as well as the two necessary references.
Note: If I right-click the event handlers in the xaml, it DOES take me to those event handlers in the cs file. So it knows where they are, why does it say they don't exist or it can't find them?
UPDATE
Here's the first part of the error I see in the WPF designer:
System.NotSupportedException
An attempt was made to load an assembly from a network location which would have caused the assembly to be sandboxed in previous versions of the .NET Framework. This release of the .NET Framework does not enable CAS policy by default, so this load may be dangerous. If this load is not intended to sandbox the assembly, please enable the loadFromRemoteSources switch. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=155569 for more information.
at Microsoft.Expression.DesignHost.Isolation.Remoting.STAMarshaler.WaitForCompletion(NestedCallContext nestedCallContext, BlockingCall call, WaitHandle timeoutSignal)
at Microsoft.Expression.DesignHost.Isolation.Remoting.STAMarshaler.MarshalOut(Action action, Int32 targetApartmentId, WaitHandle aborted, WaitHandle timeoutSignal)
at Microsoft.Expression.DesignHost.Isolation.Remoting.ThreadMarshaler.MarshalOut[TValue](RemoteHandle1 targetObject, Action action)
at Microsoft.Expression.DesignHost.Isolation.Remoting.ThreadMarshaler.MarshalOut[TResult,TValue](RemoteHandle1 targetObject, Func`2 func)

There is an extra duckbilled in the namespace in the XAML :
<Window x:Class="duckbilledPlatypusInfoMailer_Express.MainWindow"
it has to be in the same namespace as to code behind class.