I am developing a paint wpf application. In my application, i use a Ribbon. How can I make the RibbonApplicationMenu is flat like window 10 Paint RibbonApplicationMenu.
Thank you.
I didn't try the Microsoft Component yet but I doubt they have a Windows 10 Theme for its Ribbon Framework. You can take a look at this free 3rd party Component. They don't have a Windows 10 Look but a Windows 8 as well as Office 2013 Theme. Maybe this is useful.
It's also available via NuGet
https://github.com/fluentribbon/Fluent.Ribbon
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I am currently developing a winform application and want to implement a titlebar that includes a menustrip as can be found in other applications I use. Some examples that come to mind would be applications from office or adobe. From what I understand, they both use customized Titlebars and disable the default one, which I was able to accomplish, however when using customized resize/move methods, the windows autodock feature is lost which I would like to preserve and perhaps there is some windows library or api I can call to customize the feature to my custom titlebar? Thanks in advance
Hopefully a simple question; I seem to recall seeing somebody at one of the recent Microsoft conferences say that some of the UWP application functionality was to be made available within WPF/Desktop. Unfortunately, I can no longer find (or remember) which of the many videos this was from (though it was probably Build or similar on Channel9).
Is it therefore possible to use UWP controls within a WPF application? Basically I want the look and feel of an "app", including some of the new controls (RelativePanel, SplitPanel) and the themed buttons etc., but I need the power of the full desktop - such as access to the full file system.
Thanks.
I think you are referring to the different Bridges to port apps to Windows 10 from for instance, IOS, Android, Web, Win32, etc. and still take advantage of Windows 10 features and APIs. Specifically, I think you are talking about the Bridge to bring in Win32 apps. You can find the bridges listed here.
https://dev.windows.com/en-us/bridges
•"Project Centennial": This toolkit will enable desktop developers to package and publish their existing .NET and Win32-based Windows applications to the Windows Store. Developers can also use Centennial to call common UWP APIs and services."
guys, first time posting -
I'm a newbie to Windows development and VS (Using 2013 on Windows 8.1).
I've created a very simple application by the action of
File->New Project/WPF application.
The application works great, and does exactly what I'd like it to do.
I successfully added a large (128x128) icon and got it to look great on Windows 7's taskbar and start menu by right-clicking my project in the Solution Explorer and specifying my .ico file through there.
I also added the 'Icon' property to my MainWindow.xaml file and it even looks great on the taskbar of Windows 8...
However, it doesn't even display my app's icon on the Start Menu of Windows 8, and I am having a really hard time finding documentation specific to this issue.
I'm sure it's a no-brainer but I'm just stuck.
How do I get a nice icon and tile in Windows 8?
Live tiles are only supported in Windows Store Applications but you can use some third-party solutions that provides a way to add this capability via the interoperation between your Desktop Application and separate Windows Store application (this one is installed on end-users computers and behaves like a server that can provide a Tile for its clients, which actually are the Desktop applications).
For example, DevExpress solution - WinRTLiveTileManager.
Or you can implement this approach itself...
Live tiles are only supported in Windows Store Apps unfortunately.
See this thread...
I want to write a desktop gadget that will group icons on my desktop (using c# & WPF).
It will be a docked window that I can drag icons to it and they will stay their. Also there can be couple of this windows.
Where do I begin?
**I saw all the post here about it but I got lost. Please direct me to examples and explanation pages.
To expand on cevik's answer:
You cannot create WPF applications as gadgets BUT you have two options (which aren't as bad as you'd expect).
The reason is that widgets are composed mainly of web pages (HTML) and not executable (*.exe).
The problem of course is that WPF will only work with & produce executables.
First option - Windows API:
When I said you can't what I really meant is you can't use the Windows Vista/7 gadget platform to make your widgets.
However, you can always achieve a similar effect by using the Windows API.
The Windows API will let you do stuff to windows such as making them always on the background of other programs, which sounds to me like ~80% there (The rest would be stuff like making sure your window doesn't get re-sized or minimized, etc.).
Just as a note, the function you'd be looking for to make the window behind all other windows would be SetWindowPos (specifically the second parameter).
However make sure there isn't a library which already implements these stuff because it can be rather difficult (and consist of A LOT of surprises).
Second option - Silverlight
silverlight can be perceived as WPF for the web.
That obviously solves our problem.
However there is a cost to it, as expected.
Silverlight doesn't have all the features WPF has (possibly not all of the .NET framework as-well, not sure about that as I'm not really using it).
However it should be more than enough to get you by so you should definitely check it out.
Once you have your Silverlight application (and webpage) you'll have to create a manifest & install the gadget to your desktop. See here how to do so.
Maybe this will help you.
Template to easily get started on developing a Sideber Gadget using Silverlight 3.0 or 4.0 controls in C#.
I am developing an application for a window mobile 6 using Visual Studio C# 2008 SP1.
However, the design of the application is very plain using the standard windows controls.
The application I am making is a phone that will be installed on WM6, so I am looking for controls that I can drag on to the form that resemble something that looks like a phone. Or just skins.
Any 3rd party controls or skins that can do this would be better? However, I don't mind paying for some if they fit for my application needs.
If there isn't any, any ideas how to make them myself? Any website tutorials?
Many thanks for any advice,
Steve
I make a Ink component for Pocket PC check this at http://velocityink.codeplex.com/ if you interested.