WPF Tile Control like Windows 8 Start Menu - c#

So, does anyone knows a panel or a control which emulate Windows 8 Stat Menu Tile Panel?
with all of those features like SQUAD tiles or bigger ones?
Also i have seen this link on Stack overflow, but because of low reputation points, i could comment there that "IT DOESN'T WORK"
Emulates Windows 8 Start Menu Tile Layout Engine

The answer is: no, there is no native control which emulate a tile.
Thus, basically, you could do it yourslef as explained in the link you provide: Emulates Windows 8 Start Menu Tile Layout Engine
If it does not work, you probably have something wrong because it is some classic XAML.
Another alternative could be to use a tiers-Library. There are some paying like DevExpress, Actipro or Telerik.
But my recommandation would be: do not buy anything, but do not reinvent the Wheel either. You have some free nice Library available with Nugets like MahApps.Metro or ModernUI for WPF that could greatly help you to create your own custom tile.
Hope it helps.

Telerik RAD Tile control can do it for you !

Related

How implement a (swipeable) card in windows phone?

I want to implement a swipeable card (left and right swipe) in a Windows Phone app. Is there any built in control for making a card and moving it?
If there is no built in control for it then what is the best approach to build a card like below and animate the movement of it?
Note: I am not asking help about detecting and processing of the swipe gesture.
figure showing the card
How about trying Carousel control though its available for Windows 10 for windows phone 8.1 you can refrence these two tutorials
Tutorial 1
Tutorial 2
Carousel control is one good example of what you want to achieve.
Also , I think you can do such a thing by changing some Pivot & PivotItem styles.It could be more customized than Carousel control but you need to take more effort on that.

Windows Phone Custom Control Design and Implementation

I am working on a windows phone app, in which I will need to add a costom "cover-flow" kind of control like how it looks like in the Spotify app below:
Note: user can swipe from right to left to change song.
I don't think Windows Phone SDK provide any controls support this, so I was wondering how such a thing is implemented.
I think it is either faked by a pivot page with dynamically adding/deleting pivot items, or maybe it is a custom control.
If I want to implement this as a custom control, does anyone has experience about it, or any sample code/tutorial will be very helpful.
Thank you
You're looking at a Panorama control. It is available out of the box with the Windows Phone SDK.
Telerik makes a great control that does just this. It's called the SlideView control. I know it's not free, but it is only $99. Given that it might take you about 4-10 hours to create this control yourself, I'd say it's worth it. If you join the Nokia Premium Developer Program you get Telerik's controls for free.
Note: I do not work for Nokia or Telerik and this is NOT a paid advertisement :)
The swipping effect is because of Panorama page. to change music you need to handle gestures that will be a tough task . The solution is to find a hack or have some control in the background that registers the touch event and changes the music

how to create custom labels in c#

I've given a task to create a picture puzzle using c#. I have to customize a control to act like a tile. what I have in my mind is to create label to act as a puzzle tile. I have no experience in customizing a label control.. If any one can help me with a tutorial for this task It would be a great help.
I'm using windows forms for this project and not WPF.
I've googled but couldn't find any suitable tutorial. Please help me on this.
Thank you.
below is how each piece should look like in the application! A tile class is used to represent each puzzle piece.
The only way to manipulate the design structure of Windows Form controls is through the GDI (Graphics Device Interface). The device context is accessed through System.Drawing. This will allow you to inherit or override a control and create/alter its appearance. I worked with the GDI for about a month. It is not something that's learned overnight. As a quick alternative, you may consider adding puzzle pictures to a button control and coding it up so that if button A is within xx pixels of button B's left edge then A&B background image = a connected picture. Or something along those lines.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/6913/Creating-a-professional-looking-GDI-drawn-custom-c

Slot machine like control in WP7?

I am writing a program for WP7 in C# where I would like to utilize a slot machine like effect where the numbers roll like they are mounted on a drum. Is there an efficient implementation of such a control? Any suggestions to implement such a control?
It sounds like you want something similar to the iPhone date picker, but for any set of numbers. A group called Bee Mobile released such a DatePicker in a control pack they are selling, which suggests that it can be done efficiently. You might find Nick Randolph's adaptation* of the wheel effect to the standard ListBox to be helpful. Depending on your requirements, you may be able to just alter the style to make that work for you. If not, a similar question at MSDN has a helpful outline of a possible approach among the replies:
build the basic elements
reuse and animate TextBoxes
add styling for 3D appearance
*The original post referred to on Nick Randolph's blog is here. It has a bit more explanation, and a screenshot.

C# - Winforms - Animated Slideshow

Well i am developing an application whose interface requires an animated slide show
and by animated slide show i means UI components placed together change their positions after regular intervals in a sliding (animated) fashion. Let me illustrate my idea with the following image,
(source: deviantart.com)
in the image above there are three columns of UI components that i want to slide, what i could do is simply write a module to change x,y coordinates of the components that would give the animated slide effect but that does not work fine, because it is heave takes time in processing and all plus the coding will be complex and layer adjustment and all.
is there any slide show component on which instead of image i can place UI components
What are the other options i have or what is the right way to do it. Please need help.
Sounds like are looking for a carousel feature for you component. Winforms were not intended to be animated. Fortunately some companies have worked on products that support animaiton in this area but most are moving to the Silverlight and WPF platforms for those updated features. As a reader of MSDN Magazine I often come accross some interesting advertisements of Winform components that are quite interesting. Please take a look at this link. The cost of the product is quite high.
Telerik Sample Applications using Carousel feature in Win Forms
Also check out the following link to MSDN. It explains how you can reference the silverlight component as a COM object.
Using Silverlight in a Windows based application using COM
In this scenerio it could also be possible to embed a flash player with a flash animation, using one of the many (commercial and free) xml-based slideshows avaible for flash. This one for example http://www.flshow.net/.

Categories