I would like to have a WPF (C# with .NET 4.0) application which displays 'panel' / windows. No problem so far with Grid and different rows/columns for each panel.
Now I would like to expand one panel to full screen (like Eclipse does for each view when double clicking). Is there a built-in solution in WPF or do I have to implement this behavior by myself?
Are there open source solutions for this feature? I could not find any.
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I've been working on a project for some time, and it requires alphablended non rectangular forms...
which in a little research I found can be easily done in WPF. So I decided to port my project from WinForms to WPF.
There are a few complications like a reference DLL based on WinForms I've been using doesn't work under WPF; it doesn't even show in the designer toolbox. I already tried loading it into the toolbox by right clicking and selecting Choose Items.., but it does not show there either.
I have never worked on WPF before, but it looks so promising for my requirements.
So is there anything I could do to integrate my project into WPF?
There is a control named 'WindowsFormsHost' in WPF. You can find it in toolbox. Drag it on the form and then you can use windows controls and user controls on it.
Hope this information will help.
I'm switching from Windows Forms to WPF, but WPF's GUI is really ugly. It looks like Windows 95 or something like that.
Example:
Left is a new WPF project
Right is a new Windows Forms project
Both only have a button and textbox added to the project, no other changes.
As you can see, WPF doesn't have the "native Windows GUI". I know that I can use themes, but I just want the native Windows GUI. Isn't there any setting to do this without themes? I've found this but I didn't change anything in the project except for the button and the textbox and it still doesn't look native.
See this workaround. there's some button styles there to make the buttons look more similar to the native ones. Other than that, see here the official statement from Microsoft that this difference is actually by design. They made intentional changes to the themes to make them more lightweight by removing gradients and such.
I have an WinForms application and started to convert it into WPF. To have less work, my idea was to let the old dialog windows be WinForms. In the VS2010-designer the dialogs looks normal (with .NET 3.5/4.0 controls) but if I run my program all WinForms controls change into an old style and it looks like .NET 2.0 (I think you know what I mean, that grey bevel style for all controls...)
What happens there? Any ways to fix that?
You have to call System.Windows.Forms.Application.EnableVisualStyles() to enable the system style for Windows Forms.
The WinForms project template contain that call by default; the WPF template is missing it as WPF controls do not need it.
I have seen this user interface in some screen shots of some RSS Readers. It is a multi-pane user interface. THere are three panels or "panes" to the window, in other words, the window is divided into three parts and the user is able to mouse over the division and click on the seperation bar and resize the section.
How is this sort of GUI developed in C#?
In WinForms, this is done with a SplitContainer. The Orientation property can be used to get vertical or horizontal splits. You can also nest splitcontainers to get multiple splits.
In WPF there is no SplitContainer, but the same effect can be achieved with a Grid and a GridSplitter.
Finally, note that "WPF or C#" is a false dichotomy. WPF and WinForms are just UI frameworks in the .NET framework. Both can be used with any .NET language, including C#, VB.NET, etcetera.
I'm creating a Windows Forms application and I'd like to have a similar look and feel to SQL Server's Management Studio, i.e. a nice autohiding and dockable panel on the left.
A similar control is Visual Studio's "Toolbox".
What sort of control is Management Studio's Object Explorer? And where can I get one? I'm using .NET 3.5 on the Windows Forms project.
Thanks
-Matt
The Base Class Library doesn't provide this type of control. You can do some things to make windows that looking like those (changing the borderstyle) or having docking panels, but the autohide/movable docking/etc capabilities are beyond those of the BCL.
Many third party solutions are available for purchase, though.
Here are five fairly common ones:
Devexpress XtraBars
Telerik RadDock
Actipro UIStudio Docking
Infragistics WinDockManager
Janus UIPanelManager
Here's an open source version I've found to be really good.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dockpanelsuite/