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This is my first time using WPF, I find it extremely convenient, but I am not up to date on all that is (not) possible with it, such as the MVVM, and I'm having trouble finding the right parameters to call in the XAML files.
I am writing an IRC-based game. When someone writes a command, I want that person's avatar to be visible on my (local) application, and depending on what he wrote, I want the avatar to have a different animation. For example, "move a little bit forward, and slash with a sword". I figure I'd use a storyboard to translate the position, and switch to a different .gif sourcefile to slash the sword.
Right now, I am horribly stuck on trying to 'change' a storyboard, like change from 'move forward and backward' to 'jump up and down'. I found some related questions which answer pieces and parts, but I can't put 1 and 1 together. Most likely because I am missing basic WPF knowledge.
So my questions:
Could you give me some sources that help me become comfortable with WPF (coming from a C#/XNA/WinForms background)?
And, could you tell me how to tackle a problem where I want to have multiple images, use the same set of storyboards on all of them, and frequently switch both images and storyboards?
You can find a lot of basic information at this CodeProject article series. And this one talks about storyboard animation.
Documentation. BOoks. There ARE decent books about WPF.
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Which of these (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/492893/graph-drawing-c-library) libraries can be used to evaluate nodes coordinates? I mean I want to draw and manipulate graph by clicking on it to add some nodes or delete, and then evaluate coordinates using some lightweight library.
All I need is algorithm which could on dot file and speciefied layout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_language) give me conformity of graph nodes and 2D points.
Prefferable languages: C++, C#, Java
I made a complete WPF MVVM sample of a "Nodes Editor" supporting drag and drop, and many interesting visual features. It looks like this:
Full Source Code on GitHub
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I want to create a menu where there is a cube, and by pressing the arrow keys, you can rotate the cube to see the different faces of the cube. On each face, there will be text. If you press enter, it will go and do whatever option you selected on the cube. I have been working on this in C# in a combination of windows forms and WPF user controls and I need to know, is it a good idea to use the integrated 3D functionality in WPF for C#, or do I need to use something else (preferably not directx or any other derivatives of it (including wrapper classes)). Thanks in advance!
It is valid - you can easily do 3d stuff in WPF. The performance will be "not optimal" but basically you ask for something extremely simple - so it is definitely good enough (as in: you can not do a proper 3d game in WPF, with good quality, but a menuy is really trivial, graphically).
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Does anyone know a good data binding tutorial for beginners? I'm trying to get it to work for the last few hours and my head is spinning already.. Is there any simple tutorials, WITHOUT unnecessary code where is shown how just bind property to a variable and something like that?
You could try this CodeProject article, code samples in it seem pretty small and straight forward. Though if you're having specific issues, you should post those as questions and someone will help you figure it out.
http://www.nbdtech.com/Free/WpfBinding.pdf
Definitely something that's very, very useful!
I spent a long time trying to understand how to even do the most simple of binding... the syntax just didn't make any sense to me. When I finally stumbled across this tutorial, it felt like a light bulb suddenly turned on. Extremely simple, step-by-step explanations helped me understand the relation between the visual element and the code-behind.
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/mahakgupta/simple-data-binding-in-wpf/
Some samples with that focus are here:
http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/wpfsamples#databinding
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I would like to achieve something very similar to Microsoft Access query designer - I am talking about a plane(canvas?)-like surface on which users can place and move controls. Is this even possible?
If it isn't possible with free .NET controls - then are there any paid ones, which offer similar functionality?
Anything is possible if you try hard enough.
I would explore WPF, it will provide capabilities to custom build your own controls and will get rid of that tedious work of keeping the UI updated.
Make sure to follow a good UI pattern if you do end up working with WPF, here is a good video that explains how to implement MVVM in WPF.
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I am looking for some (preferably) online tutorials on making controls with 'Rich design-time support'
By Rich design time support i mean like how the menustrip works on a form and such.
Any links to websites, good books or code samples (c# or vb.net) would be great.
You can start with Dissecting A C# Application which goes into many aspects of creating SharpDevelop, C# IDE written in .NET. This covers many aspects of the designer architecture and it is free in a PDF. However, the PDF is hard to find (original links no longer work, but I believe this is a valid copy).
While that will get you started on the ins and outs of the designer, it probably doesn't go into detail on some of the more interesting features such as actions and tasks. For this, MSDN has some extensive information and examples (it didn't used to).
Finally, I find the best resource to be .NET Reflector. Using this tool to look at how Microsoft has done it in various places within the framework has been a great learning exercise when working in design-time support areas. Find a control that does what you want and then go see how it does it.
All of these resources are free, however your time is not. I have found that design-time support can be a breeze in some areas but a complete nightmare in others. Good luck.