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I'd like to add a style to the items I have in some forms, here's the link of my preview question.
This app is developed in Visual C#, a WPF app, I have an .xaml file and 65 windows forms.
I have don't have a problem with any of the styles in the .xaml file, but in the Form.cs file I can't add any styles.
I'd like to have the same button style in both files (.xaml & .cs).
How can I do it? Should I add some libraries? Do I have to add more lines of code to Form.cs? Or should I do everything using the .xaml files?
I've been looking for something like this but I have not found anything.
I apologies if I'm asking silly questions.
winforms doesn't support Styles, nor Theming. It's a really old technology that has not been improved since 2007. it's not recommended for any new projects, only to maintain legacy applications.
Your options are:
redo everything in pure WPF.
Change all winforms UI elements to ElementHosts containing WPF content. This is even worse than redoing everything.
Buy a third party such as DevExpress.
Contact a FreeLancer developer (such as myself) who is willing to re-do all your winforms into beautiful WPF UIs (for profit)
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I'm working on a WinForms C# application and need to implement Ribbon style control such as the one found in MS Office Word as an example, where you can hide the ribbon and its controls.
I can't find the ribbon control in VS2013, is it a 3rd party control? If that's the case do you know which one is best?
Thank you,
Matias.
Check out Janus Systems they currently support office 2010 visual style controls. They Will release a new version soon with new styles. I've been working with the controls a few years now. They offer great out of the box functionality.
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I've developed Windows Forms applications for 5 years now. A lot of people say that I should look into WPF. I have a few questions about WPF vs Windows Forms to determine which one is best. WPF is newer than Windows Forms and many people say it'll be the future. Others say that Windows Forms is older and therefor more secure. I am not sure what will be the future. I have googled advantages and disadvantages, but I hope that you can give me a more in dept answer to these questions:
Which one is better based upon performance?
What are the top advantages of using WPF instead of Windows Forms?
What are the top advantages of using Windows Forms instead of WPF?
Which one is more used/liked by businesses?
How hard is it to switch from Windows Forms to WPF?
Which parts of WPF should I definitely look into?
There is no meaning to say that WPF is better than windows forms or vice versa. It depends on many factors:
What kind of UI you are building.
Obviously, the complexity of the views you are designing will factor in to performance on both platforms. They have different layout and rendering pipelines.
How effectively you optimize for performance on each platform.
Advantages of using WPF instead of Windows forms:
XAML makes it easy to create and edit your GUI, and allows the work to be split between a designer (XAML) and a programmer (C#, VB.NET etc.).
It allows you to make user interfaces for both Windows applications and web applications (Silverlight/XBAP).
Databinding, which allows you to get a more clean separation of data and layout.
Uses hardware acceleration for drawing the GUI, for better performance.
Top advantages of using Windows forms instead of WPF:
WPF's in-box control suite is far more limited than that of WinForms.
There's greater support in the 3rd-party control space for WinForms. (That's changing, but for now by advantage of time, WinForms has greater support in the community.)
The major drawback of WPF is that Mono doesn't really support it for cross-platform (e.g., it doesn't work on Linux and Mac). Originally, Xamarian/Novella said they weren't going to implement it due to the complexity of implementation. I haven't seen anything to the contrary. Not saying it isn't, but their recommendation is to write model classes and then do a OS-specific front end. Even with WPF being open sourced, it may be built on something that isn't easily ported.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e134134a-352f-435b-943a-eda7a2b14fc0/wpf-vs-windows-forms-2015?forum=wpf
Depends upon your learning ability.
Which parts of WPF should I definitely look into?
XAML: Learn about XAML and how it is used in WPF applications.
Layout: Learn about layout panels and how they are used to construct user interfaces.
Data binding: Learn how WPF data binding works and how it can be used.
Data templates and triggers: Learn how data templates and triggers work and how they can be used.
Styles: Learn about how UIs can be styled in WPF.
For more information refer below mentioned URL
Windows Form Vs WPF Windows
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Using a custom WPF control in WinForms
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I've downloaded this user-control which is developed in WPF, but I would like to know if exists the chance to use the dll in WF (the dll where is the user-control), of course sadly if I try to add the control in the ToolBox doesn't appears for WF projects, only for WPF.
I've found this article in MSDN that describes that WinForms controls can loaded in WPF projects
ยท Hosting a Windows Forms Control in WPF
So, it can be done the reversed thing to use an WPF control in a WF project?
Just set the .Child property to your WPF control.
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So, I'm new to Visual Studio and I'm trying to make a simple multi-page WinForms program in Visual C#. How do I change the "page" that the program is displaying like a normal program does? So far the best I can do is close/hide one Form and open another in its place.
WinForms doesn't have a notion of "pages". That mechanism was made popular later on the windows client, with WPF. One could argue that WinForms apps are more normal than the rest. ;)
One thing you could do to simulate it, would be to make your "pages" in UserControls, and then add/remove them from the form dynamically.
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Ribbon UI Control for WinForms
I am just trying to create a windows application which will have a toolbars similar to
ms-office 2007 .
can Anyone help me where to start with ?
See this question for Winforms
See this for WPF
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If you really want to develop the ribbon yourself you have to realize that it will take a lot of effort.
There are two main reasons that it will cost you a lot of work.
Microsoft has a patent (pending?) on the looks and functionality of the ribbon. They are willing to allow you to build your own BUT you'll have to stick to their guidelines and you have to sign a license that you will do that.
The users will expect the ribbon to be the same too and the sheer amount of features is enormous.
All in all a lot of work. But if it is to learn from it might be worth it. For production code I'd pick a Microsoft implementation.
you can use devexpress ribbon control
You may install Dotnetbar and has all that you need.
It has all the Office2007 looking controls such as LabelX, MessageBoxX etc. (for C# Label, MessageBox etc. respectively) to RibbonBar, RibbonPanel etc.