I need to add a Windows form User Control (Barcode_Scanner.cs) to a WPF View (MainWindow.xaml)
Is there a simple way to do this?
Any help would be appreciated.
You can host Windows.Forms controls using the WPF WindowsFormsHost element.
Example:
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication10.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:winforms="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Forms;assembly=System.Windows.Forms"
xmlns:myControls="clr-namespace:MyContromNamespace;assembly=MyContromNamespace"
Title="MainWindow" Height="195" Width="191" Name="UI">
<Grid>
<WindowsFormsHost>
<winforms:Button Text="StackOverflow" />
</WindowsFormsHost>
<WindowsFormsHost>
<myControls:MyUserControl />
</WindowsFormsHost>
</Grid>
</Window>
Result:
you can do it with WindowsFormsHost
So the first thing that we need to do (after creating a new WPF project) is add a few references. You can do this by by right-clicking on the references folder in the solution explorer, and choosing "Add Reference":
Then you will get a dialog like this:
and so on wpf-tutorial-using-winforms-in-wpf
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I am developing an application with the use of dragablz, MahApps and MaterialDesign. However, I have broken down the problem to the dragablz and MahApps extension.
I create two tab items (extract from demo code):
<controls:MetroWindow x:Class="MahMaterialDragablzMashUp.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:controls="http://metro.mahapps.com/winfx/xaml/controls"
xmlns:dragablz="clr-namespace:Dragablz;assembly=Dragablz"
xmlns:mahMaterialDragablzMashUp="clr-namespace:MahMaterialDragablzMashUp"
xmlns:dockablz="clr-namespace:Dragablz.Dockablz;assembly=Dragablz"
xmlns:wpf="http://materialdesigninxaml.net/winfx/xaml/themes"
WindowTransitionsEnabled="False"
TextElement.Foreground="{DynamicResource MaterialDesignBody}"
Background="{DynamicResource MaterialDesignPaper}"
GlowBrush="{DynamicResource AccentColorBrush}"
FontFamily="{StaticResource DefaultFont}"
Title="Material-MahApps-Dragablz Mash Up" Height="640" Width="800">
<dockablz:Layout>
<dragablz:TabablzControl BorderThickness="0"
Margin="0,-1,0,1">
<dragablz:TabablzControl.InterTabController>
<dragablz:InterTabController />
</dragablz:TabablzControl.InterTabController>
<TabItem Header="DIALOGS">
<mahMaterialDragablzMashUp:Mah Margin="16" />
</TabItem>
<TabItem Header="MAHAPPS">
<mahMaterialDragablzMashUp:Mah Margin="16" />
</TabItem>
</dragablz:TabablzControl>
</dockablz:Layout>
</controls:MetroWindow>
The code works fine, but when I try to switch to another tab in the XAML designer by clicking on it, the whole section is selected but not any single object, so I cannot click on another tab:
The view in the designer changes when I click into the corresponding code lines in the XAML editor, but not when I click on the object in the designer. This makes simple design steps (like moving buttons around) very difficult as I cannot click and drag them.
Up to now, I have tried the following:
using Visual Studio 2013 Professional
using Visual Studio 2015 Community
Build the project
restart VS and the computer
I found the following question and the provided solution by 'JFTxJ' (that empty Grid elements are causing the problem) is not working for me, as I do not have any Grid items.
Same for the answer from 'Moon Waxing' (to add the attribute Visibility="Collapsed" to the tabiItem) is not working for me.
Other StackOverflow question: Cannot click or select Control XAML design
Is this a common problem or is there any solution to it?
Hi i just recently found out that you can use components from WPF and add into windows form just by creating them and later adding then into the form as element Host
So what i am trying to do is to create a video player using MediaElement and i also know that you can use Direct X or use Windows Media player for this put i want to custom make some controls in this so here is my question
when i try to add a the media element into my windows form it give me this error
here's my code for the mediaelement wpf
<UserControl x:Class="Videoplayer_2._0.MediaPlayer"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Videoplayer_2._0"
mc:Ignorable="d"
d:DesignHeight="300" d:DesignWidth="300">
<Grid>
<MediaElement x:Name="mediaElement" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" />
</Grid>
</UserControl>
So is adding mediaElement just doesn't work or i did something wrong and also i added a WPF slider into the form also just saying because i have no idea if it will affect it or not
You just need to restart Visual Studio I think.
I wrote a Windows Phone 8.1 (WINRT) App. I need to show Calendar in the page. So, I added WinRT XAML Toolkit - Calendar Control from nuget.
PM> Install-Package WinRTXamlToolkit.Controls.Calendar
<Page
x:Class="DrFit.Pages.ActivityTimeTablePage"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:local="using:DrFit.Pages"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d"
xmlns:WinRT="using:WinRTXamlToolkit.Controls"
Background="Black">
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
<WinRT:Calendar Height="500">
</WinRT:Calendar>
</Grid>
</Page>
How to Customise this Calendar control, example FontWeight,Foreground,Background?
If the properties aren't exposed by the control or template-bound to template part properties - you'll probably need to change the template. You can find the default template here and templates for calendar parts are in the same folder:
WinRTXamlToolkit.Controls.Calendar/WinRTXamlToolkit.Controls.Calendar.Shared/Controls/Calendar
You probably have figured out the answer to this but I was facing a similar problem and figured out a solution so I thought I'd post it here for anyone else who faces a similar conundrum. If the calendar control is going out of the page, you can wrap it inside a Viewbox so that it fits the screen. This is how I managed to do it.
<Viewbox Stretch="Uniform">
<Grid Height="600" Width="600">
<toolkit:Calendar HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Tapped="Calendar_Tapped"/>
</Grid>
</Viewbox>
I have a tab control that is dynamically populated with tabs that contain user controls of various sizes. When a tab is opened I want the window to automatically resize to a size that makes sense given the active user control. Is there a clean way to do this?
I'm using a standard mvvm pattern.
Use the SizeToContent property on the Window class.
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="MainWindow"
SizeToContent='Width'>
<Grid>
<Button Width='200' Content='The Button' />
</Grid>
</Window>
I have a WPF WebBrowser control in a Window.
I want to remove the default window controls so I set AllowsTransparency="True" and WindowStyle="None".
<Window x:Class="InstallerToolkit.InteractiveDemosWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Height="870" Width="1110" WindowStyle="None" AllowsTransparency="True" WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen">
<Grid>
<WebBrowser Name="WebBrowser" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="795" Margin="10,35,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="1082" />
</Grid>
This results in me not being able to see my webbrowser contents. If I remove the AllowsTransparency="True" then I can see by webpage but I now have the default controls which I dont want.
How do I get around this?
If the functionality you are looking for is truly AllowTransparency, you can update to WPF 4.5 where they have added a fix to Airspace issues, read this for more details.
If you are unable to upgrade your version of WPF then you will need to disable resize as others have mentioned.
Adding ResizeMode = NoResize should get you rid of the controls. I should mention that AllowTransparency = True can reduce performance! Depending on the kind of software, try avoinding it!