I am working on a Metro app, and as far as I know there is no datepicker control available ATM. In my app the user is working with dates, and I am looking for a way to make this less painfull for the user.
What would be the best way to go about it? Anybody have a nice custom control sample they would like to share?
I have the same problem with graphs, but I am hoping to get an access code to Teleriks preview to their Win8 controls, but I couldnt see any date or timepickers there.
Currently there is not a WinRT DatePicker as explained in this MSDN answer. Tim Heuer and some are working on some simple WinRT components. You can find their work, called Callisto, on Github. A DatePicker looks to be next on the list, but they could always use help as well. The best place to start would be the Windows Phone 7 DatePicker. You can download the source from Codeplex.
Telerik has now released the beta of their windows 8 controls, one of them being a datepicker! Problem solved :)
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I am looking for a simple textBox with Html capabilities like https://jhollingworth.github.io/bootstrap-wysihtml5/
I want to use it in a desktop program.
I have searched a bit but I find rather old components. I would like a free one if it is possible and not a whole suite like devexpress.
Thanks
I've used the "HtmlTextbox for Windows.Forms" control a while back for a very small portion of an application. It served it's purpose perfectly for what I needed to accomplish. It's open source on CodePlex. It hasn't been updated since 2012, but then again not much has changed with WinForms since the release of WPF. Give it a try, hopefully it works for you.
https://winformhtmltextbox.codeplex.com/
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
im trying to implement a toggle switch control in winforms c# i want to recreate the windows 8 pc setting toggle switch control as a metro ui (microsoft design style...whatever!)
http://cloud.addictivetips.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Windows-8-PC-Settings-Sync.png
i need help or direction how to start to create the control?
you can look at my project at github:
https://github.com/viperneo/winforms-modernui
i have implemented an toggle switch control there
The best way to use these type of components, is using component dlls that have the feature already worked and developed with optimal performance, check these:
http://www.devcomponents.com/
http://www.devexpress.com/Subscriptions/DXperience/WhatsNew2012v1/winforms.xml
However, you can find open source projects, or examples of how to develop this in source code repositories like codeplex and codeproject, see this:
http://www.codeplex.com/site/search?query=metro%20components&ac=3
there is only one detail ... as seen in the link above, you will find more resources for these type of development in WPF.
i'm looking for a nice solution on my Application. For Backgroundinformations:
i've got a real-time System in c++ on Linux. And i've a Winforms Application (soon WPF) on a Windows XP (soon Windows 7). The Communication is an TCP-IP Stream.
My Solution now is a Gui-Timer that updates the Gui with the Data from the ReaTime-System every Tick.
I think thats not a clean Solution. I want to make it better. But i dont know how.
Can you help me or can you give me a keyword that a can search it by myselfe ?
The Gui dont need to me real-time.
Thanks in advance.
Nice Wishes
Manuel
Only for WPF: The binding system of WPF is perfect in your case. All you have to do is to bind your code or data to controls and WPF updates if the bound data is updated.
See http://wpftutorial.net/DataBindingOverview.html for more information.
I found out how to do it in WPF but how can I achieve this in winforms? The most important thing I want to use is the new calendar control but I would love to have the whole app be Windows 7-like. Sorry if this has been answered already but I didn't find the answer.
There is no native way to do it with WinForms. WPF is a "Exception" as it draws everything itself instead of through the system...
There are though a number of companies that sell themed controls. Such as...
https://www.devexpress.com/Products/Free/NetOffer/
This company also has a lot of controls including a calander:
http://www.bcgsoft.com/