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.
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I would like to use a custom font for a Label in my WinForms project without installing the font. I found this as a solution, however it does not work since the FontStyle I want to use is Thin, which is not included in the System.Drawing.FontStyle enumerator.
Since I read instead that it should be quite easy in WPF to use such a custom font, I thought that a possible solution is to create a custom label (ThinLabel) in WPF and to host it in Winforms. Can you please instruct me on which is the proper way to create a custom label in WPF for this purpose? I read that in WPF controls can be customized in several ways (Styles, Data Templates,..) but I've no idea of which should be taken for this purpose. Please consider I've never used WPF so far.
In Order to implement WPF UserControls in Winforms you need to use and ElementHost
So if you want to create an WPF Label like you said in WPF you create a DLL project with your label inside it and reference it in your winforms project, after building you should be able to see a the UserControl with the label in the toolbox if not use an ElementHost
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 am developing a Windows Form Application in Visual Studio 2008 (C#)
And I want to add Style to the items.
I have been investigating a few ideas about it but I have not found an example about how to do it. Is it really possible?
My app looks like:
But I really want to add more style in buttons, textboxs and other items I have:
My boss insists on using Visual Studio 2008.
To do this without purchasing anything else, you could create your own custom button and text box controls, either from scratch or as controls derived from the existing windows forms controls and then overriding OnPaint etc. Take a look at what's been done here:
http://dotnetrix.co.uk/button.htm
You could also investigate third party options.
Or, use WPF if that's a possibility as others have said. I'd push for WPF! If there's an existing WinForms Code base you can always host WPF Elements in WinForms. See:
Walkthrough: Hosting a Windows Presentation Foundation Control in Windows Forms
IF you wana to use Winforms than you have to buy this one for example:
http://devcomponents.com/
You have to bind the new assemblies in your application that is not a lot of work!
But better way do that with WPF
http://wpftutorial.net/DataGrid.html
Sorry this is probably a really silly question but I am developing a WPF form on a Windows 7 machine with VS2010 yet when running the application the form still looks like a standard WinForms window.
I am assuming that it requires an extra component installed on the system to be displayed as shown in the designer?
PS: To be more specific what I am referring to is basically the outline and border.
No, what you are experiencing is totally normal. Unless you have altered the default style of your controls, your application will be drawn using windows default look and feel.
That border is just for design purposes. But you could add your own Border to recreate it during runtime.