I was wondering how can I run .xaml forms (wpfapplication) in windows form? Plus another question is, I have 2 projects ; windows form application & wpf application, i would like to combine this two and make it dependable to each others such that if I click a button on the Wpfapplication, i would call or execute a method in the windows application. is this even possible? Any help/guide would really be appreciated!
Yes, you can host WPF controls inside Winforms. You want to have a look at the ElementHost class.
For your other problem: If you are talking about combining the sources of both applications and basically make one executable for them then it essentially comes down to calling library functions - so thats possible. If you are talking about two independent applications in two separate processes then then it gets more complicated: you would need to add an interface to your applications exposing the methods to be called. There are many ways to do that: WCF, .Net remoting, Sockets.
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Good day, I want to port my Windows Forms App to WPF, I have been investigating and I know that it's almost impossible to port it because of the designer.cs files of Winforms and WPF uses .XAML, but, this web pageconverts your designer files to XAML, so, it is still possible?
You can't port YourForm.Designer.cs because the System.Windows.Forms and System.Windows.Controls are different classes. But there's still a way. Add the namespace of Windows Forms to XAML code. Then, use a WindowsFormsHost. You may add them only with WindowsFormsHost. Then, just copy your methods to C# code of WPF application.
Note: Do not forget to name your controls in WindowsFormsHost correctly.
Note 2: You must check your code after that operations. Because something may need to change.
I'm currently working on a school project where I'm asked to develop a C# WPF application. I'm implementing the MVVM design-pattern. This is why my main goal is to avoid using code-behind as much as I can. My main concern is that I'm trying to figure out an effective way around my software's "menu navigation" system.
For example, I'd like to have different windows to update clients, another to manage the employees and so on. My teacher said the best way would be to create an user control and adding it on every single window. How would that work? I would have to be able to detect the click on the user control and opening/loading the correct window according to that.
And if you try to organize your projects in tabs with a TabControl? You can personalize it too!
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
I'm currently developing an Windows Forms application in C# which will make use of tabs for the GUI. The problem I'm facing though is that the code is becoming untidy.
The reason is that the code for GUI components (such as button clicks) resides on the main form code.
So I'm looking for a way to still handle all the GUI interactions the same way but separate the code in a logical way (e.g. different files). Like having button1_click() reside in another file but work the same way as before.
Thanks :)
You can place each "Tab" into its own UserControl, and handle the events there instead of all within the main form.
As tabs typically each represent something "distinct", this is often fairly simple to implement, and helps clean up your code.
I have a c# .net 2.0 winforms application which consists basically of one form A.
I am building another form B with a tabcontrol on it.
From the form B, I would like to be able to create one or more instances of this application.
Each form A I would like to be placed on tabpages on form B's tabcontrol.
Each instance is a different process that is running on a separated folder.
How could I achieve this?
Another way to put this is, how I could dock a form from another running instance into the current application instance's form.
Look at this codeproject article. It is what you are searching for.
I think the best way to do this would be to have to versions of your app. One is the executable and the other is a component that you could add dynamically. I have an app that I do this with tool controls. Each tool represents a separate set of functionality that can be added to a workspace (tab) depending on the user's need for it. For example, I have a tool for logging particular items that's called "logger" and a user can create a new instance of it which essentially adds it as a new tab in the main window. Just a thought. I think docking two running instances of the same application would have to be handled by Windows through the app docking interface.
If you don't control the source code for both of these applications then I don't think you can accomplish your objective.
If you DO control the source code, then I would recommend that you isolate the Form A functionality in a usercontrol in a separate library and reference this from the form in AppA and from the tab control in App B