I am developing an application for a window mobile 6 using Visual Studio C# 2008 SP1.
However, the design of the application is very plain using the standard windows controls.
The application I am making is a phone that will be installed on WM6, so I am looking for controls that I can drag on to the form that resemble something that looks like a phone. Or just skins.
Any 3rd party controls or skins that can do this would be better? However, I don't mind paying for some if they fit for my application needs.
If there isn't any, any ideas how to make them myself? Any website tutorials?
Many thanks for any advice,
Steve
I make a Ink component for Pocket PC check this at http://velocityink.codeplex.com/ if you interested.
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I am developing a paint wpf application. In my application, i use a Ribbon. How can I make the RibbonApplicationMenu is flat like window 10 Paint RibbonApplicationMenu.
Thank you.
I didn't try the Microsoft Component yet but I doubt they have a Windows 10 Theme for its Ribbon Framework. You can take a look at this free 3rd party Component. They don't have a Windows 10 Look but a Windows 8 as well as Office 2013 Theme. Maybe this is useful.
It's also available via NuGet
https://github.com/fluentribbon/Fluent.Ribbon
I am new to wpf. Hence, kindly co-operate with my questions.
I want to build an app that runs on windows tablets. This is not to windows store app, rather, I will be developing this app for some company to visualize the data they have. And they will use this app on tablets or other touch enabled devices.
Background:
App will have some graphs and other visualizing diagrams. And WPF MVVM pattern will be used to develop the app.
My question:
My current system is:
System: HP elite book revolve 810 g2 tablet
.NET Framework: 4.0
Visual studio 2012
Can I develop a tablet app with the above specification?
where can i find coding documents on coding for touch devices in WPF mvvm pattern?
How can I use graph or any other visualization method in wpf. I mean, do I have any library that provides API's for different graphs?
Please help me in answering above.
Thank you
This questions will lead to long answers.. I´ll try to make it short!
The elite book revolve has an I5 and Windows 8 / 8.1. You should not have problems developing Widnows apps with that.
Visual Studio 2012 is fine as well, you might want to download the windows phone toolkit (if you want multiplatform apps).
You will need to use framwork 4.5 to develop Windows 8.1 RT apps though - and this is what you want to do if you want multi device apps. If not then it`s just normal Windows applications that can olny be runn on Windows devices (not Windows phone, or RT tablets)
It seems you are a starter in developing Touch apps.
2.1 Honestly you should consider buying a book before developing. The "Windows 8.1 Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed" one is really good
one - you can even read a good share of the first chapter with example code (see links below)!
2.2 I added a few links to ressources that could help you. Consider looking at MVVM, WPF and Touch coding independently. There are tons of tutorials available!
2.3. Doing touch support is pretty straightforward, it`s just another event handler (touchdown instead of mouseleftbutton down) so all you need is to know how to best handle events in MVVM (link attached below). Another thing is gesture support (see link)
Here is the standard library of xaml controls.. pretty basic but you can do a lot with them: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xaml/hh465351.aspx
if you need better /more graphical controls you might consider using Developer Express or similar APIs
heres a list of the graphic tools they provide. Pretty neat: https://www.devexpress.com/products/net/controls/winrt/
Theres also a WinRT XAML Toolkit available: https://winrtxamltoolkit.codeplex.com/ (Tutorial and Graph Preview see below)
Additional Links:
Windows 8.1 Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed (example with code):
http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780672337086/samplepages/0672337088.pdf
MVVM General developing: https://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/a-guided-tour-of-wpf/
MVVM in Windows 8: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj651572.aspx?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mvvm-using-the-mvvm-pattern-in-windows-8
WinRT XAML Toolkit Tutorial (Windows Store example):
http://eren.ws/2013/10/15/using-graphs-and-charts-in-windows-store-apps-boredom-challenge-day-11/
Best way of event Handling in MVVM (needed for Touch event handling):
What's the best way to pass event to ViewModel?
guys, first time posting -
I'm a newbie to Windows development and VS (Using 2013 on Windows 8.1).
I've created a very simple application by the action of
File->New Project/WPF application.
The application works great, and does exactly what I'd like it to do.
I successfully added a large (128x128) icon and got it to look great on Windows 7's taskbar and start menu by right-clicking my project in the Solution Explorer and specifying my .ico file through there.
I also added the 'Icon' property to my MainWindow.xaml file and it even looks great on the taskbar of Windows 8...
However, it doesn't even display my app's icon on the Start Menu of Windows 8, and I am having a really hard time finding documentation specific to this issue.
I'm sure it's a no-brainer but I'm just stuck.
How do I get a nice icon and tile in Windows 8?
Live tiles are only supported in Windows Store Applications but you can use some third-party solutions that provides a way to add this capability via the interoperation between your Desktop Application and separate Windows Store application (this one is installed on end-users computers and behaves like a server that can provide a Tile for its clients, which actually are the Desktop applications).
For example, DevExpress solution - WinRTLiveTileManager.
Or you can implement this approach itself...
Live tiles are only supported in Windows Store Apps unfortunately.
See this thread...
I am fairly new to windows programming world. I want to develop a windows application that is embedded into TaskBar(near to system tray) and clicking that actual application should launch. Is C# & WPF are right tools for that or should i use any other programming language. Any thoughts on how it can be done is very appreciated.
You can search for "tray bar application c#" or "notifyicon application c#", there are many examples. Also here is a possible duplicate of the question
How can I make a .NET Windows Forms application that only runs in the System Tray?
I've used Snoop, it is the brilliant tool for WPF. SilverlightSpy has similar functionality for Silverlight and WP7. Does anybody know about any similar tools for Windows 8 projects?
EDIT : I mean Windows Metro style applications on C#/XAML that run in Simulator or Local Machine.
From what I've heard (and according to these posts), there really isn't a good way to do that yet. Supposedly it's coming with the next version. Semi-functional way to debug bindings now.