The visual preview of the form's background is dotted.
This is making it hard for me to do visual editing and is confusing me while making my custom GUI's. I've tried the following:
Ctrl R + Ctrl W
Can anyone help me?
That is a WinForm designer option. It is controlled by the DrawGrid property shown in the PropertyGrid for a Form. Set the property to false to disable the grid.
There is a complimentary property named GridSize that is used to set the grid spacing. Another related property is the SnapToGrid property that controls whether placed/moved controls snap to the shown grid.
To disable showing grid in design mode:
Go to Tools → Options
In the options categories in Options window, go to Windows Forms Designer → General
In property grid, expand the Layout Setting group. You can do either of these options:
Set Layout Mode to SnapLines.
Or set Layout Mode to SnapToGrid and Show Grid to False
Press OK to close the Options window.
Close the designer window and re-open it.
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I'm designing an item template for a ListView but it is not shown on the designer.
I think that is because the ItemsSource is not set at the design-time, I set the ItemsSource at run-time only.
So is there a way to tell the designer emulate data for ItemsSource or whatever to show the preview?
Currently, I have to run the app to see the result or copy content of ItemTemplate to outside of ListView to see the preview then copy back later.
Guess I should have just put it as an answer.
In VS, right-click your ListView in the Document Outline and choose "Edit Template -> Edit Generated Items" or the same in Blend.
Then to toggle back out of there to your parent view hit the little icon in the top left corner of the document outline that looks like an upward pointing arrow on a bar
I was wondering how I am able to add one ToolTip control to the Form, and all the buttons get different texts? How does one object extends all the others, adding diferent things on each one? I don't know if I am being clear, If I don't, please let me know!
Thanks in advance!
I think you are looking for Extender Providers, where you can define new properties for other components.
This is a feature of Visual Studio designer. The ToolTip control does not actually add a property to other controls, but Visual Studio knows that when you have a ToolTip (or any other component that is an Extender Provider), it should add some other properties to property grid of the other controls. All this information is queried from the component that provides those properties (ToolTip). When you set the tooltip for button for example, Visual Studio calls the SetToolTip method of the ToolTip control, to inform it of the new value for the control.
Please refer to provided links for more information.
It's actually very simple.
Lets say you have a windows form with two controls a button and a label.
Now add a tool tip from toolbox to your form named tooltip1.
Now right click on button and go to properties, scroll down until you find tooltip on tooltip1. set the text to whatever you want. Now do the same for label.
Run the program and move the cursor over both the controls. you'll see respective tool tips.
can any one please suggest me how to change style of inbuilt scroll viewer of DataGrid in Silverlight.
Right now my DataGrid is taking the default style of scroll viewer which is used in the project so I want to change that is it possible if yes then please suggest me.
If you use Expression Blend, in design mode you can right-click the datagrid > Edit Template > Edit a Copy.
In the window "Objects and TimeLine" will appear the inbuilt components, including the Horizontal and Vertical ScrollBars:
After that, in the "Objects and TimeLine" window, you right-click the ScrollBars > Edit Template > Edit Current. The XAML Window will show the ScrollBar Style:
I recommend you mannually duplicate the entire Style and make changes in the copy.
If I have a ListView embedded in a WinForm, is there any way I can simply click in the ListView and start typing in new items when the form is running?
At runtime, no. The only edit option it has is the LabelEdit property. Set it to true to allow the user to edit the ListViewItem.Text property of existing items.
In visual studio when you click on the listview a small triangle in the top right appears. When you click on it you can edit columns, etc.
I'm trying to create a custom UserControl that will mimic auto-complete as it works within Intellisense using WPF. I'm using a TextBox and a Popup containing a ListBox within my control.
I want to be able to keep keyboard focus set on the TextBox irrespective of whether or not the auto-completion popup is open so that a user can continue typing whilst simultaneously using up/down controls or the mouse to select elements in the popup to autocomplete the text. Is there any way this can be done in WPF?
Check out my article on CodeProject, it addresses the issue of the popup specifically.
A Reusable WPF Autocomplete TextBox