I am trying to setup an Metro UI styled application, which includes MAHAPPS.METRO, AvalonDock (Metro style) and MS Ribbon component. Unfortunatelly, there is not much information about Ribbon UI styling especially for Metro UI. So basically my questions are... how to style MS Ribbon according to Metro UI on Win7?
The Fluent Ribbon has a Metro style. The control is open source, so you can make any changes to the control, or the styles as you see fit. I am trying it. It is currently the best open source option I have found.
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Could anyone point me to some good documentation on how to theme or style the dev express rich edit ribbon controls.
To style any DevExpress controls I recommend you use the WPF Theme Editor tool.
This is a standalone application designed to help developers create new and modify existing DevExpress WPF Themes with ease.
Related links: The Theme Editor for WPF
Tutorial Videos:
Getting Started
Working with Expression Blend
I like to add a custom button in WPF Native Window title bar without editing the style of the Window.
Is it possible? If yes, please share some ideas.
Regards,
Jawahar
Mahapps is a UI toolkit for WPF and they make this super easy:
mahapps.com
Easy install using NuGet GUI or the Packet Manager console:
PM> Install-Package MahApps.Metro
I was able to do the install and customization in less than half hour with Mahapp.
How can I apply telerik themes to a dialog box eg for example; MessageBox, FolderBrowserDialog. In Wpf
Thanks in advance.
I assume you are using the windows forms System.Windows.Forms dialog boxes in wpf? If so, there is likely little hope for themeing them with Telerik WPF themes. You may be able to theme them with a telerik Windows Forms theme, but I am unsure, I don't really use Forms anymore.
If however you are using the Microsoft.Win32 namespaced dialogs, it is my understanding that they will use whatever theme is installed on the operating system by default. The following CodeProject article shows how to dig into the API, and may be of help to you, but it doesn't specifically say how to alter the theme.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16276/Customizing-OpenFileDialog-in-NET
We have slowly been creating UI Automation tests using Ranorex on our product but have ran into several problems.
We are using Telerik Wpf controls (TabControl, TreeView, Grid and Docking) and so far we've only been able to test the TreeView and Grid using Ranorex. We replaced the TabControl for the standard Wpf TabControl which works with Ranorex. However the Docking control does not work and of course there is no standard out of the box Wpf Docking control for us to use instead.
My question is this: Does anybody know of any Wpf Docking controls that can be tested using an UI Automation tool (preferably Ranorex)?
I found AvalonDock, which at first looked promising, but according to this thread on their site it doesn't support UI Automation :(
Cheers for any comments,
Siy
As of now, Telerik has their own product that supports UI automation for WPF - Telerik Test Studio - including RadDocking control.
WPFThemes is a good resource for WPF themes and styles. As of now they do not cover many controls like
Window
Popup
Datagrid
etc..
Is there any other resource to help developer in styling a WPF application?
Please check out the Microsoft Expression Gallery to see if that helps you out. There are several types of window and button styles there.