Actually,I am new to Winforms.
Is there any thing like MasterPage Concept in Winforms DevExpress ?
Is this Possible through InheritedForms?
Yes. It is possible in Winforms although it has nothing to do with Devex.
What you can do is create a form and call it MasterForm and then every additional form you create - can inherit from it.
Check out this link Inherited Forms for more info and examples :)
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I'm new to catel and mvvm. I 've successfully built a sample application the "catel" way and I like all the added features which I do need (thank you for the great tutorials). I've successfully run a sample app using typical mvvm and a 3rd party control printing reports. When I tried to use the 3rd party control in the catel application I had issues making it work, even with the information provided in catels' documentation. Even if I do manage it to work, I don't want to make custom base classes to add new controls, because most of my controls are special (3D). So, my question: can I use all of the catel features, including model and viewmodel capabilities, but use external windows and controls with the typical manual binding procedure? Do I need to know of any special concerns?
I learn catel since 2 weeks too, welcome into the Catel World :)
So, you can create custom window base class with IDataWindow and your window inherit Catel features. Need more coding but not a lot !
I suggest you to consult the excellent documentation here for Custom Window and here for Custom Control
Hope it's help !
Dams
For developing a dashboard which will have many different widgets available, graphs, grids, etc, is a user control the best thing to use or a custom control?
I am a bit confused about the best situations to use each of them in
This relates to Silverlight 5
Paul
The key difference between user controls and custom controls is that custom controls can be re-templated, i.e. you can completely change their visuals by supplying a different template. If you do not need to do this in your application, I would recommend using user-controls as a simple alternative.
I have written a blog post about how to create them here:
A Simple Pattern for Creating Re-useable UserControls in WPF / Silverlight
I am new to WPF and I am facing a problem here. In one of our application, few dialogs responsible for similar kind of work. All dialogs have OK and APPLY buttons. But in our new UI Design, these will be displayed on a side bar which is a panel(Yet to decide control). I thought of having a Base Usercontrol which will have OK and APPLY button with few methods. And my other dialogs(which are Usercontrols now in new UI) are derived from this Base User Control.
I downloaded few code samples from internet, but problem didn't solve.
If you have any idea/code sample please share.
Thanks in advance.
WPF (also WinForm to some extent) doesn't play well with inheritance. You could create the UI in C# code and get inheritance working but I don't think designer play well so you'll be stuck in design mode and in Blend.
To work around it you could create piece of functionality that you want to reuse and use composition instead of inheritance, which is considered a better approach anyway.
I follow MVVM pattern in one of my silverlight pages.
I am trying to add validations for one of my usercontrols which should look like those which work with the Silverlight native controls. Is it possible for me to do that? Do I need to add special code to handle this?
if you could post your code then i might be able to help. But as per your question i think there are available user-validation controls for Silverlight that you can just drag and drop and then use.
They are available in most of the new IDE's.
Make sure your ViewModel implements IDataErrorInfo and then you can hook them up to the controls.
You can look at a good article here:
http://www.arrangeactassert.com/using-idataerrorinfo-for-validation-in-mvvm-with-silverlight-and-wpf/
In my WPF Project I have a WPF Window. I want to use Sticky Windows Solution in my WPF Project. The library wants only one parameter: the System.Windows.Forms.Form object.
Does it exist any way to obtain a Form object starting from a WPF Window object?
No, it's not possible. A WPF Window has no inheritance relation with a Windows Forms Form. However it would probably be possible to adapt the code from the library to mentioned so that it works with WPF...
The approach others have mentioned of refactoring Sticky Windows Solution to support WPF forms sounds like your best option. If you really want to treat a WPF form as a Windows Form, maybe the below will help:
Would this work?
Host your WPF form in an ElementHost
control. (ElementHost enables a WPF element to be treated as a Windows Form control.)
Create a simple Windows Form
containing only this ElementHost
control.
Use a reference to this Windows Form in
your Sticky Windows Solution.
While it's not possible, the article and code does present enough information for you to create a WPF version.