We're developing in WPF and are using custom borderless windows like the new Office 2013 windows. Now we are creating CHM help using RoboHelp.
I'd like to know if there's a way to launch a CHM file, but somehow hook into it so that it loads in a custom window that I specify, rather than the default window. Even better would be some kind of CHM display control that could be embedded in a WPF window, analogous to the way you can embed an HTML browser control in a WPF window. That way I could compile the CHM content with RoboHelp, but display it in our own custom borderless window that's part of our application.
CHM is no longer supported by MS since Vista, so you might want to consider using RoboHelp to generate Webhelp instead, and display that in a browser control as you described. Webhelp also supports context sensitivity via the URL, if that is needed.
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I want to create create application like simple PowerPoint in c# WPF, I meant exactly that I want to create page like slides and can arrange in time line with various speed and transition and can seeing in preview panel.I tries on Microsoft PowerPoint interoperability but as I found It just create PowerPoint file not provide framework to interact!!.
Please show me sample code or sample way to-do or how do it?
One method I have used is to have a WPF WebBrowser control and then navigate to a pptx file. This will open PowerPoint inside the WebBrowser control. You will not be able to interact with the PowerPoint application from your WPF host, but that is about as good as it gets.
Try this control from syncfusion: http://www.syncfusion.com/products/file-formats/presentation. They now offer a free community version with all if their controls.
I'm relatively new to the WPF world and I'm working on an application where I need to have multiple windows in one application. Like Photoshop when the user clicks on "New" button a new window opens and the old existing window(s) goes in the background. The toolbar and the statusbar, however, stay on top, untouched.
I would also like to add the feature that the user can work with multiple windows if each of them is not maximized.
How do I achieve this?
I apologize if I'm a bit unclear in framing my question.
What you are (probably) talking about is an MDI Application. "Unfortunately" WPF does not support that natively. I use quotes because it is more frowned upon in modern UI development than it was in the past.
Instead, the most common "WPF way" of doing this is to open each New window in a new tab in a tab control (like Visual Studio and most web browsers do).
If you really want to do an MDI application, Google search that, but to warn you, it probably means creating your own Window manager.
An alternative is to open non-modal windows, with their ShowInTaskbar property set to false. This gives you the ability to open as many windows as you want, but you lose the ability to contain them within a centralized workspace app.
We are working on a WPF app with the web browser control. When the user drags the window, the web browser lags behind the window as it drags.
Does anyone know how to solve this issue? Failing that, does anyone know an alternative to the web browser control itself?
Thanks!
Yes, as long as you don't require IE specific features you can use Awesomium which basically gives the same browser engine used by Google Chrome except for everything is rendered in pure WPF. For a while it was open source but I believe it is becoming a commercial product.
I haven't heard about any Native WPF WebBrowser Control. The only options I know are based on Win32 controls which are wrapped into WPF controls in order to displayed. (See more details at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752055.aspx )
Recently I have to use the WPF wrapper for the WebBrowser control, and it's very limited regarding the options available for the developer. During my research I found that you are able to inject scripts or html content in order to modify the page behavior. Also, you can call .NET code (e.g. CSharp function from Javascript).
However tasks such as accessing the cache, modifying cookies are difficult task or changing the web browser behavior are very difficult. Here is when you will have to use DLL Imports in order to invoke unmanaged routines (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa984739(v=vs.71).aspx )
It's possible to look for an alternative WebBrowser control such as:
http://code.google.com/p/csexwb2/
http://wpfchromium.codeplex.com/
I hope this helps
You can try CefSharp.Wpf which uses Chromium as a base browser. You can find it on NuGet
I have created a user control in windows application and used it in wpf.
The user control is in a seperate project and solution than that of wpf.
I have exposed some properties in the user control and tried to use it in a wpf form.
I have used it in the WindowsFormsHost element and also added WindowsFormsIntegration reference.
I am facing the following problems:
I am able to see the user control in the toolbox but it is disabled.
I am able to design the user control in xaml and give values to properties. I am also getting the properties in intellisense but the same is not getting reflected/applied during design as well as run time.
I am not able to see the control in the properties window even after selecting it. I am just able to see WindowsFormsHost in the property window.
I am not able to find any sample project or explanation of this in code project. If there is any then please do let me know.
Also I am able to use this user control in a windows application very easily and it is working fine. Am i missing anything for wpf?
I can give the source code if required but i dont think it will be of much help as i have not done anything fancy.
Is the control project compiled or just added in the solution?
Is the control project compiled as Debug or Release?
What language is the control compiled in?
"Walkthrough: Hosting a Windows Forms Control in WPF"
Possible help:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/wpf/thread/2fd0d9dd-eaa9-494d-8ec4-d896c33732d6
What library is used to create a window form like below?
It certainly does not look/feel/acts like a typical windows forms app.
Spy++ says it's a Windows Forms app, with a Web Browser control embedded for the bottom portion (window 004109AA, bottom). The tabs too are a Windows Forms control (window 006B0D26, 5th from top).
spy++ http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/7308/spyf.png
If you use Spy++ you can see what it is based off of the class name of the window. It looks like it could be WPF or HTML.