I have a WinForms User Control (a toolbar) which i would like to add on a WPF user Control, is there any way to do this?
like i want a WinForms User Control (the toolbar) along with other WPF Controls
(datagrid) on a new WPF User Control
I saw a couple of samples that show Windows Forms hosted in a WPF Control. But that is not what i want to see.
This is pretty easy to pull off. There is a handy little thing known as WindowsFormHost all you have to do is declare it in your control's XAML, and nest your forms control inside of it, like so:
<UserControl>
...
<Grid>
<WindowsFormsHost>
<forms:MyFormsToolbarControl/>
</WindowsFormHost>
</Grid>
...
WindowsFormHost lives inside of the normal WPF toolbox so it shouldn't be hard to locate. Meanwhile there is an example of how to produce the equivalent XAML in code at this location...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms751761.aspx
You can check out my answer to a similar question here:
WPF hosting a WinForm, Tab Navigation problems
This will also show you how to fix a tabbing issue with windows controls that are sitting inside wpf views.
Related
out current application is a DevExpress Ribbon window. However, we have some legacy code - including a WPF Control which was hosted through a WinForms Window - with WPF Host. (please dont ask why)
I wanted to change the UserControl at least to a Wpf Window to get rid of WinForms.
Now here is my Problem: All stlyes get totally messed up. Especially my buttons have a problem:
The buttons lose their assigned Images, and also Background and Foreground is not assignable. Through the Live Visual Tree from Studio I see that it is overridden.
I guess the thing with images leads to the same root cause.
I dont want to redo the whole window again in DevExpress (if this is the cause).
Is there a way for a window to not use some application styles and run as default? Or how can I find out, what is actually overriding everything?
I finally found the solution. The DevExpress was overriding any styles of any form in application, settings something to the DevExpress.Xpf.CoreTemeManager.
To disable a style, I had to add the following thing to my window:
<Window x:Class="AnotherWindow"
xmlns:dx="http://schemas.devexpress.com/winfx/2008/xaml/core"
dx:ThemeManager.ThemeName="NoneName"
<!-- ...-->
</Window>
Also include DevExpress.Data and DevExpress.Xpf.Core references.
Is there a difference between window and user control? It seems to me that these two are exactly the same. So which one should I use and when?
(I tried googling this phrase and I couldn't find anything)
A Window is as the name suggests a window, it can be closed, minimized, resized etc. This should be quite intuitive.
A UserControl on the other hand is a composite component/module which can be placed inside other controls and is itself made up of controls (possibly even other UserControls), the main use for UserControls is reusability, encapsulation and loose coupling, some applications can be broken up into a set of UserControls of which each one provides a certain functionality.[citation needed]
We make user control if we want to reuse it. As name says User Control it means some control like grid,combo box like that.If i need same grid on 3-4 windows then i will prefer to make it as User Control.If it is not reusable i will define my grid in the required window.At last you paste your user control on some window.
Conclusion :- If you want to reuse the control then make it as a user control otherwise define it in required window.
A window is managed by the OS and is placed on the desktop.
A UserControl is managed by wpf and is placed in a Window or in another UserControl.
Applcations could be created by have a single Window and displaying lots of UserControls in that Window.
wpf window is a Win32 window, but user control is just something of wpf, not a Win32 window.
I presume you refer to the windows forms. Usually they are classified as user controls and custom controls - same stands for web forms as well. For more information you can refer to these links control vs user control in winforms and over view of user controls and custom contorls.
When tabbing through controls in an ActiveX control hosted in IE, once I get to the last control the tab key no longer does anything. I would like it to move the focus outside the ActiveX control to the next html control.
This works fine when the ActiveX control is hosted in a WinForms app, does anybody know how to make this work in the browser?
It may also be relevant that the ActiveX control is a simple wrapper around a WPF control.
I found a hacky solution.
The problem is tabbing out of the WPF control, so I've placed a hidden textbox after the ElementHost within the ActiveX control. Tabbing out of the WPF control moves focus to the hidden control correctly, which upon receiving focus uses SendKeys("{TAB}".
Just typing SendKeys makes me feel a little dirty though, so if anyone has a better solution...
Is it possible to have a project containing both Winforms and WPF?
Say a WinForm project that is transformed step by step(form by form) in a WPF one, will be possible to have a Winform opening on a button, and a WPF one opening on a other button?
Yes. You have to pick one technology to display each physical window and control in your app, but there's no reason why you can't mix and match.
For example:
A WinForms window can show a WPF window.
A WPF window can show a WinForms window.
A WinForms window can contain WPF content (see the ElementHost control).
A WPF window can contain WinForms controls (see the WindowsFormsHost control).
This works great.
One can have WPF windows in Windows Forms and Windows Forms windows in WPF
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms745781.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.integration.windowsformshost.aspx
Adding Winforms to WPF projects can be done smoothly (directly from the "Add new item" menu), but there is not straight option to add a WPF window to a Winforms project. Still, I handled to do it following these steps:
Add a WPF User Control (this option is available on the "Add new
item" menu) and then convert it into a WPF Window. Modify the XAML
changing the UserControl parent tag to Window, and remove the
inheritance from UserControl (all of this is explained in this link).
Add a reference to System.Xaml.dll. See this link.
Add a reference to System.Windows.dll (I found it on my computer on this path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5. Be aware it might be different in yours). See this link.
What you might be looking for is the ElementHost control. What it lets you do is take WPF content and host it in a Windows Forms window. More details are here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms745781.aspx
There is also a control that lets you do the reverse: host Windows Forms content from within WPF:
http://nayyeri.net/host-windows-forms-controls-in-wpf
Between the two, you can move the 'dividing line' between WPF and Windows Forms with some degree of flexibility.
There is at one caveat you'll need to keep in mind. Windows Forms works internally in terms of HWND's... a window managed by the legacy Windows window manager (which handles the z-order). WPF doesn't do this... A WPF tree is typically rendered into a single HWND', and it's WPF that manages things like z-order. What this means to you is that z-order doesn't always work the way you expect it to, and there are things you can't do with hosted Windows Forms controls that you can do with traditional WPF elements. (There is actually a way to solve this, but it involves periodically rendering the HWND into a memory bitmap, rendering that bitmap into a WPF surface, and then redirecting events directed to the WPF surface to the underlying HWND. This is powerful, but tricky and difficult to get right.)
I see no objection to do that.(I have in WinForms Application WPF windows)
Many of the examples used MessageBox.Show which is part of the Windows.Forms.
Of course you must rewrite all windows, not only controls.
Is there a way to host a WPF window inside another WPF window. I have a couple of somewhat complex forms in place. But now to simplify things I am trying to merge a few of them as tabpages inside one 'Dashboard' form.
Please note that I am not trying to host a Windows Form, but another WPF window
If you want tabpages, why not use a TabControl with UserControls inside ? If you need to transform one of these tabs to a floating window, just put the UserControl in a new Window...
Can I answer this question with another question; why would you not create them as controls rather than other WPF windows, that you want to host in the main WPF window?
a bit late on this, but I guess with WindowsForms interop you can put in WPF a WinForms control host and in that host put a WinForms control that hosts the handle of a WPF window
I think what you're asking for is MDI, Multiple Document Interface. Something like this might help.
Do note, however, that the MDI paradigm is largely shunned these days. There are usually better ways to achieve the same functionality.
I think you want to hosting contents of WPF Window1.xaml (page1.xaml) inside within another WPF Window.
Well...you can use Navigation. Instead running window1.xaml contents inside tab then you can work with your data inside Navigation. Navigation can run within WPF Window Application. You just design your form / UI in page1.xaml.
one another..MDI old and rusty. We want clear of top window nowadays.