I want to achieve something similar to this one but in wpf not jquery:
http://activeden.net/item/xml-horizontal-vertical-accordion-banner-rotator/full_screen_preview/127714?ref=premiumtemplates&clickthrough_id=27852933&redirect_back=true
I have tried a good bunch of different methods, still i haven't got it to work.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? for example, what controls to use, etc. I am using the MVVM approach, as in all of my projects.
I think wpf is very very powerful, so this shouldn't be too complicated...
Ah, and the animation stuff within the content is out of scope of my question.
I only want to have that navigation stuff between those different contents like in the link bellow.
Best Regards
rosch
Why cant you use the already supplied accordion from the toolkit by the codeplex ... http://wpf.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx
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I'm new to WPF and I've been tasked with creating a UI and I was told it needs to be 'sexy'.
My first task is to createa menu structure for the various options I need to make available to the user. I'd like to do something like this, taken from http://www.wpftutorial.net :
Unfortunately I don't see any examples on that site of how to implement a vertical menu with sub-menus that have the glassy look and feel.
I'm hoping to achieve the same level of 'sexy' (<-- my bosses term, not mine), but the style doesn't need to be exactly the same.
What steps do I need to take to achieve this?
The 'sexy' layout you showed, is actually quite outdated (glossy is so 2008-2010...).
Anyway, if you don't go for 3rd parties, here is what this is:
The container is a Menu
Each item is a MenuItem
Some MenuItems contain their own MenuItems (that's the horizontal dropdown you see)
Menu and MenuItem seem to have a custom Template/Style/ControlTemplate
It can indeed be quite some work for someone new to WPF, but you'll definitely learn a lot, however it'll take you several weeks to get it right with no experience.
HTH,
Bab.
You may need to go with 3rd party controls.
DevExpress and Telerik offer some very good WPF controls.
This will save you a lot of time as they have built-in themes and are really good looking.
Trying to do this yourself will probably cost you more in the long run.
You could even download the trial versions and show your boss a demo of the app.
Does anybody know of a bread-crumb style navigation for Winforms like the one from DotNetBar.
http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar/BreadCrumbHorizontalTreeControl.aspx
I really like that control. However I am using a other UI library already and just for this control I do not want a reference to another 4 MB lib. I just need this control. Does anybody if something like this is available as a standalone control?
I have used the Bread Crumb control of Krypton Toolkit, but you mentioned, that you don´t want an other UI library.
But maybe this source can help you, to build your own Bread Crumb control Creating A Breadcrumb Control
Try this one i haven't used it but (i use the one from Krypton) but i guess it will be good for you.
The one Jehof gave you is way better.
However take a look at Krypton suite, i always use it with the DevExpress XtraEditors. together you can create some great looking apps. i know you said that you don't want a huge library, but it's worth it.
When it comes to UI design I generally don't care to do custom styling (appearance-wise), I'm not much of an artist and I hate trying to come up with interesting color schemes and the like. Are there any online repositories of premade WPF styles and/or control templates? I could have sworn I saw one before but I can't find it now, it might be gone.
Just curious if you guys know of anything like this. It'd be great to be able to drop in a premade style into my application to spruce it up a bit.
Here's another.
Here's one.
I don't know what this is called in SL, but I would like to replicate this functionality. If you go to this site: http://www.mscui.com/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/PrimaryCareAdmin.htm and click on the "Show Details" button located on the top, right-hand corder of the screen. When you click on this, there should be a "Scene Details" button-like feature on the right side. When you click on this, this is what I would like to implement. Can someone direct me please? Either to an online article, etc...
I'm not precisely sure what feature of the site you'r referring to (I'm blind so the description doesn't make much sense to me). However, two useful links - some of the MSCUI source code is available on Codeplex http://mscui.codeplex.com. Also, the Silverlight developer/designer on this project created Blacklight http://blacklight.codeplex.com which includes visual assets to use with Silverlight.
Although I don't know the specifics of the implementation, as far as I can guess, this is done by having a second Grid that follows the Grid for the page. Then, simply change the visiblity on the "guide" grid when the button toggles.
I believe that is simple, although it'll require you to work to figure out the positioning of the underlying page - but it's more flexible. With Blend it'll be easy.
Alternatively you could have a ton of additional UI elements on the page next to their respective controls, and either Tag or name them in a way that you can iterate over them to control visibility and interaction.
I think you're talking about a the grey overlay with a modal window on top. I think the best way to do that in Silverlight 3 is with the ChildWindow control.
Are there sites which have free "WPF Application templates" such as freecsstemplates.com has for HTML sites?
I'm looking for something that has a nice-looking layout, functional menu, etc. in XAML that you can build on.
ADDENDUM
Although themes are nice, I'm also looking for a layout, something like the layout I created with a silverlight dock panel here, but of course, done by someone much more experienced in design and XAML so that there is functionality of e.g. having a side panel move in and out on mouse over, full menu on top, accordion menu on the side. WPF makes these kinds of things so easy I would think that these kinds of free template/theme sites would be springing up by now.
http://www.codeplex.com/wpfthemes has free WPF themes. http://reuxables.nukeation.com/catalog.aspx and http://www.xamltemplates.net/index.php?page=1 also have themes, but they are not free.
This one is not free but you can download free examples. It has a lot of really cool templates and fully functional objects
I stumbled upon this and it looks really good and stable.