I have a silverlight navigation application. I am looking for a simple one level menu control that pops down the page header and provides links to other pages. How to implement it. Is there any such control in Silverlight 4?
Silverlight does not have a built in menu control, however, many people have creates there own:
http://www.nablasoft.com/guardian/index.php/2008/09/25/silverlight-how-to-build-a-simple-menu-control/
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/DropDownMenuSilverlight2.aspx
http://pagebrooks.com/archive/2008/08/21/coolmenu-a-silverlight-menu-control.aspx
http://sl4popupmenu.codeplex.com/
sl4popupmenu looks like one of the best.
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I've searched all over but it seems like no one has figured out a way (or at least written about a way) to add transitions to a ContentControl (or equivalent) in Silverlight for Windows Phone.
I'm using Caliburn Micro, and I have a Screen Conductor that activates different user controls. All I want is a simple slide effect between activations, forward and back. You can do this in WPF but not in SL4WP it seems like.
The other alternative is to switch to using navigation between these views, but then I lose the "master-detail" style view model. I'd be open to an answer that kept my intention but used page navigation instead (since then I could use the Slide transitions from the Windows Phone Toolkit).
It's a step-by-step style conductor, I need to lead the user through a 2-3 step process, allowing them to go back or cancel out, each step using data from the previous.
Are you sure it cannot be done? There are various blog posts and articles on the internet that indicate that the TransitioningContentControl is part of the Silverlight for Window Phone Toolkit.
Note that 'Silverlight' and 'Silverlight for Windows Phone' are different things, so you must download the right toolkit.
I am new to WPF/MVVM and I need to create a single application window.
To clarify, I would like to have a single window with a basic menu, which, depending on the option clicked on that page/window, launches a completely new set of controllers within the same window (completely replacing the menu interface).
Basically, I'd like to be able to replace the content of the menu window, with the content of new user interface, and then to be able to go back to the menu interface again later.
Any directions? Thanks.
PRISM Navigation is the way to go. You can read about PRISM Navigation on MSDN. It provides a good explanation with a lot of code samples. Karl Shifflett also has a couple good blog posts here and here which are helpful.
I'm trying to build an app in winforms with something similiar to masterpages in asp.net - a menu on top and when choosing an option from the menu the entire screen on the bottom will change while the menu remains (there are 10-15 screens in the future app, some are quite similar, some are not).
What is the best way of doing this? Should I use different forms for each screen or use a panel or something else?
If I use a panel or something how do I manage to use the designer with so many panels taking space on the screen?
Try with the MDIParent Form's. View the Example
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/12514/Multi-Document-Interface-MDI-tab-page-browsing-wit
If it is just keeping the same menu and opening/closing parts of the UI you could simply add and remove instances of usercontrols to the main form.
If you need more features such as docking (like Visual Studio) look at this
Another option is to use Form inheritance
Which one to select depends on what you want to reuse and the features you need.
One option would be to make your application an MDI window and then load entire forms, maximized, into the parent window.
Then, you would be able to treat each form as its own self-contained item, since it really would be exactly that.
Is it not an option for you to use WPF? A WPF browser application fits the paradigm you are describing quite well.
So I'm porting an application from WPF to Silverlight and I have realized that there is no standard Menu control.
So I look around and find some third-party controls that emulate the menu control, like this one at codeplex:
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But then I decided to take advantage of this situation and think of some new metaphors besides the standard menu we have been using since Windows 3.0, e.g. I like the following enabled/disabled buttons for a small number of choices, which also work well as a vertical stack, and will try to integrate a drop-down button idea to allow it to hold the number of nested choices that a standard menu control could hold:
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What is the best application navigation menu metaphor you have seen or used in a Silverlight line-of-business application?
How about the Office Ribbon?
http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/01/20/ribbon-control-for-silverlight.aspx
http://www.divelements.co.uk/net/controls/sandribbonsl/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa973809.aspx
Personally, I like the style of Apple's CoverFlow.
You can load various screens in each of the CoverFlow "panels", show the Active panel in the center, and tightly pack the other panels to the left and right.
You gain the ability to allow the user to see their other panels while working on the active one...and you can add a little flair when the user switches between the panels.
I'm looking into using the Office Ribbon UI to help navigate around my application and provide different tools for the current selected tab.
I need the Ribbon to be plugable. Each plugin has its own tab and using a DataTemplate displays what's needed.
The main control area will have a navigation on the left and a Tab Control on the right. Multple tabs will be open most of the time.
Ok questions:
1. Is the Ribbon control the correct control for the job
2. How do i dynamically add Tabs to the Ribbon control through my View Model
3. Does anyone know how to define DataTemplates in an external assembly. I need to avoid configurations inside my main application IE make it plugable :D
FYI. The application is a POS system
The Office Ribbon was the wrong choice for my design.
I've seen posts on using Prism with Office Ribbon to get plugins working