WPF: ItemsControl's border not visible - wpf

I followed the instruction in this blog to add ScrollIntoView to ItemsControl.
But this makes the border invisible:
<ItemsControl BorderBrush="Black"
BorderThickness="3">
<ItemsControl.Template>
<ControlTemplate>
<ScrollViewer Padding="{TemplateBinding Padding}">
<ItemsPresenter />
</ScrollViewer>
</ControlTemplate>
</ItemsControl.Template>
<TextBlock Text="Test" />
<TextBlock Text="Test" />
<TextBlock Text="Test" />
</ItemsControl>
In order to display the border, I have to remove:
<ItemsControl.Template>
<ControlTemplate>
<ScrollViewer Padding="{TemplateBinding Padding}">
<ItemsPresenter />
</ScrollViewer>
</ControlTemplate>
</ItemsControl.Template>
But this way I won't be able to use the ScrollIntoView method.
Any ideas? Thanks

You need to include the border in the template.
<ControlTemplate>
<Border Background="{TemplateBinding Background}"
BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}"
BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}">
<ScrollViewer Padding="{TemplateBinding Padding}">
<ItemsPresenter />
</ScrollViewer>
</Border>
</ControlTemplate>

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Is it possible to display the header of a GroupBox above the Border?

Is it possible to display the header of a GroupBox above the border and not in the border?
<GroupBox>
<GroupBox.Header>
<TextBlock
Text="Test">
</TextBlock>
</GroupBox.Header>
</GroupBox>
You have to edit the control template of the GroupBox and adapt it. You can extract the default control template using Visual Studio or Blend. It contains an opacity mask that creates the gap for the header text in the border of the group box. You have to remove this border and move the header like this:
<Style x:Key="GroupBoxStyle" TargetType="{x:Type GroupBox}">
<Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="#D5DFE5"/>
<Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="1"/>
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type GroupBox}">
<Grid SnapsToDevicePixels="true">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="6"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="6"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="6"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Border Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}" BorderBrush="Transparent" CornerRadius="4" Grid.ColumnSpan="4" Grid.Column="0" Grid.RowSpan="3" Grid.Row="1"/>
<Border BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}" BorderBrush="White" CornerRadius="4" Grid.ColumnSpan="4" Grid.RowSpan="3" Grid.Row="1">
<Border BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" CornerRadius="3">
<Border BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}" BorderBrush="White" CornerRadius="2"/>
</Border>
</Border>
<Border x:Name="Header" Grid.Column="1" Padding="3,1,3,0" Grid.Row="0">
<ContentPresenter ContentSource="Header" RecognizesAccessKey="True" SnapsToDevicePixels="{TemplateBinding SnapsToDevicePixels}"/>
</Border>
<ContentPresenter Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Grid.Column="1" Margin="{TemplateBinding Padding}" Grid.Row="2" SnapsToDevicePixels="{TemplateBinding SnapsToDevicePixels}"/>
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
Then you can use the style in your XAML explictly like this to apply the control template:
<GroupBox Style="{StaticResource GroupBoxStyle}" Header="Test">
<!-- ...your content. -->
</GroupBox>
Alternatively define the group box style as implicit style to automatically apply it on all GroupBoxes.
<Style TargetType="{x:Type GroupBox}">
<!-- ...same as above. -->
</Style>

Add Label that move along my custom Progress-Bar

I have this GridViewColumn.CellTemplate:
<GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Grid Margin="-6,0,0,0">
<ProgressBar Name="progressBarColumn"
Minimum="0"
Maximum="100"
Value="{Binding Progress, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"
Style="{StaticResource CustomProgressBar4}"
Width="350"
Margin="0,0,0,0"/>
<TextBlock x:Name="fileNameTextBlock"
Text="{Binding File}"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Margin="10,0,0,0"/>
</Grid>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
Inside my Progress-Bar instead of show the Percentage i change it to show my Binding File:
Text="{Binding File}"
And my Style:
<Style x:Key="CustomProgressBar4" TargetType="ProgressBar">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="ProgressBar" >
<Grid x:Name="Root">
<Border Name="PART_Track"
CornerRadius="5"
Background="{TemplateBinding Background}"
BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding Background}"
BorderThickness="1"/>
<Border Name="PART_Indicator"
CornerRadius="5"
Background="{TemplateBinding Foreground}"
BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding Foreground}"
BorderThickness="1"
HorizontalAlignment="Left" />
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
So my Progress-Bar is filled according my Progress value (binding) and i want to add simple Label\TextBlock that will locate on the right side of my Progress-Bar and will show my Progress value.
Any suggestions how to do that ?
just simply define two Grid columns then add a TextBlock to the second column
<Style TargetType="ProgressBar">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="ProgressBar">
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid x:Name="Root" Grid.Column="0">
<Border Name="PART_Track"
Background="{TemplateBinding Background}"
BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding Background}"
BorderThickness="1"
CornerRadius="5" />
<Border Name="PART_Indicator"
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
Background="{TemplateBinding Foreground}"
BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding Foreground}"
BorderThickness="1"
CornerRadius="5" />
</Grid>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="1"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Text="{Binding Path=Value,RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}" />
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>

To set padding for textblock inside ContentPresenter

<ControlTemplate TargetType="TabItem">
<Border x:Name="Border" Margin="{TemplateBinding Margin}" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}" BorderBrush="{StaticResource DarkGray}" CornerRadius="5,5,0,0">
<ContentPresenter x:Name="Content" ContentSource="Header"
TextElement.FontSize="14" TextBlock.TextAlignment="Center"
HorizontalAlignment="Center" RecognizesAccessKey="True"
SnapsToDevicePixels="{TemplateBinding SnapsToDevicePixels}" VerticalAlignment="Center">
</ContentPresenter>
</Border>
in the above code there will be a default textblock inside ContentPresenter tag. I need to set padding for that Textblock.
TextBlock.Padding="8"
will not work. How to set padding for that TextBlock.

How to create a button with a smaller hit area than its visual area?

I'm trying to create buttons with smaller hit area to prevent misoperation in an industrial touchscreen PC program. Here is a sample,
and only the white area should response to touch and mouse operations.
I've tried to use ControlTemplate
<ControlTemplate x:Key="ButtonToTouch" TargetType="{x:Type Button}">
<Grid>
<Border BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}" Background="{TemplateBinding Background}"/>
<Button Background="{x:Null}" BorderBrush="{x:Null}" FontSize="{TemplateBinding FontSize}" HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch" VerticalContentAlignment="Stretch">
<Button.Content>
<Grid Margin="8" >
<ContentPresenter Content="{TemplateBinding Content}" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
<Rectangle Fill="Transparent" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"/>
</Grid>
</Button.Content>
</Button>
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
Now mouse enter event works that way, but it seems that every visible pixel in the button template can trigger the click event, so i have to set the background of the border to null, and set the background somewhere out of the template.
Any suggestions? Thanks for any help.
set IsHitTestVisible="False" on Border. With 8 Margin on Grid, 8px wide area will not register input.
<ControlTemplate x:Key="ButtonToTouch" TargetType="{x:Type Button}">
<Grid>
<Border BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}"
IsHitTestVisible="False"
BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}"
Background="{TemplateBinding Background}"/>
<Grid Margin="8">
<ContentPresenter Content="{TemplateBinding Content}" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
<Rectangle Fill="Transparent" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"/>
</Grid>
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>

WPF: ItemsControl with scrollbar (ScrollViewer)

I followed this small "tutorial" on how to add a scrollbar to an ItemsControl, and it works in Designer view, but not when I compile and execute the program (only the first few items show up, and no scrollbar to view more - even when VerticalScrollbarVisibility is set to "Visible" instead of "Auto").
Any idea on how to solve this?
This is the code I use to show my items (normally I work with Databinding, but to see the items in my Designer I added them manually):
<ItemsControl x:Name="itemCtrl" Style="{DynamicResource UsersControlStyle}">
<ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Top">
</StackPanel>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<uc:UcSpeler />
<uc:UcSpeler />
<uc:UcSpeler />
<uc:UcSpeler />
<uc:UcSpeler />
</ItemsControl>
And this is my Template:
<Style x:Key="UsersControlStyle" TargetType="{x:Type ItemsControl}">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ItemsControl}">
<Border SnapsToDevicePixels="true" Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}" Padding="{TemplateBinding Padding}">
<ScrollViewer VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible">
<ItemsPresenter SnapsToDevicePixels="{TemplateBinding SnapsToDevicePixels}"/>
</ScrollViewer>
</Border>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
To get a scrollbar for an ItemsControl, you can host it in a ScrollViewer like this:
<ScrollViewer VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
<ItemsControl>
<uc:UcSpeler />
<uc:UcSpeler />
<uc:UcSpeler />
<uc:UcSpeler />
<uc:UcSpeler />
</ItemsControl>
</ScrollViewer>
You have to modify the control template instead of ItemsPanelTemplate:
<ItemsControl >
<ItemsControl.Template>
<ControlTemplate>
<ScrollViewer x:Name="ScrollViewer" Padding="{TemplateBinding Padding}">
<ItemsPresenter />
</ScrollViewer>
</ControlTemplate>
</ItemsControl.Template>
</ItemsControl>
Maybe, your code does not working because StackPanel has own scrolling functionality. Try to use StackPanel.CanVerticallyScroll property.
Put your ScrollViewer in a DockPanel and set the DockPanel MaxHeight property
[...]
<DockPanel MaxHeight="700">
<ScrollViewer VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
<ItemsControl ItemSource ="{Binding ...}">
[...]
</ItemsControl>
</ScrollViewer>
</DockPanel>
[...]

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