In Visual Studio, WinForms, I want to make the text of the label aligned to the right. I have used the property RightToLeft = Yes, but the problem as follows occur:
The label Name : becomes : Name after the property RightToLeft = Yes is made.
But I want to right aligned the label as Name :
Is there anyway to do so? Please help... I am using Visual Studio 2010
You should use the TextAlign property, not the RightToLeft property. The latter is used for localization to right-to-left languages.
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From the XAML designer in Visual Studio it is possible to place your cursor into the Color attribute of a Brush element and easily access the color Editor.
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="MyBrush" Color="#FF4B4B4B" />
In the above case, if you place the cursor before in the # in the XAML, then you can access the color from the properties view shown in the image below, it is easily accessed under the "Appearance" section.
That works great, the issue is only when one would like to do the same with a Color resource that is defined like this instead.
<Color x:Key="MyBrushColor">#FF4D7BBF</Color>
In the above case, placing the cursor in front of the # apparently does NOT cause Visual Studio to display the color editor anywhere in the properties view.
Right after I posted this, I see how to do it, hope this helps someone else.
Place the cursor in the Color element.
Right-click on the "Color" box in the Properties View and select Edit Resource...
I have inherited a ComboBox control mainly to create a different visual look. However, this behaviour where the ampersand is being turned into a shortcut (letter after is underlined) in the text field of the control has me stumped. I know this feature exists on Label controls and it can be turned off but here? How can I turn it off?
I have found the culprit. I've used Graphics.DrawString for drawing items and TextRenderer.DrawText for textbox portion of control. The former by default doesn't draw mnemonics and the latter one does. In both methods this feature can be turned on or off.
It's a "quality of life" question, because there is no bug or anything, but it really annoys me.
You can see in Visual Studio, when you're editing your XAML properties, that for a given control, you can select "default" colors for Background and Foreground properties (for example), like Chocolate, Salmon, or plain Red or Green and so on.
The problem being that you can not select them from a list, you have to know them already, which is not really intuitive.
Is there a way to show these "default" values for such properties in the Properties window of Visual Studio 2010?
I'm wondering how I can extract (get a copy) of the Default Template of a given control using Visual Studio. I know this can be done with Expression Blend (right click a control, "Edit Template" -> "Edit a Copy...") which then copies the default control template in my Xaml. But can this be done with Visual Studio at all?
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In Visual Studio 2013, you can get the default ControlTemplate of a control in a few simple steps.
In the WPF designer, select the relevant control, or place the mouse cursor on the relevant control in the XAML.
Press F4 to open the Properties Window.
Open the Miscellaneous category to find the Template property, or type Template in the search field at the top of the Window.
Click on the little square to the right of the Template field and select the Convert to New Resource... option:
In the popup dialog, name the new ControlTemplate to be added and decide where you want it to be defined:
Click on the OK button.
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In Visual Studio 2019 and later, this option seems to be disabled for some reason. A workaround can be found by right-clicking the control in the design view and selecting "Edit Template", then selecting "Edit a Copy...".
From Visual studio - right click the control, choose properties,
In the properties window look for the Template Property and right click it,
choose Extract Value To Resource
That will create a copy of the template in the XAML for you to work on.
Just to update this question, in VS 11 the XAML designer allows you to do this just like Expression Blend.
One thing to keep in mind: if you already have a style defined somewhere that targets the given control then all of the above described options will be disabled. I had the following bit of code in my App.xaml file:
<Application.Resources>
<Style TargetType="Button">
<Setter Property="IsTabStop" Value="False"/>
</Style>
</Application.Resources>
I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why the edit a copy... and convert to new resource... options described in the other answers were disabled for my Button (which was defined in a completely different file). I commented out the above style code for Button and suddenly both options weren't disabled anymore.
Moral of the story: VS won't generate a style containing a template copy for you if a style already exists for that element anywhere in your code.
In VS19 I wasn't able to do this through properties.
However, I was able to right click the control in design mode Edit Template and Edit a Copy.
As far as I know it's not possible. However, you can use Show Me The Template to view the default template for a given control.
I am new to WPF and I find some properties of control is in text field instead of combobox in winform. For example : the columnwidth property of datagrid. I don't know why MS add this feature ? What is the advantage of it ? it makes developers harder to set the property value since we don't know what we should type in there.
WPF enables more flexibility. In addition to the old fashioned option of specifying width in pixels, you get other options. See here for details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.datagridlength(v=VS.95).aspx