is there way (unmanaged maybe?) how to do the ownerdraw functionality on ListBox/ListView/TreeView controls in Compact Framework? Or is there some another controls (free? paid?) with similar functionaly (kinetic scroll for example)?
Thanks
It's far from straightforward to do owner or custom drawing int he CF. Christian Helle has an example for the ListView in his blog here.
1) I filed a request to Microsoft to add this feature.
2) You can do this using the ListBox2 class in the Smart Device Framework
3) You can derive from ListControl and add this logic yourself (I did this by looking at the source code of the .NET Framework Version of ListBox)
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we have several applications in FULL MVVM using the Ribbon from Microsoft. And it works fine, it's a great and flexible component :)
I was surprised to have to build my own templates and bindings to be able to use the ribbon in MVVM (I didn't find those files anywhere).
We are still using the Ribbon DLL from Microsoft (released around 2010 ) and can't switch to the ribbon existing in the Framework because it doesn't work with our Templates/bindings. Nothing happens/appears. Using the XAML description, everything is fine. I'm probably missing something. Does someone use it in full MVVM and which approach did you use to get it working ? Does the Framework contains the Templates and bindings hided somewhere ?
To summarize, how to use the ribbon included in the 4.5 Framework in FULL MVVM ?
Thanks for your help guys :)
If you target .NET Framework 4.5 or later you could add a reference to System.Windows.Controls.Ribbon.dll and use the built-in RibbonControl as-is:
<Ribbon />
You should be able to use this one more or less the exact same way as you use your current version. The templating of a control has nothing to do with MVVM. And of course the control comes with a default template.
I'm new to catel and mvvm. I 've successfully built a sample application the "catel" way and I like all the added features which I do need (thank you for the great tutorials). I've successfully run a sample app using typical mvvm and a 3rd party control printing reports. When I tried to use the 3rd party control in the catel application I had issues making it work, even with the information provided in catels' documentation. Even if I do manage it to work, I don't want to make custom base classes to add new controls, because most of my controls are special (3D). So, my question: can I use all of the catel features, including model and viewmodel capabilities, but use external windows and controls with the typical manual binding procedure? Do I need to know of any special concerns?
I learn catel since 2 weeks too, welcome into the Catel World :)
So, you can create custom window base class with IDataWindow and your window inherit Catel features. Need more coding but not a lot !
I suggest you to consult the excellent documentation here for Custom Window and here for Custom Control
Hope it's help !
Dams
I follow MVVM pattern in one of my silverlight pages.
I am trying to add validations for one of my usercontrols which should look like those which work with the Silverlight native controls. Is it possible for me to do that? Do I need to add special code to handle this?
if you could post your code then i might be able to help. But as per your question i think there are available user-validation controls for Silverlight that you can just drag and drop and then use.
They are available in most of the new IDE's.
Make sure your ViewModel implements IDataErrorInfo and then you can hook them up to the controls.
You can look at a good article here:
http://www.arrangeactassert.com/using-idataerrorinfo-for-validation-in-mvvm-with-silverlight-and-wpf/
I'm looking for a vendor for a grid control for WPF that works nicely together with MVVM; and that allows grouping by dragging the columns. I've been looking around and at first sight it seems that my choice at the moment would be Telerik.
If there are people that have experience with one or more vendors, I would like to hear your opinion.
Thanks!
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did you try the dataGrid included in WPF .net 4.0?
as MS finally added one, you could first try to use it and see if it suits your needs.
except of course if you are limited (having to use .net prior to v4.0 for instance...)
see there for more info:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-en/library/system.windows.controls.datagrid%28VS.95%29.aspx
The Xceed DataGrid for WPF does support MVVM. You can refer to their product page for more information here and you can also refer to their extensive and online documentation here.
After installation, you are also given many sample applications that are installed on your machine. You can find them here:
C:\Xceed Samples\Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition vX.X
Is there any WPF control (commercial or not) that integrates well with the MVVM pattern ?
Ideally the report would be another View for the ViewModel.
Well, from another answer here on SO (thought it was a bit old), this open-source solution was suggested. The page states that it's alpha, though.
Infragistics has a solution, as does ComponentOne.
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