I'm trying to use a WPF application on our Citrix server, and made a really simple window with a button and a textbox. When running the application, noting but the application name on top of the window is shown. Is it not possible to use WPF on Citrix, or is our Citrix server too old?
It should be possible to use WPF on Citrix starting with PS 4.5 Feature pack 1.
Is your version older than this?
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I need a window to receive/handle messages from a driver. Will creating a Windows Form in visual studio be same as creating window? Will the windows form do the thing I am trying to do?
What is the difference between windows form and window? Or Even WPF, does it suit my purpose or are windows/windows forms and wfp totally different?
I need a window to receive/handle messages from a driver. Will creating a Windows Form in visual studio be same as creating window? Will the windows form do the thing I am trying to do?
Yes, basically it will be the same. I think this article answers your question: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8bxxy49h(v=vs.80).aspx
With Windows Forms you develop smart clients. Smart clients are
graphically rich applications that are easy to deploy and update, can
work when they are connected to or disconnected from the Internet, and
can access resources on the local computer in a more secure manner
than traditional Windows-based applications.
And about the difference between WPF and WinForms you can read in this CodeProject#s article: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/25795/Creating-the-Same-Program-in-Windows-Forms-and-WPF
I got a silverlight sample from http://gallery.expression.microsoft.com/ like the analog clock and the progress bar. I am making a wpf desktop application using microsoft blend 4. My problem is how to put/run/embed the sample in my wpf application using the blend 4.
I choose wpf application because I can add windows/form and the codes are almost the same with the windows application form.
and if silverlight is not possible to run in wpf application, can you suggest how to do layered controls? My plan is to run first the loading bar. and then hide it to show the main menu and the analog clock.
Silverlight is very-very-very compact version of WPF functionality.
You can just rewrite sample to WPF and it will run more efficient.
Silverlight is just like adobe flex which helps in making(running) web browser apps..
If you use silverlight in your wpf application , then you have to use webbrowser control..
For knowledge:
When we want to try to bring wpf for webbrowser apps we use silverlight..
& doing vice versa(like you are doing), don't make much sense..
We have an in-house .net 2.0 winforms app currently developed on Visual Studio 2005 in Windows XP. Everyone in the office until now is running Windows XP, and there are no issues.
We recently ordered a new computer with Windows 7 for one of our managers we were hoping to use, and the app installs fine. The issue is the spacing around every label, textbox, and button - making some forms not fit.
Is there some setting that we can use to make Windows 7 display each control where it is placed in our XP development environment and like the rest of our XP clients show?
Ugh, what kind of idiot management team gives a new machine to a manager instead of a programmer?
Control Panel + Display, Advanced tab, change the DPI setting to repro the problem on your XP machine. Read the docs for the Form.AutoScaleMode to find out what's going on.
I'm looking to put an application window behind all other windows.
I was thinking of using .NET 4 and WPF or Silverlight.
I don't have any specific drawing code, I just want my application window as my desktop wallpaper while retaining the interactivity (no mucking around with screenshots etc).
Is this even possible and if so, how?
Edit: I'm using Windows 7 x64.
Edit 2: I know the desktop is drawn to a window with id 0 (or something like that). Can't I use interop calls to put my window as a child of window 0?
For Windows XP and previous versions, use Active Desktop ad set a web page that runs a Silverlight application.
I am looking for some source code and a project to download and look at that has an Active X control hosting WPF. I can not find any source code anywhere on the net.
I can not add a WPF resource the usual way in an Active X control. I have to add it manually to the reference section.
Not sure if this is even possible. I would check out WPF browser applications. That may be a better solution for you given that if you are going to be running an active x control with WPF the user will need 1) Internet Explorer and 2) .net 3.0+ installed locally. A WPF Browser application will work with IE if the user has .net 3.0+ installed and will work with IE and FireFox if the user has .net 3.5+ installed. Check out WPF Broswer Apps here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970060.aspx
It should be possible, although I don't have the code for it off-hand. You can create an HwndSource, which allows a normal window to host WPF controls, in your ActiveX controls. Then it is only a matter of adding your WPF UI to that window.