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I'm looking for a good rich text control for Silverlight. The one on codeplex seems to be out of date and another free one I saw on vectorlight doesn't seem to save as RTF (it uses custom xml) or doesn't have printing capabilities.
I'm thinking about dishing out some bucks for the Telerik, ComponentOne, or DevExpress rich text control, which all seem to be expensive because they are bundled.
If anyone has a recommendation on the above products or another that would be very helpful. Thanks.
[Full Disclosure: I work for Telerik.]
Rich text editing support in Silverlight is a challenge at the moment due to limits in the Silverlight plug-in. The plug-in does not yet expose a good way to work with rich text, and it also lacks any support for printing. These are features that the core SL plug-in team are working on, so I expect that by late this year, early next we'll have a plug-in much more capable of supporting rich text editing.
In the mean time, Telerik does have a basic rich text editor for manipulating HTML. We rely on the Silverlight DOM integration to provide rich HTML editing support in Silverlight, but it is a good itermediate solution, espeically if your text is HTML formatted. Details: RadEditor for Silverlight
Longer term, you can expect to see a complete rich text editor from Telerik that will leverage Silvelright's native editing APIs (when they are eventually added to the plug-in). We think these enhancements are around the corner, so we're waiting for that instead of jumping the gun with a proprietary rich text editing layer that will be quickly rendered obsolete by the framework.
Hope that helps clarify the Silverlight rich text editing / printing picture today.
You can check out the requests for RTF support in Silverlight 4 in this Silverlight.net forum thread:Silverlight 4 Wishlist
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I do not know if this type of question can be asked on this site, please let me apologize if it is not relevant.
I'm currently thinking about starting the migration of an application developed in Visual Foxpro to VS. NET. I'm looking at Windows Forms and WPF, and I'm clear about the basics like the differences between them.
My specific question is whether, as of today, is WPF is an active and growing technology or another tool that died and will have no future support?
I am very interested in this information because I have some experience windows forms; studying WPF seems interesting, but I would not invest my time in a dead end.
I appreciate any information you can give me.
Of course it's suitable for LOB apps (much more so than the WinForms), and it is a growing technology being updated with every new version of the .NET framework, and with all the control vendors investing heavily into developing and updating their WPF controls.
Future is impossible to predict naturally, but WPF most certainly has a much better future than WinForms and it is, in my opinion, a number one choice for any new thick client project(s) on the Windows platform.
WPF is in so many ways vastly superior to WinForms but even if it was for data binding only it would still be easy to recommend over Winforms.
As a matter of fact, choosing WinForms over WPF at this time would be very similar to choosing VB6 over C# and the .NET Platform.
I used to work for an investment bank on Wall Street and many of the applications on the trading floor were WPF. And before I left, they were creating whole new suites of applications in WPF. This was in 2011.
Where I currently am, WPF is where all of the non-mobile projects are or are headed. And the applications are extremely critical; used worldwide.
Hope that helps answer any questions you had about whether people actually use it in the "real world".
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I remember once I found a nice online tutorial that showed how WPF works through nice exapamle of converting WinForm application into WPF. But I forgot link to it.
It was divided into multiple chapters. In first application was converted into WPF using WinForm "mindset" and then using specific technology of WPF (DataBinding, Controls, Templates) moved into (basicaly) MVVM, every chapter.
I tried searching, but every time I put WPF and WinForm in single query it shows only results about how to use WPF in WinForm or vice-versa or how to automaticaly convert WinForm into WPF.
Anyone can help??
That was most likely my series: From Windows Forms to WPF with MVVM.
Its basically an introduction to WPF from a Windows Forms perspective, showing how to transition to using MVVM architectural patterns, and why they provide a cleaner separation of concerns in your applications.
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I would like my Windows Forms .NET application to be a bit nicer, having fancy rounded windows corners, non-standard color set, pretty controls.
Though all this is possible to implement with custom ownerdraw, I'd like not to spend much time and take existing free implementation (if any).
Please recommend the choice of yours.
I don't know of any complete free library, but to improve the look or functionality of common .Net controls I'd look at the CodeProject site. There's lots of articles about customizing controls. For example, here's one about making round buttons.
You might need to do owner drawing, but assuming that the license for the code in that or other articles are suitable for your needs you might be able to re-use code without having to write much yourself and some of the articles contain class libraries that you might just be able to reference in your code.
If you want to give your app a Windows 7 look there's also the Windows API Code Pack for .Net
As far as I know, there is no way to do "themes" or "skinning" easily in WinForms. You will have to find/purchase custom controls (or control libraries) that do all of the rendering that you require or do as you mentioned and render your own controls.
If you migrate your application to WPF, you'll find a lot more support for themes and "skinning".
Cheers.
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I am looking for some guidelines or standards for XAML GUI design... or even a very good set of examples that show nice GUI that I can use as a starting point.
Over the years I have grown into a very good Battleship Grey Dialog designer, but those are old, and ugly now... and I need to revamp a couple of product GUIs.
I know with XAML I can do a lot more, easily, than I could have done with WInForms.. so it is more dangerous now. I would rather my application blend with latest applications that are done right, rather than stand out like an old WinAMP skin.
Any suggestions?
Nice comment w/the WinAmp skin...
I'm not sure if you've come across this resource, but MSFT has put together a pretty comprehensive set of UX guidelines here.
This includes a downloadable PDF, if you're into that sort of leisure reading. While most of the guidelines apply to LOB (Line of Business) applications, you'll find some good information there about what not to do w/WPF (i.e. just because you can doesn't mean you should).
As far as having full-blown showcase GUIs, it's a little light -- it's mostly context-specific screen caps. However, I've found some good example UIs from the patterns libraries that Yahoo offers, and Infragistics has a neat site called Quince which has alot of the same information, but with a Silverlight presentation.
HTH.
One of the sites I love to browse is smashingmagazine.com. It's aimed at web designers, not WPF or Silverlight specifically. But it has many articles that showcase a lot of great ideas for all sorts of things like search boxes, breadcrumb controls, free icon sets, etc.
There are some nice samples http://www.wpftutorial.net
The WPF Application Quality Guide has been indispensible for me; here's a link:
http://windowsclient.net/wpf/white-papers/wpf-app-quality-guide.aspx
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Didn't see that you were referring to visual design; in that case i'd probably be using many of the numerous resources for web design, since the two areas map quite closely.
There is always Quince of course. This is primarily focussed on Silverlight but it's useful anyway. Especially when you're thinking of your design in terms of UI/UX patterns.
HTH, Stimul8d
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Are there any ports to WPF of Silverlight's MultiScaleImage (aka DeepZoom)? Have Microsoft road-mapped this at all for WPF?
I want to move from WinForms to WPF and require something like DeepZoom, using Silverlight isn't an option.
At the moment there is no port. However, DeepZoom is based on the technology found in the "World Wide Telescope" and the "Microsoft Photo Synth", so they have desktop versions of the technology running. I guess it would be safe to assume that Microsoft will be releasing a multi scale image control for WPF soon. If you just want the "panning and zooming", and don't care about the efficient breakdown of high resolution images you can certainly achieve the same effects in WPF. This post is one example on how to do zoom and pan.
Sad bit of news (or 'rumor'?)... in this List of features to track in WPF4 , Jaime says
"Note: At PDC, we said that DeepZoom would be in WPF4. Unfortunately that feature has been cut. We just could not squeeze it into the schedule. There are workarounds to it: you can host Silverlight inWPF using web browser control or using the Silverlight hosting APIs. "
I guess those hosting APIs might be useful if you're brave - but I'm guessing just putting a Silverlight object inside a WPF WebBrowser control would be simpler...