I am working with XAML. How can I add a combo box with flat borders (Not 3D)?
You can provide a new template for the ComboBox. There is a package of basic templates called Simple Styles, which you can read about here, that includes the essential display and functionality with none of the fancy effects. The styles are also included with Kaxaml, and the combo-box style provides the simple 2D look you are probably going for.
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I need to make several changes to the default Styles and ControlTemplates of all major UserControls of my application. I found this very easy to do for allmost all UserControls (RightClick control in VS2015 designer => Edit template => Edit a copy...) and maybe a little bit more complicated for the more complex ones like the Calendar, but I totally fail for DataGrid and its now sub controls.
While it is of course easy to get the style and template for the DataGrid itself I still need the styles for DataGridRow, DataGridRowHeader, DataGridColumnHeader, DataGridCell, ... I do not even know all possible sub elements.
I searched the internet for about half a day now and could not find any solution to my issue:
If I check the MSDN for default styles of the DataGrid it gives me a bad example that contains weird stuff like FrozenGridDataGrid and other stuff that is not contained in the referenced Namespaces and assemblies. I'm not sure if this example is targeted towards Silverlight only...
Tools like 'Show Me The Templates!' do not list the DataGrid...
The BAML Viewer addin for .Net Reflector does only show me my custom styles but not the default ones. Targeting for example the PresentationFramework.Aero.dll does not work.
I even found an example by Jamie Rodriguez on the MSDN on how to style the DataGrid which gets very close to what I need - but then again I do not know how close his code is to the defaults, if something is missing and also his result looks like a color palette...
Can anyone please tell me what styles and templates I need to cover the whole DataGrid and where I can get their defaults?
Thanks
Use Blend.
You will get all templates.
I am working on new WPF/MVVM project, where I see all most all controls are written for different needs, right from textbox to treeview. All are rewritten for simple need, for example, grid,stackpanel control are rewritten to add space between each item and textbox is rewritten to include label for it so that it has both label and text input are on itself.
My question : Is there any serious issue we would encounter because of this customization?
Already, I am seeing issues with aligning all controls, will i would see any more issues because of this?.
You should never create a custom or user control to add margins, a label to a TextBox, or a new ItemTemplate to a ListBox.
UserControls are for grouping frequently used combinations of controls into one reuseable control. An example may be a custom List-of-Values control that opens a dialog. This would be fine to implement as a UserControl.
Custom controls are good when a native control does not suit your needs. Say that you want to reimplement a DateTimePicker from scratch because the native one doesn't include milliseconds.
There are no serious issues as such, but you may find yourself maintaining all these controls for the next many years without there being a need to do so.
Settings Margins should be done in the View where you are using it, or on a Style in a ResourceDictionary.
This is of course only my opinion (and that of many others, I except), but if you find that the majority of your controls are 'customized' this way, you are doing it wrong.
Style and Templates rather than UserControls and custom controls.
The main issue is that you lose the ability to alter margins only in a single view. If you change your custom controls' inner paddings and margins, you will be changing all the views in your solution. If you use a style, you can always override it by defining a new style in the view, or by setting the property directly.
I have an application that should work a bit like a message board: text gets parsed, hyperlinks are made "live" and displayed. Only it's in Silverlight. Because of that, I can't use TextBlock like they do here WPF - Making hyperlinks clickable, somehow it's different in Silverlight and it's not possible to do a Hyperlink with a Run inside it.
I've tried the RichTextBlock, as it says here Wrapping Text and Hyperlinks in Silverlight, but couldn't for the life of me figure out how to create the paragraphs and hyperlinks from code, since I need to populate it dynamically.
Then I thought I'd settle for a less elegant solution involving TextBlocks and HyperlinkButtons in a WrapPanel. I added a namespace reference, like it says here WrapPanel in Silverlight 4 toolkit, but when I reference it in XAML, there's no WrapPanel in it, only DataField, DataForm and VisualStateManager.
This Text areas and hyperlinks? doesn't work either, the Silverlight RichTextBox is different and LinkLabel is missing.
Maybe there's another solution that I don't know? I'm keeping an open mind. Any help appreciated.
I want to create a combobox with some style. I dont want old dropdown what we are getting. I want some new dropdown which looks very nice. Is there any way to create a dropdown like that.
Plz give me suggestions
Check this link out on msdn. This is the actual control template for the combo box. You can copy and paste this into your application (within your app's Resources).
Create a form and slap a combo box on it with some data in it. Then start changing the control template and view the results. Start off simply by changing colors and adding borders around elements to see what controls which part. Then you can start switching out larger parts of the template to match what you're looking for.
one can start with the standard combobox, and then use various controls and styles to change the look and feel of the control, and it's corresponding drop down.
I'm having some issues trying to change the look / style of a combo box in Expression Blend / WPF. While there are tutorials out there describing setting styles for buttons, there seem to be a few wrinkles with ComboBox controls.
Can anyone offer any advice, or point me towards good tutorials that cover re-styling something more complex than a button?
The ComboBox style template has 3 parts to it.
The ContentPresenter you should have come across styling Buttons.
There is a Part_Popup that you should find easy to change properties on and style.
The last part is a ToggleButton, to style that you need to "edit a copy" again and create another new style template for the ToggleButton.
Have a look at BeaCostas SolarSytem Listbox it's a lovely piece of work.