WPF Treeview ShowRootlines - wpf

Is there a way to show Root lines in a WPF Treeview?
Or do you have to resort to doing something complicated like using Control Templates
The Winforms treeview has a ShowRootLines property but none exists for the WPF treeview.
Thanks

The answer is that you must create your own templates to do this. Here's a post in the MSDN forums with an answer from a MSFT rep on how you can accomplish this.

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WPF & MVVM: Visual Studio like interface

I would like to create an application using WPF and MVVM Light but i don't know how to organize my application layout for a MVVM application. The idea is to have something similar to Visual Studio:
A main Window with tabs, toolbox and menu that can be docked and moved to different locations. I had been able to easily create this layout using Telerik WPF controls and their sample but all in a simple XAML file with it's code behind, I have no idea how to transform it into a MVVM application.
I would like each pane/window/toolbox to be a different view with its own View Model. I checked tutorials but I didn't find how to have one single application displaying simultaneously multiple views/viewmodels in the same "main window".
Have I do define each view in a specific user control? Have I to use ContentControl to organize my layout? Should I use data template? How to handle binding on multiple view/viewmodels within the same window ?
Thanks a lot for your help!
Doots
look at using http://avalondock.codeplex.com to get a layout like visual studio. Then you could put usercontrols in the LayoutPanes for your views, and have those binded to your viewmodels.
Thanks for your replies! Now i understand, I think I was searching way too far and made it more complex than it should...
Avalon seems a very nice solution, but I have a Telerik licence then I will go for it. If anybody is having the same issue, just take a look at this answer from Laurent Bugnon: http://mvvmlight.codeplex.com/discussions/252035
Thx

Where can i find Free WPF controls

Is there any site available where I can find free WPF controls like Griview ? I am currently working on a complex project where I need a customizable WPF Gridview like telerik
You can use controls from the WPF Toolkit as well as Extended WPF Toolkit.
Have a look at the controls in AvalonControlsLibrary on code plex, it is having a DataGridView control apart from other controls. -
http://avaloncontrolslib.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Home&ProjectName=avaloncontrolslib
DataGridView
DataGridView is a maybe a misleading name for this control. This control is far from being the same as the WinForms DataGridView (maybe someday it will J). Basically this control is a WPF ListView control but it is capable of auto generate the GridViewColumns for you. It generates the columns by looking at the objects’ properties. You can also specify how you generate the columns by decorating your properties with a custom attribute. For more information have a look at this post. http://marlongrech.wordpress.com/2007/09/01/listview-with-auto-generation-of-column-enable-disable-columns/
Similar SF question - Where can I find free WPF controls and control templates?
On codeplex.com and codeproject.com. However the best always cost money.

In WPF how to use GridView?

In WPF there is listview but no GridView control. I am familier with ASP.NET's GridView how to insert,update and delete, its events like Rowupdating, RowEditing etc. Now I want to do same things in WPF. Please provide some working example.
I think you're looking for the DataGrid. Here's a CodeProject article with examples and code: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/WPFDataGridExamples.aspx
You should use the DataGrid control.
Here are the examples for using WPF ListView and WPF DataGrid

Wpf template gallery

Does anybody know of a gallery of controltemplates, that I could use to learn more about what is possible with the different control types?
look at : https://github.com/jogibear9988/wpftoolkit
I've forked the Theming Package from Codeplex and switched to .Net 4.0
I'm not familiar with a gallery of control templates, though there are lots of examples on the internet. If you have a specific control you'd like to template (e.g. a ListBox or a Button), I would search for specific control templates that relate to that control. You will find countless options.
If you want to learn about what is possible with control templates, I'd suggest picking up one of the many great WPF books. A few I'd recommend are:
WPF Unleashed (by Adam Nathan)
Applications = Code + Markup by (Charles Petzold)
WPF Control Development Unleashed (by Pavan Podila and Kevin Hoffman)
You can completely recreate the visual tree of an element with a control template, so the possibilities are limitless. You can also check out the MSDN Help Topics on control styles and templates:
Control Styles and Templates
Using Templates to Customize WPF Controls
Hope that helps.
There's this one
http://www.xamltemplates.net/
There's this one
http://www.reuxables.com/
There's this one
http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Silverlight%20Toolkit%20Overview%20Part%203&referringTitle=Home
As a word of warning, all templates are not created equal - and not all templates will work across all XAML frameworks. For example if it is written for SL it may not work for WinRT. The same for WPF. But this list will get you started. In the end, you will probably create your own.

WPF Docking Manager with Databinding support

Does anyone know about a Docking Control like Visual Studio for WPF, where Databinding for the Panes is supported?
I tried the DockManager from Infragistics and from Actipro, but they lack this support.
For example, the Panes for the content need to be bound through Databinding, so removing the Entity on the other side of the binding would also remove it from the DocumentHost.
Any Idea? Or a lightweight workaround for any control?
Full databinding support from every control is crucial for my project.
Thanks in advance.
You might consider AvalonDock on Codeplex. If it doesn't have the functionality you are looking for you can add it yourself since you get full source code!
I know this won't help the original poster but in case someone else comes across this with a similar question, there is a blog post with a sample using an attached property to implement binding support in the Infragistics XamDockManager.

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