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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...
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I am new to WPF and I need a ribbon control for my app.
I see there are lots of ribbon controls, it is confusing to choose
which one and why to use it. Can you please suggest me which one to use?
I use WPF and Visual Studio 2012, .NET 4.5.
THanks
When the RibbonControl was first introduced, it was an optional add-on to the .NET Framework. However, now in .NET 4.5, the RibbonControl is included. Therefore I would recommend that you use this latest version if you can.
Also, if you have seen a RibbonControl on the CodePlex website, then you should know that this is in fact comprised of the same set of UI controls.
You can find out more about the RibbonControl from the RibbonControl Class page on the official MSDN website.
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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'm coming from a web dev background, and do ok, but with WinForms, everything I make looks like crap. Can you guys point me to resources with WinForm design principles that will make my WinForms easier on the eyes?
Thanks!
Making WinForms look "Good" is a tall order. I have found it is best accomplished with a 3rd party package. Some the more popular...
http://www.devexpress.com/
http://www.infragistics.com/
http://www.telerik.com/
Of course, if you can move into the WPF you will have almost unlimited control on how you style the Ui elements....but, as pointed out by –nportelli, it will still look like crap out of the box.
You should try windows presentation foundation instead. That gives you the ability to build interfaces in a manner that's closer to the html you're familiar with.
Microsoft have their own guidelines for Windows GUIs:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511440.aspx
YOu can also use http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar/ or SliverLight, WPF
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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’m looking for Silverlight component libraries (preferably commercial). So far I’ve found these:
ComponentOne
Telerik
DevExpress
Vectorlight
Infragistics
Xceed
Am I missing any?
I previously posted this question, I’m (still) searching for a Silverlight Image Editor. As part of my exploration I have to document that I at least checked "all the major vendors".
You forgot SyncFusion, and you really should not count XCeed, as they dont' appear to have anything useful for Silverlight (Xceed does have an impressive WPF grid tho).
I believe Componentone has the only image editing control for silverlight (called "bitmap" on their site). Judging from the demos it appears you can crop and manipulate images.