re: Two birds, one stone [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 2 and DataVisualizationDemos update]

David Anson — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:21:50 GMT

aaadrian,

TabControl/TabItem aren't sealed, so the first (easy) version of the trick works fine for me. I just created a new solution which shares MainPage.xaml across Silverlight and WPF. Here's the code.

MainPage.xaml (shared):

<UserControl x:Class="XamlSharedTabControlSL.MainPage"

xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

xmlns:controls="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls"

xmlns:local="clr-namespace:XamlSharedTabControlSL">

<Grid>

<local:TabControl>

<local:TabItem Header="Header 1" Content="Item 1"/>

<local:TabItem Header="Header 2" Content="Item 2"/>

</local:TabControl>

</Grid>

</UserControl>

MainPage.xaml.cs (shared):

using System.Windows.Controls;

namespace XamlSharedTabControlSL

{

public partial class MainPage : UserControl

{

public MainPage()

{

InitializeComponent();

}

public class TabControl : System.Windows.Controls.TabControl

{

}

public class TabItem : System.Windows.Controls.TabItem

{

}

Window1.xaml (WPF):

<Window x:Class="XamlSharedTabControlWPF.Window1"

xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

xmlns:local="clr-namespace:XamlSharedTabControlSL">

<Grid>

<local:MainPage/>

</Grid>

</Window>

Hope this helps!

re: Two birds, one stone [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 2 and DataVisualizationDemos update]

aaadrian — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:24:05 GMT

Hi,

The above trick for sharing XAML across both platforms won't work for TabControl. Do you know of any way around this? It would be very useful.

Thanks

aaadrian