VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1 are out now!

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re: VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1 are out now!

Patrick — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:18:47 GMT

I have been using the WPF Toolkit datagrid and have now started to use the .NET Framework 4 DataGrid in VS2010. Previously I used the Generic.xaml in my custom DataGrid from the supplied Toolkit source code. Where can I find the Generic.xaml file for the VS2010 implementation?

re: VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1 are out now!

vinsibal — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:38:57 GMT

Patrick,

Unfortunately there isn't a Generic.xaml file that is available publically for the framework controls. It is a nice thing to have in the toolkit. There is a way you can get access to the default style programmatically. Note that this is an internal method and undocumented so this can change in the future.

Here is some example code for retrieving the default style of a button. This can obviously be replaced with any control.

Button b = new Button();

Assembly asm = Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(Button));

Type styleHelperType = asm.GetType("System.Windows.StyleHelper");

Style style = (Style)styleHelperType.InvokeMember(

"GetThemeStyle",

BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.InvokeMethod | BindingFlags.Static,

null,

new object[] { b, null });

var settings = new XmlWriterSettings();

settings.Indent = true;

var sb = new StringBuilder();

var writer = XmlWriter.Create(sb, settings);

XamlWriter.Save(style, writer);

MessageBox.Show(sb.ToString());

re: VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1 are out now!

Patrick — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:30:19 GMT

Thank you very much for the help, it has got me the information I wanted. I understand that parts may change in the future (and most probably will). I will try to keep an eye out for that and cater for that possibility.

PS I'm sure I've seen similar approaches to this before, but maybe not quite the same. I need to learn a bit more about .NET in this area!