Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Controls   (RSS)
Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:19 PM

Implicit Styles, Templates, Controls and FrameworkElements

Even though I've been working with WPF for over 3 years, I'm still learning some of its idiosyncrasies. A discussion came up recently about whether implicit styles are applied to elements in a template. It turns out that the answer is, it depends on whether
Posted by Carole Snyder | 0 Comments
Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:35 PM

Chart Controls for WPF ship in the Toolkit

We posted previously about the development of the WPF chart controls. With the release of the June WPF Toolkit you now have the controls at your fingertips. You can make bar, pie, bubble, scatter and line graphs. Check out this blog post for details!
Posted by mparsons | 0 Comments
Friday, February 27, 2009 11:57 PM

The VisualStateManager and Triggers

Silverlight introduced the Visual State Manager, which makes it easier for control template authors to specify the appearance of a control depending on its visual state. The WPF Toolkit ships a Visual State Manager, and the next version of WPF will include
Posted by Carole Snyder | 4 Comments
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:22 AM

Using Themes with Custom Controls

Last month I explained how to use shared resources in a control library . This month I’ll create an example that uses different styles based on the current setting of the desktop theme. You can define a different look and feel based on the desktop theme
Posted by wcsdkteam | 3 Comments
Attachment(s): ThemedResources.zip
Friday, April 27, 2007 2:58 PM

Popup your control

You want a custom control to behave like a Popup and appear over your application and other windows? So you should inherit from Popup, right? Not necessarily. Another approach is to create your custom control, add a Popup to it, and use the popup service.
Posted by wcsdkteam | 5 Comments
Attachment(s): EditablePopup.zip
Friday, March 16, 2007 4:18 PM

How do I programmatically interact with template-generated elements? Part I

You may have a scenario that requires you to find an element within a ControlTemplate. To do that, you use Template.FindName. Say you have a simple ControlTemplate for a Button, like the following: < Style TargetType = " {x:Type Button} " > <
Posted by wcsdkteam | 12 Comments
Thursday, January 25, 2007 3:10 PM

Free DataGrid for WPF by Xceed

The DataGrid has to be the most requested and sought-after WPF control. Today Xceed Software has released version 1.0 of their WPF DataGrid. Check it out!
Posted by wcsdkteam | 0 Comments
Friday, January 05, 2007 2:11 PM

"Styling" the content of a ContentControl

People have occasionally asked about using a Style to set the content of a control. For example, suppose you want all of your buttons in an application to have the same content. You can do something like this (As usual, this doesn’t make sense for a real
Posted by wcsdkteam | 0 Comments
Tuesday, January 02, 2007 12:54 PM

Interactive 2D Controls on 3D Surfaces in WPF

One of the really cool features of WPF is its ability to place 2D content on 3D surfaces. For example, you can place a button control on a sphere or arrange images on a cube. However, w ith V1 of WPF, you couldn't interact with this 2D content. You could
Posted by wcsdkteam | 0 Comments
Thursday, November 30, 2006 7:58 AM

Are You My Mother? A look into how property inheritance works with the logical and visual element trees.

I was recently working on an article for the SDK and noticed some unexpected behavior in one of my examples. After a long discussion with a developer on the team, I caught onto some concepts that weren’t readily obvious to me. I’m going to share my findings
Posted by wcsdkteam | 0 Comments
 
Page view tracker