Or what control/method I should be using to achieve the same?
I've just started transitioning from Winforms over to WPF and I tried googling as well as search on SO for the same question but to no avail. So I'm guessing it has to do more with the fact that WPF has a different method of approach entirely. I tried looking at DockPanel but I'm still quite unsure how to handle the menus/orientations and especially user-interations to reposition said menus and toolbars.
I know there are a lot of ways to achieve the same thing in WPF. But even so, what's the standard method for handling Menus like how a toolstripcontainer does?
There's no out-of-the-box control equivalent for ToolStripContainer in WPF.
But there are lots of commercial controls such as Telerik RadToolBar or DevExpress DXBars. Click the links to see their preview.
Commercial controls for WPF are mature for years so they are worth to buy.
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As the question suggests, I'd like to know if it's possible to add a flyout panel to a regular wpf application, specifically to a UserControl. From the results I've got from googling, most available flyouts seem to come packaged with a template of some sort without explaining how they're made.
The closest I've got is the Extended WPF Toolkit but even that has no documentation on how to use it. As it is I'm currently trying to keep to the MVVM pattern. So is there anyone with an idea of how to make one?
You can add flyouts using mahapps.metro, which is free and opensource.
My requirement is to create a winform with contains a datagrid that allows rows to expand and show additional details. I'm considering using a WPF control and incorporate a WPF Datagrid in it to handle this, taking advantage of the RowDetails property of the DataGrid to handle the expansion of rows.
I'm completely new to WPF and the RowDetails property of Datagrid and so am only reading up on them now. Is it possible for me to use this control in my winform once I develop it? What issues may I face when trying to integrate the WPF control in my winform.
I have on multiple occasions used a WPF control on a WinForm. However, the only way I ever do it is to host it inside an ElementHost control. Once there I haven't noticed any major issues, though I do hear performance can be suspect depending on the usage.
As the two previous Answers state you have to use an ElementHost.
Here there is a comparison on how to host WPF in Winforms and Winforms in WPF. It was good for me to read the comparison when I was starting to work with it.
In this article the author links you to Gotchas For Working With Windows Forms/WPF Interop that has some common issues you can run into.
Build your WPF control like it was a Vendor control, with a clear interface and then just host it with the ElementHost. I have had to use it both ways but with legacy controls, and it really helps if you have a good interface in the control that you bring from the other platform, if not it can be a bit messy.
I read on MSDN and other websites (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms751797.aspx and http://www.abhishekshukla.com/wpf/advanced-wpf-part-5-of-5-interop-in-windows-presentation-foundation/) that multilevel hybrid nesting of WPF and WinForms controls is not supported...
I have an application where a WPF window has a WindowsFormsHost where inside that a WPF control is hosted in an ElementHost. This WPF control contains other WinForms controls which are also in WinFormsHost.
In short: WPF -> WinForms -> WPF -> WinForms.
So far I did not have any problems with that. After finding that small note on the MSDN page I'm wondering what exactly is not supported on that scenario, since it works for me.
Any ideas?
I would say the sense of "not supported" is "at your own risk". Most things will work, some things will not work, and it depends on your particular application whether the results will be acceptable. Or maybe you'll achieve results that are acceptable after some hacky workarounds are in place. MS aren't going to go out of there way to make it work.
I've worked with a project which contained a WinForms-WPF-WinForms nesting, and in general that worked - well enough to not rewrite the WinForms component. Focus is an issue - the nested control does not behave quite as you'd expect relating to focus gained/lost events, and keyboard focus can get stuck in the nested control. There may be a difference between whether the host element thinks it has focus and whether the contained control does. So I'd suggest focusing your testing around user input events and focus.
Is someone know any .NET Winform control which look like this button control?
QPushButton:
http://zetcode.com/gui/csharpqyoto/layoutmanagement/
You have several options here. You aren't specific about exactly which part of the platform you are using, but if using Winforms, you can certainly customize the buttons to some extent.
If you are using WPF, you can pretty much make it look exactly like you want in XAML. Check out Expression Blend.
As #Dimitri put it, the sky is the limit, but you may need to do the leg work.
You can create custom controls according your need and have its reference added to your project. you will have it added to your toolbox that you can use.
If you are refering to a button that is located on this example form:
We currently finishing our own application that has rather similar looking buttons. We did this by using a third party component. Steps are:
We purchased DevExpress.com's WinForms library.
We developed our own DevExpress Skin (with the help of an external screen design guy)
This was a bit of a work and some amount of money but the results look pretty neat.
I'm used to the GUI frameworks in Java as well as the QT GUI framework, and I'm used to the various layout managers. It doesn't seem that C# has any layout managers built in, or am I missing something?
2 Year Later Edit
I just want to point out to any readers of this question that in hind-sight, my question was misplaced. With proper anchoring and docking of child controls, having a need for the layout managers of Java and QT4 is nearly non-existent.
WPF does have layout managers, see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms745058.aspx
If you're coming from a Java background, then the section "Panel Elements and Custom Layout Behaviors" will be of particular interest.
Both WPF and Windows Forms provide layout capabilities (WPF is just much better at it).
You can achieve moderately complex layouts in Windows Forms too by utilizing the Dock and Anchor properties of controls. Personally I learned what can be achieved and how through Petzold's book on WinForms. If you don't have access to that book, read this short article.
chibacity is right, WPF is loaded with layout managers, all of them are very good.
However if you're going down the WinForms route, you're stuck with TableLayoutPanel, FlowLayoutPanel and SplitContainer. As well as the usual manual Panel and GroupBox controls.
No, you are not missing anything.
.NET does not have built in layout managers for Winforms/Webforms/Console development.
Probably because Visual Studio has good designers, obviating the need.
WPF and Silverlight (both using XAML) do have them, though they are not exactly the same as the Java ones.
WPF and Silverlight have different "Panels" that work similar to the layout managers in other languages.