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Replacing Microsoft Word Content Control Dynamically At Runtime

I want to be able to bind content control fields to each others' values. Basically if you change a field at the top, all others in the document also update to that. I'm replacing hundreds of individual variables, each with 100 duplicates. There is a better way than the 'Find and Replace Tool'.
Here is a sample document directly from Microsoft's site that shows exactly what I would like to be able to do:
https://omextemplates.content.office.net/support/templates/en-us/tf03444179.dotx
When the '' value is changed, all others in the document update.
I've already looked at plenty of solutions like: c# word interop find and replace everything
But they do not dynamically respond during run-time. In other words you have to go in and change which string you want to replace for each value.
Been looking for a while now, thanks in advance if anyone else can figure this out.

When the user clicks on an UltraGrid cell that contains multiple lines of text, the selected text loses the CRLFs

I have a C# program that uses an Infragistics UltraWinGrid to display comments. A comment can be multiple lines. That is, it can contain carriage return/line feeds (CRLFs). (See the upper portion of the attached screenshot.) But when the user selects the text of the comment by clicking on the cell, it loses the CRLFs. (See lower portion.) This is a problem, because comments can be very long and the user may want to copy and paste a comment somewhere else without losing the formatting.
From what I understand, this problem results because the grid uses a Windows textbox as an editor when the user clicks on a cell. Is there some way that I can either make the textbox keep the CLRFs or replace the textbox with an editor that does? Thanks.

Turns out there are a few stars that need to align for this.
Of course CellMultiLine needs to be set for the column like wnvko pointed out.
But also, you must make sure your Column Style is NOT FormattedText or FormattedTextEdit. (If that's required for editing i think you are out of luck). Just use Default style.
And finally make sure you CRLFs are actually truly CRLFs. My best suggestion is to use Environment.NewLine. If you are pulling the data from the DB, make sure you use CHAR(13) + CHAR(10) in that specific order. See Differences Between vbLf, vbCrLf & vbCr Constants
Hope this helps 4 years later. :-) But wanted to share for others since i found no solution elsewhere.

My suggestion is to use Templates. Have a look at the official Infragistics UltraWebGrid help book that is explaining in depth how to configure features like Row and Column Templates.
Go to page 74 for more information regarding the templating.

You should set CellMultiLine of the column to True. Here is how it is working when I set it in my grid

I never found a real answer to this question, but I was able to do a workaround by capturing the click event and having it open a small dialog box containing the cell text. I had the dialog box open at the point the user clicked, so that it appeared over the cell. After a few minor adjustments to take care of border conditions, it worked surprisingly well, so I'm calling this one solved. Thanks, everyone, for your suggestions.

Split a textbox into 4 seperate ones but save in one EF field

The title doesn't really explain my scenario very well, so I will try to explain the best way I can.
I have recently learnt how to multi-bind using a listview to concatenate two fields and separate them with a "," which was relatively easy to achieve. But now, I want to achieve something a bit more advanced but not sure if it is quite possible to do and I am not too sure how to go about achieving it and therefore would like some help or advice or guidance to help me achieve this :).
I am using Entity framework to create an entity model and some of the tables are larger then I expected therefore, I do not wish to add more fields then required (which is in this case).
One of my requirements, I have a textbox, containing no more then 13 characters. But, I now have been asked to achieve something similar to the image below;
As you can see from the image, the textbox at the top is what I have currently, but I want to find a way of splitting that textbox like the one below (containing; 123 P A ...).
Leading back to my question, is there a way to concatenate a textbox within an application that contains a possible further 4 textboxes and than they all save within one field of an EF model to reduce the amount of fields in a table?
Is this a bit ambitious or am I over thinking the problem too much and there is a far similar way of achieving this?
Thanks in advance for the help.
EDIT:
In the end, I created a separate table to achieve this. Quick and easy fix. Albeit, still an interesting question and still curious of a way of achieving it.

I would write my own UserControl for that. It should be fairly simple.
Basically, you define a Grid or StackPanel and add w/e number of TextBox's you need to it. Then, in code behind you define a dependency property, e.g. Result, which will serve as concatenation of Text properties of those texboxes. After that all you need to do is do some event handling: update Result whenever either of TextBox.Text properties changes and swap keyboard focus between TextBox's as user fills them. When you are done, you can simply bind your view model property to Result porperty.

How to build a "word-by-word" autocomplete in WPF?

I already did some research and ended up with several autocomplete boxes which have one thing in common: they all match the whole expression which has been entered. Sometimes, they seem to be easily expandable, but at the end, they aren't.
However, I need a Textbox which allows the user to enter a word (e.g. "tag1"), displays a popup with some suggestions based on this single word, accept the suggestion with the return key and type in a new word (e.g "tag1 tag2") in the same textbox, with the popup popping up again. (I like the way CintaNotes handles this)
I need this for a tagging interface. It's often faster for the user to write the tags into a simple box, but sometimes, he needs assistance. This is what the autocomplete is for.
I've found some results, which don't work for my purpose (imho):
http://www.wpfpedia.com/item/details/743/wpf-autocomplete-textbox-control
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/WPF_Autocomplete.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/autocomplete_textbox.aspx
http://weblogs.thinktecture.com/cnagel/2011/01/autocomplete-textbox-with-wpf.html
Btw, I really like the way the Tag-Box for SO operates.
Does anyone have an idea? Is there a "out-of-the-box" - solution somewhere, which suits my needs but I didn't find? Or do I have to build one myself?
Thanks! :)

I think you mean a textbox which autocomplete for multiple words.
Like TokenizedTexbox on WPF Extended Toolkit.
this is the page: http://wpftoolkit.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=TokenizedTextBox&referringTitle=Home

Probably you would need to create your own Dictionary object of Key and Value pairs and hook that Dictionary to the textbox events and popup a suggestions dialog that displays the Value(s) from your Dictionary

Check this implementation out: http://code.google.com/p/kocontrols/downloads/list
You may inject your own Search algorithm and your own converter which converts the selected element to text, which you display in the TextBox. You will have to modify it slightly but I think that you might be able to solve your problem by basing your control on this implementation.
I never thought about this type of use case.
Can't you use different textboxes for the different tags? Something similar to how goole code does it?

If you have time, you can use the RichEditControl or TextBox and apply the same pattern used in Intellisense engine or Code Completation enabled editors: Hook the text changes events, Recogize context (last/current word) and display the options list on popup control. And optionally, on commit (detect acceptation or space key), apply the format to the word.

Programmatically hiding properties in a PropertyGrid

I'm looking to hide/show properties depending on what selection the user makes in a drop. I am handling the event fine, but cannot actually make the correct properties disappear. The solutions I have found on line are mainly from 2005 and as I've had very little experience with it I thought I must be doing something wrong if hiding properties is this hard.
So far I have tried accessing the property once the event is handled but the ReadOnly and IsBrowsable properties are read only.
The propertygrid has a property BrowsableAttributes that takes an Attribute list but only works negatively and cannot do or - only and. Providing an attribute collection of ; category - 'test' and isbrowsable - true; returns those that match both and as I can't provide multiple AttributeCollections I cannot make the search specific enough to hide the necessary ones whilst leaving others visible.
I have been banging my head against a wall for the past couple of hours thinking there must be an easier way.

Have you tried applying this attribute to a property:
[Browsable(false)]
public object SomeProperty{
}
In that way SomeProperty will not appear on the propertygrid.

To do what you want to do here, you'd need to implement ICustomTypeDescriptor on your class, which is what the PropertyGrid will use to query your class/object to find out what items to display in the PropertyGrid, how to edit them, what category/description they should have, etc.
It can get quite messy, but it seems that there's a pre-written set of helper classes for you on Code Project at http://www.codeproject.com/KB/grid/PropertyGridDynamicProp.aspx.
I'd started writing my own version of the code given at Code Project and after hitting a snag I did some googling and came up with the Code Project link. It looks like they've done a lot better than I was. I've downloaded the code and it seems to work quite well.
If it doesn't solve your problem, please let me know and I'll dig a bit deeper.