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.
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I would like to know if it's possible to use a data template and a list system without the listview controller on xamarin forms.
You can definitely roll your own controls that use the templating engine. It would just take a whole lot of additional work with custom renderers for each platform etc. If you want to look into that you can check out the source code for Xamarin Forms since it's open source to see how they implemented the ListView. I think the negative voting is because this is quite a broad question that doesn't have an easy answer.
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.
Ok, I'll try to explain what I want to accomplish:
I'm quite new to WPF and XAML and I would like to create some domestic use applications with custom reusable UI. To be clear, I would like that every Window uses the same "Appearence" (specially the non-client area) without customizing every single one of them.
I've done some researches (obviously) and I found something that resembles perfectly what I'm trying to do: MahApps.Metro Template.
But I don't want to use some third party code because I like to have control all over my application and I want to customize what I want by myself. So I'd like to know what is the correct (and the best, maybe) way to do so. I've read plenty of posts about Window customizing but I didn't find anything that explained how to do that in that way.
I hope to have well-explained myself and I thank you all in advance for the help!
If you want to make custom UI in XAML you should learn to use Expression Blend. Here is a resource you can try -
Inspirational Textbox Styles (Source code available)
There are several videos available on youtube on Expression Blend for making custom UI in XAML. You can try that.
I'm trying to encapsulate Windows Forms Control (from previous version of project) to WPF Custom Control Library. Because I want to use it in future Wpf applications (like drag&drop from toolbox in VS). I successfully done this: WinForms in Wpf App. Do you know site/or tutorials where this things are explained?
What I got: .dll with WinForms control, Wpf Custom Control Library project (to place WinForms control) and Wpf Aplication.
Thanks for your help and suggestions.
What SonerGönül is refering to, is that if you read the links he points out.
You can see you should have done this steps better:
Do your homework
There is plenty of examples all over on how to achieve what you want to do.
Search on Google something like "how to host winforms in wpf"
You will get plenty of links like:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms751761.aspx
Even questions done in this site in the past.
Be specific, Make it relevant to others
You need to make a more clear question. Read your question as if someone else is the person who wrote it, and think if you would be able to understand it properly.
People in this site wants to see you have worked towards solving your problem, therefore you can mention things you already have done, and make a specific question.
Like "I implemented what this website suggest but I am getting this exception"
To answer your question
I really like this website: Mixing WPF and WinForms
Because it gives you a nice both side explanation of how Mixing WPF and Winforms works, with examples.
As part of a school project, a group and I will develop a Windows application using C#.
We are not very experienced in C# but has some basic understanding for it. We do however have experience from other languages and platforms.
We would like to build an application in which the layout is split into two primary parts: the menu, which will reside to the left and the content which will be to the right.
The menu will be more or less static and when an entry in the menu is chosen, the content will be changed.
We have not been able to figure out the best way for achieving this nor have we been able to find good material on this. The idea is to have one window and add a view (as far as I can understand, this should be a UserControl?) to this window. This control will be the menu.
Now, our question is if anyone can point us in the right direction to achieve the navigation in the program. Say, when a menu entry is clicked, how will we change the content of the window and how will we manage which view is active? I suppose that every view (in the "content area") will have a controller.
We are interested in the "best practices" for this when using WinForms and the MVC pattern.
We hope that someone can help us further in this project.
If I were you I would seriously consider using WPF instead of winforms.
It, and the use of the MVVM pattern, allows you to do some pretty impressive stuff with far less code than if you are using winforms. If you don't already know winforms then it might also be a slightly less steep learning curve as WPF is a better thought out framework (at least in my opinion).
If you go the WPF route spend some time getting to understand how bindings work and how to bind your ViewModel to the UI. Once you have a good understanding of proper UI separation you are able to do far more than you could with the old WinForms framework.
I found this link quite useful when I first started looking at WPF. Especially the RelayCommand.
If you are using Winforms the options that you have got is:
-dynamically clearing forms and generating content on menu navigation
-using mdi container form, which can be parent to a number of child forms
If you are using for WPF you could use Pages in a Frame control loaded based on used menu selection. You could also use MVVM pattern to build your app.