Create control instance in WPF - c#

I want to load multiple images inside a wrappanel, for each image I show a thumbnail and some image details with this code
<Border BorderThickness="1" BorderBrush="#FFD0D1D7" Padding="5" Margin="10,10,0,0">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<!--image and dimensions-->
<Grid Width="88" Height="55">
<Image Source="C:\img1.jpg" Width="88" Height="55"/>
<TextBlock Background="#B2000000" Foreground="White" Height="16" TextAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Bottom">1280x1024</TextBlock>
</Grid>
<!--name, type and size-->
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" Margin="5,0,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Center">
<TextBlock Margin="1" Foreground="#FF787878">img13.jpg</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Margin="1" Foreground="#FF787878">Type: JPEG</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Margin="1" Foreground="#FF787878">Size: 321 KB</TextBlock>
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
</Border>
But the images are loaded at runtime, and I need some way to create instances of the above code to show the image, dimensions, name, type and size
I tried this solution https://stackoverflow.com/a/4991028/962284
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
// use xaml to declare a button as string containing xaml
sb.Append(#"<Border BorderThickness='1' BorderBrush='#FFD0D1D7' Padding='5' Margin='10,10,0,0'>
<StackPanel Orientation='Horizontal'>
<!--image and dimensions-->
<Grid Width='88' Height='55'>
<Image Source='C:\img1.jpg' Width='88' Height='55'/>
<TextBlock Background='#B2000000' Foreground='White' Height='16' TextAlignment='Center' VerticalAlignment='Bottom'>1280x1024</TextBlock>
</Grid>
<!--name, type and size-->
<StackPanel Orientation='Vertical' Margin='5,0,0,0' VerticalAlignment='Center'>
<TextBlock Margin='1' Foreground='#FF787878'>img13.jpg</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Margin='1' Foreground='#FF787878'>Type: JPEG</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Margin='1' Foreground='#FF787878'>Size: 321 KB</TextBlock>
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
</Border>");
FrameworkElement thumb = (FrameworkElement)System.Windows.Markup.XamlReader.Parse(sb.ToString());
ThumbnailContainer.Children.Add(thumb);
but I get the following error
I also tried with styles, but styles doesnt support multiple parameters (to specify the textblocks: dimensions, size, name, type and size) just "TemplateBinding Tag" for 1 value
What can I do to create instances of the first code to show multiple images at runtime?

Wow. That so looks like the hard way to do things. Time to embrace WPF and XAML.
I had a post about this exact same thing that wasn't quite finished. I took time to finish it for you. I even used your XAML snippet (well, a modified version of it) in the example, just for you.
http://www.wpfsharp.com/2012/10/23/displaying-images-from-a-folder-with-details-in-wpf/
Clemens is correct in his comment to use an ItemsControl.

Yes your approach is wrong and you should be doing this some other way but to get your code snippet to work try adding xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation\" to your Border element in the string you are building. I suspect that is the error.

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Microsoft recently started supporting the TreeView for UWP. This page is a reference.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/controls-and-patterns/tree-view
They display there an example with icons however they do not provide an example of how to do this.
Can anyone show an example of how to do this in XAML or programmatically?
Thanks in advance.
Ok, I copied the example (very bottom of the page) from the link provided by Depechie and replaced the DataTemplate with this code below and it worked. I am now able to see the Image.
<DataTemplate x:Key="TreeViewItemDataTemplate">
<Grid Height="44">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Image x:Name="TreeIcon" Width="16" Height="16" Source="Assets/folder.png" Margin="0,0,10,0">
<Image.FocusVisualPrimaryBrush>
<ImageBrush/>
</Image.FocusVisualPrimaryBrush>
</Image>
<TextBlock
Text="{Binding Content.DisplayName}"
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Style="{ThemeResource BodyTextBlockStyle}"/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
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Trying to apply SolidColorBrush resource to HeaderedContentControl BorderBrush

I'd like to link a SolidColorBrush from my Window to Another SolidColorBrush in My dictionary. I didn't find something like this , and may be it's not possible ...
here is the code in my "ResourceDictionary.xaml"
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="BrushBlueTransparent" Color="#33006D8F"/>
And in my windows i want a link to this resource like this :
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="ControlColor" Color="{Binding Source={DynamicResource BrushEvasanOrange}}"/>
For now, this code don't work ...
I want to use this link because i want to use this resource in my page in a multiple "" and if the color had to be change in the futur it could be easy to change with this way.
The Brush resource is used like this:
<HeaderedContentControl
x:Name="_demandeur"
BorderBrush="{DynamicResource BrushEncadre}"
BorderThickness="1"
Padding="10"
Margin="0,20,0,0"
Header="{x:Static p:Resources.EV_Demandeur}"
>
<WrapPanel
Margin="0"
Orientation="Horizontal"
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
>
<TextBlock
TextWrapping="Wrap"
FontWeight="Normal"
Text="text"
/>
</WrapPanel>
</HeaderedContentControl>
It sounds like your problem is that HeaderedContentControl ignores its BorderBrush property. There are two ways to fix this: One is to replace the HeaderedContentControl's Template with one that displays a border around the content, but that's a lot of trouble. Another is to use a subclass of HeaderedContentControl which already has a template that does you want (we'll get to that last).
One very simple option is to simply put a Border around the control, and move the Margin to the Border as well, so the orange border line will be inside the margin. This isn't the right answer in your specific case, but it's a good general answer to "how do I put a border around things in XAML?"
<Border
BorderBrush="{StaticResource BrushEncadre}"
BorderThickness="1"
Margin="0,20,0,0"
>
<HeaderedContentControl
x:Name="_demandeur"
Padding="10"
Header="{x:Static p:Resources.EV_Demandeur}"
>
<WrapPanel
Margin="0"
Orientation="Horizontal"
HorizontalAlignment="Left" >
<TextBlock
TextWrapping="Wrap"
FontWeight="Normal"
Text="text"
/>
</WrapPanel>
</HeaderedContentControl>
</Border>
But I'm wondering if HeaderedContentControl is really what you want here. HeaderedContentControl is a base class for a variety of controls which display content with a header. The subclasses are much more commonly used, and I have a feeling that what you really want here is GroupBox, which is one of those subclasses. You'd use it just the way you were using HeaderedContentControl:
<GroupBox
x:Name="_demandeur"
Padding="10"
Margin="0,20,0,0"
Header="{x:Static p:Resources.EV_Demandeur}"
BorderBrush="{StaticResource BrushEncadre}"
BorderThickness="1"
>
<WrapPanel
Margin="0"
Orientation="Horizontal"
HorizontalAlignment="Left" >
<TextBlock
TextWrapping="Wrap"
FontWeight="Normal"
Text="text"
/>
</WrapPanel>
</GroupBox>

Inline object position in XAML WP8

I want to make checkbox and textbloxk parallel or inline in my XAML WP8, but it seems the checkbox is upside and the textblock is below the checkbox. Any suggest how?
<Grid Margin="0,522,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Left">
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Center">
<CheckBox x:Name="Accept"/>
<TextBlock Text="I Accept Terms and Conditions" VerticalAlignment="Top"/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
You don't need TextBlock for this. Set CheckBox.Content:
<CheckBox x:Name="Accept" Content="I Accept Terms and Conditions"/>
and for other cases if want to stack elements horizontally then set Orientation="Horizontal" on you StackPanel
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Center" Orientation="Horizontal">

Access XAML Control In DataTemplate From CodeBehind?

I have a control that I am unable to access in the codebehind, and I believe it is because it is defined in a DataTempalte.
The overall control is a slide show carousel. Each slide can be an Image or a MediaElement (video), the contents of which are defined in an ItemSource binding. The carousel is on a timer to switch from one slide to the next. Each time the slide changes I fire an event to that effect.
When I hit a slide with a video I'd like to stop the slide timer (done that) and start the video, which is where I've run into a problem. I can not access the MediaPlayer element Name from my codebehind. My assumption at this point is because it is a DataTemplate.
Is this assumption correct? If so, how can I get access to this control from the codebehind, or (more to the point) have it start playing when the slide comes up?
<ctrl:AutoScrollCarousel ...>
<ctrl:AutoScrollCarousel.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" />
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ctrl:AutoScrollCarousel.ItemsPanel>
<ctrl:AutoScrollCarousel.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Border x:Name="Border" VerticalAlignment="Center"
Width="{Binding ActualWidth, RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType={x:Type UserControl},Mode=FindAncestor}}">
<Grid Background="White">
...
<Image Source="{Binding ContentImage}" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" Stretch="UniformToFill"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
Visibility="{Binding ContentImage, Converter={StaticResource VisibilityConverter}}" />
<MediaElement Name="MediaPlayer" Source="{Binding ContentVideo}" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" Stretch="UniformToFill" LoadedBehavior="Play"
Visibility="{Binding ContentVideo, Converter={StaticResource VisibilityConverter}}" MediaEnded="MediaPlayer_MediaEnded" />
<TextBlock Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1" Text="{Binding Title}" Foreground="Black"
FontFamily="Segoe UI" FontWeight="Light" HorizontalAlignment="Left" FontSize="75" Margin="0" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
<TextBlock Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="1" Text="{Binding ContentHeadline}" Foreground="Black"
FontFamily="Segoe UI" FontWeight="Light" HorizontalAlignment="Left" FontSize="50" VerticalAlignment="Center"
TextWrapping="Wrap">
</TextBlock>
</Grid>
</Border>
</DataTemplate>
</ctrl:AutoScrollCarousel.ItemTemplate>
</ctrl:AutoScrollCarousel>
WPF provides a simple and straightforward way to access named elements that are generated from DataTemplates. It is explained in the MSDN article How to: Find DataTemplate-Generated Elements.
Assumed that your AutoScrollCarousel is derived from ItemsControl, you would get the ContentPresenter that is the container of an item like this:
AutoScrollCarousel carousel = ...
object item = ...
var contentPresenter =
carousel.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(item) as ContentPresenter;
From the ContentPresenter you would get the named element in the DataTemplate by means of the FindName method:
var dataTemplate = contentPresenter.ContentTemplate;
var mediaPlayer = dataTemplate.FindName("MediaPlayer", contentPresenter) as MediaElement;
I would normally recommend not to touch UIElements from code... but the MediaElement is a special case... maybe you should wrap the whole template inside a usercontrol (maybe with some custom DepProps) and that will give you better control over the whole thing.
Edit: Another approach would be to create a Behavior with a couple of properties (such as IsPlaying) and manipulate the mediaelement from there. Then you could use this behavior in the XAML of the DataTemplate, with no need for code behind or usercontrols.

Grid with an image, textblock, and rectangle, inside a listbox not showing up exactly right

So I have this Xaml inside a ListBox Item Template:
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<DataTemplate>
<Grid Height="22" Width="Auto">
<Image Margin="-2,0,0,0" Source="{Binding Path=ADsPath, Converter={StaticResource ImxConverter}}" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Width="22" />
<TextBlock Margin="20,3,0,0" Text="{Binding Path=DisplayValue}" Width="Auto" />
<Rectangle Fill="White" Stroke="White" Margin="-2,0,-2,0.5" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Height="1" Width="Auto" />
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</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
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Setting your width to Auto basically tells it to only be large enough to fit everything inside. I think you need to set your Grid's HorizontalAlignment to Stretch for it to work properly.
Edit:
I did a small sample app. Here's how I would do what you are trying to do:
On your actual listbox, I would have the HorizontalContentAlignment property set to Stretch
and
I would change your Grid to a DockPanel:
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<DockPanel Height="22" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
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</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
Have you tried removing Width="Auto"? Auto is saying "only make me as big as I need to be" which, in your case, is determined by the length of the text. The default is "Stretch" which means "hey container, do me a favor and make me as wide as you are".

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