For a project I decided to use Dynamic Data Display to generate charts (more specifically: heat maps) of certain data.
Now for as far as I could read (and see from the demos) Dynamic Data Display uses WPF forms.
I have no experience whatsoever with WPF, but I was wondering if it is possible to integrate Dynamic Data Display in a normal windows forms project (even if this means "mixing" Dynamic Data Display's WPF forms with my project's normal windows forms).
Thanks in advance!
You will need to use System.Windows.Forms.Integration.ElementHost control in your Windows Forms project, more information on how to use ElementHost to host WPF forms inside Windows Forms is at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms751797.aspx (Interoperability in WPF and Winforms and vice versa)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms742215.aspx (Walkthrough)
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I was creating a Windows Forms based application in C#. I want to display a custom main UI. I have a source Bitmap image for the same. But I cannot find the solution so as to how to do this in C#.
Here is my main window for the UI in which I would display the buttons and the display.
Can anyone tell me how to do this??
Thanks.
You can't do that using WinForms, you must use WPF.
Some links (there are many helpful resources, check on google for more):
WPFtutorial
Designing with Windows Presentation Foundation
Advantage of WPF app vs Winform for business apps
I have a Old windows form application and i don't want to convert it to wpf , i want to embed it inside my wpf application main window . How can i do this ?.
Also , How Can i transfer text between wpf and embeded WinForm using WindowsFormHost ?
You'll want to use a WindowsFormsHost. Check this tutorial out (shows how to do WPF in WinForms and vice versa).
You can use the WindowsFormsHost to add single Forms into an WPF application. If this is enough for your purposes have a look at this walkthrough.
I'm trying to build Windows Form application that reads info from a SQL database, and I want to display it in a control like an ASP.NET ListView.
This first time I am writing a Windows Form application, but I'm used to programming in ASP.NET and using the tools such as: listview, gridview, etc. I see that there is a GridView control in Windows forms and the possibility to connect it to the SQL DB.
Is there a tool which is identical to the ASP.NET ListView for Windows Forms or some other control to display my data?
The toolbox for Windows forms also contains ListView control. Read The ListView Control and Working with ListView in C# to get you started.
I think you are looking for DataGridView.
It has quite a lot of functionality. Check out the many questions here in SO about it.
And here's an article with 101 ways to manipulate it.
I am Creating a Windows Application in which there numerous forms. I want to create a general theme for all forms like style sheets or theme files in webapplication. Is there any way for setting themes in Windows application?
Unfortunately this is something that lacks support in WinForms. There are third party controls allowing you to achieve this but nothing out of the box. This concept has been introduced in WPF which is intended to replace WinForms.
You can use a third party dll to change theme of your windows form like DotnetSkin, DevExpress etc.
I am developing WPF windows application using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5. I am trying to use Mozilla Web browser activeX control in my application. I have added it to my tool box. The control is visible in tool box but it is disabled state. I am not able to use it during design time. This does not happen with normal Windows Form Application, I am able to use same control during design time.
Can anybody help me to understand this strange behavior?
Thanks,
Omkar
WPF doesn't directly support ActiveX controls. You'll need Winforms to give it a hospitable runtime environment and leverage the auto-generated AxHost wrapper. The WindowsFormHost control is available to embed winforms controls in a WPF window. The walkthrough that shows the technique is available here.