not using setter property on some control - c#

I created <Style TargetType="Label"> I am using it on all labels.
But there is one label that I don't want to use this Style there I just want to stay default .
Any way to do so?

<Label Style="{x:Null}" />
should do the trick

Don't think there is something like a DoNotApplyStyle Boolean on a UIElement. What you can do is simply give that special label it's own unique style which mimics the default style.
<Label Text="Special label">
<Label.Style>
<Style>
<Setter Property="FontSize" Value="11"/>
...
</Style>
</Label.Style>
</Label>

Just create a named style for the one you don't want to have the implicit style, and assign it to it.
for example:
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication6.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525" x:Name="MyWindow">
<Window.Resources>
<Style TargetType="Label">
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Red"/>
</Style>
<Style x:Key="DefaultStyle" TargetType="Label"/>
</Window.Resources>
<StackPanel x:Name="MainCanvas">
<Label>Sample 1</Label>
<Label Style="{StaticResource DefaultStyle}">Sample 2</Label>
<Label>Sample 3</Label>
</StackPanel>
</Window>
in this example all labels will have red foreground except the ones you assign the DefaultStyle will have a default style (foreground black)

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WPF Listbox with wider scrollbars

I'm totally new on WPF and I need your help for creating a wpf custom ListBox with scrollbar wider than the default.
I've found a solution that works fine for a Window WPF including a ListBox:
<Window x:Class="iFixCustomControlsTest.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:cc="clr-namespace:iFixCustomControls;assembly=iFixCustomControls"
xmlns:sys="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib"
Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
<Grid>
<ListBox HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="92" Margin="56,88,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="357" ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible"/>
</Grid>
<Window.Resources>
<Style TargetType="ScrollBar">
<Setter Property="Width" Value="100"/>
</Style>
</Window.Resources>
</Window>
This solution is not the my favorite one, because it implies to write code in a Window including a "classic" Listbox. What I need is a way to modify scrollbar inside the Listbox (if I understood fine) in Generic.xaml:
<ResourceDictionary
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:iFixCustomControls">
<Style TargetType="local:iFixCustomListBox" BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Type ListBox}}">
<!--
Setting scrollbar wider than default
Something like:
<Style TargetType="ScrollBar">
<Setter Property="Width" Value="100"/>
</Style>
-->
</Style>
</ResourceDictionary>
.cs file is:
public class iFixCustomListBox : ListBox
{
static iFixCustomListBox()
{
DefaultStyleKeyProperty.OverrideMetadata(typeof(iFixCustomListBox), new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(typeof(iFixCustomListBox)));
}
}
Is this approach correct or a better way should involve User Control instead Custom Controls?
If I understand you correctly you have a custom control type derived from ListBox and you want every instance of that control to have a wider vertical scrollbar.
If so, you can just use a custom style for your control (which you probably have already), and add a ScrollBar style to that style's Resources collection:
<Style TargetType="{x:Type local:iFixCustomListBox}">
<Style.Resources>
<Style TargetType="{x:Type ScrollBar}">
<Setter Property="Width" Value="100" />
</Style>
</Style.Resources>
</Style>
I tried with this style placed in the resources collection of (a) a window, and (b) the application, and it worked fine in both cases, so I assume it would also work if placed in generic.xaml.
What about this?
<ScrollViewer Width="100">
<ListBox ...>
</ScrollViewer>

Can I check if the selectedItem of comboBox is there in the itemsource or not using triggers and/or converters?

I have various comboboxes in various view which have different itemsource so I want a generic way to check if the user selected value is there in the corresponding itemsource. As the comboboxes are editable so I want to inform user when He is enetering a junk value like by changing Foreground to Red.
<Window x:Class="CustomComboBox.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
<Grid>
<StackPanel VerticalAlignment="Center">
<ComboBox Name="cmbBox" Width="100" Height="30" IsEditable="True" StaysOpenOnEdit="True" >
<ComboBox.Style>
<Style TargetType="ComboBox">
<Style.Triggers>
<Trigger Property="SelectedIndex" Value="-1">
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Red"/>
</Trigger>
</Style.Triggers>
</Style>
</ComboBox.Style>
</ComboBox>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</Window>
Hope this helps

Binding in Style in Silverlight 5

I know that Silverlight 5 introduces the data binding in styles. I want to bind the source of image which is present in content template in the style of a button.
I am using the below code where I am trying to set the image source property in style.
// Style
<UserControl x:Class="MGPIControls_Simple.ButtonControl"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
xmlns:vsm="clr-namespace:System.Windows;assembly=System.Windows"
Height="40" Width="40"
mc:Ignorable="d" x:Name="ButtonControlSample">
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Transparent">
<Grid.Resources>
<Style x:Key="ImageButtonStyle" TargetType="Button">
<Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="Transparent"/>
<Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="0"/>
<Setter Property="Background" Value="Transparent"/>
<Setter Property="ContentTemplate">
<Setter.Value>
<DataTemplate>
<!-- binding in style -->
<Image Source="{Binding ImageSource}"
VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
Stretch="Fill"/>
</DataTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
</Grid.Resources>
<Button x:Name="ButtonBase" Style="{StaticResource ImageButtonStyle}"
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch"/>
</Grid>
Where ImageSource is the dependency property I have created. If I dont bind the image source property and keep it static to some image url the things are working fine but binding is not working. Please let me know where I am wrong in above approach.
You have to use binding like
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=DataContext.BusyText, RelativeSource={RelativeSource Mode=FindAncestor, AncestorType=UserControl}}"
Well, how to put this... what you try to do is not the new Silverlight 5 feature Binding in Styles. This kind of binding is always possible, even with older Silverlight versions.
You have a DataTemplate and that means any binding you declare is evaluated when actual UI elements are instantiated from the template. And your binding Source="{Binding ImageSource}" is evaluated against your Button's DataContext.
If there is no public property ImageSource then your Button won't show any image.

Inversion of inheritance in WPF styles

I've got a UserControl that contains a button:
<Button Content="Button"/>
And a style:
<Style TargetType="Button">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="Blue"/>
</Style>
The parent window (or another UserControl) may set another more general style:
<Style TargetType="Button">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="Red"/>
</Style>
The result is (what is obvious) that parent buttons will have more general style (Red) and my user control will have buttons with more specific style (Blue).
I'm wondering how to invert such behaviour in order to achieve something like setting the default style in my custom user control which could be then overriden in parent control or window if necessary?
The key is, that default style is defined first in custom user control and it is overriden automaticly by its parent. That is way I called it an inversion.
The imaginary example of the solution maight look like the following:
<Style TargetType="Button" StylePriority="Default">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="Blue"/>
</Style>
The StylePriority could indicate that if there is no other style defined for that button, then the default style should be applied to it.
You could use dynamic resources.
A UserControl:
<UserControl x:Class="Example.UserControl1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Example">
<UserControl.Resources>
<Style TargetType="local:UserControl1">
<Style.Resources>
<Style TargetType="Button" x:Key="UserControl1.DefaultButtonStyle">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="Red"/>
</Style>
</Style.Resources>
</Style>
</UserControl.Resources>
<Button Content="UserControlButton" Style="{DynamicResource UserControl1.DefaultButtonStyle}"/>
</UserControl>
And a Window:
<Window x:Class="Example.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Example">
<Window.Resources>
<Style TargetType="Button">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="Blue" />
</Style>
</Window.Resources>
<StackPanel>
<local:UserControl1 >
<local:UserControl1.Resources>
<Style x:Key="UserControl1.DefaultButtonStyle" TargetType="Button"
BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Type Button}}">
<Setter Property="FontSize" Value="40" />
</Style>
</local:UserControl1.Resources>
</local:UserControl1>
<Button Content="WindowButton" />
</StackPanel>
</Window>
If you remove the style for the control in the window, the default user control button style will be applied.
Create a dependency property in your UserControl for the buttons colour, and then bind to it. You can specify a default value of blue for that property.
public static readonly DependencyProperty ButtonColorProperty =
DependencyProperty.Register("ButtonColor", typeof(Color), typeof(MyUserControl),
new PropertyMetadata(Colors.Blue));
public Color State
{
get { return (Color)this.GetValue(ButtonColorProperty); }
set { this.SetValue(ButtonColorProperty, value); }
}
<UserControl ...
x:Name="root">
<Button Content="Button" Background="{Binding ElementName=root, Path=ButtonColor}" />
</UserControl>
Then set that property to red where you want to use the UserControl.
<local:MyUserControl ButtonColor="Red" />

How to have multiple window resource styles for same element type in WPF

I have an element in my window, as below:
<Grid>
<DockPanel LastChildFill="True">
<Label Name="StatisticsLabel" DockPanel.Dock="Bottom"></Label>
<RichTextBox Style="{StaticResource FocusMode}" Name="RichTextBox1" />
</DockPanel>
</Grid>
I would like to swith between two styles at runtime depending of the state I need the control to be in.
I had assumed I could use the following code:
<Window.Resources>
<Style x:Name="FocusMode" TargetType="RichTextBox">
<Setter Property="VerticalScrollBarVisibility" Value="Disabled"></Setter>
</Style>
<Style x:Name="NormalMode" TargetType="RichTextBox">
<Setter Property="VerticalScrollBarVisibility" Value="Auto"></Setter>
</Style>
</Window.Resources>
Of course this isn't working.
Why does WPF not support multiple styles per element? Seems like a pretty basic requirement?
Otherwise, how do I achieve this?
Sorry figured it out, instead of x:Name use x:Key as below:
<Window.Resources>
<Style x:Key="FocusMode" TargetType="RichTextBox">
<Setter Property="VerticalScrollBarVisibility" Value="Disabled"></Setter>
</Style>
<Style x:Key="NormalMode" TargetType="RichTextBox">
<Setter Property="VerticalScrollBarVisibility" Value="Auto"></Setter>
</Style>
I'd have a look at style triggers. You can probably get a good start on the subject from this post: How to make Style.Triggers trigger a different named style to be applied

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