Super cool new thing I learned today. In WPF, we can make it so that the drop down (popup) on a ComboBox displays the data in a ListView. Because of the fact that I believe the DataGrid will eventually overtake the ListView as the gold standard for data display in WPF, we’ll do it both…
I’ve recently be working on changing the ControlTemplate of a GridViewColumnHeader in a custom ListView that we’ve been working on. (The ListView was rewritten for sorting, so that’s why it had to be custom.) One of the things we had to do was swap out ControlTemplates so that we could display a caret to indicate…
This is just a quick note on creating a ListView style with the appropriate GridView style and template assignments. Normally, I’ve been creating listviews that look like this: <ListView x:Name=”MyListView” ItemContainerStyle=”{DynamicResource MyListViewItemContainerStyle}”> <ListView.View> <GridView ColumnHeaderContainerStyle=”{DynamicResource MyListViewHeaderStyle}” ColumnHeaderTemplate=”{DynamicResource MyGridColumnHeaderTemplate}”> I did this because I didn’t know exactly how to assign these styles…
I recently got a comment asking if I could do something on creating a Blend-type ScollViewer styling. The only problem is that the ScrollViewer is a multi-post affair, which I’ll try to get completed in the next month or so. I’m going to go ahead and put up the basics here, much like my Styling…
This is little more than a pointer to a fantastic post by Mike over at Mike’s Code Blog, but I figured it was worth passing along. Mike’s post is focused on finding which item was double clicked, while mine is on determining when the double clicking happened on an item at all. I’ve recently come up against a…
Several months back, I was doing some work for a company that was using WPF for a stylus based application. One of the things that they found they needed was a scrollbar that could be used by left handed people who would have to cover the entire screen with their left hand in order to…
This is a post that has taken months to complete, but addresses something that I don’t think I’ve seen sufficiently covered for anyone who is new to WPF. Resultantly, we’re going to go through it slowly and I’m officially begging for additional questions at the end. Part of the problem with styles and templates in…
Thought I’d take a moment and toss up the WPF/Wiimote video that we submitted to the MIX 08 Show Off competition:
You can now check out all the MIX sessions, online. I attended the following sessions: Bringing Your Data to Life with Windows Presentation Foundation – Anson Tsao This is a great crash course to data binding in WPF. Building Rich Internet Applications using Microsoft Silverlight Part 1 – Mike Harsh and Joe Stegman Building Rich Internet Application…
They’ve just posted the Show Off winners from MIX 08, and my Wiimote Visualization squeaked in at number 3. Here is the complete list of winners: Crayon Physics Deluxe by Petri Purho Real Time Physics in Silverlight by Bill Reiss, Andy Beaulieu and Jeff Webber Wii Data Visualization and Multipoint Nonsense by Matthias Shapiro (that’s…