Over at nostatic.com, there is an example of <a href=”http://notstatic.com/archives/118″>using MarkupExtension</a> that that we can access some custom code functionality directly from the XAML. In his example, the following XAML accesses a random number generator within the code. <Button> <Button.RenderTransform> <RotateTransform Angle=”{l:RandomNumber Min=0, Max=360}” /> </Button.RenderTransform> </Button> Pretty cool. Apparently it only works…
In response to the questions: How do I make it so that, instead of cutting off the text in my column when I shorten it, my text displays ellipsis? and How do I make it so that my text wraps when I shorten my columns? I’ll deal with the first one first and the second…
So you’ve got a listview and you want the columns (not the rows) to look a certain way. (If you are in any way confused, head over here.) In this post, we’re going to build a template for a column and style that template so the data in that column is all styled the same…
When I’m doing the initial design for a project (while the developers are working on silly things like data validation and security), I often find myself in need of data so that I can see my project in action. The developers, of course, have no interest in conjuring up test data at that phase in…
Please feel free to post additional questions in the comments section. I’ll get to them as I can and then link the help here. How do I get grid lines to show up in the ListView? How do I style a specific column in a ListView? How do I make it so that, instead of…
So you want grid lines in your listview, huh? Something that looks a little like this? OK, we can do this the easy way and the hard way.
On a recent project, I spent (I kid you not) over three hours trying to get a stinking popup to close when I clicked somewhere else in the application. Figuring it was a focus issue, I tried the following triggers: IsFocused IsKeyboardFocused IsKeyboardFocusWithin IsMouseCapture IsMouseCaptureWithin All to no avail. Turns out that the only thing…
There is a WPF contest over at Lab 49 on visualization in the financial sector. “WPF technology has the potential to revolutionize the visualization of data in the financial services industry and we’re looking for the best examples of WPF working with financial data that we can find to illustrate this.” The prizes are pretty cool,…
So, after months of delay I finally figured that there are probably some people out there who want to figure out how to make the WPF listview look the way they want it to look. A quick note: I will be dealing almost entirely with the listview look. If you want the listview to do something…
This is a blog dedicated to WPF guidance for designers. The reason I’m creating this blog is because there seems to be almost nothing out there in helping designers to really get into WPF in a meaningful way. Which is because there aren’t enough good WPF designers to write blogs. Which is because there aren’t enough good…