(I’m getting to the point in a roundabout way… you can skip directly to the point below if you want.) When I started working on my WPF-Wii tutorials, my first… Read More »Using WPF Binding For A Huge Performance Boost
I recently spent a couple hours trying desperately to bind a TextBlock to the Canvas.Left and Canvas.Top properties for a project I’m working on. My binding looked like this: {Binding… Read More »Binding To Attached Properties (like Grid.Row, Grid.Column, Canvas.Left, Canvas.Top, blah.something, etc)
OK, I hope no one is using my last post as an example of what you should be doing when interfacing the Wiimote with WPF. Because it was completely hack-tastic.
Instead, use my new WPF/Wii library. It uses the WPF INotifyPropertyChanged interface to act as an interface so that we can bind the Wiimote data directly to the XAML. More on that in a little bit, but first…
In this post, we’ll walk through creating a basic multi-point capable app that uses the Wiimote as an input device. What is really unique about this post is the fact that we’re going to do this in a way that requires absolutely no code whatsoever on your part.
That’s right. No code. At all. Zero knowledge of C# required.
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Please Read: Strangely, when you do a Google search for “wpf” and “listview”, this is one of the top links. This is odd because this particular post is kind of an advanced tutorial. If you’re looking for more general information on styling the wpf listview, check out this post. It is probably much closer to what you’re looking for.
This is a bit of an advanced tutorial. I’m putting it up because I just figured out how to do it and I want to share. You can also download the project files for this tutorial (in zip format… requires .Net 3.5).
Recently, I received from my user experience designers a wireframe that looked something like this:
As you can see, there are embedded categories (categories within categories) here. I considered many solutions (hacks), but I found that a deeper understanding of the ListView and how it works would allow me to resolve this issue very simply (and without even touching the code behind).Read More »Embedded ListView Columns (Columns Within Columns)
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… Read More »MarkupExtension
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 one… second.
That sounded better in my head than it looks on the screen.
With the first question… when a column is shortened, this is what normally happens:
And, instead, we want this to happen:
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 way, but different from the data in the rest of the list view. Kind of like this:
If you’re following from the RSS Feed post: go to the listview in the main composition and right click on your listivew and go to “Edit Other Templates -> Edit Generated Item (ItemTemplate) -> Edit a Copy…”
Not following from the RSS Feed post: go to the listview in your composition, right click on your listview and co to “Edit Other Templates -> Edit Generated Item (ItemTempalte) -> Create Empty…”
Name it whatever you like (I named mine “TitleTemplate”) and hit OK.
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 the project, so I started using RSS feeds as data sources for my initial designs.
Not all RSS feeds are equal in the eyes of Blend. I use one of the New York Times RSS feeds, which always work flawlessly.
So we’re looking at the listview/listbox/whatever in our project. Right click on it (in the composition or in the Objects and Timeline pane, it doesn’t matter) and select the “Bind ItemsSource to Data”.
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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.
Read More »How Do I Set Up Grid Lines for my ListView?
