Desktop: WPF

If you are interested in learning to use the Composite Application Guidance (better known as Prism), here are a few resources to get you started. Also, in case you missed it, you can watch the webinar associated with this blog entry here.   Webinar Resources Download: Project & Powerpoint Slides This download contains the project I started with in the webinar along with the completed version. Also included are the powerpoint slides. Click Here to Download Update (2/1/2010): In the video, I placed the command implementation directly in the view. The correct place to set this up is actually directly ...

  GridViewComboBox column is used to display lookup data in user friendly manner. For our demo we bind RadGridView for WPF to a collection of custom Location objects.       As you may notice – each location has a selectable Country field.  Here is the underlying ‘data model’.   public class Location { public int CountryID { get; set; } public string CityName { get; set; } } public class Country { public int ID { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } }   The location object contains the integer CountryID.Each CountryID corresponds to a certain country and with the help of GridViewComboBoxColumn we see some human readable country names instead of the...

Sometimes when using a Docking control and implementing complex UI with it we need to add some custom rules about allowing some panes to be docked in some parts of the application and to disallow them to dock to other parts. As this behavior is quite complex itself, we’ve decided to enable some scenarios to be available in XAML in a declarative way (the more static scenarios) and some scenarios to be available only through the code-behind.   In this post I will guide you through some simple steps that will show you how you could use both approaches. First of all...

Using FixedDocument, DocumentViewer and PrintDialog you can easily create your own print and/or print preview for RadGridView for WPF. I’ve made two extension methods Print() and PrintPreview() to illustrate how to turn the grid into a print friendly document in few lines of code: … public static void PrintPreview(this GridViewDataControl source) { var window = new Window() { Title = "Print Preview", Content = new DocumentViewer() ...

  One of the less known features supported by Telerik’s RadChart for Silverlight/WPF is the ability to completely abandon the default control layout and build one of your own with no constraints for the number of elements used. The goal of this blog post is to shed some light on this functionality and to demonstrate the most common techniques that can be used to customize the legend. First of all, to build your own custom chart layout you should set the UseDefaultLayout property of the RadChart object to false. Here is the custom layout I prepared: <telerik:RadChart x:Name="RadChart1" UseDefaultLayout="False">             <Grid>                 <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>                     <ColumnDefinition Width="50"/>                     <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>                 </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>                 <Grid.RowDefinitions>                     <RowDefinition Height="*"/>                    ...