RadWindow as MainWindow, revisited

[Steve]

In this thread http://www.telerik.com/forums/prism-and-rad-window you have a demo for how to use a RadWindow as the main window.  However, when you switch to using the NoXAML dlls, the window does not show.  I should also note that I am currently using the demo version, in case that matters.  Thanks for any help with this!

[Nasko]

Hello Steve,

As you are using NoXaml binaries we assume you are applying Implicit Styles in your application. If so, the newly created control that inherits RadWindow will not receive automatically the Window style- thus the control won't be visualized. The following style should be added after the merged dictionaries in order to visualize it:

<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
    <ResourceDictionary Source="/Telerik.Windows.Themes.Office_Black;component/Themes/System.Windows.xaml"/>
    <ResourceDictionary Source="/Telerik.Windows.Themes.Office_Black;component/Themes/Telerik.Windows.Controls.xaml"/>
    <ResourceDictionary Source="/Telerik.Windows.Themes.Office_Black;component/Themes/Telerik.Windows.Controls.Navigation.xaml"/>
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<Style TargetType="local:Shell" BasedOn="{StaticResource RadWindowStyle}" />

We have also modified the sample project from the forum thread in order to use NoXaml binaries and you could run and evaluate it.

We hope this will help you.

Regards,
Nasko
Telerik

[Steve]

That worked, thanks!

[Steve]

An additional tip for future surfers: you will need this line in the constructor of your window if you want to see it show up in the taskbar:

 RadWindowInteropHelper.SetShowInTaskbar(this, true);