Strange behaviour of minimized Icons

[John]

Edit: Title should be "Strange behaviour of minimized ITEMS" (not icons, but I can't change the Title)

Dear Support,

I'm just testing your controls because the Infragistics-Suite seems not to support MVVM in any way.
Your OutlookBar works great, but I have an issue/question about the "Caption/Header/Text" of minimizedItems.
Please take a look at following XAML

<telerik:RadOutlookBar QuickStart:ThemeAwareBackgroundBehavior.IsEnabled="True" telerik:Theming.Theme="Office_Blue" ItemsSource="{Binding OutlookEntries}" Height="234" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Margin="211,6,160,31" Name="RadOutlookBar1" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Width="229">

     <telerik:RadOutlookBar.Resources>
            <Style TargetType="{x:Type telerik:RadOutlookBarItem}">
                  <Setter Property="Header" Value="{Binding Header}"/>
                  <Setter Property="SmallIcon"  Value="{Binding SmallImage}"/>
                  <Setter Property="Title" Value="{Binding Header}"/>
                  <Setter Property="Icon" Value="{Binding LargeImage}"/>
              </Style>
        </telerik:RadOutlookBar.Resources>
</telerik:RadOutlookBar>

The Items are shown correctly. But if I'm using the slider in order to minimize the Items, the SmallIcon together with the ClassName will be shown at each "minimizedItem" in the outlookbar at the bottom. I don't understand why. 

I have seen your MVVM-Binding-Sample in which you used ItemMinimizedTemplate

<telerik:RadOutlookBar.ItemMinimizedTemplate>
    <DataTemplate>
        <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
                 <TextBlock Text={Binding Header}/>
        </StackPanel>
    </DataTemplate>
</telerik:RadOutlookBar.ItemMinimizedTemplate>

I could use this DataTemplage and delete the TextBlock inside the StackPanel. Then only the Icon will be shown within minimized Items.
But it seems more clean for me with my code above, instead of retemplating ItemMinimizedTemplate, ItemTemplate, HeaderTemplate etc.  The OutlookBar is bound to a CollectionView calles "OutlookEntries" which contains  a simple Class with Strings as Header and ImageSources as Icons.

Any hints would be appreciated.

[John]

I think above text might be a bit difficult to understand, so please finde enclosed following screenshot:

http://www.bilder-hochladen.net/files/85t4-1u-fc49.png

As said, using an Empty DataTemplate for "ItemMinimizedTemplate"  does help, but I guess there might be a more elegant solution.

[Petar Mladenov]

Hi John,

Your approach cannot be used because when minimized the RadOutlookBarItem transforms to MinimizedOutlookBarItem and your style cannot apply. We still think that using HeaderTemplate,Titletemplate ItemMinimizedTemplate is a very elegant MVVM solution that makes the customization of this control easier. 

Kind regards,
Petar Mladenov
the Telerik team