Re: Applying a selection effect on 3D models - WPF Discussion Boards

17-Aug-09 1:13

mpiotrek wrote:
Can we store user interface made by Visual Studio in database?

You could, as long as the UI is done entirely in XAML this isn't too hard to achieve. If you use a pattern like MVVM (google it), you don't need to put code behind the view at all. Alternatively, these users could use Expression Blend which was designed for just this task.

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Re: WPF user interface stored in DB

kstxx17-Aug-09 1:19

kstxx

17-Aug-09 1:19

Ok. I understand. Interface would be in XAML. But what with events for example ondrag, onclick etc. Is this a big deal?

Re: WPF user interface stored in DB

Pete O'Hanlon17-Aug-09 1:36

17-Aug-09 1:36

Take a look at MVVM - you can separate your logic out into something called a ViewModel. I wrote an article[^] a couple of months ago that used MVVM and there's virtually no code behind the views. Download it, read through the code, and read up on the pattern. Sacha Barber's currently running a series on MVVM in WPF that is well worth reading, and you can find more information from the likes of Josh Smith and Karl Shifflett.

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Calling IContextMenu with a WPF ContextMenu - need HMENU

seguso16-Aug-09 22:38

seguso

16-Aug-09 22:38

Hi,

I am writing a WPF application (www.tabbles.net) with file managament capabilities. I need to show the same file context menus that Explorer does. I assume I have to query all shell extensions installed on the user's machine. In particular, for each shell extension, I have to invoke IContextMenu::QueryContextMenu[^]. The problem is that QueryContextMenu requires an HMENU as argument, but I am using the WPF ContextMenu class, which does not seem to have a method for obtaining an HMENU. How can I obtain the required HMENU to pass to the QueryContextMenu? Thanks a lot for any solution or workaround to my problem.

modified on Monday, August 17, 2009 5:09 AM

Re: Calling IContextMenu with a WPF ContextMenu - need HMENU

Pete O'Hanlon16-Aug-09 23:22

16-Aug-09 23:22

HMENU is actually a handle to the menu. In order to get a handle, you need to wrap your context menu in a HwndSource object, which gives you the handle you need.

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Applying a selection effect on 3D models

Etienne_12316-Aug-09 7:01

Re: Applying a selection effect on 3D models

16-Aug-09 7:01

Hi Guys

I want to add a selection effect to my 3d models so that when I select a model it fades to another color, and when deselecting it, it should fade back to it's original color again. The idea I have is to create a Storyboard, and somewhere in the code behind start the Storyboard when a certain model is selected, but, how would I go about specifying the actual fade effect e.g brown to red?

Pete O'Hanlon16-Aug-09 9:35

16-Aug-09 9:35

You could do this using a ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames as in the following sample:

<Window
  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
  xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
  x:Class="FadeSample.Window1"
  x:Name="Window"
  Title="Window1"
  Width="640" Height="480">
  <Window
  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
  xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
  x:Class="FadeSample.Window1"
  x:Name="Window"
  Title="Window1"
  Width="640" Height="480">
  <Window.Resources>
    <Storyboard x:Key="OnClick1">
      <ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames 
        BeginTime="00:00:00" Storyboard.TargetName="button" 
        Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Panel.Background).(SolidColorBrush.Color)">
        <SplineColorKeyFrame KeyTime="00:00:01" Value="#FFEF1407"/>
      </ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
    </Storyboard>
  </Window.Resources>
  <Window.Triggers>
    <EventTrigger 
      RoutedEvent="ButtonBase.Click" SourceName="button">
      <BeginStoryboard Storyboard="{StaticResource OnClick1}"/>
    </EventTrigger>
  </Window.Triggers>

  <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
    <Button 
      HorizontalAlignment="Left" 
      VerticalAlignment="Top" 
      Content="Button" 
      RenderTransformOrigin="3.339,5.055" 
      Margin="120,115,0,0" 
      Background="#FFDF891A" 
      x:Name="button"/>
  </Grid>
</Window>

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Re: Applying a selection effect on 3D models

Etienne_12317-Aug-09 7:07

Re: Applying a selection effect on 3D models

17-Aug-09 7:07

Thanks for the code sample, appreciate it very much.
Will try it as soon as possible and report back

Etienne_12318-Aug-09 4:55

Need help with styling a groupbox

18-Aug-09 4:55

Okay I understand how this works, but in the sample you gave me the Storyboard.TargetProperty is = (Panel.Background). How would I specify the animation to applied to a ModelVisual3D(3D model) instead? Also remember, the ModelVisual3D's aren't specified in the xaml, it get's rendered at runtime.

Etienne_12315-Aug-09 9:50

Re: Need help with styling a groupbox

15-Aug-09 9:50

Hi
I defined a Style in my xaml to be used on all Groupboxes, but there's ONE groupbox's background property that has to be different from the others. I tried setting this property in the code behind, but no luck. Any ideas?

Here's the code for the style:

<!--A style that formats all groupboxes--><br />
       <Style TargetType="GroupBox"><br />
           <Setter Property="Template"><br />
               <Setter.Value><br />
                   <ControlTemplate TargetType="GroupBox"><br />
                       <Grid><br />
                           <Grid.RowDefinitions><br />
                               <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/><br />
                               <RowDefinition Height="*"/><br />
                           </Grid.RowDefinitions><br />
                           <Border Grid.Row="0" BorderBrush="White" BorderThickness="2,2,2,1" CornerRadius="0,12,0,0" ><br />
                               <ContentPresenter Margin="4" ContentSource="Header" RecognizesAccessKey="True" /><br />
                           </Border><br />
                           <Border Grid.Row="1" BorderBrush="White" BorderThickness="2,0,2,2" CornerRadius="0,0,0,12" ><br />
                               <ContentPresenter Margin="4" /><br />
                           </Border><br />
                       </Grid><br />
                   </ControlTemplate><br />
               </Setter.Value><br />
           </Setter><br />
       </Style>

Pete O'Hanlon15-Aug-09 10:56

15-Aug-09 10:56

If all you need to do is have one groupbox that behaves slightly differently to the others in it's styling, all you need to do is create a new style that targets a groupbox, and give it a key. By default, (as long as you add it after the groupbox above) it will inherit the settings of the groupbox, and you can change the background property as appropriate. All you need do then is apply the style to the groupbox in question - you have the key to use here.

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Re: Need help with styling a groupbox

Etienne_12315-Aug-09 21:42

Re: Need help with styling a groupbox

15-Aug-09 21:42

"All you need do then is apply the style to the groupbox in question - you have the key to use here. "

This is exactly my question, how do I apply this specific style to the specific groupbox?

Etienne_12315-Aug-09 22:06

Have had troubles with WCF in Silverlight for two weeks Help!!!

15-Aug-09 22:06

Okay nevermind I got what you were saying Smile | :)

fiaolle14-Aug-09 7:41

fiaolle

14-Aug-09 7:41

Hi
I may have trouble to explain my problem but I will try. I have made a
Silverlight Application, in which I added a WCF Service. I added the
servicereference to the project. When I run it in VS it works great and when
I publish it in IIS it works great. But when I'm trying to deploy or what
it's called on the webserver, it gives me the error 405 . I can see in the web development helper that it doesn't download, or what that is called, the
clientaccesspolicy.xml. The clientaccesspolicy.xml and crossdomain.xml file
are placed in the root.

This is my web.config

 <system.serviceModel>
  <behaviors>
   <serviceBehaviors>
    <behavior name="AcceditWeb.Web.ServiceBehavior">
     <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />
     <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false" />
    </behavior>
   </serviceBehaviors>
  </behaviors>
  <services>
   <service behaviorConfiguration="AcceditWeb.Web.ServiceBehavior" 
name="AcceditWeb.Web.Service">
        <endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding" 
contract="AcceditWeb.Web.IService">
    </endpoint>
    <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" 
contract="IMetadataExchange" />
   </service>
  </services>
 </system.serviceModel>
</configuration>

This is my ServiceReference.config which is placed in AcceditWeb.xap in the directory
ClientBin

<code>lt;configuration>
    <system.serviceModel>
        <bindings>
            <basicHttpBinding>
                <binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IService" 
maxBufferSize="2147483647"
                    maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647">
                    <security mode="None" />
                </binding>
                <binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IService1" 
maxBufferSize="2147483647"
                    maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647">
                    <security mode="None" />
                </binding>
            </basicHttpBinding>
        </bindings>
      <client>
        <endpoint address="http://thewebsite.thewebserver.se/Service.svc" 
binding="basicHttpBinding"
          bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_IService1" 
contract="ServiceReference.IService"
          name="BasicHttpBinding_IService" />
      </client>
    </system.serviceModel>
</configuration>

This is my clientaccesspolicy.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<access-policy>
  <cross-domain-access>
    <policy>
      <allow-from http-request-headers="SOAPAction,Content-Type">
  <domain uri="*" />
      </allow-from>
      <grant-to>
        <resource path="/" include-subpaths="true"/>
      </grant-to>
    </policy>
  </cross-domain-access>
</access-policy>

This is my crossdomain.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<access-policy>
  <cross-domain-access>
    <policy>
      <allow-from http-request-headers="SOAPAction">
        <domain uri="*"/>
      </allow-from>
      <grant-to>
        <resource path="/" include-subpaths="true"/>
      </grant-to>
    </policy>
  </cross-domain-access>
</access-policy>

Please help me, I have googled for two weeks now and tried the examples I
found, but nothing have helped.

Please I need HELP

Fia

Re: Have had troubles with WCF in Silverlight for two weeks Help!!!

Mark Salsbery14-Aug-09 8:57

Re: Have had troubles with WCF in Silverlight for two weeks Help!!!

14-Aug-09 8:57

You are publishing to an IIS server, correct?

Is the server you are publishing to configured for Silverlight[^]?

Is the endpoint address in your ServiceReferences.ClientConfig correct?

Can you connect to the service with the WCF Test Client[^] ?

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

fiaolle14-Aug-09 9:29

fiaolle

14-Aug-09 9:29

Hi thanks for your answer.

Yes I think they are using IIS 5, as web development helper says.

I don't know if the server we are hosting to are configured for Silverlight.

I think the endpointadress is right. It has the adress where the service.svc is placed.
http://website.teliaweb.se/service.svc

No I can not connect to the service with WcfTestClient.exe. I get this error messages.

Failed to add a service. Service metadata may not be accessible. Make sure your service is running and exposing metadata.

and

Error: Cannot obtain Metadata from http://website.teliaweb.se/service.svc If this is a Windows (R) Communication Foundation service to which you have access, please check that you have enabled metadata publishing at the specified address. For help enabling metadata publishing, please refer to the MSDN documentation at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=65455.WS-Metadata Exchange Error URI: http://website.teliaweb.se/service.svc Metadata has a reference which can't be read. http://website.teliaweb.se/service.svc. The remote server returned an unexpected answer: (405) Method not allowed. The remote server returned an error: (405) Method not allowed.HTTP GET Error URI: http://website.teliaweb.se/service.svc Couldn't define the document type at URL:en http://website.teliaweb.se/service.svc as a known documenttype.The error message from every known type can help you find the solution for this problemt:- Rapport fr†n DISCO-dokument „r The name can't start with the sign %, hexadecimalt value 0x25. Rad 1, position 2..- Rapport from WSDL-dokument „r ther is an error in the XML-document (1, 2).. - The name can't start with the sign %, hexadecimalt value 0x25. Rad 1, position 2.- Rapport from XML-schema „r The name can't start with the sign %, hexadecimalt v„rde 0x25. Rad 1, position 2..

I have tried to translate the error message to english, hope you understand. Hope also this can help you to help me further.

Thanks
Fia

Re: Have had troubles with WCF in Silverlight for two weeks Help!!!

Mark Salsbery14-Aug-09 10:22

Re: Have had troubles with WCF in Silverlight for two weeks Help!!!

14-Aug-09 10:22

fiaolle wrote:
Couldn't define the document type at URL:en http://website.teliaweb.se/service.svc as a known documenttype.

It looks like IIS isn't configured right to host the WCF service.

Are you able to get the Silverlight app or is an error returned there too?

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

fiaolle14-Aug-09 21:23

fiaolle

14-Aug-09 21:23

Hi
I can run the silverlight application but when I'm using the wcf service I'm getting the error, nothing happens. I can see in the web development helper that the clientaccesspolicy.xml isn't reached. And the clientaccesspolicy.xml is placed in the root.

Fia

Re: Have had troubles with WCF in Silverlight for two weeks Help!!!

Mark Salsbery15-Aug-09 5:55

Re: Have had troubles with WCF in Silverlight for two weeks Help!!!

15-Aug-09 5:55

fiaolle wrote:
when I'm using the wcf service I'm getting the error

Thanks. It wasn't clear (to me) when you were getting the error.

fiaolle wrote:
the clientaccesspolicy.xml isn't reached. And the clientaccesspolicy.xml is placed in the root

I don't see anything indicating a cross-domain issue so I believe
that's irrelevant at the moment.

I don't think your WCF service is starting.

I've never used IIS 5 for WCF (or ASP.NET) so I'm no help with configuration.
Maybe Adam's link will help.

The error indicates a problem at the time the .SVC file is used, and since your
WCF service runs fine on your local IIS server, I don't think there's a problem there.
That's why I think there's an IIS configuration issue on the target machine.

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

Adam Maras14-Aug-09 21:46

Adam Maras

14-Aug-09 21:46

It sounds like Mark's got the right idea; here's a link with tools and tips to help get IIS configured correctly: http://blogs.msdn.com/wenlong/archive/2006/09/10/748294.aspx[^]

Adam Maras | Software Developer
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer

WindowState.Maximized -- How to get the proper size of the window? [modified]

Cristoff13-Aug-09 22:01

Cristoff

13-Aug-09 22:01

I have a borderless window. A double click on it maximizes it - WindowState.Maximized and WindowStyle set to None.

Now I'm trying to get the proper size of that window so that I resize the internal controls.

My screen resolution is: 1280 x 800

SystemParameters.MaximizedPrimaryScreenWidth 1288.0 double
SystemParameters.MaximizedPrimaryScreenHeight 778.0 double

What are these two properties supposed to return actually? Why the width is larger than my screen and the other one smaller?

(on my screen visually the windows is OK)

---> Gets a value that indicates the height, in pixels, of a maximized top-level window on the primary display monitor.
---> Gets a value that indicates the width, in pixels, of a maximized top-level window on the primary display monitor.

???

Or

SystemParameters.FullPrimaryScreenWidth - 1280
SystemParameters.FullPrimaryScreenHeight - 744

What is the proper way to get the system metrics in WPF? Or there isn't one?

SystemParameters.VirtualScreenWidth
SystemParameters.VirtualScreenHeight

modified on Friday, August 14, 2009 7:15 AM

WPF Expander Control Template Modification

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»13-Aug-09 20:47

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

13-Aug-09 20:47

Hi,

How can I add dynamic image to the WPF Expander Control, so that, I can change it from the code behind.

I have created a CustomControl by inheriting the Expander control. I exposed a DependencyProperty named IconSource. I modified the HeaderTemplate by adding an Image.

Now my problem is, how can I change the source of that image inside the Header Template after the modification of the IconSource dependency property?

Can anyone please help me regarding that?

Regards,
- Kunal Chowdhury (My Blog)

Re: WPF Expander Control Template Modification

Mark Salsbery14-Aug-09 6:28