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Rain Dancer14-Jul-13 21:44

14-Jul-13 21:44

Hi, I am currently sitting on a slight problem.

I want to create a Windows Metro Style Application using C# in visual studios.

There is one problem though, I have no idea how to create the GUI completely.

I currently have a blank app and I would like to add a new item, item being a grid page. I cannot seem to be able to do this, and I have tried everything. Once I can get that done, I would like to be able to move through pages, and this must be compatible with landscape and portrait views, also with docking and snapping.

Please Help!

Kind regards,

A Developer

Re: C#

Richard MacCutchan14-Jul-13 22:26

Richard MacCutchan

14-Jul-13 22:26

Member 10033886 wrote:
I have tried everything.

Including these[^]?

Use the best guess

Re: C#

Rain Dancer15-Jul-13 23:42

Rain Dancer

15-Jul-13 23:42

Thanks a bunch, it didn't give me the answers completely but it set me on the right track.

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Re: C#

Emmanuel Medina15-Jul-13 11:55

Emmanuel Medina

15-Jul-13 11:55

Besides what Richard above linked, I would also recommend this book[^]

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Re: C#

Abhinav S15-Jul-13 18:37

Abhinav S

15-Jul-13 18:37

Start by reading some books.

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Re: C#

Amir Mohammad Nasrollahi29-Jul-13 6:53

Amir Mohammad Nasrollahi

29-Jul-13 6:53

i prefer using Microsoft Expression Blend for design, styles and applying graphic effects and then continue work on project in Visual Studio for coding.
also if you don't know about WPF, you must reading some educational resources[^] or you can use some available components about metro style like "Telerik Rad Control" which with them you don't need any more WPF. Smile | :)

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Re: C#

Rain Dancer2-Oct-13 4:41

Rain Dancer

2-Oct-13 4:41

Sorry for the late reply, but thank you both very much, this helped me a lot and now I have a fully functioning Metro App up and going. It's a pity Microsoft is taking them down again though, I was just getting good at it.

C# Class Design

jimbo6914-Jul-13 18:03

jimbo69

14-Jul-13 18:03

I'm trying to design some classes that call base in the constructor. But I want to pass the derived class to the base class as it's parameter in the constructor. It's simple in C++ but I can't find a way to do it in C#. If anyone could tell me a way to convert the type in the constructor would help me keep my sanity.

public class CWebFormField
{
       public CWebFormField(ref CWebFormField ff)
        {

        }
}

public class CWebRectFormField : CWebFormField
  {

      public CWebRectFormField(ref CWebRectFormField ff) : base(ff)
      {
          m_Rect = ff.m_Rect;
      }
  }

Because I try to pass ff to the base class I get an error of

Error	2	Argument 1: cannot convert from 'VSWebForm.CWebRectFormField' to 'ref VSWebForm.CWebFormField'

Re: C# Class Design

OriginalGriff14-Jul-13 20:42

OriginalGriff

14-Jul-13 20:42

The problem is the ref requirement:
From the C# specification:

"When a formal parameter is a reference parameter, the corresponding argument in a method invocation must consist of the keyword ref followed by a variable-reference (§12.3.3) of the same type as the formal parameter"
http://www.jaggersoft.com/csharp_standard/17.5.1.2.htm[^]

And the problem is that your type isn't exactly the same type - it's derived. And you can't take a ref of a cast of a variable to prevent you from accidently changing the parameter to a different derived class from the same base and passing it back...

public void BuggerItUp(ref Control c)
   {
   c = new Label();
   }
...
   DataGridView dgv = new DataGridView();
   BuggerItUp(ref (Control) dgv)
   // What happens when you use dgv here?

Do you really need the ref here?

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Re: C# Class Design

jimbo6915-Jul-13 4:44

jimbo69

15-Jul-13 4:44

Thank you!

Re: C# Class Design

OriginalGriff15-Jul-13 5:00

OriginalGriff

15-Jul-13 5:00

You're welcome!

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Re: C# Class Design

Bernhard Hiller15-Jul-13 3:05

Bernhard Hiller

15-Jul-13 3:05

Is the idea behind your code a "copy constructor"? Then you might look at the IClonable interface and how to implement it in the .Net world.

Re: C# Class Design

jimbo6915-Jul-13 4:45

jimbo69

15-Jul-13 4:45

It is. Thanks for the advice I'll check it out.

akoito114-Jul-13 16:52

akoito1

14-Jul-13 16:52

how to create a export xml file in SQL database using c# tnx..

Re: c#

OriginalGriff14-Jul-13 20:05

OriginalGriff

14-Jul-13 20:05

There are a huge number of ways!
The easiest is to use a DataSet.

Easy write:
Create your data in a DataTable, then:
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
ds.Tables.Add(dt);
ds.WriteXml(@"D:\Temp\td.xml");

Easy Read:
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
ds.ReadXml(@"D:\Temp\td.xml");
dt = ds.Tables[0];

You can use DataTable.ReadXml instead, but it doesn't support schema inference, DataSet.ReadXml does.

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How to dispose all resources after closing the application ?

taibc13-Jul-13 23:26

taibc

13-Jul-13 23:26

Hi everyone,

My application was written in Visual Studio 2010.

After closing my application, there is still a running process that showed in the Task Manager.

Do you know, how to dispose all resources after I close my C# application ?

Thanks and regards,

Tai

Re: How to dispose all resources after closing the application ?

Eddy Vluggen14-Jul-13 2:45

Eddy Vluggen

14-Jul-13 2:45

taibc wrote:
After closing my application, there is still a running process that showed in
the Task Manager.

Do you know, how to dispose all resources after
I close my C# application ?

All .NET objects will be disposed of by the runtime. Did you launch a (non-background) thread?

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Re: How to dispose all resources after closing the application ?

taibc14-Jul-13 15:04

taibc

14-Jul-13 15:04

Yes.

I found out a way to do that by use the statement:

Process.GetCurrentProcess().Kill();

Thanks and kind regards,

Re: How to dispose all resources after closing the application ?

NotPolitcallyCorrect14-Jul-13 15:30

NotPolitcallyCorrect

14-Jul-13 15:30

taibc wrote:
Process.GetCurrentProcess().Kill();

Yep.... that will work.... if you do not want to do it correctly.

Re: How to dispose all resources after closing the application ?

Dave Kreskowiak14-Jul-13 15:34

Dave Kreskowiak

14-Jul-13 15:34

Actually, that'll leak resources, not close them.

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Re: How to dispose all resources after closing the application ?

jschell15-Jul-13 8:42

jschell

15-Jul-13 8:42

Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
Actually, that'll leak resources, not close them.

What resource do you think will be leaked after the Process exits?

Re: How to dispose all resources after closing the application ?

Dave Kreskowiak15-Jul-13 10:03

Dave Kreskowiak

15-Jul-13 10:03

Off the top of my head, anything that holds an unmanaged handle, such as GDI objects: Brush, Pen, Graphics, ...

That's by no means a complete list of the stuff that can be orphaned, just a sample.

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Re: How to dispose all resources after closing the application ?

jschell16-Jul-13 8:10

jschell

16-Jul-13 8:10

I doubt that a Process will hold on to any of those when the Process exits, regardless of how it exits.

Re: How to dispose all resources after closing the application ?

Dave Kreskowiak16-Jul-13 9:28

Dave Kreskowiak

16-Jul-13 9:28

I wouldn't bet on that - from experience.

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