Re: WPF Reporting - WPF Discussion Boards

Kevin Marois21-Oct-14 5:56

21-Oct-14 5:56

Pete,

I downloaded it.. I don't see a designer anywhere... Am I missing something?

Thanks

If it's not broken, fix it until it is

Pete O'Hanlon21-Oct-14 6:05

21-Oct-14 6:05

It uses XAML so it doesn't have a designer. That wasn't a requirement in your list. To be honest, the XAML is nice and clean. This is the sample Image report:

XML

<FlowDocument xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
              xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
              xmlns:xrd="clr-namespace:CodeReason.Reports.Document;assembly=CodeReason.Reports"
              xmlns:xrbc="clr-namespace:CodeReason.Reports.Document.Barcode;assembly=CodeReason.Reports"
              PageHeight="29.7cm" PageWidth="21cm" ColumnWidth="21cm">
    <xrd:ReportProperties>
        <xrd:ReportProperties.ReportName>ImageReport</xrd:ReportProperties.ReportName>
        <xrd:ReportProperties.ReportTitle>Image Report</xrd:ReportProperties.ReportTitle>
    </xrd:ReportProperties>
    <xrd:SectionReportHeader PageHeaderHeight="2" Padding="10,10,10,0" FontSize="12">
        <Table CellSpacing="0">
            <Table.Columns>
                <TableColumn Width="*" />
                <TableColumn Width="*" />
            </Table.Columns>
            <TableRowGroup>
                <TableRow>
                    <TableCell>
                        <Paragraph>
                            <xrd:InlineContextValue PropertyName="ReportTitle" />
                        </Paragraph>
                    </TableCell>
                    <TableCell>
                        <Paragraph TextAlignment="Right">
                            <xrd:InlineDocumentValue PropertyName="PrintDate" Format="dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss" />
                        </Paragraph>
                    </TableCell>
                </TableRow>
            </TableRowGroup>
        </Table>
    </xrd:SectionReportHeader>
    <xrd:SectionReportFooter PageFooterHeight="2" Padding="10,0,10,10" FontSize="12">
        <Table CellSpacing="0">
            <Table.Columns>
                <TableColumn Width="*" />
                <TableColumn Width="*" />
            </Table.Columns>
            <TableRowGroup>
                <TableRow>
                    <TableCell>
                        <Paragraph>
                        </Paragraph>
                    </TableCell>
                    <TableCell>
                        <Paragraph TextAlignment="Right">
                            Page
                            <xrd:InlineContextValue PropertyName="PageNumber" FontWeight="Bold" /> of
                            <xrd:InlineContextValue PropertyName="PageCount" FontWeight="Bold" />
                        </Paragraph>
                    </TableCell>
                </TableRow>
            </TableRowGroup>
        </Table>
    </xrd:SectionReportFooter>
    <Section Name="ReportBody" Padding="80,10,40,10" FontSize="12">
        <Paragraph FontSize="24" FontWeight="Bold"><xrd:InlineContextValue PropertyName="ReportTitle" /></Paragraph>
        <Paragraph>This is an image report example.</Paragraph>
        <Paragraph FontSize="16" FontWeight="Bold">
            Static Image
        </Paragraph>
        <Paragraph>
            <Image Tag="dpd.jpg" Width="10cm" />
        </Paragraph>
        <Paragraph FontSize="16" FontWeight="Bold">
            Dynamically created Images
        </Paragraph>
        <Paragraph>
            <Image Name="imageDynamic1" Width="5cm" Height="5cm" />
            <Image Name="imageDynamic2" Width="5cm" Height="5cm" />
        </Paragraph>
    </Section>
</FlowDocument>

Kevin Marois21-Oct-14 6:16

21-Oct-14 6:16

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
It uses XAML so it doesn't have a designer. That wasn't a requirement in your list. To be honest, the XAML is nice and clean. This is the sample Image report:

To me it's assumed that you need a designer. Yes, XAML is nice & clean... and VERY time consuming. For anything other than a VERY simple report it would take all day to get laid out right.

I noticed on their site that someone asked for a designer. Nice idea for an add on to the project.

I can't see how any serious reporting can be done without a designer.

If it's not broken, fix it until it is

Pete O'Hanlon21-Oct-14 6:18

21-Oct-14 6:18

Kevin Marois wrote:
and VERY time consuming

Hmmm. I'm not sure I agree here. I can churn out XAML at a phenomenal rate.

Kevin Marois21-Oct-14 6:20

21-Oct-14 6:20

I can too. Don't get me wrong. I love XAML

But for every little tweak, you would need to stop, compile, run the report (meaning fire up your app, get to the report, run it - OOPS that label isn't aligned right!!!

Stop, open XAML, tweak, repeat.

With a designer it's one & done.

If it's not broken, fix it until it is

Duncan Edwards Jones21-Oct-14 5:59

Duncan Edwards Jones

21-Oct-14 5:59

If the report is simple and you have already worked getting the data to a form, maybe just roll your own print routine to generate the report? See Printing in WPF[^] for example?

Pete O'Hanlon21-Oct-14 7:45

21-Oct-14 7:45

If you want a report designer then you could always look at SyncFusion reports[^]. I'm a big fan of SyncFusion now. They have worked hard on the performance of their WPF products, and this really shows.

Re: Textblock with autoscrolling

Richard J Foster22-Oct-14 5:55

Richard J Foster

22-Oct-14 5:55

It's not free, but we've had a lot of success with DevExpress' XtraReports package[^]. One very nice thing about it is that you can use the same report in WinForms, WPF and ASP.NET contexts (Silverlight too... but who needs that any more?!).

Regards,
Richard

Richard Deeming5-Sep-14 5:24

Richard Deeming

5-Sep-14 5:24

Searching for "WPF marquee text" throws up some results that look promising:

Making a Simple Marquee Text Control, Drip Animation and Roll Animation in WPF[^]
Enabling Scrolling Text in WPF[^]
StackOverflow thread[^]

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

WPF TreeView ToolTip Problems

Kevin Marois4-Sep-14 7:51

Re: WPF TreeView ToolTip Problems

4-Sep-14 7:51

I'm trying to display a custom tooltip for Tree Nodes

I created this resource:

<ToolTip x:Key="treeItemToolTip" 
            DataContext="{Binding Path=PlacementTarget,RelativeSource={x:Static RelativeSource.Self}}">

    <Grid>

        <Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
            <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
        </Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
            <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
            <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
        </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>

        <TextBlock Grid.Row="0"  
                    Grid.Column="0"
                    Text="Revision:"/>
        <TextBlock Grid.Row="0"  
                    Grid.Column="1"
                    Text="{Binding RevisionNumber}"/>

    </Grid>
                
</ToolTip>

then in my Tree I have

<controls:TreeViewEx BorderThickness="0"
                        Margin="5" 
                        ItemsSource="{Binding Nodes}"
                        IsManipulationEnabled ="True"
                        Visibility="{Binding ShowTree, Converter={StaticResource visibilityConverter}}"
                        ToolTip="{StaticResource treeItemToolTip}">

</controls:TreeViewEx>

Yet when I run it, the Output window tells me that the tooltip can't find it's data on the TREEVIEW, not the nodes.

The data for the tooltip is on each node. How do I correctly bind the Tooltip to the node's data?

If it's not broken, fix it until it is

SledgeHammer016-Sep-14 9:04

SledgeHammer01

6-Sep-14 9:04

You are setting the tooltip on the tree itself. You want to set it on the items.

Re: WPF TreeView ToolTip Problems

Kevin Marois8-Sep-14 5:56

Re: WPF TreeView ToolTip Problems

8-Sep-14 5:56

Ok, I see. How do I point it to the item instead?

If it's not broken, fix it until it is

SledgeHammer018-Sep-14 7:20

SledgeHammer01

8-Sep-14 7:20

Put it in your TreeViewItem style. If you don't have one, just create one with a single setter.

<Setter Property="ToolTip" Value="{StaticResource treeItemToolTip}" />

Import ResourceDictionary from a different assembly

BrunoORMaia3-Sep-14 4:12

BrunoORMaia

3-Sep-14 4:12

First I want to apologize for the lack of experience in English.
I am Brazilian and I'm using google translator to send this question.

I have a WPF project where I use a dll as resource dictionary and need to import into another dll then then use in my project.
But when I try to import the first dictionary, I encounter the error
"An error occorred while finding the resource dictionary".
've Researched everything I imagined trying to solve.
BuildAction the ResourceDictionary of this dll as the first page. (already tried as resource)

Issue in converting jpeg to vector image in XAML format

Deep Kulshrestha2-Sep-14 4:11

Deep Kulshrestha

2-Sep-14 4:11

Hi All,

I am trying to convert jpg image to vector image in xaml file but the image gets blurred. Tool I used was Microsoft Expression Design. Tried with online conversion tool as well but result was same. Kindly suggest how a good quality vector image can be converted and plugged it in to silver light project xaml file.

http://www.bodurov.com/BitmapVectorizer/[^]

Regards
Deep

WPF Tab Control, template tabs, dynamic generation

Maxime Gavet-Marqués1-Sep-14 5:36

Maxime Gavet-Marqués

1-Sep-14 5:36

Hi guys,
I am new to WPF and I have a question about dynamic tab generation with tab control.

I would like to build template pages that would be called into a new tab of a tab control and bind its content to DB. For instance, I want to load an invoice from a list. It creates a tab, fills it with the invoice display page (frame?) and populates it with the info. If I go back to my list and load another invoice, it loads a second instance of my invoice display page into a new tab and populates it with the new invoice.

Is dynamic tab generation with the WPF tab control + frames the right way to go?
Thanks

Re: WPF Tab Control, template tabs, dynamic generation

Pete O'Hanlon1-Sep-14 6:37

Re: WPF Tab Control, template tabs, dynamic generation

1-Sep-14 6:37

Certainly adding the invoices to dynamic tabs would be reasonably straightforward. I'm not sure what you're trying to do with the Frame though.

Maxime Gavet-Marqués1-Sep-14 21:53

Maxime Gavet-Marqués

1-Sep-14 21:53

Thanks for answering. I have found the frame control to be cited as the means to load pages within another. Should I understand that this control is not required to load a specific xaml dynamically within the tab control?

Re: WPF Tab Control, template tabs, dynamic generation

Pete O'Hanlon1-Sep-14 22:04

Silverlight development is stopped by Micro Soft

1-Sep-14 22:04

That's correct. You're mixing modes here - the Frame control is typically used in Page based applications.

Tridip Bhattacharjee26-Aug-14 21:06

Tridip Bhattacharjee

26-Aug-14 21:06

is it true that MS stopped developing Silverlight? what is the last version of Silverlight was release by MS ?
i like to know if some one discuss what is the reason for which MS stopped development of Silverlight?

what was the draw back found in Silverlight?

thanks

tbhattacharjee

Re: Silverlight development is stopped by Micro Soft

Pete O'Hanlon29-Aug-14 6:48

Re: Silverlight development is stopped by Micro Soft

29-Aug-14 6:48

Yes it is. Version 6.

They are moving to HTML 5 as being able to do what SL can do.

Tridip Bhattacharjee31-Aug-14 21:01

Tridip Bhattacharjee

31-Aug-14 21:01

thanks for reply. is there was any draw back in silverlight ?

i hard many people said there was some performance issue with silverlight.....is it true ?

if yes would u plzz like to discuss with me. thanks

tbhattacharjee

Re: Silverlight development is stopped by Micro Soft

Pete O'Hanlon31-Aug-14 22:36