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Re: WPF ListView/Items Control - Another problem

snblackout2-Feb-09 8:59

snblackout

2-Feb-09 8:59

That worked great, thanks for all your help, I really appreciate it. I'm learning! Laugh | :laugh:

Windows1 Elements

me0830-Jan-09 12:26

me08

30-Jan-09 12:26

Hi I am in the middle of creating my 1st proper application and after just toying about with wpf for the last couple days.

I have once class called AccessDb.cs which hold various DB functions

and the Window1.xaml and cs

in accessdb , i have some code to open a database extract data via a datareader and I want to add this on the fly(no data binding) to a combobox in xaml in windows1.

How to you access elements in window1 from another class?

i.e window1.combobox1.items.add(datareader[manufacturers].tostring())

Thanks, such a noob question

oops im using c#

Re: Windows1 Elements

BlitzPackage2-Feb-09 11:30

BlitzPackage

2-Feb-09 11:30

All you have to do in the other class is pass in a reference to Window1.

So, for example, one way to do this is to declare a method in your other class that gets a reference to a Window1 object:

public void GetWindowReference(Window1 theWindow)
{
     // Do some work
}

Then, in Window1 you can just code:

OtherClass myOtherClass = new OtherClass();
myOtherClass.GetWindowReference(this);

Then you can do what you will with with Window1.

Let me know if that helps; you need more information; or want to try another method.

Re: Windows1 Elements

me082-Feb-09 11:53

me08

2-Feb-09 11:53

Ah Thanks , I a bit noob on the basics, that has helped me heaps. owe you a crate of beer , cheers

Smile | :)

Re: Windows1 Elements

Pete O'Hanlon2-Feb-09 11:42

Pete O'Hanlon

2-Feb-09 11:42

When you extract your data, put it into a well defined class. For instance, if you were reading in an animals structure, you might have a class that looks like this:

public class Animal
{
  public string Name { get; set; }
}

Create an observable collection that wraps the animals and populate it with your data reader. [Hint - you might want to use my RangeObservableCollection[^] class in place of the ObservableCollection because it's better suited for bulk loading information into without firing off the notification events]. Then, bind this to your DataContext and use WPF databinding to bind the combobox to this. I know this seems to be a lot, but it's not as bad as it sounds and there are plenty of examples on this.

"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

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Re: Windows1 Elements

BlitzPackage2-Feb-09 11:45

BlitzPackage

2-Feb-09 11:45

Indeed, I was going to recommend an observable collection; but he said he did not want any databinding.

Come to think of it; why do you not want databinding? Just curious.

Re: Windows1 Elements

Pete O'Hanlon2-Feb-09 11:46

Pete O'Hanlon

2-Feb-09 11:46

BlitzPackage wrote:
why do you not want databinding?

Masochism - plain and simple masochism.

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Re: Windows1 Elements

me084-Feb-09 5:04

me08

4-Feb-09 5:04

Haven't got round to learning databinding yet, just trying a few simple things with basics.

when i tried the solution above i get

Error 1 'BikeMaint.Modules.AccessDB.GetBikesAlreadyStored(BikeMaint.Window1)' is inaccessible due to its protection level G:\Programming\Projects\bikemaint\Window1.xaml.cs 103 18 BikeMaint

?

Re: Windows1 Elements

Pete O'Hanlon4-Feb-09 5:20

Pete O'Hanlon

4-Feb-09 5:20

It means that the method GetBikesAlreadyStored isn't declared as public or internal (assuming it's all in the same assembly) so it can't be accessed by an object outside its class. You've probably got it declared as private or protected (or without a scope identifier at all).

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Dlls Issue

Tauseef A29-Jan-09 23:12

Tauseef A

29-Jan-09 23:12

hi guys

i have some class libraries created in 2.0 , i want to to now create a silverlight project and want to use my previously created classes by i cant add reference in silver light project and also when i add reference into my wcf (which is a web application ) it gives me some reference error .

how to do that ?
any example
thanks in advance
....

Tauseef A Khan
MCP Dotnet framework 2.0.

Re: Dlls Issue

Michael Sync31-Jan-09 4:56

Michael Sync

31-Jan-09 4:56

Hello,

Silverlight is using smaller version of CLR which is totally different from .NET CLR. So, the assembly which is complied using Silverlight CLR and the .NET assembly are not binary compatible. That's why you can't reference .NET dll in Silverlight project.

You will need to re-compile your sourcecode with Silverlight CLR if you want to add the reference in Silverlight.

All you need to do is that create Silverlight Class Library and copy all of your code from your project to new Silverlight Class Library project and try to build it again. There are a lot of namespaces that are not supported in Silverlight so that you have to find the workaround for them. Once you can successfully compile the project, you will get the assembly that you can reference in Silverlight.

Hope it helps.

Thanks and Regards,
Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)

Xaml on the Web

Jammer29-Jan-09 23:07

Jammer

29-Jan-09 23:07

Hi All,

This is only slightly related to WPF really. I'm currently overhauling my personal web site and I'm including lots of code bits (C# & XAML).

The problem is, I'm having troubles finding decent syntax highlighting stuff that does C# and XAML to an acceptable standard. The site is php/html/javascript so I can't use any nice asp.net stuff ... boo!

Any one have any ideas?

The syntax highlighters I've found so far are ok, but XAML highlighted as XML just doesn't cut it imho ...

Cheers,

Jammer
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Re: Xaml on the Web

Pete O'Hanlon30-Jan-09 0:40

Pete O'Hanlon

30-Jan-09 0:40

I cheat on my blog, I post screenshots of the code.

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Re: Xaml on the Web

Jammer30-Jan-09 0:54

Jammer

30-Jan-09 0:54

tut tut Peter ... Wink | ;)

To be honest, over the last couple of years I've lost track of the number of Syntax Highlighters I've tried and frankly I've not been completely satisfied with any of them ...

XAML is completely unrepresented at the moment as far as I can tell. Frown | :(

Jammer
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Re: Xaml on the Web

Pete O'Hanlon30-Jan-09 1:31

Pete O'Hanlon

30-Jan-09 1:31

Jammer wrote:
XAML is completely unrepresented at the moment as far as I can tell.

Too true. That's why I use screenshots (btw - that's how Josh and Karl do it as well).

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Re: Xaml on the Web

Jammer31-Jan-09 22:39

Jammer

31-Jan-09 22:39

I carried on with dp.SyntaxHighlighter in the end. Have just finished the new version of my web site too. I wanted to put my CP articles up and have the code easily accessible for people to cut and paste.

http://www.jammer.biz/articles/usercontrolasdatatemplate.php[^]

Jammer
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Re: Xaml on the Web

Pete O'Hanlon1-Feb-09 8:28

Pete O'Hanlon

1-Feb-09 8:28

It looks good. I'm playing round with a Silverlight code control as a bit of fun. So far, it's been pretty good fun.

"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

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Re: Xaml on the Web

Jammer1-Feb-09 10:38

Jammer

1-Feb-09 10:38

I so want to move my hosting so that I can use .NET on my site!

Jammer
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Re: Xaml on the Web

Mark Salsbery2-Feb-09 6:09

Mark Salsbery

2-Feb-09 6:09

Notepad++ (free) highlights pretty well and you can export in HTML.

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

Re: Xaml on the Web

Jammer2-Feb-09 6:36

Jammer

2-Feb-09 6:36

Good grief! I use Notepad++ all the time ... never noticed that!!!! Off to have a rummage ... Smile | :)

Thanks!

Jammer
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Re: Xaml on the Web

Mark Salsbery2-Feb-09 6:45

Mark Salsbery

2-Feb-09 6:45

Heh. After I posted I noticed you stated XML highlighting wasn't acceptable,
so you may not like it Smile | :)

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

Re: Xaml on the Web

Jammer2-Feb-09 7:11

Jammer

2-Feb-09 7:11

Well, really that's just me being anal about it. I just wanna have XAML snippets on my site in the exact format one gets used to viewing it on screen. I actually find code more difficult to read if the highlighting is wrong than with no highlighting at all!

Jammer
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Re: Xaml on the Web

Mark Salsbery2-Feb-09 7:16

Mark Salsbery

2-Feb-09 7:16

Yeah

Not nearly as difficult to me as trying to copy code from a screenshot hehe.

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

Re: Xaml on the Web

Jammer2-Feb-09 7:22

Jammer

2-Feb-09 7:22