Windows Presentation Foundation, a Microsoft graphical system for rendering user interfaces for the .NET 3.0 development framework.
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How to best represent a ToggleButton (representing on/off) with the ability to be locked
I'm designing a ToggleButton control that has the ability to be in a locked state in which user interaction will not be able to further toggle the control. In general I would like the button to appear ...
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Adding text to textbox from a list
In our application there is a form to specify command line arguments to run an EXE with. We also want to provide some keywords that the user can use, now we put them in a listview. Currently, it ...
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Alternatives to MDI layout?
As WPF has no built-in MDI support I was looking around for alternatives for a rather large graphical work oriented application. The application will have a lot of different widgets, and for a lot of ...
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good metaphor for deleting tags
I'm looking for a good example for the look and feel of tags. There are a small number (usually 0-3) tags.
If there are already tags present on a record, how should the delete functionality be ...
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How to Indicate ComboBox Value Is Dirty
I'm looking for a good way to indicate the value of a ComboBox is dirty. With TextBoxes I set the Background to yellow but that looks a little funny with the ComboBox because by default it looks ...
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In place editing in search result and searching again
I am looking for existing solutions to a user interface problem. My users have the ability to search in a list of items. The items can be either single or composite items.
In the search result the ...
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Visualizing daily Event schedule with WPF
I am in conceptual phase of a little utility to help our support team identify what is about to happen, and what should have happened but didn't.
basically our system is scheduled to do many things. ...
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Where can I find a gallery of WPF UI examples? [closed]
Does anyone know where I can find a gallery of UIs built with stock WPF controls?
I want to give my business partners examples of what can be (fairly easily) accomplished with the standard WPF ...
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UI pattern for shared editing scope among selected elements?
I'm having a hard time researching this pattern for WPF, partly because I'm not exactly sure of the correct term for it.
As best as I can describe it, here is how this editing pattern works:
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I am trying to think which is the best way for a simple crud
Having little experience I am wondering which is the best way to add a simple CRUD functionality for the ListView there.The design is incomplete.The two black buttons down there are for Create end ...
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how to control user focus?
i am currently developing a prototype for a piece of software. One of the most important things is to show the client, how the UI will look like, so I am making real wpf windows with no real data ...
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Best UX for filtering
I have a text files which looks like this:
1 0.9 0.2 0.9
1 0.5 0.2 0.5
1 0.1 0.2 0.5
1 0.5 0.2 0.5
1 0.2 0.2 0.0
1 0.5 0.9 0.5
1 0.1 0.2 0.9
1 0.5 0.4 0.5
2 0.3 0.6 1.0
2 0.8 0.6 1.0
Where first ...
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Blogs/Websites That Showcase Windows UI Examples? [closed]
I'm looking for a blog or website that showcases nice UI designs. Specifically, one that has examples of Windows user interfaces. I have a few of these bookmarked (like Beautiful Pixels), but they are ...
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Displaying Search Results in a Confined Space
I am creating a search box where the results will be displayed in a popup below the textbox (standard layout, like the Google search box).
The search term will be compared to multiple properties in ...
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Role management with Parameters
I am currently developing a User management Form.
Each User can be assigned to multiple Roles. I would create this as 2 Listboxes with one showing all selected Roles and the other all unselected ...
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Form design to enter many values?
I am currently thinking of a wpf dialog to enter multiple values for a production line. Currently our customer uses a Excel Sheet, but since we now need to save the entered values to SQL DB and for ...
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What is the most intuitive way to force users to enter certain cells first in the new row of a data grid?
It was suggested that I post to this site the first half of a question I posted on StackOverflow.
Paraphrased…
I have a data grid (in my situation, Microsoft's .NET platform using WPF) wherein I ...
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Required field validation error message – Next to field vs. in a Popup
In our application, we mark all the required fields with an asterisk and when user tries to perform an action without providing values for all the required fields, we display an error message next to ...
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User interface design [closed]
I am writing an application in C# using Visual Studio and need my UI like this:
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
|Action1 Action2 ... ActionN | Toolbox | ...
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What are some recommended web resources for theming and design of WPF controls? [closed]
I previously tried to ask about themeing resources for WPF in this previous question
However at the time UI stack didn't really exist, and the SO guys gave "how to learn" type answer.
I'm looking for ...
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Which platform should a forward thinking line of business application use? [closed]
We are a small development business creating applications for the construction industry. These are typically classic line of business applications - grid heavy, trees, import and export and so on. ...
