WPF Day-5

Introduction:

    Last Four days, we talked about WPF Introduction, AccessText Control, Board and Canvas, Calendar, CheckBox, ComboBox and ContextMenu Control. Today we will discuss about Datagrid, DatePicker, DockPanel, and DocumentViewer Control.

·  Datagrid Control:

               Represents a control that displays data in a customizable grid.

                  It starts from .Net Framework 4.0.

Please refer this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.datagrid%28v=vs.100%29.aspx

·  DatePicker Control:

               Represents a control that allows the user to select a date.

               It starts from .Net Framework 4.0.

Please refer this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.datepicker.aspx

·  DockPanel Control :

     Defines an area where you can arrange child elements either horizontally or vertically, relative to each other.

Create ContextMenu in XAML:

<DockPanel Background="AliceBlue">

            <TextBox Name="textBox1" TextWrapping="Wrap" Margin="10, 10, 5, 5" Grid.Row="7" Height="36" Width="202">The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

                <TextBox.ContextMenu>

                    <ContextMenu>

                        <MenuItem Header="_USA" />

                        <Separator />

                        <MenuItem Header="_INDIA"  />

                        <Separator />

                        <MenuItem Header="CHINA"/>

                        <Separator />

                        <MenuItem Header="SOUTH AFRICA" />

                    </ContextMenu>

                </TextBox.ContextMenu>

            </TextBox>

        </DockPanel>

Create ContextMenu in Coding:

    CheckBox chkYes;

     CheckBox chkNo;

     DockPanel dockPanel;

private void dockPanelControl()

        {

            dockPanel = new DockPanel();

            dockPanel.Background = Brushes.LightSlateGray;

            dockPanel.Margin = new Thickness(10, 15, 5, 10);

            dockPanel.Height = 100;

            dockPanel.Width= 200;

            dockControl(dockPanel);

            this.Content = dockPanel;

        }

        private void dockControl(DockPanel dpnl)

        {

            chkYes = new CheckBox();

            chkYes.ClickMode = ClickMode.Press;

            chkYes.Content = "Yes";

            chkYes.IsChecked = true;

            chkYes.Margin = new Thickness(10, 10, 25, 20);

            chkNo = new CheckBox();

            chkNo.ClickMode = ClickMode.Press;

            chkNo.Content = "No";

            chkNo.Margin = new Thickness(10, 10, 25, 20);

            dpnl.Children.Add(chkYes);

            dpnl.Children.Add(chkNo);

        }

private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

        {

            dockPanelControl();

        }

·  DocumentViewer Control:

           Document viewing control that can host paginated FixedDocument content such as an XpsDocument. Simple says that user can view all documents like (PDF, text. Image files)

FixedDocument:

   It is a fixed format document with read Access for user.

XpsDocument:

    Provides a Package that holds the content of an XPS document.

Package:

           Container that can store multiple data objects.

Create ContextMenu in XAML:

<DocumentViewer Margin="20,12,12,26" Name="documentViewer1" Background="Azure" />

Create ContextMenu in Coding:

        DocumentViewer docViewer;

             private void documentViewerControl()

              {

                   docViewer = new DocumentViewer();

                   docViewer.Background = Brushes.LightSlateGray;

                    this.Content = docViewer;

        }

            private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

             {

                 documentViewerControl();

             }

Conclusion:

  I hope, you to get some ideas about Datagrid, DatePicker, DockPanel, and DocumentViewer Control in WPF. Thanks for reading this article. We will talk about other controls in next Chapters.