I'm trying to use the ContextMenu control in WP7 with Caliburn Micro. I used the following example:
http://compiledexperience.com/blog/posts/wp7-context-menus-with-caliburn-micro
I have a "PurchaseListViewModel" approach (second scenario in the example).
Now my problem:
How can I make the menu items localizable. I tried to use the following:
Bind to the resource file which is exposed in the BaseViewModel (works other places in the xaml):
Header="{Binding Path=LocalizedResources.MenuDelete,
Source={StaticResource localizedStrings}}"
Bind against a property in the ViewModel
Header="{Binding MenuDeleteText}"
Both approaches didn't work; no text is shown. What am I doing wrong?
Did you tried
Header="{Binding LocalizedResources.MenuDelete,
Source={StaticResource localizedStrings}}"
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**UPDATED**
Just something quick, hope you guys can help me but i'm having this problem where I open up my wp7 project in blend and i edit the listbox item template and i finish it but. I save everything and go back to VS2010 for Windows phone and hit debug but i look at the phone and i have no items showing up at all. The listbox is just blank.
Code:
<ListBox toolkit:TiltEffect.IsTiltEnabled="True" x:Name="ListBox1" FontSize="42.667" FontFamily="Segoe WP SemiLight" IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="False" d:LayoutOverrides="VerticalAlignment">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel x:Name="sp">
<toolkit:ContextMenuService.ContextMenu>
<toolkit:ContextMenu IsZoomEnabled="False" >
<toolkit:MenuItem Header="Delete" Click="Delete_Click" Name="MenuItem1" />
<toolkit:MenuItem Header="Edit" Click="Edit_Click"/>
<toolkit:MenuItem Header="View" Click="View_Click"/>
<toolkit:MenuItem Header="Share.." Click="Share_Click"/>
</toolkit:ContextMenu>
Quick Brief
The app I'm making is a simple note app which saves notes in to a folder in the isolated storage. It successfully retrieves the items but i just want to make it so that it has the title and a brief description. This is all in one item. I've got to that point and the 2 textblocks have ="{Binding}" this basically just adds the title I'm assuming but i also added the ="{Binding}" to the second textblock so its basically showing the title for both of them. Is there a way to bind it to a specific item? like the second textblock, how can i bind that so that it shows 1st 12 characters inside a text file so basically it just shows the title and a brief description?
Maybe you have designtime-only data?
In case you're using Mvvm Light DataService approach, you define 2 DataServices: one for designtime and another for realtime.
Just random assuming. it would be nice to see some sample.
UPD: you posted wrong code, this one is about ContextMenu. I dont see binding there.
But again, generally talking, there shouldnt be any problems. You just deserialize data into model, say
public class Note
{
public string Name {get; set; }
public string Content; {get; set; }
}
And then you have List (or even ObservableCollection if you want realtime changes like renaming). And then you just bind
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Content}"/>
If you want to have a strict limit for Content/Description of 12 characters, you can add either Converter and take only 12 first characters, or introduce new property
class Note
{
***
public string Description { get { return Content.Substring(0, 12); } }
}
UPD2:
Ok, lets start from the very beginning. First, MVVM is recommended pattern for Wp7 applications. I believe, you can google info about it yourself, but here are the most important parts:
Model. Keeps your data (in your case, it is notes names and description).
ViewModel. This is abstract view. You have all logic here, you have all data prepared to be rendered here, but VM have no idea how to render data. In your case, a list of notes would be here.
View. Here is description of your ui. In your case, ListBox would be here.
So, first, make a new project, then use NuGet to install latest Mvvm Light (for example). After installing, you should see folders for viewmodels and models.
Create new class Note, like i described before. It would be your model.
Now, go to viewmodel. In a constructor, add a list of Notes there, call it ListOfNotes. Add manually several items to the list and initialize them (add some random values for Names and Contents fields).
Now, go to view. In the top of the file, there should be something like DataContext = "{Binding MainViewModel, Source={StaticResource ViewModelLocator}}". Inside of the view, add ListBox. It should be something like
<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding ListOfNotes}" >
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}" />
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Content}" />
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
So, what would happen now. When you would run your app, your view would be initialized. It would get MainViewModel (because is it set as DataContext, in step 4). In the constructor of MainViewModel, a ListOfNotes would be initialized (see step 3). Then, when page would load ListBox, it would try to find ListOfNotes inside of DataContext (MainViewModel in our case). It should find your list of Notes, and then, every element of the ListBox would be associated with every element of your ListOfNotes. As it is described in DataTemplate, it would try to get Note.Name and Note.Content.
Hi, I have a problem using the MVVM pattern after I instantiate my view model in this way:
<phone:PhoneApplicationPage.Resources>
<local:DetailVM x:Key="DetailVM"/>
</phone:PhoneApplicationPage.Resources>
How do I know when this Page is Loaded?
You can use the Blend SDK and add an event trigger that triggers a command in your viewmodel.
include
xmlns:i="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Interactivity;assembly=System.Windows.Interactivity"
in your xmlns includes, and then add a trigger for the Loaded event.
<i:Interaction.Triggers>
<i:EventTrigger EventName="Loaded">
<i:InvokeCommandAction Command="{Binding LoadCommand}" />
</i:EventTrigger>
</i:Interaction.Triggers>
The LoadCommand is simply a property that returns an ICommand. You should of course either set the DataContext of the page to your viewmodel, or set the source of the binding to the one in your resources.
I am trying to use the list picker control for wp 7 and caliburn micro. I get the binding correct from the model with conventions, but when I press the the picker to see the page to select somethin gelse I get the message
PID:0E2108CA TID:0F790ABE 2012-04-30 18:02:20.7180 View Model not found. Searched: Microsoft.Phone.Controls, Microsoft.Phone.Controls.ListPickerPageViewModel.
PID:0E2108CA TID:0F790ABE 2012-04-30 18:02:20.7210 View Model not found. Searched: Microsoft.Phone.Controls.IListPickerPageViewModel, Microsoft.Phone.Controls.ListPickerPageViewModel.
and it loads a complete blank page (think its the ListPickerPage in the control toolkit)
it doesnt matter if its bound or not, i guess its some convention hooking in that I dont want.
To reproduce start a new project, hoock up a viewmodel and view, enter below in in your xaml
my xaml looks like this
<toolkit:ListPicker Header="Background" ExpansionMode="FullscreenOnly">
<sys:String>dark</sys:String>
<sys:String>light</sys:String>
<sys:String>dazzle</sys:String>
<toolkit:ListPicker.FullModeItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="16 21 0 20">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding}"
Margin="0 0 0 0"
FontSize="43"
FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyLight}"/>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</toolkit:ListPicker.FullModeItemTemplate>
</toolkit:ListPicker>
What I would like to happen is ofcourse that the property of my model should popuplate the fullscreen selection, and also it would be nice to set the initial selection based on a property on the model.
Some points I noted:
You have to provide an ItemsSource to the ListPicker - A collection of some sort from which it can display the items. In TextBlock text={Binding } - You have to bind some property, so that it can display.
I currently have a listBox in a WP7 application that uses databinding to populate it. The problem I'm having though is with this particular line:
<Hyperlink NavigateUri="{Binding LinkUrl}" TargetName="_blank">{Binding Name}</Hyperlink>
It seems that I can't bind things in this way (outside of an element's attributes). All this does is create a hyperlink with the literal text {Binding Name} linked to the url. Instead what I'm looking for is for it to use the actual Name variable in its place.
I've tried googling for an answer and looked into the Inlines attribute, but I keep coming up empty handed.
Any help would be appreciated
In WPF, the space between the tags is usually the 'content' (but not always) and bindable via the Content property. I'm unfamiliar with <Hyperlink> in Windows Phone, but a <HyperlinkButton> should work just as well.
<HyperlinkButton NavigateUri="{Binding LinkUrl}" TargetName="_blank" Content="{Binding Name}"/>
EDIT: For a <Hyperlink> in a <RichTextBox> try this:
<RichTextBox>
<Paragraph>
<Hyperlink>
<Hyperlink.Inlines>
<Run Text="{Binding Name}"/>
</Hyperlink.Inlines>
</Hyperlink>
</Paragraph>
</RichTextBox>
FYI I'm pretty new to Silverlight.
Okay, so I want to build a simple user control that contains a button plus some additional XAML as specified by the client of the control.
I got searching on Google and found at least 30 different articles that were all very confusing; especially because they talk about styling animation, customizing other controls that you don't own, and other crap I'm not ready for yet.
This is what I did.
In VS 2010, I right clicked and added a new UserControl called MyControl
To the MyControl.xaml I changed the LayoutRoot to a StackPanel and added a Button inside it
In my MainPage.xaml I added an instance of MyControl
I added a TextBox as a child element of this instance
I tried to build and got an error that MyControl didn't support Direct Content
Googled some more..
I changed MyControl to inherit from ContentControl and updated the xaml
I added a ContentPresenter in the xaml to represent the client "custom content"
Okay, it builds and the TextBox shows up, but the Button is missing.
Here's the relevant section from MainPage.xaml
<my:MyControl HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="49,26,0,0" x:Name="myContentControl1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="550" Width="389">
<TextBox Height="72" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="166,339,0,0" Name="textBox1" Text="TextBox" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="460" />
</my:MyControl>
Here's the MyControl.xaml
<ContentControl x:Class="ContentControlTest.MyControl"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d"
FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}"
FontSize="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}"
Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"
d:DesignHeight="480" d:DesignWidth="480">
<StackPanel x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="{StaticResource PhoneChromeBrush}" Orientation="Vertical">
<ContentPresenter/>
<Button Content="Button" Height="72" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="78,254,0,0" Name="FooFoo" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Width="160" />
</StackPanel>
</ContentControl>
And here is the MyControl.cs
using System.Windows.Controls;
namespace ContentControlTest
{
public partial class MyControl : ContentControl
{
public MyControl()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
}
}
The way I thought it worked was that the child elements of the control instance are set as the Content property on the ContentControl base class of MyControl. Then, ContentPresenter "pastes" that content into the MyControl.xaml wherever appears.
Although that does seem to be how it works, in the process it is "eating" the Button that I have defined in the MyControl.xaml.
I'm trying not to get into ControlTemplate etc that at this point unless it is absolutely necessary.
Can someone with a clue please tell me what I am doing wrong.
thanks!
That's because the Content of the control is the entire StackPanel you've written by hand; when you set a new Content, the StackPanel is replaced.
A ControlTemplate is necessary for this scenario, I think; it would be a very simple one after all. The starting point can be the default style of the content control; put the style inside a ResourceDictionary (for instance, in the <ContentControl.Resources> section of your user control), and you're ready to go; all you need to do is add a grid and button inside that template.
Note that the style I linked to sets itself as the default for any reachable ContentControl; to make it only apply to your control and not to any children that may appear inside it, add x:Key="someKey" to the Style and set the ContentControl's Style property explicitly to Style={StaticResource someKey}.
Let me know if you need additional information; also, I might be wrong and there may be an easier way, but I doubt it; the Content property is meant to behave exactly like what you described.