Thomas Lebrun

[WPF] Fun Controls Bag January CTP: A new Control ToolKit for WPF !

Fun Controls Bag is a new Control ToolKit for WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) I'm working on my free time.

It's currently composed of this controls:

• CheckedComboBox: It's a simple ComboBox where ComboBoxItems are represented by CheckBoxes.
• CheckedListBox: Again, the base component is a ListBox but all items are, in fact, composed by CheckBoxes.
• CollapsiblePanel: Inspired by the CollapsiblePanel that you can found in the ASP.NET AJAX Control ToolKit, this one provides the same functions. In other words, you are able to display some text in block that can be shown or hidden.
• ComboBoxFontSelection: This control mimics the ComboBox used in Office 2007 to select a font. Each item is display using the corresponding font and if you select some text and change the font, you will have a preview of how will be the text. This control can also be found in standalone here.
• ConfirmButton: Again, this control is inspired by one of the controls that you can find in the ASP.NET AJAX Control ToolKit. You can see a demonstration of the "Web" version of this control by clicking on this link.
• FilteredTextBox: This control is a simple TextBox that where you can specify the mask to use. You have 4 choices: digits, letters, punctuation and symbol. This could be the simple version of a "MaskedTextBox".

This controls are not only useful: they give a good overview of what can be the workflow that can exist between a developer and a designer. Indeed, most of time, the design of the controls are coded in the file generic.xaml. But the business logic is added in the C# class.

So, if you want to learn how to develop controls with WPF, take a look at this new projet

The January CTP (Community Technology Preview) can be downloaded here: http://wpf.netfx3.com/files/folders/controls/entry8402.aspx

FYI, I've planned to add more controls as soon as I can.

Feel free to post any comments/remarks/suggestion

Bye

Tom