I am creating a custom window that looks similar to the Office 2007 UI. I was able to create an appropriate ControlTemplate/Style with dragging and "Close", Maximize/Minimize buttons etc... But here' the question: What's the best approach to have it encapculated in the separate class/component so I can easily re-use this style for other windows in the app?
You could put the template and style into the App's resources, without a x:Key, and set the TargetType to {x:Type Window} to make every window in the app automatically use that style. Is that what you're looking for?
>Probably you can inherit your own Window class from the stock Window and use it everywhere.
I was thinking about that. Still trying to figure out how to declare XAML for the new window that inherits from my custom window. This is what I am doing:
<l:OfficeWindow x:Class="Lean360.Application.OfficeWindowControl"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:l="clr-namespace:Lean360.Application"
>
<Grid>
</Grid>
</l:OfficeWindow>
where the OfficeWindow is my custom window. I am getting the warning:
"Could not find schema information for the element 'clr-namespace:Lean360.Application:HelpWindow'."
and the error:
'Lean360.Application.HelpWindow' cannot be the root of a XAML file because it was defined using XAML. Line 1 Position 15.
>Have you implemented window mouse resizing functionality as well? Does it works fine?
Not yet. I've got a few ideas how to do that, but still need to try it.
Sheva
>I was thinking about that. Still trying to figure out how to declare XAML for the new window >that inherits from my custom window. This is what I am doing:
>[...]Hm, HelpWindow sounds quite strange. If you didnt created it by yourself of course 
. Here I can't imagine how to help without the whole project to look at.
> Not yet. I've got a few ideas how to do that, but still need to try it.
Ok. I just asked because I tried to implement custom resizing in Windows Forms. In certain places it is flickering hard, and I wasted this idea. But still it happened with a per-pixel transparent layered window, so with a normal one maybe it will be ok.
[assembly:XmlnsDefinition("http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation","Lean360.Application")]
<OfficeWindow x:Class="Lean360.Application.OfficeWindowControl"xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"><Grid></Grid></OfficeWindow>
