How to Use Checkbox in WPF

Checkbox is a GUI element that permits the user to make a binary choice i.e. user may have to answer yes or no. Now a days programming have a new option to set the value to null. It means checkbox may be used as a three state whi...

How to Implement Custom Control, Currency TextBox: Windows Forms

Currency Textbox, custom control, as the name implies, will accept only numbers, decimals and control characters. None of other type will be allowed in this textbox. This textbox is basically used to input prices, rates or any me...

Steps and Events Used to Create Custom Control in C#: Windows Forms

In my previous article I have explained what is Custom Control, its types and features in brief. In this article I will write some steps to create the custom control, and will create a currency textbox control that will accept on...

How to Develop your Own Custom Controls in C#

Custom control, the control with combined features of other controls, can be developed by any programmer easily. A custom control will not only be usable in the same application, but also it can be used in any other application t...

How to set PictureBox Image using OpenFileDialog or Bitmap Class: WindowsForms

A person’s basic properties are name, age, date of birth, contact no. and also have a picture of that person. To insert the picture we have to preview that picture at the same time we are loading the picture. That’s why we need t...

Check If File Exist or Not at Specified Location: C#

We can specify the extension of files, to be opened using OpenFileDIalog as I have explained in Use Filters in Open File Dialog. Let suppose user have been copied a file at a specified location and save that location for future r...

How to Specify Filters in OpenFileDialog: Windows Forms

To open an existing file on the system, open file dialog box is used. Create an object of OpenFileDialog class and call the ShowMethod() to open this type of dialog box. I have explained about this dialog box in my previous artic...

How to Use Images in Treeview: WPF

Image control can be placed in any other control such like Treeview, Toolbar control or any other controls. The images can be stored in your solution files. To place an image in Treeview control using following simple steps. Pla...

Introduction of WPF TreeView Control

Treeview control is used to display our data in hierarchical form, where some of the nodes are parent and some of them are children of their parents. In the left side of windows explorer there is a treeview containing some librar...

How to Load UserControl in ToolBar Control: WPF

In earlier post I have placed some images and labels in toolbar control using some lines of XAML code. Now if we want to load a user control, written in another file, we have so follow some steps like the below. Just add a user ...

How to Place an Image in Toolbar Control: WPF

Toolbar control is used to place some shortcuts in the windows environment. We can use this toolbar in our WPF application as used in our previous post. In this post, we will place an image control in to this toolbar. We can dir...

How to Use ToolBar Control: WPF

Toolbar control is a container control, that can contains other types of controls like labels, buttons even other containers. In our windows environment, there is also a toolbar which contains our shortcut buttons with images. Wh...

How to Make TextBox Control ReadOnly: WPF

In our previous post, we have enable the spell check feature of the textbox, through which user can check the spellings of the word entered and correct it. As we know that the textbox is used to input any value by the user, but i...

How to Enable Spell Check in TextBox: WPF

WPF Textbox control is used to input some value by the user at run time. Now it is not sure that the entered values are correct, it means user can write anything wrong in the textbox. So it is programmer’s job to check the value ...

How to Use TextBox Control in WPF

The previous controls i.e. Label, TextBlock and etc. are used to display fix text in a window. Their text can be changed but through the programming, not by the user. Now to input some value by the user, or enable text editing, t...

TextBlock Control Introduction: WPF

According to previous post, Label control derives from Content Control and can: display other type of data as well as string, perform all the functions of a content control. There are some drawbacks in label control such as it ca...

How to Place Items in TabControl: WPF

In our previous post, we have learnt about tab control and place some tabs into that control. In this post we will place a container, means we will place a simple entry form into a tab item. As we all know the entry form can cont...

How to Create Tabs using TabControl: WPF

When there is not much space on our screen then programmer uses a tab control. Tab control is used to organize multiple tabs on WPF window, which can performs individual function decided by the programmer. It can contains collect...

How to Customize Status Bar in WPF

In earlier post, we have learnt about placing a status bar and add some items on that. WPF provides some advanced options with status bar i.e. we can add some more items or even containers in status bar. In this article we will a...

Status Bar Control: WPF

As the name implies, this control is used to show the status of our progress in our application. The status may be like line/column no. in Notepad, page no. in MS Word, or some text in visual studio. It is very easy to add a stat...