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20 questions linked to/from How to create custom window chrome in wpf?
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How can I style the border and title bar of a window in WPF? [duplicate]
We are developing a WPF application which uses Telerik's suite of controls and everything works and looks fine. Unfortunately, we recently needed to replace the base class of all our dialogs, changing ...
69 votes
6 answers
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How to make title bar disappear in WPF window?
I know this has been asked before but I've tried answers: How to create a WPF Window without a border that can be resized via a grip only? How to remove the title bar from a window but keep the border ...
51 votes
7 answers
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How to remove white strip on top of WPF window with WindowStyle=None?
Is it possible to remove the white strip on top of WPF window with Window Style=None. XAML and Window is shown in the screenshot:
6 votes
3 answers
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Embedded Font in WPF not working
I have a WPF application where I use icons from the font "Segoe UI Symbol". But when deploying to Windows 7 I realize the icons are missing because the font is updated in Windows 8. I tried to embed ...
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2 answers
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Change title bar color of window in WPF.
I new for WPF application. My requirement is to change the color of the title bar to blue color. I search a lot for the same thing but I failed to find out the way to achieve it. Thanks.
1 vote
2 answers
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WPF Add menu in line with title bar
I've been searching for ways to get a menu in line with the title bar like the below image. It has the logo on the far left that acts as a menu item and the rest of the text menu items following after ...
5 votes
1 answer
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Creating Bordless Windows with custom visual
I'd like to create a custom window using WPF that doesn't look like the regular window. The window I want to create is similar to MacOs window, with title centered (with dropshadow effect), and ...
3 votes
1 answer
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How to change the height of title bar in wpf
I am unable to set the height of title bar from xaml.I can change the height while inspecting the output window from snoop. how to change the height of title bar from XAML?
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1 answer
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Resizing the size of the listbox according to the C# wpf window size
I have made a C# metro wpf application using mahapps with Visual Studio 2012. I have added a listbox to the window. But when I re-size the window it stays in the same size. This is my current code. &...
0 votes
2 answers
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How to change maximize button color/texture
Is there any way to change the Minimize button, Maximize button, WPF window frame/border ect. using styles in the xaml?
0 votes
1 answer
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Question on: Creating Custom Window Chrome in WPF
In my WPF app I'm trying to create a Custom Chrome Window [Ref: WindowChrome]. I followed Restyle Your Window article. I created Resource Dictionary file along with its code-behind in my project, as ...
0 votes
1 answer
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Creating an acrylic blur effect in WPF using Direct2D
Hi i wanted to create the acrylic blur effect provided by Microsoft for my WPF Application. I have tried many ways such as using DWM Blur Behind,DwmSetWindowAttribute etc.. but since these methods are ...
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1 answer
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WPF window covers taskbar
I'm creating a custom WPF window with, WindowStyle=None, AllowsTransparency=True, and ResizeMode = CanMinimize. I have two events(That I created to understand events in WPF), PreviewMouseDoubleClick ...
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1 answer
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Close, minimize and maximize events do not work in a custom WPF form template
I'm designing a custom form in a WPF ResourceDictionary using a controltemplate so I can easily use the window later on. I'm designing it with Expression Blend and I'm stuck on getting the close, ...
2 votes
0 answers
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Making a WPF Application Semi-Transparent
In Windows Forms you can make your application semi-transparent by using Opacity property, like so: I'm trying to achieve the same result with WPF, but it looks impossible. If I change the Opacity of ...