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Michael Bookatz

You know I get the feeling you are really starting to love WPF in a sort of love hate relationship type of way. Maybe I shouldn't complain and be about the way dataGrid and DatagridView do things differently. It seems it could be a lot worse.

Nish Nishant

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

WTF happened to Application.StartupPath in .Net 3.5?

I guess you'll have to use Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location) + Path.DirectorySeparatorChar now.

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Dan Neely

in that case; because datagrid was a steaming pile of fail and they wanted to make as clean break as possible.

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Nish Nishant

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

Instead of Label.Text, we have Label.Content

The WPF equivalent of the WinForms Label control is actually TextBlock (which has a Text property). The WPF Label is actually a heavier more complex control - so wherever you used a Label in WinForms, in WPF you should be using TextBlock.

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Michael Bookatz

So what do you use instead of Datagrid?

Michael Bookatz

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

The WPF equivalent of the WinForms Label control is actually TextBlock (which has a Text property). The WPF Label is actually a heavier more complex control - so wherever you used a Label in WinForms, in WPF you should be using TextBlock.

SO why not have the new heavier control called TextBlock a new name not used before! Why confuse what everyone knows to be the standard!

Rama Krishna Vavilala

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

Instead of Label.Text, we have Label.Content

That's because the Label is not restricted to only to text. It can contain arbitary content.

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

instead of Control.Enable, we got Control.IsEnabled.

No idea on that one.

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

WTF happened to Application.StartupPath in .Net 3.5?

It's there. You need to look at the right "Application".

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

that I have to use the DispatchTimer class instead of the System.Timers.Timer class...

For the same reason you had to use System.WIndows.Timer in windows forms or use SetTimer in MFC (as opposed to CreateTimerQueuTimer).

Electron Shepherd

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

of Label.Text, we have Label.Content

Presumably becuase it can (or might in the future) have "non-text" stuff in it (HTML etc) *

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

instead of Control.Enable, we got Control.IsEnabed

This one makes sense to me. Enable is a verb (method) wheras IsEnabled is a state (property) * I don't do any WPF work, so the control may already support formatted content for all I know.

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Rohde

It is because composition is a big part of WPF. Between a WPF label's opening and closing tag you can have not only text but any content like images etc. Therefore a property name of Content makes more sense.

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Nish Nishant

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

It's there. You need to look at the right "Application".

Rama, do you mean the one in System.Windows? If so, it doesn't have a StartupPath property. Or is there a different one available in some other assembly/namespace?

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Pete OHanlon

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

And while I'm complaining, WTF happened to Application.StartupPath in .Net 3.5?

You can still use it - but you have to add a reference to System.Windows.Forms - it's a Forms method.

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Pete OHanlon

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

Rama, do you mean the one in System.Windows? If so, it doesn't have a StartupPath property. Or is there a different one available in some other assembly/namespace?

See my answer below.

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Lost User

For the same reason the Winforms Webbrowser changed from Text to DocumenText. X|

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Rama Krishna Vavilala

John is probably confused between System.Windows.Forms.Application (WinForms + has StartupPath) and System.Windows.Application (WPF). Both are different.

Nish Nishant

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

You can still use it - but you have to add a reference to System.Windows.Forms - it's a Forms method.

Nice, though I probably won't do it that way to avoid the WinForms reference. That just uses GetModuleFileName anyway.

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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

John is probably confused between System.Windows.Forms.Application (WinForms + has StartupPath) and System.Windows.Application (WPF). Both are different.

Ah okay. You meant that he didn't realize that this is a whole new class.

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Dan Neely

DataGridView. DataGrid was the 1.0 framework attempt at the same. it sucked massively.

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Pete OHanlon

Indeed - I actually use this:

public static class Utility
{
[DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
public static extern int GetModuleFileName(HandleRef hModule, StringBuilder buffer, int length);

private static string startupPath;
private static HandleRef NullHandleRef = new HandleRef();

public static string StartupPath()
{
if (startupPath == null)
{
StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder(260);
GetModuleFileName(NullHandleRef, buffer, buffer.Capacity);
startupPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(buffer.ToString());
}
new FileIOPermission(FileIOPermissionAccess.PathDiscovery, startupPath).Demand();
return startupPath;
}
}

God bless Reflector.

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peterchen

Developed by a different team. Such differences are usually a mix of different style guide lines (e.g. "All boolean properties should start with Is, Are, or Can"), different tastes ("X always irked me, I'd prefer Y"), and ignorance ("We are the cool guys, why should we know WinForms at all?")

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ToddHileHoffer

The data grid was serviceable at best. The Gridview was completely redone. Many of the changes seemed logical rather than arbitrary.

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