greekgoddj wrote: I am relatively new to WPF Yup got that right you are posting in the wCf forum :laugh: This is not going to help with your problem because I think it is a design issue. This is how I get around it. I never allow inline editing - a datagrid is a display tool only, I either pop a dialog or user another form or use a detail control (haven't got that one worked out yet) to do the editing. This gives me complete control of the object, I have a static method in my viewmodelbase that copies the selected object out of the list<> into the EditableObject. This is them bound to the editing control. If the user cancels I simply throw the editable object away. Save writes the object back to the database and also copies (for edit) the editable object to the selected object. Once again a static method. Caveat the lookup values in the selctedobject need to be retrieved if you do not refresh the list. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

Hello Larry...(sorry for the delay)... The code is part of a rather large commercial project..so i need to try and trim it down to the simplset level so that i can email you the relevant parts. Regards, Aristotel :)

Hi Ryan... I managed to track down CBitmapButton::DrawItem() and look at its code inside. So at least now I don't have to worry about taking care of the actual bitmap selection and drawing depending on the state. I did however notice that that function never gets called. Setting breakpoints shows that it never gets called. Thanks, Aristotel

Click me.[^] We learned how to make Stock Font Propeties work here. From get_hFont to Load and Save m_pFont.

Got it! thanks :)

Anyone? :|

In virtula method FinalConstruct() is control created in sense of com object. Creation of control (window) is performed in method OnCreate(...) (this is message handler of message WM_CREATE like in common window).

Sorry,I tried this,but still can't work,IE crashed and error is "Debug Assertion Failed"

Well... it seems the answer is the following: [code] CBitmap myBitmap; AFX_MANAGE_STATE(AfxGetStaticModuleState()); myBitmap.LoadBitmap(IDB_SOMEBITMAP); [/code] Now I need to figure out what that all means! Ciao

Well, After nearly 2 weeks of trying to figure this out, reinstalling Visual Studio .NET, restarting the project and trying slightly different approaches, I have found the problem to be in the Visual Studio .NET settings. Under Options/Projects/VC++ Directories, I had some additional entires which seem to have been the problem. Removing those now has Visual Studio .NET not crashing when adding a second ATL control class to a project. Aristotel ;P

If it causes an assertion, the reason is clear. Apparently you're calling Invalidate for the CWindow-class. If this class's m_hWnd member is not a valid window, it will cause an assertion. The most common reason for this is that your CWindow class is not properly constructed, initialized and created. Perhaps you're calling Invalidate too early ? To avoid this, add a conditional sentence in front of your Invalidate call that will check if the window in question is valid. This way, Invalidate will only be called on valid windows and the assertion will never fire. Otherwise, ATL has nothing in special compared to MFC or Win32. The CWindow::Invalidate will call InvalidateRect Win32 function to do it's task. -Antti Keskinen ---------------------------------------------- "If we wrote a report stating we saw a jet fighter with a howitzer, who's going to believe us ?" -- R.A.F. pilot quote on seeing a Me 262 armed with a 50mm Mauser cannon.

IPicture::get_Handle() or Render(). "You're obviously a superstar." - Christian Graus about me - 12 Feb '03 "Obviously ???  You're definitely a superstar!!!" mYkel - 21 Jun '04 Within you lies the power for good - Use it!