Custom Window Chrome in WPF

6 Comments

1. Thomas Heinze August 29, 2014 at 7:23 am

   Hi David,

   nice tutorial. I’ve working your CustomWindow in my Application.
   Now I want to add a resizegrip for the template but if i add the resizegrip in the template

   I had a white resizegrip on the right site. How can i change that.

   Thanks Thomas

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2. Eugene June 12, 2014 at 2:06 pm

   Hello David

   Thanks for the great tutorial, I have been searching for hours with nothing close to what you created.

   There is one thing I am struggling with. If Window’s taskbar is set to autohide, then I cannot bring it back up by taking the mouse pointer to the bottom of the screen as with other programs. With normal WPF window it does work however, so I am guessing there is some windows parameter missing or something.

   Thanks again.

   http://windows.microsoft.com/en-za/windows/show-hide-taskbar#1TC=windows-7

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3. Sertan August 23, 2013 at 3:50 am

   Not sure if this is still relevant but replying just in case it might help. Without an adorner layer, adorners will not render. Adorner layer can be on the control or parent / grandparents of the control in the visual tree.
   In this case if you wrap with , Adorners used inside the window will render as expected.

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4. Sushil July 23, 2013 at 5:51 am

   Got it working! Thanks for your useful suggestion.
   One more issue with custom chrome I was not able to use adorner layer in order to resize controls on the fly.

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5. Sushil July 14, 2013 at 10:49 pm

   Hi David,

   Thanks for creating this video as it is quite useful. Could you please tell me how can create sub a sub window/User Control with this chrome. I tried to create a second window but it is throwing “Window must be the root of the tree. Cannot add Window as a child of ” error. Someone told me that I can use User Control to do that but again I getting default window chrome. Please Help.

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   1. David Anderson (Post author)July 20, 2013 at 7:19 pm

      You have to do something like:

      public class CustomWindow : Window { }
      public class SubClassedWindow : CustomWindow { }

      <myXmlNs:SubClassedWindow> …

      There isn’t such a thing as Xaml inheritance unfortunately, and you can’t nest a Window in Xaml, it must be the outer most Xaml element in the Visual Tree.

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