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CTC WPF Client Generator - Custom Controls

Custom Controls are controls that extend Standard Controls to implement specific requirements or to take advantage of Third Party and additional WPF Toolkit controls.

Custom Controls are used for substituting Standard Controls on the generated form when the User Interface requirements demand an interface that cannot be satisfied by the standard controls. Using the CTC Configurator, Standard Controls can be substituted with Custom Controls. See the CTC WPF Client Configurator documentation for further details.

Included with the CTC WPF Client Generator are a number of Custom Controls. These can be used out of the box or changed to suit local requirements. The source code of the Custom Controls is part of the installation package.

Included in the list of custom controls below are selected controls from the Microsoft WPF Toolkit. The WPF Toolkit is a free download and contains a number of additional controls that work on top of the core WPF release. Other Toolkit controls and Third Party controls can be included on request. For more information on the Microsoft WPF Toolkit see http://wpf.codeplex.com/.

The following lists the Custom Controls that are delivered as part of the CTC WPF Client Generator:

Custom Control

Description

Charting

This extends the standard ListBox control.

The Charting control is a WPF Toolkit control. It provides easy charting capabilities of various chart types such as Area, Bar, Bubble, Column, Line, Pie and Scatter.

This control requires the Microsoft WPF Toolkit.

For further details see the WPF Toolkit.

DataGrid

This extends the standard ListBox control.

The Data Grid control is a flexible control with many options such as column headers, column sorting, column resizing, column reordering and styling.

This control requires the Microsoft WPF Toolkit.

For further details see the WPF Toolkit.

DatePicker

This extends the standard TextBox control where date input is required.

The DatePicker is a WPF Toolkit control. It provides a popup calendar control for easy date selection in date formats suitable for EAE and AB Suite.

This control requires the Microsoft WPF Toolkit.

For further details see the WPF Toolkit.

Slider

This extends the standard TextBox control.

The Slider extender changes a TextBox control to a graphical slider that allows the user to choose a numeric value from a range. The Slider’s orientation can be horizontal or vertical.