Custom Page Classes / Programmatic Reuse - Wizard for WPF Forum

Posted 16 years ago by Joe Lozina

Hi,
I am trying to use the Programmatic Reuse functionality in the example given and I am wondering how do I get access to controls(ie. text) inside the ItemEntryPage if i would like to change the visability.
I am trying to hide the following textbox


<TextBox Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="1" Width="100" Margin="0,7,0,0" x:Name="description" Text="{Binding Description}"></TextBox>


TextBox description= (TextBox)this.FindName("description");
description.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Hidden;

I tried this but it returns a null reference

Thanks
Joe

Comments (2)

Posted 16 years ago by Joe Lozina

Hi
Ive tried to get the using the following but couldnt get the FrameworkElement/templatedParent using the DataTemplate.FindName(string name, FrameworkElement templatedParent) method. Can you let me know why this isnt working or suggest a solution?

Code I'm trying to use is


DataTemplate dataTemplate = this.ContentTemplate;
TextBox tb = (TextBox)(dataTemplate.FindName(("description", ????)); // ???? how do i get the templatedParent

Also, I noticed that I wasnt able to add the x:key attribute of the DataTemplate in the ItemEntryPage XAML, is there a reason for this?

Thanks
joe

Posted 16 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Hi Joe,

I think this article does a good job of explaining what you need to do:
http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsdk/archive/2007/04/16/how-do-i-programmatically-interact-with-template-generated-elements-part-ii.aspx

Also, x:Key can only be set in resource dictionaries, not in objects that are applied to setters.

Actipro Software Support

The latest build of this product (v24.1.2) was released 12 days ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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