Dynamically creating Wizard Pages in C#?

Hi George,

We don't really have any samples on this but if you follow general WPF samples on programmatic control creation, it's all the same thing. To add a page to a wizard, you do something like: WizardPage is a ContentControl so you can populate its interior by setting the Content property to anything. This is generally a Panel-based control with more child controls in it.

I believe the MSDN on Microsoft's web site has a lot of info on programmatically working with panels, controls and content. All that information would apply here.

Also of note, we have a CustomPageClasses QuickStart in the Sample Browser that shows you how to make a template for a page in XAML and the data bind the page and have that populate the template. The data binding is in code-behind. Perhaps that sample will help you too.

You are right.

Here is a snippet of code in case anyone is interested. Works very nice. Needs a whole bunch more cosmetics but the idea works nice.

private void GenerateWizardPages(Uri filePath)
{
XmlReaderSettings readerSettings = XmlUtils.CreateValidatingSettings();
XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(filePath.LocalPath, readerSettings);
template = (RootMethodTemplate)new XmlSerializer(typeof(RootMethodTemplate)).Deserialize(reader);

WizardPage page = new WizardPage();
browseTemplatePage.NextPage = page;

WizardPage lastPage = page;

foreach (PromptValue prompt in template.PromptValues)
{
WizardPage nextpage = new WizardPage();
page.NextPage = nextpage;

StackPanel sp = new StackPanel();

page.Content = sp;
Label label = new Label();
label.Content = prompt.name;

TextBox tb = new TextBox();
tb.Tag = prompt;
tb.LostFocus += new RoutedEventHandler(tb_LostFocus);

sp.Children.Add(label);
sp.Children.Add(tb);

page.Name = "ParameterPage_" + pageCount++.ToString();// prompt.name;// "path2Page";// "ParameterPage." + prompt.name;

wizard.Items.Add(page);

lastPage = page;
page = nextpage;
}

lastPage.NextPage = finishPage;
}

void tb_LostFocus(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
lastValue = ((TextBox)sender).Text;
lastPrompt = (PromptValue) ((TextBox)sender).Tag;
}