Barcode XPS sample problems

Hi Crile,

That's odd, I've had several people try it and nobody is having any problems. What versions of Windows, .NET, and WPF Studio do you have? Also this is the local Windows version of the Sample Browser right?

Vista Ultimate 64 bit, .NET 3.5 sp1, WPF Studio v4.5.0471

Thanks

Sorry I was looking at run-time, where it appears to work fine. You meant the designer, right?

When I load the designer, I do see the issue. We did some searching and found this article on Microsoft's Connect site:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=293646&wa=wsignin1.0

The key part of that is where Microsoft states:

Quote:
We completely agree with you that specifying PageContent through XAML is a useful scenario for the WPF Designer. However we do not intend to enable support for it in the Visual Studio 2008 release of the WPF designer.

So it looks like that won't be supported in the designer. However it does work fine at run-time.

Thanks - that's it.

Any chance you can refactor that piece of the demo? The sample source, as it stands, is not much help for a novice trying to get a leg-up on using your control. Frankly, it gives this particular ActiPro novice an uneasy feeling about your product line.

At least, perhaps you could provide a C# code implementation for this part of the demo? Just a XAML shell and some code-behind?

Thanks for your quick responses.

Crile

Yes, we've reworked it so the FixedDocument and related classes are created in C# using a FixedPage defined in the UserControl's resources. That lets the designer load ok and run-time works too.

Again though, this is a deficiency in Microsoft's implementation of Visual Studio's designer. They themselves admitted it should be able to show ok, but they didn't get that functionality in on time.