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Insert a WPF usercontrol in a viewpart

Laurent Pierret

Dear Language developers,

Has anyone ever tried to develop a plugin with a view part which would display a WPF user control? Or a view part with a user control containing an hosting element for a WPF user control?

I have tried this latter solution but I am getting trouble when trying to embed the WPF user control in the hosting element (the WPF user control is not in the list of objects to insert in the hosting element). Moreover, after I had added a WPF user control to my project, I received an error message when building the project (error message similar to the one I am receiving when I forget to close Studio when building the plugin).

Does anyone know why this does not work? Is it the plugin template which does not support WPF? Or is it a problem coming from Visual Studio Express 2013?

I would like to implement some parts of my view part (or even the whole view part) in WPF in order to improve the performance of my plugin. With a standard user control, I need to create and display objects at runtime, which is making the application slower. If I could use WPF, I would not need to create UI objects, thus making my plugin quicker.

Thank you in advance for your support.

Regards,

Laurent
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  • 0 in reply to Romulus Crisan (former member)
    Hi Romulus,

    I had already found the pages you suggested and tried to implement some of the suggested solutions without success. I have been spending a couple of hours in order to find a solution, without success.

    Out of curiosity, I just created a new plugin with a viewpart containing a simple hosted WPF usercontrol: it worked and I could display it in Studio. I will now stop trying to implement my new viewpart in the existing plugin. I will recreate a new plugin and build it up again step and step, hoping that the problem will not come back again.

    I do not understand what did not work when trying to implement the new viewpart in the existing plugin. The only difference I could notice is that my class and assembly do not contain underscores. Could it be that the underscores are encoded in a specific way when generating the UI?

    Thanks for your support.

    Regards,

    Laurent
  • 0 in reply to Laurent Pierret
    Hello again,

    While re-creating the problem, I ran again into the same problem/error message. However, I can now identify when the problem occurs. The error message appears when I add an action button to my plugin. I can create a ribbon group but if I want to add an action button, I receive the above-mentioned error message.

    Could it be that there is an incompatibility between the actions and the use of WPF?

    Thanks in advance for any hint.

    Regards,

    Laurent
  • 0 in reply to Laurent Pierret
    Additional info: I manage to create the action, i.e. create a keyboard shortcut and also an item in the context menu. I just get the error when I try to add the action in a ribbon group.