I'd like to implement a chart in a small system I'm writing to display sales statistics and I got pretty interested in that chart used on Windows 8 Task Manager, I'd like to know if is possible to use that control? It's WPF/WindowsForm?
Thanks in advance.
This Charts are avaiable from the chartv.dll from System32 directory, but it is a normal C++ DLL which is not intended to be used from 3rd party software.
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I'm working on 13 years old .net application. They are using Custom Windows From Designer. Everything works fine till now, But every year they need to add new business in that application which is getting more difficult due to custom windows form designer . So they wanted to remove that Custom designer and use windows provided form designer which is more convinient and easy. I just need any reference documents/links/blogs which will help me to do this work. I already searched it but since now a days no one is using custom windows form designer that much , so not able to get proper guidance. Please do share your experince / links/information with me . Thanks
This looks a lot like a code migration. Typically, you'd migrate from one platform to another (e.g. Java to C#), or from one version to another (i.e. ASP classic to ASP.NET with VB.NET).
In this case, you want to migrate your code from a custom Win Form editor to Visual Studio. Unfortunately, I don't think there's a quick solution. The good news is that there are a wide array of "code converters" out there to help with a migration like this, and many are templatized, so you can decide how to handle edge conditions that don't line up precisely out of the box.
Here are some resources to get you started on the research:
https://www.greatmigrations.com/
https://visualstudiomagazine.com/Articles/2010/03/01/Unlocking-Legacy-Code.aspx
Is it possible to change an exe application design, example the calculator in windows xp or windows 7, can i some how embed the calculator into visual studio vb.net and change its design only like put different graphics around it, it will still work same way just design change. thanks
You need the code to do that. Extracting the code from a executable application is complicated most of the times: Why can't we extract source code from executable file?
We build many office application for windows, and it work very natively with office UI but when we came to do same on office for mac we have been lost :(
We need an embedded native Microsoft word for MAC 2016 (better if works with Microsoft word for mac 2011 too)
*by native we mean to be embedded in word window, not like the VBA forms, like word panels etc
*The most important issue for us is the UI and how it will work like if it was built by Microsoft it self,
*ANY SOLUTION FOR MS-WORD FOR WINDOWS IS NOT WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR AT ALL, THE SCOPE IS MICROSOFT WORD BUT FOR MAC
*The UI we prefer first is something like word native pans such as
*Navigation pane
*Task pane
*Side bar/pan
if this not possible then 2nd option will be
*Ribbon
if this not possible then 3rd option will be
*Toolbox
We open to use any technology to build this, such as VBA,swift, objective-c whatever provide us with the solution we need,
Any advice??
As far as I am aware, the support for embedding native clients is going the way of the dodo. Everything is moving towards the Office Web Apps and embedding that view within applications. It might make sense to review if that allows for the functionality you are looking for based on how it's deployed.
I am looking for references or samples on charting options in Windows 8 XAML/C#.
I will also consider any third party options.
I need to provide a charting solution include bar graphs, pie charts and line graphs
You can take a took to the charts available in the free WinRT XAML Toolkit.
Try telerik
http://www.telerik.com/products/windows-8/controls.aspx
If that's looks expensive, you can build something yourself based on the blog article below:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/metroapps/archive/2012/07/24/building-pie-chart-for-windows-8-metro.aspx
Arun
I have been involved in the porting of Visiblox to WinRT. We currently have a beta release out, and will make a full release in the next couple of weeks.
http://www.visiblox.com/visibloxcharts-for-winrt
Are there any libraries available that can help to change the look-and-feel of Desktop Applications made using VB.net 2008? Here is a snapshot of an application that runs on Windows 7:
I think its made using the .net framework, but how can it be styled like this?
PS - Even if its not built using .net framework, then please let me know which language supports the UI customization on windows platform.
NOTE - As everyone is suggesting me to go with WPF or SWING using JAVA, I still want to know if its possible in VB.net WinForms or not.
Theme handlers (Use standard controls and the handler takes care of the visual UI):
Open source
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/FancyNetForms.aspx
Closed source
http://www.appface.com/ ($ 149 USD) (Skin your app with 2 lines of code)
Special controls that has built in theaming:
ComponentOne:
http://www.componentone.com/SuperProducts/StudioWinForms/
Infragistics:
http://www.infragistics.com/
I don't know how this specific window was styled, but there are many posibilities:
Maybe was made in WPF. Microsoft WPF are available since VS2008 and Framework 3.0 and it allow to make a complete look and feel customization for every control that you use.
Maybe It was made in winforms using a custom control set. For example, DevExpress has a set of 60 free controls that comes with some predefined look and allow creating your own skin. (60 Free Controls)
Maybe It just was made in Java with Swing (look this Question)