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Reputation: 2153

Adding an existing project to Solution Trouble shooting

I'm trying to add https://modernuicharts.codeplex.com/ WPF project into my solution. I extracted the projects that was needed for wpf

Library - De.TorstenMandelkow.MetroChart.WPF
TestApplications - TestApplication.Shared
                 - TestApplicationWPF
De.TorstenMandelkow.MetroChart

I right clicked my current solutions and I went to Add -> Add Existing project and added the above projects.

When I set TestAplicationWPF as start up Project, the Project runs completely fine.

My goal is to have a button which will display Modern UI Charts Interface in my other project called "WPF".

WPF - ViewModel

//Button Code
public MainWindow ShowModernUI()
{
    return new TestApplicationWPF.MainWindow();
}

It returns this error A first chance exception of type 'System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException' occurred in PresentationFramework.dll

I checked the inner exception and it gave me "Cannot find resource named 'PageContent' which corresponds to TestAplicationWPF.MainWindow.xaml code

TestAplicationWPF.MainWindow.xaml 

<ContentControl Content="{Binding}" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" ContentTemplate="{StaticResource PageContent}" />

Page Content is from a resource Dictionary within TestAplicationWPF.

My attempt to fix the problem was to create a copy of the resource dictionary within my "WPF" project and it removed the error but nothing shows. May I ask how do I display the MainWindow from TestApplicationWPF

Upvotes: 1

Views: 520

Answers (1)

aybe
aybe

Reputation: 16662

Here's how to fix it:

There are few issues with the library, there used to be a Nuget package but it has been unlisted so I'll show you how to compile and reference the library in your WPF app.

  • download the file SourceAndTestApplications.zip by clicking Download on the right
  • extract the MetroChart folder somewhere and open the MetroChart.sln inside it

If you are using VS2013 the following screen will appear:

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Nothing to worry about, just press OK and close the Migration Report it opened in IE

Again, if you are under Windoww 8.1, the following will appear:

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Just press OK.

Now there's something you need to do for the compilation to succeed:

  1. open Configuration Manager
  2. choose Release Build
  3. untick Build for De.TorstenMandelkow.MetroChart

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Building

  • right-click De.TorstenMandelkow.MetroChart.WPF project and build it
  • when built, find the DLL in MetroChart\De.TorstenMandelkow.MetroChart.WPF\bin\Release

Reference the project

  • create a new WPF project
  • add a reference to De.TorstenMandelkow.MetroChart.dll

XAML :

<Window x:Class="WpfApplication3.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:metroChart="clr-namespace:De.TorstenMandelkow.MetroChart;assembly=De.TorstenMandelkow.MetroChart"
        xmlns:wpfApplication3="clr-namespace:WpfApplication3"
        Title="MainWindow"
        Width="525"
        Height="350">
    <Window.Resources>
        <wpfApplication3:MyObjectCollection x:Key="MyObjectCollection">
            <wpfApplication3:MyObject Category="Category1" Value="100" />
            <wpfApplication3:MyObject Category="Category2" Value="200" />
            <wpfApplication3:MyObject Category="Category3" Value="300" />
        </wpfApplication3:MyObjectCollection>
        <metroChart:ResourceDictionaryCollection x:Key="CustomColors">
            <ResourceDictionary>
                <SolidColorBrush x:Key="Brush1" Color="#FF5B9BD5" />
            </ResourceDictionary>
            <ResourceDictionary>
                <SolidColorBrush x:Key="Brush2" Color="#FFED7D31" />
            </ResourceDictionary>
            <ResourceDictionary>
                <SolidColorBrush x:Key="Brush3" Color="#FFA5A5A5" />
            </ResourceDictionary>
            <ResourceDictionary>
                <SolidColorBrush x:Key="Brush4" Color="#FFFFC000" />
            </ResourceDictionary>
            <!--  add more values with a different key  -->
        </metroChart:ResourceDictionaryCollection>
    </Window.Resources>
    <Grid>
        <metroChart:PieChart  Palette="{StaticResource CustomColors}"
      >
            <metroChart:PieChart.Series>
                <metroChart:ChartSeries DisplayMember="Category"
                                        ItemsSource="{StaticResource MyObjectCollection}"
                                        ValueMember="Value" />
            </metroChart:PieChart.Series>
        </metroChart:PieChart>
    </Grid>
</Window>

Code-behind:

using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using System.Windows;

namespace WpfApplication3
{
    /// <summary>
    ///     Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml
    /// </summary>
    public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        public MainWindow() {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
    }

    internal class MyObject
    {
        public string Category { get; set; }
        public int Value { get; set; }
    }

    internal class MyObjectCollection : ObservableCollection<MyObject>
    {
    }
}

Result

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See https://modernuicharts.codeplex.com/documentation for help.

Upvotes: 1

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