I'm very newbie to the WPF technology. I've been developing in WinForms for around 6 years.
Now I would like to advance one big step in my skills by learning WPF. I'm reading the introduction guides in MSDN, while as a personal exercise I'm trying to translate the sructure of a WinForms UI to its WPF UI equivalent.
This is a simple mockup of the WinForms controls structure that I would like to reproduce in WPF:
My problem is trying to reproduce the equivalent control/behavior for the ToolStripDropDownButton control.
In the Windows Forms Controls and Equivalent WPF Controls article, Microsoft just says that the equivalent control for a ToolStripDropDownButton is a ToolBar...with composition. I don't understand at all what it means about "with composition". I've been reading and experimenting with the Toolbar, but I didn't found the way to add a dropdown button thing inside the toolbar.
My question: someone could guide me or show me a brief example of how can I add a drop down button thing inside a Toolbar?.
You can put a Menu
in Toolbar
. A Menu
contains some MenuItem
. Each MenuItem
has a Header
which is it's content and can be a text or other elements. Also each MenuItem
can have some nested or MenuItem
s. For example, to have a menu structure like this:
You can use such code:
<ToolBar>
<Menu Background="#00000000">
<MenuItem >
<MenuItem.Header>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<TextBlock>Menu 1</TextBlock>
<Path VerticalAlignment="Center" Margin="8,2,0,0"
Fill="Black" Data="M 0 0 L 3 3 L 6 0 Z"/>
</StackPanel>
</MenuItem.Header>
<MenuItem Header="Menu 1-1" >
<MenuItem Header="Menu 1-1-1"/>
<MenuItem Header="Menu 1-1-2"/>
</MenuItem>
<MenuItem Header="Menu 1-2"/>
<MenuItem>
<MenuItem.Header><TextBox Width="100"/></MenuItem.Header>
</MenuItem>
<MenuItem>
<MenuItem.Header><DatePicker Width="100"/></MenuItem.Header>
</MenuItem>
</MenuItem>
<MenuItem >
<MenuItem.Header>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<TextBlock>Menu 2</TextBlock>
<Path VerticalAlignment="Center" Margin="8,2,0,0"
Fill="Black" Data="M 0 0 L 3 3 L 6 0 Z"/>
</StackPanel>
</MenuItem.Header>
<MenuItem Header="Menu 2-1"/>
<MenuItem Header="Menu 2-2"/>
<MenuItem Header="Menu 2-3"/>
</MenuItem>
<MenuItem Header="Menu 3"/>
</Menu>
</ToolBar>