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How to create Apple MacOS like Scrollbar in WPF

Apple MacOS has beautiful rounded corner scrollbar and add to the UI experience you have while working on a MacOS machine. You can easily have similar scrollbar style for your WPF application to boost up your application's UI experience. If you wish to apply this scrollbar style application wide then you should follow below steps. Step: Create a new resource dictionary (skip creating if you already have one) file and add the following code to it. <Style x:Key="ScrollBarTrackThumb" TargetType="{x:Type Thumb}"> <Setter Property="Template"> <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type Thumb}"> <Grid x:Name="Grid"> <Rectangle HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Width="Auto" Height="Auto" Fill="Transparent" /> <Border x:Name="CornerScrollBarRectangle" CornerRadius=" » Read more

Jsinh 26 February 2015

Change background color of selected ListBoxItem - ListBox in WPF

Sharing small stuffs I figure out while working with WPF !! Originally when you select any item in a ListBox control in WPF, you will observe that the background color of item turns LightBlue (if not using some kind of theming mechanism). Also when the ListBox control is not in focus or active i.e. some other control is in focus, the background color of selected item in ListBox will turn light grey (very light indeed). It would look something like this: Code snippet to apply in style / resource of the ListBox control to change the background color of the selected item when in focus or active and not in focus or inactive: <ListBox> <ListBox.Resources> <Style TargetType="{x:Type ListBoxItem}"> <Setter Property="Template"> <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ListBoxItem}"> <Border » Read more

Jsinh 02 July 2014