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Designer: Control Toolbox
The Designer supports native .NET 4.5 controls and containers, third party .NET 4.5 controls, and has many of its own .NET controls available. The Designer does not support Silverlight controls or 2D shapes or drawing capabilities.
Language Switching
The Designer provides a language switching control that allows you to change the text in a form or user display from one language to another during run time.
Switch Language Button
The Switch Language Button is a WPF control that is used to dynamically change the text displayed on controls from one language to another.

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- Forms Introduction
- Designer Panels
  - Designer Panels
    The Designer workspace is comprised of a number of panels that are used for designing your forms and user displays. Each panel performs a different function and may or may not be required for your design purposes.
  - Designer: Project Panel
    The Project panel in the Designer allows you to view the project structure and provides the ability to create new XAML and library (DLL) files, open existing files, and add new folders and/or classes to your project. You can also choose to build or build and run your project. These tasks can all be performed from the right-click menu.
  - Designer: Document Tree
    The Document Tree panel contains the document tree that corresponds to the XAML document you are currently editing. The document tree is a hierarchal visual representation of all the elements in your workspace.
  - Designer: Control Toolbox
    The Designer supports native .NET 4.5 controls and containers, third party .NET 4.5 controls, and has many of its own .NET controls available. The Designer does not support Silverlight controls or 2D shapes or drawing capabilities.
    - Add a control
    - Configure control properties
    - Set up control layout
      This information applies to both the WPF and Silverlight Designers. In the WPF Designer, some .NET Winforms controls (and controls written for other technologies) have the same names, but have different properties, methods, and events exposed than their WPF counterparts.
    - Batch Controls
      Batch controls cause multiple events to occur.
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      A button is a control that causes an event to occur each time it is pressed and released.
    - Common Controls
      Workflow provides a series of common controls to use in forms and user display authoring.
    - Container Controls
      Container controls can contain a single child control that is manipulated by the parent control.
    - Date and Time Controls
      Date and time controls allow you to add clocks and interactive calendars to a display.
    - Gauge Controls
      Gauge controls are data-bound controls that allow you to view quantitative information in a visual format.
    - Grids and Panels
      Workflow provides a series of grids and panels to use in forms and user display authoring.
    - Indicator Controls
      Indicator controls are used to graphically display states and values. A standard indicator has an on and off state and is not dependent on a numeric value. A level indicator displays the state associated with the value assigned to the control.
    - Input Controls
      Input controls are used to input data to write to a server.
    - Items Controls
      Items controls display collections of child controls. These controls have inherent behaviors that manage the appearance of their child controls.
    - Label Controls
      Label controls are used to display text and/or numeric values for real-time data.
    - Language Switching
      The Designer provides a language switching control that allows you to change the text in a form or user display from one language to another during run time.
      - Configure controls to change displayed text between languages
        Use the Switch Language Button control to create separate buttons that allow you to change text between different languages. Use the Flag Switching Button control to create a single button that allows you to toggle between languages.
      - Localization Configuration
        The Localization property ellipsis button, found on the Properties tab for each control, opens the Localization Configuration dialog box, where you specify which properties you want to configure language switching for, the language to switch to, and the translated text. If you want all of the text for a specific control to switch to another language, you must configure the translated text for each property.
      - Flag Switching Button
        The Flag Switching Button is a WPF control that is used to dynamically change a control's displayed text from one language to another.
      - Switch Language Button
        The Switch Language Button is a WPF control that is used to dynamically change the text displayed on controls from one language to another.
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      LED controls have on, off, and pulse abilities and, when grouped, can display alphabetical, numerical, or symbolic characters.
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      The media of a communications session is the form in which the data is transmitted. Media controls allow an application to recognize a variety of media types and adjust aspects of the media stream, such as the volume of voice transmission.
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      The Miscellaneous controls group contains controls that would otherwise be ungrouped.
    - Motor and Fan Controls
      Motors controls are graphical representations of motors, fans, and pumps, and rotary controls.
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      Pipe controls are used to display the directional movement of vapors, liquids, or semi-solids. Tank controls display the level of the tank content relative to the top or bottom, and as a percent of the total tank capacity level.
    - Custom Controls
      The Designer provides the following group of custom controls.
    - Scrolling Controls
      Scrolling controls provide the ability to display text in a scrolling manner.
    - Shapes
      Shapes, such as the rectangle, ellipse, line, and path, are an important foundation for creating drawings and graphic designs. Shapes are normally used on a canvas, but can be used in other containers as well.
    - Slider Controls
      Sliders allow you to graphically manipulate the value of the control within a finite range by moving a thumb or value indicator along a track.
    - Viewer Controls
      The Designer provides the following group of custom viewer controls.
  - Designer: Resources
    The Resources tab contains images that you can use in your forms or user displays.
  - Designer: Properties Panel
    Each control available in the Toolbox has properties that you can configure. These properties can be used to change the appearance of the control, as well as certain functionality.
  - Navigate URI
    The Navigate URI dialog box is used throughout the Designer to select source files to use within a form or user display.
  - Designer: Parameters Panel
    The Parameters panel allows you to configure input and output parameters that you can use to bind control properties to.
  - Designer: Data Items Panel
    The Data Items panel allows you to configure data items that you can use to bind control properties to.
  - Designer: Form Events Panel
    The Form Events panel allows you to configure events that can be raised from this form. The form events you configure are available to workflows using this form.
  - Designer: Server Methods
    The Server Methods panel allows you to configure service interfaces that can be called from the current form or user display. The server methods available are also used to configure call methods in workflows.
  - Designer: Client Methods
    The Client Methods panel allows you to configure client-specific methods that can be called from the current form or user display.
  - Server and Client Methods Events
    Each method exposes event triggers that you can use to further configure your form or display.
  - Designer: Test Panel
    The Test panel allows you to view the results of a form or user display when you build and run in the Designer.
  - Designer: Default Properties
    The Default Properties panel allows you to configure default drawing properties for the control currently set as the active layer.
  - Designer: Preview Panel
    The Preview panel allows you to view the form or user display before you build it.
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Switch Language Button

The Switch Language Button is a WPF control that is used to dynamically change the text displayed on controls from one language to another.

For example, if a form is authored in English and you want an operator to be able to switch the displayed language to Spanish, you can add a language button to the form that automatically changes the text to Spanish when it is clicked.

Important: The Switch Language button does not act as a toggle button; that is, you cannot use the same button to switch back to the original language. You must add a separate language button for each language that you want to be able to switch to. However, the Flag Switching button does act as a toggle button; that is, you use only the one button to switch between the configured languages.

The Language ID property for the Switch Language Button control is used to specify the language that you want the button to switch the text to.

Language switching is based on specific properties for individual controls. For example, you can affect the Text and ToolTip properties for the text box control, or the CommandParameter, Content, ContentStringFormat, and ToolTip properties for the button control.

See Language Switching Controls to view the usage and description of the properties for this control.