Question

I am using SL4 Business application with WCF RIA service. In my app, there is a loginForm. in the designer of loginform I can found username textbox and password textbox.But in .Xaml page its like the code given below.

 <local:BusyIndicator x:Name="busyIndicator" BusyContent="{Binding Path=Strings.BusyIndicatorLoggingIn, Source={StaticResource ApplicationResources}}"
                         IsBusy="{Binding IsLoggingIn}">
        <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
            <toolkit:DataForm x:Name="loginForm"
                              Padding="10,0,10,0"
                              CurrentItem="{Binding}"
                              IsEnabled="{Binding IsLoggingIn, Converter={StaticResource NotOperatorValueConverter}}"
                              AutoEdit="True" CommandButtonsVisibility="None" HeaderVisibility="Collapsed"
                              AutoGeneratingField="LoginForm_AutoGeneratingField"
                              Style="{StaticResource LoginDataFormStyle}" />
        </StackPanel>
    </local:BusyIndicator>

My question is I need to style the username textbox as well as password textbox in the dataform. How can I do this? From where can i access these controls?

Answer 1

Those controls are generated by the DataForm control. You basically need to put a default style for TextBox and PasswordBox under the root Grid’s Resources. I gave them a massive font size of 50. You just need to replace them with your own styles.

<!-- LoginDataForm Style -->
<Style x:Key="LoginDataFormStyle" TargetType="dataControls:DataForm">
    <Setter Property="Width" Value="370"/>
    <Setter Property="AutoCommit" Value="True"/>
    <Setter Property="AutoGenerateFields" Value="True"/>
    <Setter Property="Background" Value="Transparent"/>
    <Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="0"/>
    <Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="Transparent"/>
    <Setter Property="DescriptionViewerPosition" Value="Auto"/>
    <Setter Property="LabelPosition" Value="Auto"/>
    <Setter Property="HeaderVisibility" Value="Collapsed"/>
    <Setter Property="Padding" Value="0"/>
    <Setter Property="Margin" Value="0,0"/>
    <Setter Property="Template">
        <Setter.Value>
            <ControlTemplate TargetType="dataControls:DataForm">
                <Grid dataControls:DataField.IsFieldGroup="True">
                    <Grid.Resources>
                        <Style TargetType="TextBox">
                            <Setter Property="FontSize" Value="50"/>                    
                        </Style>
                        <Style TargetType="PasswordBox">
                            <Setter Property="FontSize" Value="50"/>                    
                        </Style>
                        <Style x:Key="ButtonGeneric" TargetType="Button">

Hope this helps. 🙂