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Create a Login
Window in WPF
Most business applications require some sort of security system. You can always
use Windows Authentication to authenticate a user, but sometimes you might want
your own authentication scheme. When you do, you will need to create a login
screen for your user to enter her login id and password. This article will explore
creating a login window in WPF.
The UI for your login screen can contain any images and controls that you would
like. In Figure 1 you can see a sample login screen that has an image of a key, a
large title label across the top, two labels, a text box, a password box and two
button controls. You can also make the border of the window rounded so that there
is no close, minimize or maximize button and no title bar.
Figure 1: A Login Screen ()
Of course this is just one version of a login screen but let’s take a look at how this
is put together.
Create a Login Window in WPF
Creating the Window
To start, you need to create a window with no border and can be made into any
shape you want. To do this you will set a few different attributes. The WindowStyle
attribute normally allows you to set a single border, three-D border, or a Tool
Window border. Setting this attribute to None will eliminate the border. The
ShowInTaskbar attribute is optional, but if you are building a login screen you
probably won’t want this window to show up in the Task Bar as it is going to be
modal style form. The next two attributes, AllowsTransparency and Background
work together. You must set AllowsTransparency to True to allow the Background
to be set to Transparent. If you do not set these two attributes, then your border will
still show up. Below is the xaml for this window.
WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen" AllowsTransparency="True" ShowInTaskBar=False Background="Transparent" WindowStyle="None" SizeToContent="WidthAndHeight" dElement= "{Binding ElementName=txtUserName}"> ... ...
There are three additional attributes that are set on this window. The
WindowStartupLocation attribute is set to “CenterScreen” to ensure that the login
screen is displayed in the middle of the screen when it is shown. You also set the
SizeToContent attribute to WidthAndHeight to just take as much room for this
window as the controls need that are contained within this window. The
dElement attribute is data-bound to the textbox control next
to the User Name label. This tells WPF to place the cursor in this textbox once the
screen is displayed.
The Border
Now that you have the Window xaml defined you now can create the look for the
outside border of the window. A Border control is used to form the outside of this
login screen. You will set the CornerRadius attribute to “10” to give the nice
rounded corners. You can set the BorderBrush to “Gray” and the BorderThickness
to “3”. You also want to give this border a nice wide Margin to allow room for the
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Using a Grid Layout
DropShadowEffect that we add to the outside of this border. If you do not do this,
then the drop shadow will be chopped off. To achieve the shadow effect on this
window, you will use the new and the DropShadowEffect that was
added in WPF 3.5. This drop shadow effect is drawn using the Graphical
Processing Unit (GPU) instead of being drawn using software. Thus drawing drop
shadows is much more performant than in previous versions of WPF.
BorderBrush="Gray" BorderThickness="3" Background="Beige" Margin="24" Padding="4"> <> Opacity=".50" ShadowDepth="16" /> > ... ...
Using a Grid Layout
To place each of the login screen elements within the border, a Grid control is used
with specific column and row definitions. There are three columns in this login
screen. One for the image of the key, one for the labels and one for the TextBox,
PasswordBox and Button controls.
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Placing the Key Image
The Key image that is in the upper left hand corner of this login screen is placed
there by using a StackPanel control and an Image control. The StackPanel gives
us just a little more control over the placement within the Grid. Notice the
, and n attributes that are set on the
StackPanel. The and specify in which row and column of
the grid you wish to display the StackPanel. The n allows the key to
float down over the next three rows of the Grid control. If you were to use a smaller
or larger key image, then you would probably need to adjust this attribute
accordingly. The Image control sets the source of its image to the file
located in the /Images folder. A drop shadow effect is applied to this image control
just like you did with the Border control.
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The Large Title Label
="0" n="3"> Margin="8" Source="/Images/"> <> Opacity=".50" ShadowDepth="8" /> >
The Large Title Label
The large label across the top of the login screen is simply a Label control with the
appropriate , and Span attributes set for
placement. A FontSize of 18 is applied to make the text appear larger than the
other labels on this screen. A Margin of 10 is used to give us some spacing from
the border of the grid.
The Login Data Controls
The controls that gather the user name and password should be fairly familiar to
you if you have been doing any WPF at all. Each control is placed into a specific
row and column of the Grid control. Notice the use of the Tooltip attribute on the
TextBox and the PasswordBox control. This gives the user an idea of what to put
into each control if they hover their mouse over that control.
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="1" ToolTip="Enter Your User Name" Name="txtUserName" /> ="2" ToolTip="Enter Your Password" Name="txtPassword" /> The Buttons The two buttons at the bottom of the screen are placed into the last row of the Grid control and into the second column of the grid by wrapping them into a StackPanel. The StackPanel has its HorizontalAlignment attribute set to Center and it’s Orientation attribute to Horizontal to allow the buttons to be centered within the StackPanel and to have the buttons appear side-by-side to each other. 6 Create a Login Window in WPF Copyright © 2009 by PDSA, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction is strictly prohibited. Writing the Code for the Login Screen ="3" Margin="10" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Orientation="Horizontal"> There are two special attributes that are set on these buttons. The IsCancel attribute is set to true on the Cancel button. Setting this attribute to true will fire the click event procedure on the Cancel button if the user presses the Escape key. The IsDefault attribute is set to true on the on the Login button. Setting this attribute to true will fire the click event procedure on the Login button if the user presses the Enter key. Writing the Code for the Login Screen In each of the click event procedures you will need to close the screen. In the Cancel click event procedure you will set the DialogResult property of the screen to a false value. This will inform the calling procedure that the user clicked on the Cancel button on this screen. In the Login click event procedure you will set the DialogResult property of the screen to a true value. This informs the calling procedure that the user clicked on the Login button and was authenticated. I am leaving it up to you to write the code for authenticating the user. Here is the code for the Cancel event procedure. Create a Login Window in WPF Copyright © 2009 by PDSA, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction is strictly prohibited. 7 Create a Login Window in WPF C# private void btnCancel_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { DialogResult = false; (); } Visual Basic Private Sub btnCancel_Click(ByVal sender As , _ ByVal e As EventArgs) DialogResult = False () End Sub And, here is the code for the Login event procedure. C# private void btnLogin_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { // Write code here to authenticate user // If authenticated, then set DialogResult=true DialogResult = true; (); } Visual Basic Private Sub btnLogin_Click(ByVal sender As , _ ByVal e As EventArgs) DialogResult = True () End Sub Displaying the Login Screen At some point when your application launches, you will need to display your login screen modally. Below is the code that you would call to display the login form (named frmLogin in my sample application). This code is called from the main application form, and thus the owner of the login screen is set to “this”. You then call the ShowDialog method on the login screen to have this form displayed modally. After the user clicks on one of the two buttons you need to check to see what the DialogResult property was set to. The DialogResult property is a nullable type and thus you first need to check to see if the value has been set. 8 Create a Login Window in WPF Copyright © 2009 by PDSA, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction is strictly prohibited. Displaying the Login Screen C# private void DisplayLoginScreen() { frmLogin frm = new frmLogin(); = this; alog(); if (ue && ) ("User Logged In"); else (); } Visual Basic Private Sub DisplayLoginScreen() Dim frm As New frmLogin() = Me alog() If ue And Then ("User Logged In") Else () End If End Sub Create a Login Window in WPF Copyright © 2009 by PDSA, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction is strictly prohibited. 9 Create a Login Window in WPF Summary Creating a nice looking login screen is fairly simple to do in WPF. Using the DropShadowEffect can add a nice finished look to not only your form, but images and buttons as well. Using a border-less window is a great way to give a custom look to a login screen or splash screen. The DialogResult property on WPF Windows allows you to communicate back to the calling routine what happened on the modal screen. I hope this article gave you some ideas on how to create a login screen in WPF. 10 Create a Login Window in WPF Copyright © 2009 by PDSA, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction is strictly prohibited.
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