Mahapps Metro Dialog without MetroWindow

Question

I want to use the dialog's of mahapps.metro in my application. My window is a normal window.

public partial class MainWindow : Window

not a

MetroWindow

Inside my button method I wrote this:

var metroWindow = (Application.Current.MainWindow as MetroWindow);
await metroWindow.ShowMessageAsync("Foo", "Bar");

I've added an ThemeManager inside App.xaml.cs

protected override void OnStartup(StartupEventArgs e)
{
    Tuple<AppTheme, Accent> appStyle = ThemeManager.DetectAppStyle(Application.Current);

    ThemeManager.ChangeAppStyle(Application.Current,
                                ThemeManager.GetAccent("Green"),
                                ThemeManager.GetAppTheme("BaseDark")); // or appStyle.Item1
    base.OnStartup(e);
}

And inside App.xaml I added

<ResourceDictionary>
    <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/MahApps.Metro;component/Styles/Accents/Cobalt.xaml" />
    </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>

When I execute my programm, I get an

NullReferenceException

because metroWindow == null

How can I solve this problem?

You need to find a parent `MetroWindow` *anyway*, so it's unclear why not the `MainWindow` ? — , Mar 26 '17 at 23:45
maybe this https://dragablz.net/2015/05/29/using-mahapps-dialog-boxes-in-a-mvvm-setup/ — Peter, Mar 27 '17 at 06:51
The MahApps Dialogs can not be used without a MetroWindow, cause there are some stuff at the style for the window to work with Dialogs. — punker76, Mar 27 '17 at 09:24

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 27 '17 at 15:34

My window is a normal window.

That's your problem. Since ShowMessageAsync is an extension method for the MetroWindow class, you must have a reference to a MetroWindow in order to be able to call it. This means that you must replace your normal window with a MetroWindow or use another dialog. The ShowMessageAsync method only works with a MetroWindow.

The following code tries to cast the MainWindow window of your application to a MetroWindow but the cast will always fail if the main window is indeed a normal window:

var metroWindow = (Application.Current.MainWindow as MetroWindow);

That's why you get a NullReferenceException.

How can I solve this problem?

You must use a MetroWindow. There are no other solutions I am afraid.

Mahapps Metro Dialog without MetroWindow

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