Use Vertigo Slide.Show 2 control in a Silverlight Navigation Application

Question

In a Silverlight Navigation Application (VS2010 project) I need to have slideshow functionality. I have found Vertigo's Slide.Show 2 control (http://www.codeplex.com/SlideShow2) which is great but I can't figure out how to use it inside a canvas within my application. I am a beginner when it comes to Silverlight, so I would appreciate any help.

Answer 1

The component you're looking at comes as a precompiled silverlight application that you just include in an HTML page and configure to get it working the way you want. If you want to get it onto a canvas inside your own silverlight app, you will need to crack open the source code and pull out the libraries needed for the component.

If you take a look at the Page.xaml file included in the source, you will see that the xmlns "v" is bound to Vertigo.SlideShow.Controls in the Vertigo.SlideShow assembly. The rest of the xaml in that file can then be used to create a canvas that hosts the slide show control:

<Canvas x:Name="SlideShowRoot">
    <Canvas Name="mediaRoot" />
    <v:SlideDescription x:Name="slideDescription" Opacity="0" />
    <v:NavigationTray x:Name="navigationTray" MouseEnter="navigationTray_MouseEnter" MouseLeave="navigationTray_MouseLeave" Opacity="0" />
    <v:EmbedViewer x:Name="EmbedViewerElement" />
</Canvas>

Once you have that sorted, turn your attention to the page's code-behind file which contains a ton of event wire-up code that is probably needed to get the control working.

Answer 2

hi, Did you succeed ? Please can you share the code to fix it ?

REgards,