I'll take away the obvious one here: mic and webcam support. Other than that, if you ran the Silverlight team, what would your highest priority be for Silverlight v.Next? Disclaimer: If we get some good responses, I'll pass them along to folks I know on the Silverlight team. UPDATE: The best place to report Silverlight feature requests...
Is there a resource out there which lists the features, functionality and potential release date of Silverlight 3 (currently called Alexandria)? My group is currently building a product with Silverlight 2 as the deployment platform. We need to research/be prepared for Alexandria, and see if it will resolve some of our issues. ...
The new Silverlight 3 beta includes the ability to run Out-of-Browser applications. The demos so far show this only inside a special frame. Does anyone know how I can run Siverlight 3 controls inside a (WPF) application? ...
The Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 Beta framework do not support compiled Regular Expressions i.e: RegexOptions.Compiled I'd be interested to hear the reasoning behind why this is the case if possible. ...
Hello, I have a silly question. How to center the content of navigation pages??? I've been following this tutorial: http://silverlight.net/learn/learnvideo.aspx?video=187319 (source code on page) I tried setting the horizontalalignment to center on every damn thing possible but the content always ends up top left. Anyone else have th...
I have a video player that I made with Silverlight 2, and to pass parameters in I'd have the following in the html file hosting it inside the SilverLight object tag: <param name="initParams" value="path=http://foo.bar/pathToVid.wmv, autoplay=false" /> This works in browser, but with the ...
The .NET RIA Services are described as an n-tier framework for Silverlight. I have been wondering what the relation is between this framework and the Model-View-ViewModel pattern. Are they in conflict or can you see the potential for synergic combination? ...
What am I doing wrong, or is this a bug in blend 3/Silverlight 3 preview <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition Height="*"/> <RowDefinition Height="10*"/> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <Grid x:Name="SideBar" HorizontalAlignment="Left" MinHeight="768" MinWidth="100" G...
I'm starting to experiment with the new chart controls in System.Windows.Controls.DataVisualization.Charting (from the Silverlight 3 Toolkit) I want to bind a data table that contains a list of budgets (name & value column). It works when I first load my page: <v:Chart x:Name="BudgetChart" Title="Budget Distribution"> <v:...
I'm starting a new project soon and investigating whether or not to use MVC, Silverlight or both. This question Silverlight vs. ASP.NET MVC was a good starting point. But looking over the SL3 beta, it looks like there are two things that change the landscape just a bit. First, the navigation feature which is a direct feature of Silver...
Does anyone have a good reference point, or can provide a summary of the enhanced "push" implementation to be changed/added in Silverlight 3.0? I would like to compare this area to Silverlight 2.0 and to XMPP/Jabber. ...
I would like to remove grey header of the new Popup control in Silverlight 3. Any ideas if this is possible? ...
In WPF it was possible to organise the XAML for multiple user controls by keeping the markup in separate XAML files in the themes folder and then using MergedDictionaries to import them into generic.xaml: <ResourceDictionary> <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries> <ResourceDictionary Source="MyFirstControl.xaml" /> ...
The blur effect in silverlight 3 is nice: <StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Left"> <Button x:Name="Button1" Content="Click This" Click="Button1_Click"> <Button.Effect> <BlurEffect Radius="2"/> </Button.Effect> </Button> </StackPanel> But how would I do it in code behind: private void Button1...
Just downloaded the Silverlight 3 Toolkit and executed the MSI file. Now I need to reference the Microsoft.Windows.Controls.dll file but don't know where MSI unpacked it. Can't find it at C:\ or in C:\Program Files. Where might it be? ok, this post says that all the components should be in the toolbox, e.g. DockPanel, they are for Vis...
Hi This is a basic LINQ question. In my RIA Services Application, I have a Family object with Contacts in a child list. This is a entity framework application. I am wondering why when I select my fam the child list of Contacts are not loaded, well I know that it must because of lazy loading but how to I get my query to load the child...
Hello, I got a dataform partially working with RIA services (I can fetch and edit data). The problem is that I added validation to my RIA service fields. Ex: from my metadata.cs file [StringLength ( 50, ErrorMessage= "bad data dude!" , MinimumLength=4)] public string Title; In the dataform, when a user enters data violating the abov...
I mean the small exit/cancel button marked with an X in the top right hand corner. I want to implement a Logon dialog box that accepts a username/password so obviously I don't want the user to be able to dismiss the modal pop up. If it is not possible to remove or disable the button then is there some way I can intercept the closing even...
I have a parent object of type Parent and it currently has a null property called Foo of type Child and that Child class has a property of type string called Name. If the user types into a Text Box for that Name property then I want to automatically create an instance of Child and set it as the Foo property of Parent before finally sett...
I'm trying to render frames coming from an mkv h264 file in silverlight 3 by using the MediaStreamSource. Parsing the mkv file is fine, but I'm struggling with the expected values for CodecPrivateData in SL, which has to be a string, while the PrivateData info from mkv is a binary element. Also, I'm not sure about in which form the frame...