silverlight-toolkit

Silverlight designer unhandled exception

When I create a new Silverlight Application (C# if that matters) using Silverlight 4 (with or without WCF RIA Services Checked) and open the MainPage.xaml in the designer I receive an Unhandled Exception has occurred. Stack is below. This is on an unmodified project. I have uninstalled all Silverlight and reinstalled the tools listed...

VS2010 Silverlight project add reference defaults to GAC

I have the SL Control toolkit installed on my machine and I have added a reference to the toolkit DLL (System.Windows.Controls.Toolkit.dll) I like to have all my external dependencies in a lib folder under the SL project, so I copied over the DLL from the installation dir of the control toolkit to the lib folder, but if I try to add ref...

How to set a default value which is bound to another value for the combobox in datagrid

Hi I have a datagrid which has one combobox column. -the itemsource of the datagrid will be bound to the data from the database through RIA WCF -the itemsource of the combobox which is inside the datagrid will be bound to the ListFinancialAccountType property which is a collection of Financial Account Types (also retrieve through RIA W...

ItemsSource vs DataContext in binding case

Hi My main question is about binding case in the scene that we have multiple sources for a control(a combobox inside a datagrid)(or having both datacontext and itemssource). Then how can we know which source the binding will use? (any syntax to clarify that) Assuming a datagrid has an itemssource="List of Players" datacontext="Manager" ...

Styling ContextMenu (Silverlight Toolkit Apr 2010) Using Expression Blend

Screen Shot I am trying to remove the grey background from this context menu but I can't find the property to change... All the elements of the context menu are either transparent or other colours. Is this a bug or do I have to edit more than just the ItemContainerStyle? TIA ...

How to expand a TreeViewItems from the inside out as with Josh Smith's WPF example

Josh Smith wrote a clear, consise tour of working with the TreeView control in WPF. The secret to the success is the binding of IsExpanded and IsSelected properties of the viewmodel to the treeviewitems. The paper is here. However after a day of attempting to map his approach to the Silverlight Toolkit TreeView I'm beginning to suspec...

Treeview SelectedItem is sometimes the VM and sometimes TreeViewItem

I have a TreeView that the user navigates to select an item for display in a grid. Briefly the XAML looks like this: <local:TreeViewEx x:Name="theTreeView" ItemsSource="{Binding theData}"> <local:TreeViewEx.ItemTemplate> <sdk:HierarchicalDataTemplate ItemsSource="{Binding theChil...

How to get accordion region to expand (vertically) to dynamic content?

I have a main datagrid, then an accordion control below it. In one of the accordion items I have another datagrid that binds to the selected item of the first datagrid. Simple xaml is: <sdk:DataGrid Name="dgMain" ItemsSource="{Binding SomeSource}" /> <toolkit:Accordion> <toolkit:AccordionItem Header="Details"> <sdk:DataGrid ...

Silverlight DataGrid no DataGridComboBoxColumn

In Silverlight there is no DataGridComboBoxColumn in the DataGrid. This is sad. What is the best way to recreate this functionality. ...

Binding a Value of a Custom Dependancy Property Silverlight

I have setted a property like this: public static readonly DependencyProperty ValorRegistadoProperty = DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached( "ValorRegistado", typeof(string), typeof(CampoInfo), new PropertyMetadata(new PropertyChangedCallback((d, e) => { System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLi...

Cannot find a Resource with the Name/Key

I'm trying to unit test a user interface using the Silverlight 4 Toolkit. When I attempt to instantiate the UserControl, it's throwing an exception because in the XAML of the UserControl it's using a Style defined App.xaml. Is there a way to load the resource somehow before I instantiate the UserControl? Am I going about this the wron...

Silverlight 4 suppressing drag-and-drop image

Background: I have two usercontrols, each with a DataGrid wrapped in a StackPanel. They're stacked in the Default.xaml vertically. Added the PanelDragDropTargets to both user controls. We can drag and drop the datagrids so one that was at the bottom can be at the top. (for user's preferences) Works great. Only issue... when you do a ...

How to pragmatically create BubbleSeries in SL4

I am creating a BubbleSeries in a function within CS file. As a data source I use a List<Dictionary<string,string>> GridData, Unfortunately my implementation throws an exception: No suitable axis is available for plotting the dependent value. I am SL4 newbie and I can not figure out what could be a reson. Here is how I create and add Bu...

Customize the look of the Silverlight Control Toolkit drag / drop.

Is there a way to override the template of or restyle the carrot (and even completely remove as I need in one case)? The carrot being the position marker where the drop will occur. I'd also like the ability to change the icons used during dragging - I've seen an infinity symbol, an arrow, and a strike-through circle, for which all I'd li...

Chart control not showing series

I have this DTO: public class ServerDTO { [Key] [Editable(false)] public string Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public string OS { get; set; } public string ProcInfo { get; set; } [Include] [Association("Server_RamInfos", "Id", "HostId")] public...

Drag/drop from ListBoxDragDropTarget to PanelDragDropTarget

Using the Silverlight 4 toolkit, is it possible to drag and drop from a ListBox to a Canvas (and get an event on the drop into the Canvas)? I was able to write code to drag/drop from a wrap panel inside a PanelDragDropTarget to a canvas but the event handler did not trigger when the drop occurred. When I tried to drag/drop from a ListBo...

How keep drop down opened in silverlights ComboBox?

Hi all. I use ComboBox control as popup. Item for my ComboBox is Grid. There is TreeView control and two Buttons in grid. Items of TreeView are CheckBoxes. When I click on Buttons or CheckBoxes drop down keeps opened, but when I click on other part of grid drop down i closed. Is there any way to keep it opened until I click outside of Co...

Installing Silverlight 4 Toolkit without Visual studio 2010 (for build server)

I have just been informed that the Silverlight 4 Toolkit (latest download) requires the prior installation of VS 2010. We are setting up an automated build server for a very large Silverlight Prism project and would prefer not to do a full install of VS 2010 on an unmanned build machine. Is VS 2010 actually required for an install of ...

Get drop index in Silverlight drag / drop.

This article shows how to implement a copy operation on a drop event. I'd like to do the same but I want my dropped item to appear in the collection according to where it was placed on the UI. So I need the StartIndex much like on a NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs when an ObservableCollection changes. In the article you'll see that even...

Drag-on-Drop in Tab Item in Silverlight 4

Hi, I have a tab control with two tab items (TABITEM_A, TABITEM_B). TABITEM_A contains a tree view item that can be drag (in this scenario an tree view item will be drag to TABITEM_B) while TABITEM_B have a listbox that was dragged from TABITEM_A. I already set the TreeViewDragDropTarget so that I can perform dragging and set the TABIT...