I am building a Silverlight application where one of the tasks will involve the user selecting one item from a list of approximately 1300 items. What would be some of the best ways to present this list to the user? I think 1300 items in a ComboBox is too many. Is it? What are the best practices for this kind of situation? The items are i...
Hi folks, how can i have the functionality of vdividedbox/hdividedbox flex control in silverlight. I could not find a equivalent control in silverlight. thanks ramneek ...
I have a Silverlight game controlled by the keyboard, and I want it to go into pause when it loses the keyboard focus (e.g. the user clicks on another part of the hosting webpage, or moves to another browser tab). I used to do this in Silverlight 1.1 by subscribing to the LostFocus event on my RootVisual UserControl, but in the last tw...
I have a Region which can have only one active view at a time. I want to add new view to the region on user action and remove the existing view from the same region. I also want to maintain the cache of few views. If the no of view is more than the specified limit then I will remove the oldest view. Is there any direct support for it or ...
I have a WCF services that has to return some data sets that can be as large as 10mb or more, I want some visual feedback for the user on progress, is there a way to track the download progress? My client is Silverlight 3 and ultimately I would like to be able to bind a progress bar to this; any ideas? EDIT: After the bounty SO automat...
I am using RIA on top of WCF. In my WCF i have Insert and update methods which talk to db using the Entity Framework Now in my domain service which is PersonDomainService i am calling this WCF service using Proxy and converting Person Ria Class to Service Reference Entity Framework Person Class and vice versa everything works fine but t...
I've heard the comment several times, once in one of Shawn Wildermuth's podcasts, that Silverlight is great, but might not be so good for 'entire' internet applications. This comment never get's amplified, but the implication seems to be that you would use Silverlight in conjunction with standard aspx web pages. So far, the only downsi...
Hi, Is there a log4net version built against Silverlight somewhere? Failing that, can someone suggest an alternative logging framework to use in Silverlight? ...
Well i have this code in my code behind Public Shared ReadOnly UsernameProperty As DependencyProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("Username", GetType(String), GetType(LoginControl), Nothing) Public Property Username() As String Get Return CStr(MyBase.GetValue(UsernameProperty)) End Get Set(ByV...
Using Silverlight 3, Windows XP, IIS 5.1, I've written a small app which uses the channel method of calling the server rather than the 'add service reference' as per this MSFT article. The application opens and the call to the server work when running it on the development computer in VS 2008 using the address localhost plus the port nu...
I'm trying to localize my Silverlight 3.0 app to Simplified Chinese. However, when I attempt to switch to that culture (zh-Hans, according to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.cultureinfo%28VS.95%29.aspx) with this code: var currentCulture = new CultureInfo("zh-Hans"); Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = cu...
I would like to know how they do it, or what is the best approach for doing it. Both server side and client side are in question. After finishing my gaming site, the next phase is to provide multiplayer games in Silverlight. For me, the simplest method seems to have one Socket per window / game opened, but it may be more reliable to hav...
My company is doing a fair bit of WPF and Silverlight development recently and we are discovering that while we are darn good at slinging code, our UI design skills lack some "pizazz". Where does one find a "devigner", as Microsoft calls them? Are there user groups (especially in the Dallas area) with these types of artists/usability ex...
Hello everyone, I am using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5 + IIS 7.0 + ASP.Net. I am using Silverlight 3.0 as well. I want to read the content of USB Flash disk at client side, the using the information in the USB Flash disk as user profile identifier -- just like online bank service is using USB key to store client certificate (but my securi...
Hello, I have recently been programming Web based applications using Silverlight & Ria Services. I have been made aware of the ability to incorporate the use of Expression Blend Sketchflow into my development cycle as a way of producing quick prototypes to show clients when using an agile methodology. I have found it hard to make use of ...
I have a silverlight application that needs to use multiple WCF services. The endpoints (urls) of the services cannot be hardcoded inside the silverlight application or the configuration file. They must be queried from a Service Registry which is itself a WCF service. The problem is that I have to use an async call to query the service ...
I am trying to decide if I can cope with the fact that Silverlight does not support printing. One option is to create a pdf page that the user can then print. How practical is this? (I don’t know match about Siverlight yet, I am trying to decide if it is an option for the application before I start learning it in detail) ...
I am trying to decide if I can cope with the fact that Silverlight does not support printing. One option is to create a ms-word document and then load it into word, so the user can print it. This also have the advantage that I could use a word document as a template for the output, so letting the user control type faces etc. How pract...
I am thinking of creating a Silverlight application that keeps on the data on the client. Are there any report writers that will run within a Siverlight application. (I wish to use Silverlight rather then WPF as it is more likely a customer will already have Siverlight installed, and it works on Macs) ...
(This must be a FAQ, but I can’t find any other questions about it.) What are the options for coping with the lack of printing support in Silverlight? Other questions I asked trying to solve the same root problem. How do I create (and display) a MS-Word document from a Silverlight application Are there any client side report writers...