I have a Storyboard that animates an Ellipse on a navigation:Page control. As long as I keep the Storyboard local inside the UserControl.Resources the animation runs with no problem. I moved the Storyboard into a Resource Dictionary to make it available to multiple pages. I can access the Storyboard as expected, but the application thro...
Hi, I'm trying to convert a Dictionary in Silverlight to a string. I don't want to use any third-party libraries so would like to use System.Json to do this? The best way I have thought of so far is to add all the items in the dictionary to a JsonObject and then call toString(), any better ideas would be most helpful. ...
How to use animation and MultiScaleImage control on the same UserControl? What I have found that if you place a MultiScaleImage and animation on the same UserControl, you always get a high CPU usage. Is that a MultiScaleImage control bug? Here's a sample project. (just a grid, MultiScaleImageControl and a fading rectangle) Why CPU usage...
Hi, I'm developing a silverlight site, using deepzoom. When I call a function to ArrangeImages(), in IE, the image arranges correctly, using 100% of the screen. In Chrome it works as well. In Firefox, though, the msi container only uses around 80% of the screen. I'm resizing it using these 2 lines of code below: msi.Height = App.Curre...
I am building my first Silverlight 3 + RI Services application and need some help. It will be deployed in an controlled corporate intranet, 100% windows clients. I have started from the Silverlight Business Application template. These are my requirements: Upon launch the application needs to recognize the currently logged-in user. The ...
When using Prism for composition in Silverlight how do I attach actions between modules? Am I forced to use the event system or is there a way to set the TargetName for my Actions to the name of a UserControl in a different module? For Example: <Image Height="40" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Width="40" Source...
I'm looking into making a music theory lab application, where you can see the graphical relation between music theory concepts. I would like this to be available online, so Flash and Silverlight come to mind. But I would like to dynamically generate tones and chords etc from user input. This is something I know is a very underdeveloped...
Hi, We are looking at starting a new Silverlight project using the PRISM framework (to benefit from modules etc) and I am still a little unclear about the best styling approach. What I'd ideally like is to have editable XAML files (maybe even just 1 for the whole project) containing the application's style so that they can be edited to ...
Using Silverlight 3, I noticed that System.Xml.Linq.dll was added to my XAP file, increasing the size from 12 to 58 k, so I checked the box 'Reduce XAP Size by using application library caching'. Publishing the app to IIS, then loading it with Web Dev Helper enabled, I see that when I open the app, the XAP file at 12k is loaded, then th...
A slightly nebulous question: This question stems from attempts to consume non-asf streams in Silverlight using MediaStreamSource as a MediaElement source. Cross domain issues here are proving very frustrating. Generally communication between domains is not allowed on the web. If I understand correctly, say malicious site/embedded obj...
Hi, this is a simple question: does Silverlight (3.0?) support this kind of encoding? Encoding c = Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1"); Calling this function in Silverlight 3.0 generate the following error. 'ISO-8859-1' is not a supported encoding name. Parameter name: name My idea is to parse some file client side and then uplo...
How to work with silverlight 3.0 with visual studio 2008? Which version or service packs of visual studio should be installed to work with silverlight? I installed silverlight toolkit july 2009 release but controls are not visible in visual studio 2008 RTM i.e. installed in my PC? ...
I know this question has been asked a million times in various ways by different businesses, but I'm wondering the community's opinion on it [There's this question, but in the fast-moving world of tech, a year is a long time]. For hypotheoretical purposes, let's consider a website where users can watch videos, a la YouTube, Hulu, etc. (a...
According to msdn, MediaStreamSource.AudioBufferLength "Gets or sets the length of the audio buffer". But what is that length? Milliseconds? Samples? Bytes? Anyone? Bueller? ...
I have the following listbox below which binds to a database table of image URL's. When the application is running, it is possible to click on each individual image, and witness a light blue selection box appear on the image (you can tell when each individual image is selected as its clicked). What I would like to be able to do is perfor...
I have a animation written in XAML. I need to create a video (AVI) from that animation. Is there a way to do that ? ...
I want to design the property window in Silverlight by using DataGrid. It will have two header columns. The value header can have the different types of controls. It might have combobox, textbox and other controls. Here is the view for the datagrid. Name--------------Type of the control(Control to display) DisplayText-------TextBox Typ...
Hello, I am trying to create a Deep Zoom based multiscale image that essentially has 2 views. Initially it will display a large map of the world. When the user click the USA the image should then zoom into the USA. Clicking an external button should zoom the image back out. Thats it. I don't want panning or additional zooming. Wh...
I have a Silverlight test project where I'm returning a List< ProductInfo > ... public class ProductInfo { public override string ToString() { return Name + " - " + Description; } public string Name { get; set; } public string Description { get; set; } } It is successfully returning the name and descripti...
I am trying to make a custom control in WPF. I want it to simulate the behavior of a LED that can blink. There are three states to the control: On, Off, and Blinking. I know how to set On and Off through the code behind, but this WPF animation stuff is just driving me nuts!!!! I cannot get anything to animate whatsoever. The plan is...