Hello, Background: My experience in C# / Silverlight / .Net development is about 4 weeks worth. The official documentation for .Net RIA Services July 2009 Preview, on Page 66 Section 6.2.2.2 states how one would consume the result of a call made on a function marked as [ServiceOperation]. This examples specifically uses 'InvokeOperatio...
So I'm at the proof of concept stage for a fairly large LOB application. The application will be deployed to many desktops (200+) in many organisations. It will contain lots of CRUD type screens (around 100), along with some pretty complex processes like invoice generation and financial ledger integration. It will also contain lots of re...
I'm looking to create some Silverlight unit tests. I've started by downloading the Silverlight Toolkit and looking at the unit tests there which are all built on the Silverlight Unit Testing Framework. However it seems that the test class structure is quite complex in the source and I don't want to re-write the test classes defined in t...
I have a Silverlight 3 Navigation Application and I would like to temporarily disable the links to the various Silverlight pages when an item is being edited, requiring the user to explicitly cancel the edit rather than navigate away from the screen. [EDIT] How do I temporarily disable the navigation links programmatically? ...
I would like to output test data when running test with the Silverlight Unit Testing Framework. I could go around it by creating some element and writing it on that however this feels like a hacked way. Is there any framework supported way of writing output during testing? ...
I am already familiar with Silverlight programming but not have any experience with GIS. my role as silverlight developer is only to display existing GIS data. If you guys have any experience with arcGIS silverlight control & api, what else do you think I must learn to be able to use it. any learning reference could be helpful. thanks...
I'm using .NET RIA Services July Preview to communicate between my Silverlight client and my server. On my server I have an ASP.NET project hosting the Silverlight application. In the ASP.NET application I have a Linq-to-Sql DataModel with a table called Hour. I have extended the Hour entity with 3 properties by creating Hour.shared.cs: ...
I have a online survey running in Silverlight. Out of more than 1000 onetime users, there are three users than cannot open a combobox on the first page. The control seems disabled and don't react on mouseclick. Since it is one-time user, they don't wan't to help me with debugging and I cannot reproduce the problem myself. Any ideas why...
It's "easy"! I just came across this blog post by Rudi Grobler that says it's "easy" to port a theme from Silverlight to WPF. Unfortunately, he doesn't say how to do it. Download and install I have installed both the WPF Toolkit and Silverlight Toolkit from Codeplex. I also went and dug up the source code for the theme I'm interest...
Hi Im trying to clone facebook image uploader which is built in java. But I would like to use silverlight so Im wondering if I can somehow read local directory. If I have this running an some remote server I can easily read the content of that server as I have C# as backend. But Im not sure how could I read certain directory of the us...
Hi, I use Silverlight and I'm trying to get some data to the user side. I can easily display PDF file with an <embed> tag in the browser. However, I also have to be able to save files form the server. I tried the SaveFileDialog from Silvelright but it doesn't allow setting the file name (which is an issue). I tried setting a hidden <if...
as far as i can tell the only way to play audio on silverlight 3 is using the mediaelement. I'm comparing using flash vs silverlight for a web app which will allow the user to interactively turn on/off multiple tracks from a single audio compositions. how many simultaneous sounds can silverlight play at once? Think flash has a limit of...
Is there a debugging tool for Flex that functions like Silverlight spy or FireBug? ...
I've got a DataGrid in a Silverlight application with data in it. There's also a button on our app that can change the layout such that the DataGrid changes width. The problem is when you are in the "small" mode and scroll around, for columns that you can't see, their DataGridCell elements get Visibility=Collapsed. Now this is fine when...
Hi, I'm very new to Silverlight. I've downloaded VS 2010 so that I can mess around with silverlight in a more graphical way and without having to pay a ton of money for Expression Blend 3.. So please have mercy if this is an obvious question. By default, in a tree view, all of the nodes are collapsed. I can get these to expand, but I wa...
I have silverlight plugin on my page and some functionality to show panel as popup with the help of Ajax ModalPopup extender, But whenever show modal pop up it hides behind the silverlight plugin i.e. plugin is always on top? any suggestion to solve this problem? ...
I have an ASPX web application of which one page should load a Silverlight application. The problem that I encounter is that Silverlight application does not appear on any ASPX pages but does however on HTML pages. This is using the VS' ASP.Net Development Server. When I added the SL app, VS created two test pages. As mentioned the HT...
I'm developing a Silverlight application where I want to simulate a console. There are a lot of ways to represent this - StackPannels, grid of TextBoxes, etc - and I was wondering what the bets fit would be? Requirements: Display an 80x20 grid that scales based on parent size Be able to update an individual cell's character Be able to...
With the upcoming release of .NET 4 in mind, what are the reasons that Microsoft doesn't automatically update and upgrade the .NET Platform on all installed Windows System? Is it a legal issue? Even Windows 7 doesn't ship with Silverlight on board and it hurts my heart everytime a customers doesn't want to install a new release of my s...
Hi, I'm developing a Silverlight 3 Application which I want to connect to a webservice with a provided .dll or with SOAP. But the .dll is not suited for Silverlight so I can not do that. And I can't access the SOAP service because of cross-domain issues (I do not host it so a clientpolicy xml will not do). So my solution is the include...