What is the best practice for creating re-usable control templates. For example. I want to start with the standard checkbox and modify its template for re-use accross multiple future projects. I understand how to modify the template in Blend, but it always wants to save the template to App.xaml of the current project or to the parent...
Hi Guys I'd like to build an own control, but therefore I need to know if its possible to combine a Textbox event with a Popup more or less like the Datepicker Control. Or is there a better way to do this than with a Popup? Greets Patrick ...
Today I discovered something that makes me sad: objects of type System.Generic.Collections.List don't have a number of the useful extension methods I've come to love, such as Find, FindAll, FindIndex, Exists, RemoveAll, etc. The object browser in VS2008 shows that those methods exist in the mscorlib version I'm using, but if I look at ...
Trying to make a web service call to an HTTPS endpoint in my Silverlight application results in this error: "Could not find a base address that matches scheme https for the endpoint with binding WSHttpBinding. Registered base address schemes are [http]" The same problem as was posted here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/...
Is there any way to "dock" a Silverlight control to the browser window? For example, I'd like to have an HTML header at the top of a page and then have the Silverlight control take up precisely the rest of the window, neatly resizing whenever the window is resized. The default page Visual Studio creates uses styles with 100% widths and ...
How do you localize ASP.NET + javascript + Silverlight? I would like to be able to include the same texts in different languages in asp.net pages, javascript on the page, and Silverlight objects on the page. I have tried with the following method, but have no experience with it in practice, and I would like to hear your opinions on it ...
New to silverlight. Traditionally if I were to design a wizard-like process where a user had to go through 3 or 4 steps, I'd have each step as a separate aspx page. Using silverlight, would you do it all in one component, or would you have 3 separate pages each with a different silverlight component? What kind of advantages/disadvant...
Hello Guys.. I have this problem that I have a little menu with a croll bar.. inside there's a couple of items with checkboxes.. On iterating through these checkboxes I get a null error.It seems like this is caused whenever a checkbox is not part of the visible space of the menu thingy.. Like Silverlight only initiate the checkbox when ...
Lets say I have a simple chunck of XML:- <root> <item forename="Fred" surname="Flintstone" /> <item forename="Barney" surname="Rubble" /> </root> Having fetched this XML in Silverlight I would like to bind it with xaml of this ilke:- <ListBox x:Name="ItemList" Style="{StaticResource Items}"> <ListBox.ItemTemplate> <...
Anybody ever had the error "Installation of the "Microsoft Expression Web 2" product has reported the following error: -2147024873.. " when trying to install Microsoft Expression Web 2 or Microsoft Expression Studio? This is the error I'm getting, but I can't figure out what the problem is. I have no beta or RC or pre beta software ins...
I'm struggling to understand Dependency Properties in Silverlight 2. Does anybody have a good explanation or link that clearly explains the DependencyObject and/or DependencyProperty? ...
Can I use javascript in a page to cause an event in a silverlight component to fire? If so, does anybody have some code samples? ...
Does Silverlight have a VirtualizingStackPanel? If there is no built in type are there any third party controls that implement this? ...
I've just started developing in Silverlight 2 and have not run into any "missing parts" of .Net that I was using in the full version. Have you found anything to be missing from Silverlight 2's version of .Net that (1) you missed, (2) really needed, or (3) had to abandon Silverlight 2 because it was missing? ...
What is the issue with the Silverlight Tools for VS2008? I can't seem to place controls on the designer surface. This didn't work for me on two different machines. Do you have to tweak the XAML to be able to place the first control? Cursor stays a compass-like-cross when over the surface. Are you supposed to drag-n-drop controls or draw ...
Is it possible to call services hosted on the Service Bus from a Silverlight application? I tried googling around but none of the results helped. Looking at the samples (EchoService) they are using a specific microsoft DLL to setup the authentication for the service. I cannot seem to add this DLL to my project (duh it is for the full ...
I would like to make a simple web app that displays 20 or so images to users and lets them manually sort the images from favorite to least favorite, either by dragging or by using some form of up/down controls, and then submit this ordering. Are there existing tools, either in Javascript or Silverlight, that make this easy? By the way, ...
I would like to port a desktop music application to run inside the browser. Cunningham et al proposed using Flash a couple of years ago. I don't think it ever got off the ground though. Probably because Flash isn't really suited for a complex interactive editing application. Aside from simplifying the animation of the caret and scrol...
I need assistance finding a delivery method that best fulfills the following requirements: We wish to deliver a single file to my clients. Clients should be able to launch this file from the operating system shell - much like running an '.exe' on Windows. After being launched, the program/script should be able to display a window with ...
Can Silverlight apps be embedded into PowerPoint? We're currently weighing the pros and cons of Silverlight vs. Flash, and are primarily interested in charting controls. The higher-ups would like to have aesthetically appealing dynamic charts included in PowerPoint presentations, with the ability to migrate these over to an online solu...