silverlight

Silverlight + RIA Services and customing the user/password storage

Using the Silverlight Business Application template in VS2010 creates a nice default solution with a Silverlight project and an ASP.NET project. It also automatically provides some nice authentication that seems to store usernames/password/etc for newly registered users into your local SQL Server database. Is it possible to customize th...

What is the best way to implement scrollable maps (like Google Maps) in Microsoft Silverlight?

Problem Overview I am working on a game application and need to be able to implement scrollable maps in Silverlight similar to those found in Google Maps. However, I am unsure as to how to implement this effectively. The following paragraphs provide much additional detail. Any ideas or guidance is greatly appreciated! Problem Detail I...

Accessing System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection in Silverlight v3

Hi, I can see that the system reference is added in silverlight project in visual studio. The assembly is mapped to C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\Silverlight\v3.0\system.dll. The namespace System.Collections.Specialized does not seem to have NameValueCollection class defined. My issue is that i need to wr...

DependencyProperty problem with Double and Single

Silverligh 4, VS 2010. Making a Custom Control. (Non just UserControl, but public class HandPart : Control, and a template in \themes) Then I creating a new DependencyProperty with a helper snippet: #region SomeDouble (DependencyProperty) /// <summary> /// A description of the property. /// </summary> public Double SomeDouble { ...

nested Navigation Frame in Silverlight...

I created one master page with navigation frame. In a child page also containing one navigation frame once Child page loaded the outer next prev buttons are not working... ...

Silverlight- bad mouse position when embedded in html page when Firefox has zoom

We have a Silverlight control embedded in an html page. When I zoom the html page in FireFox 3.5 (ctrl - +) and then try to click on something in the Silverlight control the mouse input is not taken at the correct place. I have to click above the control to get it. This behavior can be seen here: http://silverlight.codeplex.com/ Any...

Silverlight resize textbox according to text size

Hi, I'm using Silverlight 4 and I want to create a childwindow with a TextBox, that the TextBox's width will be constant and it's height will be resized according to the size of the assigned text. Any ideas how can I do it? ...

How to extract a particular value from an INI File using a Regular Expression?

I am a bit confused how to best use a Regular Expression and hope I can get some help I want to extract a URL value from an INI File as such: [DEFAULT] BASEURL=http://www.stackoverflow.com/ [InternetShortcut] URL=http://www.stackoverflow.com/ So I can get the URL value as the only Match from the Regular expression - but I don't unders...

Template style is not setting some preferences.

I have a style template (below) that does not update some my custom control properties. ... <Style x:Name="KeyboardButton" TargetType="Controls:KeyboardButton"> ... <Setter Property="ArrowDirection" Value="Right" /> <Setter Property="ArrowBeginColor" Value="Red" /> <Setter Property="Template"> ... ArrowBeg...

Debuging Silverlight Applications

As hard as I try, I cannot get my silverlight app to stop on break points. I've tried both in and out of browser debugging. Steps I've done: Repeatedly cleared my internet cache. Made sure Silverlight debugging is enabled in my test web application. Made sure symbols are loaded by placing a reference to the silverlight app in my tes...

What is the best way to detect user inactivity in a Silverlight app?

Does anyone know of an efficient way to detect user inactivity in a Silverlight App. The idea is that everytime a user interacts with the app in any way a timer would reload. When it expires, a "continue working.." dialog would be displays for a period and the the page would redirect to /Logout. The rub is detecting inactivity. Tho...

Silverlight scrollviewer's scrollbar invisible when not active

Hello. How do i detect when scrolling is unavailable to the scrollviewer control and make it invisible. And the scrollbar only visible when there is a chance to scoll up or down. Thanks, Shawn McLean ...

Getting ID of newly added item into Sharepoint List from Silverlight

I am adding item into Sharepoint List from the Silverlight Application using Sharepoint' list.asmx web service. I need to know the ID of this newly created item. The UpdateListItemsCompleted's e.Result (XElement) is returned having the following XML fragment. How can I extract the ID of this item. I am not good in XLinq! <Results xmlns=...

Silverlight deployment data provider missing

I am deploying a silverlight application which uses a mysql db through ADO.NET Entity Data Model. When trying to run the application from my host, the WCF service works fine, but i get a server exception when calling from wcf service: Unable to find the requested .Net Framework Data Provider. It may not be installed. at System.Data....

Detecting a control's focus in Silverlight

Is there any way to tell whether a control (specifically a System.Windows.Controls.TextBox) is focused in Silverlight? I'm looking for something like the following (what you would see in a regular .Net application): textBox.Focused This seems like something simple and trivial to leave out from a control, and yet I can't find an answer...

WCF RIA Services - Passing a custom object to a query method as parameter

Hi I want to pass a custom class as parameter to the query method which returns me a collection of entities. I need something like this [Query] public IEnumerable Search(SearchParams params) { //do something here } public class SearchParams { public string FilterParam1 {get; set;} public string FilterParam2 {get; set;} public...

Saving E-Mails into a Silverlight Application

We have an Silverlight applications for tracking Sales Leads. In this application files can be attached to the Sales Leads using the File Open dialog and a file upload module. This works great. In a perfect world, the client wants to be able to drag and drop e-mails onto the lead in the silverlight application. I know that this is a ...

Silverlight: Auto Scrolling down with Scrollviewer

I have a scrollviewer with dynamic content. On an event, a new content is made visible and the scrollbar appears. How do i make it auto scroll to have that content in view? Thanks, Shawn Mclean ...

Silverlight AutoCompleteBox SelectedValue(?)

Hi, I need to implement an editable combobox where users can select existing values from the data/tables. It needs to be editable because users can also add new rows to the table by entering new values in the editable combobox, so I put an AutoCompleteBox control into my page but I can't find any sample on how to implement such feature....

Silverlight DependencyProperty problems

Here's the situation: I have a custom TextBox control that contains multiple other TextBox controls. I need to turn IsTabStop off in the parent control, but I still want to expose a new IsTabStop property, which the sub-textboxes are template-bound to. I wrote the following code: using System.Windows.Controls; public class CustomTextBo...