I’m currently involved in the design of a prototype Silverlight 3 application used by call centre operators in an enterprise who take queries via phone and email. The intention of the prototype is to demonstrate how Silverlight can be used to improve the UX and overcome some of the hurdles of using ASP.NET webforms in a high latency envi...
I have a VS2008 solution that contains and ASP.Net website, an ASP.Net WCF service, and several silverlight projects/applications. Building the solution under any of the Configurations that I have defined (Debug, Staging, Release) in the IDE works great. I also have an MSbuild project that builds the solution using an MSBuild Task, run...
I'm looking into creating a system / site which includes a website. I would like to get the benefits of WPF, and WBA seems to be a good avenue of doing this. Silverlight on the other hand is also good for accomplishing this goal, with the difference that WBA provides more options and power than Silverlight. What are the benefits / losse...
Hi, Part of my Silverlight application requires data from three service requests. Up until now I've been chaining the requests so as one completes the other starts... until the end of the chain where I do what I need to do with the data. Now, I know thats not the best method(!). I've been looking at AutoResetEvent (link to MSDN example...
Are ActiveX applets as a technology supported by Microsoft dead? What are the alternatives to ActiveX to create extremely rich internet applications using Microsoft Technologies? (Silverlight does not cut it for me, as it doesnt give me access to serial ports - or does it?) ...
Hey I have a silverlight page and I have a html page with my layout. How can I add the silverlight page to part of my html page? Thank you! ...
I have a Silverlight application that retreives a list of serializable classes. In these classes there are other serializable classes some of which are also in a list. The thing is everything works fine until I fill one of the list of serializable classes that causes the silverlight application to throw the exception "The remote server r...
My silverlight app needs to get back to the host from whence it came for its data. How do I get the webclient to connect back to the root of that site. For example, my silverlight xap is sitting in an Amazon S3 bucket and loaded via an HTML file in that same bucket. I want to do a http://mybucket.s3.amazonaws.com/ and then act on the ...
I have a condition in a silverlight application that comapres 2 strings, for some reason when I use '==' it returns false while .Equals() returns true. Here is the code : if (((ListBoxItem)lstBaseMenu.SelectedItem).Content.Equals("Energy Attack")) { // Execute code } if (((ListBoxItem)lstBaseMenu.SelectedItem).Content == "Energy At...
So if I have a flash object, like a youtube video, I can embed that on a website pretty easily (I think because that's flash, not necassarily youtube, maybe I'm wrong?). I'd like to be be able to drop a silverlight object/embed tag (no javascript) on a static html page (like my blog, which is not the site with the xap file), and be done...
Everybody talks about Silverlight and Flash and Flex and how cool etc... Java applets are very similar to Silverlight and Flex, but Java applets exist since 1995. What is the reason we don't have any cool Java applet applications around? My guesses so far: start up time of Java applet, restricted network connectivity, lack of dev tool...
I'm trying to get the SL Tookit (March 2009) Accordion control to populate the ItemTemplate of a TreeView control, but it doesn't render properly (just a 1x1 pixel square). Here's my XAML: <UserControl x:Class="SilverlightTest.MainPage" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas....
I am dynamically adding an image to a canvas object which was working for a while and suddenly stopped displaying for some particular reason. Here is the code : public void shootProjectile() { var projectileImage = new Image(); var currChar = (CharactersRef.SCharacterProjectile)lstSubMenu.SelectedItem; projectileImage.Name...
so far, I found Anthony Franco, Raju Bitter...but I want to know what others follow: I want some really good blogs to track RIA, UI Design, Ajax, Silverlight, Flash, Flex.. ...
Hi! I need a listbox with IPhone-like functionality for Silverlight. That is, animated scrolling, and click and drag to scroll. Scrolling will continue a bit after the mouse up event based on the "speed" of the dragging. I've search and found no control vendors providing this. So question is how should I build it? I need some hints to g...
I've created a test Silverlight 2 app in Visual Studio, just copying the Tim Heuer video, but when I go to open it in Blend I get this error UserControl is not supported in a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) project This is the XAML code <UserControl x:Class="MyFirstApp.Page" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006...
So I'm trying to learn Silverlight so I've built a simple demo app that pulls my home feed from FriendFeed and displays the items in a list. I've got a listbox defined: <ListBox x:Name="lstItems" Margin="5,61,5,5" Grid.Row="1"> <ListBox.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> <StackPanel Margin...
I've got this class being provided by a web service that is then being consumed by a Silverlight app (I don't know if that's relevant or not) [Serializable] public class Entry { private string _title; public string Id { get; set; } public string Title { get { return _title; } set { _title = value; } } public string Link { get; set;...
Hi, i would retrieve the client certification in Silverlight from an application that accept client certification, like in ASP.NET with HttpClientCertificate cert = Request.ClientCertificates; there is something to do this in SL2? ...
In learning the Silverlight technologies, I came across Mike Taulty's tutorial videos on using Silverlight3.0 DataForms (Click Here to check it out), and was particularly interested in the way he used data annotations in C# to do some data validation. I have found a lot of samples on using annotations this way, but all in c# - very li...