I saw a silverlight animation at work. It was a server rack animation. This brought about a few questions: If I have a big rectangle, which acts as a container, how can I code a rectangle to continuously drop down in smooth frames? You set the time elapsed in the storyboard and perhaps the new position of the rectangle which is dropping...
I'm animating a 'race' on a map. The race takes 45 minutes, but the animation runs for 60 seconds. You can watch the 2008 City2Surf race demo to see what I mean. The 'race clock' in the top-left must show "real time", and had to be set-up in the .xaml.cs with a System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer which seems a bit of a hack. I t...
I deal mostly with XBAP, Q1.XBAP normally uses the PresentationHost.exe to get the work done,What does SilverLight use? Q2.Are there considerable differences in moving from XBAP to SilverLight ? (Experience Based or fact based answers?) Can somebody give me a rundown? ...
This is not a pure technical question, but I believe answers will help the RIA community. We are a software development company, which is working on a development of Stock trading product. We chose to use Adobe Flex (in mid of 2008) due to its browser penetration and relative maturity compare to Silverlight. we already developed the sys...
I've made two user controls A and B. Each of them has a TextBlock inside, and are places inside the root control (Page/RootVisual) How do i bind the two "Text" properties, so that the text in B changes when the text in A changes(and not from B to A) I cannot figure out the way to type this in XAML. What do i write as (x) in: Text="{Bi...
Hi, I have a combobox whose ItemsSource property is bound to an ObservableCollection property and its SelectedIndex property is bound to an integer property respectively. <ComboBox Name="cmbDealt" ItemsSource="{Binding Path=DealList, Mode=TwoWay}" SelectedIndex="{Binding Mode=TwoWay, Path=DealIndex}"></ComboBox> <CheckBox IsChecked="{...
There's so much stuff on this online but no one seems to be able to answer this... Hopefully someone here will be! So i have a WCF web service hosted at godaddy.com. Everything works great when i try accessing it using: http://www.domain.com/DataService.svc problem is when i remove the www i.e. http://domain.com/DataService.svc Here...
Silverlight's MultiScaleImage appears to only allow two simultaneous connections to request tiles, irrespective of subdomain or browser connection limits. This makes panning or zooming the a DeepZoom image really slow. How can this connection limit be overriden? Silverlight doesn't appear to support the usual app.config/maxConnections ...
I am a newbie in silverlight. and I want to know that how can we connect our application to a Database. I am using a SQL 2005 server as a Database. and I don't want to use Linq... so please suggest me how can i make connectivity either directly in silverlight or by using a web service I don't have any problem in using webservices. Pleas...
Hi, I'm new to Silverlight development and am currently venturing into the Charting territory. I've been following several tutorials that show how easy it is to bind a ColumnSeries to a datasource using ItemsSource (http://silverlight.net/forums/t/44166.aspx). I'm programatically adding a chart to a canvas. Chart BudgetChart = new Ch...
I'm trying to de-serialize an XML Document and when the desserializer encounters a certain tag about halfway down the doc, it gives the error: System.InvalidOperationException <mytagname> was not expected. It has a [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlArrayItemAttribute("MyTagName", typeof(MediaFile))] tag right before it in the class, and...
Hi guys, I need some help with the createobject function in Silverlight. My xap file accepts a video url and loads it for playing. When I write a tag as follows, it works fine. <object data="data:application/x-silverlight-2," type="application/x-silverlight-2" width="100%" height="100%"> <param name="source" value="ClientBin/Vide...
I have an observable collection and I sort it using linq. Everything is great, but the problem I have is how do I sort the actual observable collection? Instead I just end up with some IEnumerable thing and I end up clearing the collection and adding the stuff back in. This can't be good for performance. Does anyone know of a better ...
What is the best way to organize the files in your project? For example do you put all user controls in a separate folder or do you place them in a sub folder? Do you have business logic folder? A helper classes folder? I used to organize my projects like this: Project/User Controls/Module Name/ Project/Classes/Module Name/ Now I ...
I am trying to read a xml stream and load it into a collection. This works but Im having difficulties reading special chars. E.g. if my xml looks like this <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> <persons> <person> <firstname> <![CDATA[ Sébastien ]]> </firstname> <lastname> <![CDATA[Ørvåk]]> </lastname> </person> </...
I have a class with a property that gets set by another class. Inside this property setter the program blows up. I just need to know what class actually set the property. I thought I could just look at the stacktrace, but because I am using INotifyPropertyChanged I think it doesn't give me the full information I am looking for. He...
I want to create a panel in Silverlight 2.0 with the same properties and look as the Vista glass region that you get as a window border. I am especially interested in the blur and the frost effects. ...
I have a class that implements INotifyPropertyChanged for a property. I have a control that is bound to that property. I have another class that listens to the propertychanged event. In the event handler of that class I change the value of the property in code. The problem I have is that I don't want to do any logic in the event ha...
Forgeive me if this is a dumb question, im very new to SL, just ordered 3 books which i should have tomorrow - but i cant stop thinking of the 'is it possible' stuff. Heres what i would LOVE to do, dont know if it possible: Have a SL control on a page that loads a passed in url or aspx (like the browser control for winforms) - the reas...
OK, I give up: what do I have to change to this StackPanel below so that it puts the: text on far left of form button on far right of form. <UserControl x:Class="TestData333.MainPage" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Width="400" H...