I'm looking for a way to create an "it will look cool" effect for a full screen WPF application I'm working on - a "screen glint" effect that animates or moves across the whole screen to give off a shiny display experience. I'm thinking of creating a large rectangle with a highlighted-gradient and transparent background, which could be a...
I am trying to send my dynamically created silverlight 2 page/image to a an ASP.net web service to render it as an bitmap image. I can see many examples how to get the XAML using javascript (see here) in version 1 of silverlight but I have a few differences. a) I am using silverlight 2 RC1 b) I have dynamically add controls to the pag...
I want to play around with silverlight without having to buy a Visual Studio 2008 license. I already used my trial time with Visual Studio, so I'm trying to find another solution. Any thing out there? Thanks ...
I would like to host a silverlight control in winforms via a winforms browser, but for it to work I need some way for the forms to talk to the silverlight, and also the other way around. Would it be possible to somehow have the two interact with each other using JavaScript as a middleman? I.e., have the form speak to the browser's java...
Now that Silverlight 2.0 has been officially released I was wondering if anyone was using it for any line of business apps, for example POS, Vertical Market apps etc. If so how were your experiences compared to an old WinForms app or Web app? ...
I am just starting out with Silverlight (2 RC0) and can’t seem to get the following to work. I want to create a simple image button user control. My xaml for the user control is as follows: <Button> <Button.Template> <ControlTemplate> <Image Source="{TemplateBinding ImageSource}" Width="{Templat...
Which technology stack is best for the creation of a two dimensional MMORPG and why? This question is loaded, so which are the major factors would you consider for development in such a domain? ...
I know you can do a trick of putting an HTML element on top of a Silverlight app, but that will not work full screen. Is there anyway to show an html page inside a Silverlight application? ...
Hello all. This question is fairly straightforward -- I am trying to debug a memory leak in a silverlight application using s.o.s. I was able to get some good info using !gcroot to determine what objects have open references to the one that should be getting cleared; but in these cases they tend to be core UI elements (like grid and st...
Now that Silverlight 2 has been released, I'm looking for good resources to learn Silverlight. I messed around with v1, but I chose at that point to wait until 2 was out before getting heavily involved. I would prefer a book, but it seems that it will be a few months before major publishers release (Wrox, for example). Any good resour...
I am just getting started with Silverlight and have recently added a Silverlight project to an established solution. In this particular scenario my solution included an existing ASP.NET web site (not application) which Visual Studio kindly offered to integrated my Silverlight application into, which I accepted. So everything is fine and...
I want to create a Silverlight 2 control that has two content areas. A Title and a MainContent. So the control would be: <StackPanel> <TextBlock Text=" CONTENT1 "/> <Content with CONTENT2 "/> </StackPanel> When I use the control I should just be able to use: <MyControl Text="somecontent">main content </MyControl> How can I create...
I've just completed a Silverlight project and it's time to have a little clean up. I'd like to take my core files and put them into a separate project which I will reference from my main Silverlight app. Some of these classes are compatible with WPF and I would quite like to be able to have Silverlight / WPF code all in one project. My i...
I have a set of Silverlight controls and I want to create a webpage that will automatically alternate between these controls. Any idea how I go about doing this? The order that they are displayed and the period of time each one is displayed for needs to be configurable, but any tips on just getting the basic paging to work would be gre...
I have the following hierachy: public class A { protected class B { } } And I've tried to define a default style in the following ways (inside generic.xaml): <Style TargetType="local:A+B"> <Setter Property="Template"> <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate TargetType="local:A+B"> <Grid/> ...
Is it possible to convert an existing WPF Application to SilverLight automatically/with minimal effort? ...
OK, so see questions like this one and this one and the question I have is - does one have to use Expression Blend to do Silverlight development or can any of it be done with just Visual Studio? (2008, in this case) I haven't gotten started using Silverlight yet and through my workplace's MSDN I can get Expression Blend without any issu...
I'm curious if there are any texts that can be recommended that actually discuss application architecture best practices with respect to the use of Silverlight in web applications. ASP.Net would be preferable, but I'm open to consideration of other technologies also. ...
Just playing around with the now released Silverlight 2.0. I'm trying to put a simple Calendar in a control. However the project doesn't seem to know what I'm talking about:- <UserControl x:Class="MyFirstSL2.Test" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml...
I have a project with two silverlight apps (foo1 and foo2) and an ASP.NET web service (foo.web). When I created foo1, I configured it to be hosted in my web app by selecting "Link this Silverlight control into an existing web site" and then choosing foo.web as the site. However when I created foo2, I chose "Automatically generate a tes...