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Silverlight 2 via Windows Media Services 9

I have been using the Silverlight 2 Media Player that comes with Expression Blend and also the sl2videoplayer from CodePlex and the issue I have come across is that I am unable to forward or rewind the video when it is coming via WMS 9. If I host the same video on a IIS 6 website, it works fine. WMS was originally hosted on the internal...

Display HTML in an OutOfBrowser Silverlight App

Hello everyone, Imagine I have a Silverlight HTML control that displays web pages inside the SL plugin (this control internally uses IFrame). So far, when the SL application is running in the browser, the HTML control works as expected. Is there any chance (and sense) for this scenario to work in a OutOfBrowser SL application? I'm askin...

How to get activation events in composite children in Composite Application Guidance (PRISM)

I'm using the CAG and I've got some issues using the TabControl region. I worked out that by marking the view (and NOT the PresentationModel) as IActiveAware I can get an event when the view is activated/deactivated. That works well when the composite is simple and the TabItem is the view. However, in my case I've got a composite inside...

MVVM silverlight datagrid with dropdownlist

Hi, I want to implement a view which contains a datagrid. When entering oder editing data a cell should provide a dropdownlist (or autocompletebox not sure yet). But I want to do it MVVM style... From the MVVM perspective I have a ListViewModel and a RowViewModel. And the ListViewModel contains a ObservableCollection Rows. My RowViewMod...

Is Silverlight isolated storage treated as permanent, or as a cache?

How persistent is isolated storage - does Silverlight treat it like a cache, deleting items when it needs more space, or only when the user or application request it? There also seems to be a wide variety of means to identify isolated storage - machine, application, domain, .... What I'm having trouble with is how these all relate to th...

Silverlight MVVM Prism and OpenFileDialog

I am currently working on a SilverLight 3 Application. I am using MVVM Pattern and Prism. I have everything working except the following item. On one of my views I have to use an OpenFileDialog. I attempted to do this in the ViewModel only to find out the security model of SilverLight prohibits it because it is only allowed to be use...

Silverlight Tutorial Part 6: Using User Controls to Implement Master/Detail Scenarios - How to gray out background?

I am working through the above Tutorial from ScottGu located here (http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/pages/silverlight-tutorial-part-6-using-user-controls-to-implement-master-detail-scenarios.aspx) and I am trying to figure how when the UserControl loads, the background page is 'grayed' out like that? Where is that code for that? I am try...

SilverLight with RakNet Network API. Anyone

Hi, Multiplayer aspect - http://www.jenkinssoftware.com/ . Can we use RakNet with silverlight 3.0 to develop multiplayer side of game? Thanks ...

RIA Services: cannot insert or update entity

Good day! In our project we are using .NET RIA Services and Linq2Sql. To insert/update entity we've implemented some custom logic. On server side was written a method which call sp. The problem is that our method don't invoked because it can not be found! Implemented method on server side: public void InsertNewPolicy(Policy policy) { ...

Rectangle animation examples

Hi, Are there any examples on the internet of silverlight animation which can do the following: A rectangle zooming in A rectangle going down from a certain position on the x axis to a certain position on the x axis I looked on silverlight.net but couldn't find these examples (which are quite rudimentary). Anyone know where I can see ...

How to refresh an ItemsSource with Silverlight 3?

I have a Silverlight 3 application which calls a traditional .NET Web Service (asmx) to get a list of records and then display it in a ListBox control (lstRecords.ItemsSource = myRecords). Any records could be added or updated or deleted at anytime and I would like my UI (records displayed in the ListBox control) to reflect the latest ch...

Does Silverlight 3 have access to local file system, Open Excel, and print reports?

I was wondering if Silverlight 3 can be used to create line of business applications where I can use file import/export facilities, read an xls file and open Excel, use a report tool like Crsytal Reports or Reporting Services or.. is WPF needed? I am new to Silverlight and WPF and want to decide if I can skip learning WPF. I know Silver...

Silverlight 3 can run out of the browser.. what extra functionality this offers for developer.. and for the user?

Silverlight 3 can run out of the browser.. what extra functionality this offers for the developer.. and for the user? ...

Recording audio from user's microphone in silverlight 3

Hello all, Does anyone know if it is possible? Does silverlight 3 support recording from the client's microphone? ...

Are there any useful Silverlight Frameworks?

Are you using any framework (like Prism or Unity)? What are your experiences with them and are they mature enough to use in production apps? I would like to create a complete list of all frameworks: Prism (Guidance) Unity (DI/IoC) Ninject (DI/IoC) .NET RIA Services (Data) MEF (Extensibility) MVVM Light Toolkit (UI Patterns) Caliburn (...

Silverlight animation tweening

I am focusing on silverlight animation (as my previous posts probably indicate), and one of the things I can't find out is how can I do a scaletransform to zoom into an object (so it appears it is coming towards you), but rather than on event initiation it goes from one size to another, I want it to gradually increase in size? For examp...

Silverlight 3 - 3D Engine

Hi, I understand that with the new Projection feature of Silverlight 3, it should be relatively easy to display simple 3D objects like cubes. Is there a 3D engine in works, that uses those SL 3 features to produce 3D scenes? I know that there is Kit3D, but it seems it still runs on SL 1 or 2 and the project website is updated very rare...

Silverlight 3 Offline Mode

Has anyone found that the userbase is more reluctant to install Silverlight 3 Apps in offline mode because they have no control over "where" the app is installed to? I've had a few issues of a similar nature in the past, with 'power users' getting upset that they can't specify install directories. Are there any workarounds? Any way to...

Best charting tool for silverlight and wpf

I came across the following till now visifire Teechart Silverlight toolkit chart Dundas has anyone worked on a charting project in silverlight/wpf !! which charting tool would you recommend ? I want to make a wrapper around charts for historical/real time data . Want the chart to have a datamodel which can be extended easily . ...

ListBox working on WPF but not on Silverlight

I've got a style: <Style x:Key="StarPathStyle" TargetType="Path"> <Setter Property="StrokeThickness" Value="1"/> <Setter Property="Stroke" Value="#FF000080"/> <Setter Property="StrokeStartLineCap" Value="Round"/> <Setter Property="StrokeEndLineCap" Value="Round"/> <Setter Property="StrokeLineJoin" Value=...