silverlight

Removing Geometry from Canvas

I want to remove geometry from canvas in Silverlight... I am able to remove it but removal is not immediately reflected. I mean when I perform GeometryGroup.Children.Remove(geometry) it is removing from tree but not from Canvas... Surprisingly removed geometry is still visible in the Canvas until I perform some mouse action. Can anyone ...

Rendering HTML Content within Silverlight application

In one of our application it is required to display bullet list in one of the Silverlight 2.0 container. We have decided to use HTML markup text for the same. While there are number of options available on Google like overlaying HTML div container etc., I would like to know what is the most workable way of doing this. ...

Silverlight - How do I make each item in a list box be the same height?

How can I make a silverlight listbox have all items be the same size and have them take up 100% of the listbox height. I.e. 1 item would be the height of the listbox, 2 items would each be 50% of the height of the list box, etc... Edit - Here is the code public class UniformPanel : Panel { protected override Size MeasureOverride(S...

How to "stack" a Silverlight Bar Chart?

Let's say I've got this XAML (created with Live ChartBuilder): <Grid xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:sys="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib" xmlns:datavis="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls.DataVisualization;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.DataVisualization.Toolkit" xmlns:charting="clr-namespace:Sy...

How do you clone a path resource in Silverlight?

I have a resource defined in my Xaml file as follows: <Path x:Key="myPath" Data="M14.773241,18.080208 C12.373256,18.080208 10.239936,19.30687 10.239936,27.573483 L10.239936,36.106766 C10.239936,45.440037 12.586588,46.506699 14.986573,46.506699 C18.613216,46.506699 19.359879,42.400059 19.359879,35.3601 L19.359879,27.733482 ...

How to bind SelectionStart Property of Text Box?

Hello. I use this: <TextBox x:Name="Test"/> <TextBlock Text="{Binding SelectionStart, ElementName=Test}"/> but it always shows 0. How can I treat it? Thank you. ...

Partition of Listbox?

Is it possible to partition of list box into several columns. If yes which property is used for that in Silver light? ...

silverlight datagrid - binding each row's style

hi, i've got a silverlight (v2) datagrid where some items are section headers and as such must appear with a different background colour. i'm trying to do this with the following xaml: <dg:DataGrid.RowStyle> <Style TargetType="dg:DataGridRow"> <Setter Property="Background" Value="{Binding Path=Bac...

Get current Windows user name within Silverlight

Is it possible to get the currently logged in user's username with Silverlight? You can assume that user has Windows OS and the Silverlight application is hosted in Internet Explorer. Getting the identity from server side with ASP.NET is not an option, this SL application will be hosted on a static HTML file. ...

Problems with data binding in ItemContainerStyle in Silverlight 3

I'm unable to use data binding in the ItemContainerStyle for a ListBox in Silverlight 3. It works fine in WPF. This is contrived example to demonstrate my problem. What I really want to is bind to the IsSelected property, but I think that this example is easier to follow. I have a ListBox that is bound to a ObservableCollection<Item> of...

How do I make sure my WPF TabControl always has a selected tab when it contains at least one tab?

I have a TabControl whose items are bound to an ObservableCollection: <TabControl ItemsSource="{Binding MyObservableCollection}" /> The tabs are added and removed as expected as items are added and removed from the collection. However, the SelectedItem reverts to -1 (meaning there is no selected tab) whenever the collection is empty. ...

Customizing Datapoints in silverlight charts

Hi, I am working on a silverlight application that pulls in objects from a web service and dynamically populates a chart (lineseries) based on object attributes. The problem is that I have too many datapoints (dots) on the lineseries and I was wondering if there is a way to remove them. I used Setter to collapse the visibility of the d...

Alternatives to using WebClient.BaseAddress to get base url in Silverlight

In a Silverlight application I sometimes need to connect to the web site where the application is hosted. To avoid hard coding the web site in my Silverlight application I use code like this: WebClient webClient = new WebClient(); Uri baseUri = new Uri(webClient.BaseAddress); UriBuilder uriBuilder = new UriBuilder(baseUri.Scheme, baseUr...

Fixing Tim Heuer's EditableComboBox for SL3 & latest SL Toolkit

I'm using Tim Heuer's style to get an editable combo box from here: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/11/05/silverlight-editable-combobox-using-styles.aspx This is working well in my project circa the previous release of the Silverlight Toolkit. Unfortunately, attempting to use this style with SL3 RTM and the latest SL Toolkit does...

How can I access the ItemsPanel of a ListBox at runtime in silverlight?

How can I access the ItemsPanel of a ListBox at runtime in silverlight? ...

WCF service in Silverlight will not recognize both custom class and method

Hi all, I have the following web service: [ServiceContract(Namespace = "")] [AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)] public class MyTestClass { [OperationContract] public List<TrackInfo> GetAll(string songName) { return new List<tracksInfo>;...

Silverlight 3 - Exchange Web Service

Hi, In my Silverlight 3 app, I just added a Service Reference to the Exchange 2007 Web Service (EWS). After doing so, I got the following warning: Custom tool warning: No endpoints compatible with Silverlight 3 were found. The generated client class will not be usable unless endpoint information is provided via the constr...

setting width of silverlight application in aspnet

Hello all, I've got the most annyoing case here: I've created a small silverlight application that loads an image from a remote path. The image is very wide, therefore it does not fit into the page properlly. When I view the image in the aspnet page, From some reason the silverlight application is cut to fit the current width of the pag...

WebRequest.GetResponse().....What happened to it?

OK I've been playing with Silverlight and ran into something interesting that I hope someone can explain. The MSDN documentation clearly states that it has a WebRequest.GetResponse() Method. I have created some code to get the latest messages from twitter. The code works fine in a console app but I get an error when its in a silverlig...

Does uploading with Silverlight suffer the cookie bug like flash?

When using flash to upload a file to a web server, it sends cookies from IE only. This breaks things like session and FormsAuthentication in ASP.NET. Does silverlight have this problem? ...