I'm not a Silverlight developer (yet) and what is putting me off - and many others, I think - is the relative lack of browser installations of it compared to Flash. But I'm not clear on why website visitors have to explicitly install Silverlight themselves - which appears to be the major stumbling block. Since the vast majority of comp...
Cross posting from a question I raised on serverfault.com Recently I came up against an IT policy whereby a potential customer would not advocate use of our web based product as we use Silverlight for some RIA functionality. I am aware that the client footprint is not as high a flash (and nor will it be for sometime to come), but I can...
I'm converting a WPF app to Silverlight. The app includes a class which inherits from Shape. It overrides the DefiningGeometry property to return a Path object. However, the Silverlight Shape class doesn't have a DefiningGeometry property. Reading on the internet I've found others with this same problem. The solution seems to involve i...
Hi, There seems to be a browser hijack problem and I really dont have time to sort it. I need an alternative download location for Silverlight SDK 3 since microsoft.com does not work. ...
Hello, I am just getting started with Silverlight. I really like what I see so far. Coming from a Windows background, I have some questions. I'm hoping someone can answer for me. When a Silverlight application is updated, does the entire XAP get downloaded to the user again? Or do only the changed components get downloaded like in Cli...
Currently looking into learn new technology and silverlight is on the potential list. However, I was wondering, will the popularity of jquery and it's awesomeness reduce the adoption of silverlight and therefore the need and reward from learning it? Cheers ...
I need to be able to have a SelectionBoxItemTemplate for my ComboBox, but am unsure how to do this or if there is another way in Silverlight 3.0 to do this. In my drop-down list I have a List of CheckBoxes, and TextBlocks, this works fine, however the Selected Item is one of these when I click on it, i.e. the Checkbox shows in the top of...
I'm using Visifire. I have plotted about 500+ points on a line chart. However, after plotting the points, a horizontal scroll bar is placed on the bottom of my chart. I then have to scroll over to see the entire chart. Is there a "SizeToFit" method I'm missing so I can see my entire dataset? If not, how can I achieve this? Thanks in adv...
I'm using the Composite Application Library with Silverlight, and I need to add three "zones" to my region. These "zones" all have essentially the same view and presentation model. (I'm getting these words from the StockTraderRI application. Correct me if I'm wrong.) The only difference I have is where I get the data from, so I want ...
I am trying to build a web which broadcast video. For that I chose Silverlight as player. But I dont know how to load the silverlight player. I searched in google but nothing helps me. Please give me suggestions. Any help will be appreciated. ...
Hello. My first question is, what is the difference between a normal Silverlight Application in Visual Studio VS. a Silverlight Business Application?! My second question is, when I begin a new Silverlight Application Visual Studio asks whether I want to use an ASP.Net website to host the project, or an ASP.Net MVC project. HOWEVER, Whe...
Hello to all I have develop a silverlight 3 chat application in which one user chat with multiple users on a same time. In my application a chat window is a silverlight control and a user can open more than 10 chat windows on same time in a single browse window.means every chat window make connection with wcf. I have all...
Hello! This may sound stupid....I've followed Scott Morrisons Blog and have implemented a silverlight datagrid and populated it with some data. My question now is, when I edit the datagrid and change some of the data, how do i then retrieve it back?! I guess what i'm trying to say is - does it get posted back somewhere!? ...
I am building a prototype in SketchFlow using a sample data set. When I run the project I can see lists of values no problem but anywhere I have used details mode to display a single record the running project is blank. The data is displayed within Expression Blend (it picks the first record in the set) - the only thing I can think of is...
The default ItemsPanel of a TreeView is a StackPanel that has the default orientation Vertical. I have changed the orientation of the StackPanel to Horizontal: <controls:TreeView> <controls:TreeView.ItemsPanel> <ItemsPanelTemplate> <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"/> </ItemsPanelTemplate> </controls:TreeView.ItemsPa...
Hi there, I want to get the fullname from a file on Silverlight OpenFileDialog, when I try that, Silverlight throws me an error. I saw there is an attribute on FullName saying it is [SECURITY CRITICAL], but I need to display the full path, is it really no way I can do that? Please help. Thanks ...
Hello, I am trying to use the .dll of a slideshow project and inheriting the xaml(from the slideshow prj) in a new project so that I have the xap file needed as source for the Silverlight tag. In this way, I am trying to eliminate the need for including the Slideshow project(Source code) in the new project. Is this possible? If yes, pl...
I want to have an empty item in the comboBox to allow the user to "Unselect" and keep the comboBox empty (Null value). How can I do that? ...
Hi there, How do I display tiff files on a Silverlight application, I can display any image format except tiff, can anyone help me, thanks. ...
I am trying to set up a basic Silverlight application to run behind the firewall on my Windows XP machine with IIS 5.1. We have a MySQL server for production purposes, but I would like to set up SQL Server 2008 Express Edition on my Windows XP machine to host the database part of the application. I'm completely new to a lot of .NET d...