Hello, I have created a user interface for my Silverlight application in Blend. This application is currently using some sample data that I created within Blend. I need to do something with this sample data at runtime. How do I access sample data that has been created in Blend at runtime? Thank you! ...
Just recently, I learned about using MVVM to decouple GUIs from the underlying model. I ended up learning as much as I could to convert my current application over to MVVM, and was largely successful. Now I need to figure out how to actually take a GUI generated in Blend and use it in place of my current GUI, which was designed in Visu...
Is it possible to deploy a XAP using a custom installer (much like deploying a desktop app), and configure it to run as OOB with Elevated permissions? Bottomline is, when the app is started, it should run in Elevated permissions + OOB, with out any user intervention at all after the installation. ...
Is it possible to have nested visual states. What I mean is if a ParentControl has a ChildControl and both have their own visual states, is it possible by setting the state of the ParentControl to change the state of the ChildControl accordingly. ...
I want to be able to invert a clipping path. Rather than use the path to show parts of an object, I want to use the clipping path to hide (cut into) an object. Does anyone know if this is possible? ...
Happy friday folks, awesome. I am currently writing a small tooltip mimicking control to display inline help in an application. I was going to just use standard tooltips but decided that I potentially wanted interactivity. I have it working no problem. Its quite literally an implementation of ContentControl with a ControlTemplate trigg...
Hi Stackoverflow, I'm currently working on a Surface application where I need to call two different animations when a button is tapped. How exactly should I be doing this? I'd like to do it declaratively if it's possible. Should I be using MultiTriggers for this, or? Thanks in advance! ...
i'm trying to build a simple application, that changes images based on Selected item in ListBox. <Grid> <Grid> <Image /> </Grid> <ListBox /> </Grid> The XAML looks similar to this. So i set DataContext of the "inside" Grid to the ListBox's SelectedItem property. The problem is that when i try to DataBind Image source p...
So Here is the Problem, I am trying to get that circle to align on the number. When I do that in blend it shows me I have a Left (23), I try to do that programmaticly Canvas.SetLeft(thePanel,23) it overshoots. Better yet, if anyone knows of a control like this in silverlight let me know. What this does is when the user clicks on a number...
I want to be able to create an interactive type program where a user can pin point plots on a graph, so if a user clicks anywhere on the map a dot of some sort will be plotted. I just need a helpful tutorial on silverlight to help me do this sort of thing. I have tried looking up google but I am not finding exactly what I want. ****I a...
Hi, i would like to create a custom base class for some of my UserControls. Doing this in VS2008 is fine and compiles as expected, but when i edit the control in Blend 3 the base class in the blabla.g.vb is always changed back to System.Windows.Controls.UserControl. How can i force Blend to keep the assigned base class? regards Chris...
Hello, In my installation of Blend 3, the SketchStyles are missing when a new project is created. I found out that this is because the following automatic references in the project are wrong: Microsoft.Expression.Interactions Microsoft.Expression.Prototyping.Interactivity Microsoft.Expression.Prototyping.RunTime Microsoft.Expression.P...
My current software is based on Silverlight 3 and i am using VS 2008 and Blend 3 for development. With SL4 out in the wild, can i use my existing tool set (VS 2008 atleast) to develop SL4 code? ...
The application runs fine but i could not see my design in the designer view. It says Cannot find resource named 'Locator'. Obviously, i did not change anything in the code, i just did the data binding using the data binding dialog... anyone facing the same problem? ...
Hello. Is it possible to blend the left, right and bottom sides of an image into a color? Lets say, I want the image to be blended into the color "#F0F0F0". I want the image to appear as an actual part of the background, so I thought it would look cool if it was blended in. Thanks. ...
I'm trying out Blend 4 beta, and looking for a way to do a simple thing: When a mouse is hovered on an image, the image should change its source to a different image. When the MouseLeave happens, the image changes back. I know I can do it in source code, but I'm looking for a code free way to do it, without hand coding xaml. Blend...
Hi, I'll start off with what I want so it may be simpler to understand: I have a Page (Master.xaml) that has has a listbox of PersonViewModel. When the user selects a PersonViewModel from the listbox, I want to Navigate to a details (Details.xaml) page of the selected PersonViewModel. The details page does some extra heavy lifting th...
(Using Expression Blend 4 RC, Silverlight 3) I have a treeview with several different item templates for different levels. When I open this project in Blend, it seems I can only really style the top-most DataTemplate (via right-click the TreeView in the Objects/Timeline view, Edit Additional Templates->Edit Generated Items (ItemTemplate...
Hi everyone. I'm having trouble with a NotifyIcon in WPF I currently have the following: notifyI = new NotifyIcon(); notifyI.Icon = new Icon("Power.ico"); notifyI.Text = "Shutdown Timer"; notifyI.Visible = true; notifyI.MouseDoubleClick...
Hi, I have a user control that contains an ellipse. The ellipse is translate transformed to the right until it lies partially outside its parent control. I put the user control into the middle column of a 3 column grid. If I set the column width to GridUnitType.Auto I can see the ellipse overflowing the column. If I set the column...