What is the issue with the Silverlight Tools for VS2008? I can't seem to place controls on the designer surface. This didn't work for me on two different machines. Do you have to tweak the XAML to be able to place the first control? Cursor stays a compass-like-cross when over the surface. Are you supposed to drag-n-drop controls or draw ...
I have the following simple button with an image as the template. The problem is that I want to change the image to a resource, instead of a content reference. I want to do this so I can share the DLL as a re-usable library, and it doesn't work well when I do that. How do I tell the Image object to use an embedded resource in a decl...
Hey guys/gals. I have a silverlight 2 app that has an ObservableCollection of a class from a separate assem/lib. When I set my ListBox.ItemsSource on that collection, and run it, I get the error code: 4004 "System.ArgumentException: Value does not fall within the expected range." Here is part of the code: public partial class Page : Use...
I've coded some smaller projects using Silverlight 2.0, which is fairly impressive. Does Silverlight 2.0 have what it takes to be a game development platform for the web? (Are the framerates high enough, will there be 3D engines developed, and many more questions) Yes or no, with detail if desired, and why. ...
To summarize, as we all know, a) Silverlight is expected to be hosted by a browser, and runs in an isolated sandbox so that there won’t be any security issues Silverlight don’t have direct access to the file system, other than the isolated storage area There is no direct way to open common dialog boxes like File Save in Silve...
Is it possible to build a good medium to full sized application using just silverlight as a host? A few things that would be needed: - dynamic pages (one silverlight "screen" can switch between screens, like a normal app. - similar to a java applet which launches from the browser I see that Telerik sells RadControls for WPF...but this ...
Hi, What do I need to install to begin learning Silverlight 2? I know how to build web applications and use c#, I just have very little experience with Silverlight. I used it a little when it first came out and decided to wait until more .net integration took place. In the past I have used Visual Studio 2005 Pro. for my applications, b...
I don't mind learning xaml and I'm sure I need to be familiar somewhat, but when I was first trying out Silverlight 1 with javascript it looked like a tremendous amount of overhead. I decided to wait until tools matured and asp.net was added. Well, asp.net has been added with Silverlight 2.0, and now I want to look at using it. But, x...
Our web-based application is installed at end-customers. Typically these customers do not have access to the internet. Part of the next version of our application is Silverlight 2.0 based. When a browser without the Silverlight 2.0 plugin tries to access our the Silverlight portion of our app, the customer gets the standard "Install Mic...
We're using Silverlight 2 with ADO.NET dataservices and to test the silverlight page we used a service in the same domain which works fine. We then decided to try use a proxy or intermediate service (sitting in the same domain as the Silverlight app) which basically just surfaces a service sitting in another domain (by using the class ge...
In Silverlight 2 I'm using a usercontrol which inherits the datacontext of the page that it's embedded on. This datacontext contains question text, a question type and a collection of answers. In the user control is a listbox which is bound to the collection of answers. As shown below: <ListBox DataContext="{Binding}" x:Name="AnswerList...
Hi dudes, I am new to this Silverlight 2.0 and i actually trying to deploy the silverlight as webpart in sharepoint 2007. Installations i have done 1. VS 2008 with SP1 2. Silverlight 2.0 SDK and exe 3. Silverlight Tools for VS 2008 4. MOSS 2007 I have created the sample silverlight application and got the xap file from the bin directo...
I'm trying to create a UserControl that inherits from a generic class. It does not directly inherit from a generic class, but through an intermediate class that does not use generics. This compiles and works at runtime, but I get an error at design time. Here's my generic parent class: Public Class GenericParent(Of T) Inherits Us...
In Silverlight 2 I have the following class declaration for a control: public partial class ClassX : UserControl I wish to replace UserControl with ClassXBase which derives from UserControl but I'm getting the reasonable error "Partial declarations of 'ClassX' must not specify different base classes" However, I'm unable to find the o...
What method would you use secure a group of web service methods that are callable from a Windows Server and a Silverlight 2 front end? I don't really want to have to pass a username and password with each and every method call, but I'm not entirely sure how to approach it and my google searching hasn't really been providing me with any ...
There is ASMX, WCF, REST, and ADO.NET Data Services... I've used WCF and ASMX succesfully with Silverlight 2, but what about the others? What are the pros and cons of using each type of service with Silverlight 2? ...
I am working on an in-house tool for interfacing to a database. My current prototyping is written in C# using ASP.NET 2.0 with the intent to optimise some client-side operations using javascript. However, I was hoping to leverage Silverlight to simplify the user interface development. Do I need to have the server upgraded to ASP.NET 3.5...
My silverlight app takes the user through a sort of wizard-like process, so for each screen in the wizard I've created a seperate user control. Then in my main user control (applications RootVisual) I just show/hide each user control when needed. That means that every user control is instantiated at once, is it possible to only have o...
Suppose I have a grid with some row definitions, and a child control in that grid. How would I go about setting the Grid.Row property of the child control programatically? ...
What patterns do you think are best for silverlight games? Some main areas of focus are game performance, maximum number of objects reasonably updated in real time, ease of development and testing. ...