silverlight-4.0

Problem synchronizing with ManualResetEvent

I have written a method that downloads some files, and now I'm trying to make it download up to 5 files in parallel, and for the rest to wait for the previous ones to finish. I am using a ManualResetEvent for this, but when i include the syncronisation part it doesn't download anything anymore (without it it works). Here is the code of ...

prevent screen capture

i am developing a video player i silverlight i wanna something to prevent recording or screen capturing i thought about hacking the windows APIs and stop my program from running if there was any of those capturing software asking the user to close it first but i donno how to do this is there another solution ??!!!! ...

Silverlight 4 - binding between two datagrids, from blend 4

I have some issues with using databinding in silverlight 4 xaml pages, this is my problem: I have two data grids: <sdk:DataGrid x:Name="dgCodeCountry" Height="144" Margin="41,56,39,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" AutoGenerateColumns="False" ItemsSource="{Binding Collection}" > <sdk:DataGrid.Columns> <sdk:DataGridTextColumn Binding=...

Best way of reusing UI objects/code across pages (Silverlight 4, C#)

Ive been staring at my code too long and need a kick in the right direction please. In my poker chip calculator I have multiple pages (currently only "Chip Calculator" is visible on that link). Each page has a menu at the top (the one on the top left below the nav tabs) which has actions local to that page (e.g. Load/Save chipset on the...

Implementing flick or smooth ( or kinetic ) scrolling in Silverlight?

I need something like ListBox scrolling in iPhone OS (iOS). How can you implement flick/smooth/kinetic scrolling in Silverlight? ...

How to set width to 100%

I have a silverlight stackpanel and i want to set its width to 100%. i'm adding the stackpanel dynamically (C#) ...

Silverlight 3 namespace missing in Silverlight 4

I am putting a silverlight 3 video to practice in silverlight 4 as my pc doesnt have SL 3. This however doesnt seem to work the same way for Silverlight4. 1.) I couldnt find the dataform control in the same namespace System.Windows.Controls as mentioned in the video, had to get it by drag-dropping from exp. blend 4. 2.) The dataform ...

Can't bind ICommand in VM to button Command in xaml

I create a VM based on MVVM light toolkit. In VM, there is a simple ICommand(RelayCommand) private RelayCommand _myCommand = null; public RelayCommand MyCommand { get { if (_myCommand == null) //set break point here for debug { _myCommand = new RelayCommand(() => ...

Using attached properties to

hello all, Is there a way to bind an image into a button so that the users sees an image and then the text. In the past I have done this using templates within the xaml however this time I have built the button using styles defined within a resource dictionary. I did this mainly because I wanted to content presenter text to change color ...

Building a dynamic TabControl in Silverlight

I would like to build a TabControl in Silverlight which is driven by a collection of objects. I'll show the code below of a VERY basic setup that I'm trying to prototype. MainPage.xaml <UserControl x:Class="DataDrivenTabControl.MainPage" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.micros...

Problems deploying a Silverlight 4 app with a non-IIS hosted WCF Windows Service.

Hopefully someone can help me... I've developed and tested an SL4 application that connects to a non-IIS / self-hosted WCF enabled windows service. Everything is working great on localhost. However, when I move the service to its production server, I need to obviously update the service references in the SL App. When I click on the "...

How do I accessing siblings from an Item inside a ItemsControl?

I have an ItemsControl: <StackPanel> <ItemsControl x:Name="TopicList"> <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> <local:TopicListItem Title="{Binding Title}" LocationCloud="{Binding Locations}" TagCloudData="{Binding TagCloudData}" SparklineData="{Binding SparklineData}"/> </DataTempl...

Silverlight 4.0 DataGrid Issue

I have changed DataGrid's DataGridRowGroupHeader's controltemplated and have placed 1 checkbox and 1 textblock instead of content presenter. now when i do grouping... in some cases if i click on checkbox of one group... it automatically selects another group also. can anybody please give some advice for this? ...

Silverlight: Canvas Panning Problem

Hi... i have implemented zooming and panning on a canvas. i also implemented zoom animation on the canvas. But when i begin zoom animation then i'm not able to pann canvas. please have a look at the following XAML for Zoom Animation. <Canvas x:Name="cnVProductMain" Background="#FF0CE836"> <Canvas.Reso...

Silverlight Datagrid paging issue

SL4 provides following items for datapaging: DataPager control, PagedCollectionView to wrap data for datapager, DomainDatasource for paging, sort and filter in xaml. Question: 1.With Datapager, data only loaded for specific page, no more data cached, no more extra code needed, rightt? Even data come from SP with EF, if the data wrapp...

linq to sql domain context not visible to domain service class

Hello, I'm creating a silverlight 4 application (using the Business Application template). I generated Linq to SQL classes for my tables in the .web project and want to use RIA services. When I add the domain service class to the .web project the data context for the Linq to SQL classes isn't available to choose. According to the doc...

Silverlight 4 Navigation Framework with Multi level folder hierarchy

Hi, I am creating a silvelight 4 application and I have a requirement to create views at the forth level folder. For example my Analysis.Xaml in silverlight project is as following. Department/Region/Product/Analysis.xaml. Here "Department/Region/Product" will be changed dynamically. based on department,region and product. How can I a...

How to set EventArg for ICommand?

in VM, set ICommand like: private RelayCommand<EventArgs> _myCommand = null; public RelayCommand<EventArgs> MyCommand { get { if (_myCommand == null) { _myCommand = new RelayCommand<EventArgs>((e) => { //.... } ...

How do you call the GUI thread in Silverlight from the BackgroundWorker method ?

Hi, I am using a BackgroundWorker thread to do some work outside of the GUI thread in Silverlight 4. I would like to update widgets in the GUI context from the background thread, but have read warnings about doing so from Microsoft documentation. I understand that communicating from one thread to another throws an exception as only th...

Databinding/PropertyChanged Notification on object reassignement (Silverlight 4/C#)

I have a textblock bound to an object. The 2-way binding works well and as expected. In the code-behind: txtNumberOfPlayers.DataContext = tournament.ChipSet; In the .xaml: <toolkit:NumericUpDown x:Name="txtNumberOfPlayers" Value="{Binding NumberOfPlayers, Mode=TwoWay, NotifyOnValidationError=true, ValidatesOnExceptions=true}" /> ...