Which language is preferred by most developers especially targeting .NET & silverlight? Is it C# or VB.NET? Are there any advantages/disadvantages of both languages when compared with each other? ...
I was writing a small app and as it became bigger, I decided to move it to use multiple XAML pages and navigation framework; after the move, the app no longer runs in IE and gives the exception below when starting. It runs fine on Chrome on the same machine, and standalone if installed from Chrome. I've got IE8 on XP SP2; there are few ...
Is it possible to load a font at runtime in Silverlight for the Glyphs object. I've tried all sorts -I've set the fonturi to a web location at runtime - no joy -I've tried the same approach as textblock etc by setting the source to a stream but Glyphs do not support this. -I've googled forever on it, but it seems that the only way is t...
I want to be able to pick a specific cell in a Silverlight 3.0 DataGrid and put it into edit mode. I can use the VisualTreeManager to locate the cell. How do I switch to edit mode? Each DataGridCell looks like this in the VisualTreeManager: System.Windows.Controls.DataGridCell System.Windows.Controls.Grid ...
Hi All, How can i download a zipped folder from a remote server and unzip the entire files in the folder and store them in isolated storage space from a silver light 3 or 4 out of browser application. Any suggestion please ...
I've made a fresh install of Expression Blend 3 on Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate and every time I create a brand new Silverlight 3 Application + Website project in Expression Blend 3 then try and run it I get the error: Could not start "http://localhost:63523/Default.html" due to the following error: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception:App...
Hi all. I have a Silverlight Usercontrol where I have a tabcontrol which uses a couple of tabitems. Now each tabitem is another Usercontrol. I was wondering if there is a way to access an object of one of these usercontrol tabitems. For example if I have a xaml in my main usercontrol: <controls:TabControl x:Name="TabControl" Grid.Row="...
Some users of a silverlight application I develop are complaining that IE will close sporadically. The sequence of events the users are doing are inconsequential, they are unable to reproduce the issue. Our application uses isolated storage to save exceptions that occur on the client, but no exceptions appear in the log. Has anyone el...
I have a oracle table with record count of 99896618. I need to fetch small chunk of data(lets say 100 records) to show it on a web page,(In web world we call it paging). Currently I am using the following query to accomplish that however users are not satisfied with the performance. SELECT * FROM (select rownum rnum,f.* from findings ...
Hi, I get the following error when I try to run my Silverlight application: Line: 53 Error: Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application Code: 2106 Category: InitializeError Message: Failed to load the application. It was built with an obsolete version of Silverlight In "Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\Silver...
I'm working on a Silverlight 2/3 application. I would like to use List.RemoveAll (or maybe it's IList.RemoveAll?) and specify a predicate so that I can remove a bunch of elements from a list in one sweep. It seems like this function doesn't exist in Silverlight, though. Am I missing something here? Is there an alternative approach that'...
Hi everyone, I am having an issue with the xaml parser not liking my binding statement but i cannot see anything wrong with the statement. Invalid attribute value {Binding VehicleSpeed, ConverterParameter={Binding InMiles}, Converter={StaticResource SpeedConverter}, Mode=TwoWay} for property DataMemberBinding VehicleSpeed and InMi...
I am looking for a free linq provider for oracle. I dont need advanced features. What all I need is CRUD operations + ability to generate model from oracle db. I would like to use this on production web site(using ASP.NET & Silverlight). Any pointers & suggestions will be appreciated. ...
I have an Item template and I want to design it, but I can't see what the stuff looks like in blend because I am databinding it to objects that doesn't exist in blend. Is there a way that I can make fake data come up to do this? They are textblocks. ...
I have an existing Silverlight application where Page.xaml has some buttons on it that load user controls into a TransitioningContentControl content host. Each of these user controls is bound to a viewmodel. Sometimes when changes are made to one user control, data in others would need to be updated. I have been looking at using the eve...
Does anyone know the location of silverlight 5 feature request list? If there isnt one, shall we start it right here? Ability to embed silverlight applications in Powerpoint presentations. Sql server compact edition for silverlight. ...
We are investigating how to create data entry views from a dynamic list of pre-defined field definitions. By "pre-defined", I mean that there are only 8 basic field types. The Silverlight Toolkit's DataForm control is almost what want, but it targets object properties (not a list of custom definitions). Is there an existing project to...
Hi guys, i am converting some asp.net controls to silverlight. Is there something similiar to asp.net EditItemTemplate in DataGrid or listBox? ...
I have an ASP.net website and inside its .aspx page there is a javascript function and from my silverlight project , i want to get a value of property in the javascript funcion i used "eval" to evaluate the function and GetProperty to return the value i want the problem is GetProperty work only if i call the function for the second tim...
I need an extension method to traverse all Textboxes on my Silverlight page. Assume I always use a grid Layout, then I have: public static IEnumerable<UIElement> Traverse(this UIElementCollection source, Func<Grid, UIElementCollection> fnRecurse) { foreach (UIElement item in source) { yield return item; ...