I've been working on a project that's been a rather seat-of-the-pants experience. We have MOSS 2007 and Silverlight 3 installed. We're trying to make use of some new 3rd party software, Visual Fusion(http://www.idvsolutions.com/products_overview.aspx). While working through the tutorial I ran into a bit of an issue. All I really have...
I have tried the simple test "Silverlight 2.0 animation test" at http://bubblemark.com, surprisingly Moonlight provided only 26 fps on Linux. Windows/Silverlight 3 gave me 192 fps on the exact same machine. Why is Moonlight so much slower than Silverlight? This performance gap is really important if you are planning to develop high fps,...
Silverlight is great, and with RIA services solves alot of stuff BUT. Why are we forced to have get; set on every model? I have been learned that if we have an Customer and the Customer Id should never change, then the Id property should be readonly, if the customer has an password that need to go through some logic before it shall be ...
Here is my scenario... I am prototyping in SketchFlow so I create an Xml file for my dummy data and then databind that to a data grid. I then want to setup some things like widths and header text instead of using all autogenerated details. So here is the question... Is there an easy way to convert the Autogenerated columns into Xaml so...
I have a silverlight control on an html page in which I would like the modal popup to also affect. The whole page is white, including the silverlight app (bordered in red below). Is there some form of css or javascript to gray out the silverlight app? ...
So here I am trapped in a nightmare of trying to make text wrap in silverlight. I have text intermixed with links. LIke this: text text text link text text text link It needs to wrap. I've tried things like textwrapping and wrap panels but I just can't get it right. Any ideas on how to do this? My only idea is to split up the text...
In the following Silverlight application why does the property OuterPadding not change the padding in the outer border, although the TextBlock correctly displays the value of OuterPadding? If I change the Border padding to a simple integer it the padding works fine, but not when it is defined by the property in code behind. This same c...
I want to have a field in my entity where the returned data comes from a class function in mydomainservice and not from the database. The reason is that I want to generate an image URL (Silverlight bind) based rather loosely upon other fields in a table How can I obtain that ? ...
I have a WPF application that uses LINQ-to-SQL on a local .MDF file. This solution is simple, easy, and effective, i.e. I set up my model once, then read/write data anywhere via LINQ: using (var db = Datasource.GetContext()) { oldItem = (from i in db.Infos where i.Id == TheId ...
Hi there, Silverlight on Windows CE 6 r3 is different I know, it's Silverlight 2 with a native C++ backend. But is this backend locked down in any way? Can I access the local file system etc? I'm currently building a proof-of-concept for a client, and I don't want to show them this lovely UI if I can't deliver on the functionality in ...
Dear All Its time to rebuild my portfolio site, and I am thinking of either using Silverlight (still have to learn the basics but would be fun) or use MVC.NET. I would like to use Silverlight since its something I am really interested in learning, and building up a small portfolio site should not be an out of this world task. However ...
Is it possible to shell execute an exe which is stored in the isolated storage space. In silverlight ...
Dear All! I try to set-up a clean and flexbible application-framework for data-centric applications with silverlight-only UI. I want to have a strict seperation of concerns, and want to be as flexible as possible (e.g. exchange the ORM later) while still reducing the amount of code. It took me weeks to figure out an appropriate archite...
Hi all, My requirement is this. I am programmatically downloading a folder from a remote server in zipped format using WebClient. This part is done. My folder will have only DLLs and EXEs. Can any one suggest an unzipping algorithim or libraries which can be used for unzipping? http://www.sharpgis.net/post/2009/04/21/REALLY-small-unzip...
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. ...
Hello, I have a table in my database called "Task". Task has the following fields: - ID - Description - AssignedUserID - TaskTypeID I am accessing this table through a class that was created automatically after I used an ADO.NET Entity Data Model. I can load and show the fields mentioned above in a DataGrid in my Silverlight applicatio...
In a WPF application, I load in xaml files with the xamlreader by finding the current directory like this: public static string GetApplicationDirectory() { return System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location); } so I can read in a .xaml file by getting its absolute path like this: string pathAndFileNam...
The company I work for has proxies/WAN accelerators between our international sites to cache Intranet web content. I have a Silverlight application being hosted on a server at one location, but being accessed by clients in another location. When the users access the web page hosting the Silverlight app, they get the stale xap file bein...
We are in the process of porting existing JS application to the Silverlight. You can imagine application as a some kind of document management application: 1.) Documents are stored as XML documents. 2.) Documents can be of different types. Document types can be added without source code modification (everything is in the DB or FS). - Eac...
I have been playing with bindings in silverlight, and have figured out how to bind in code, but would prefer to keep the binding in the XAML. This is the code that works in my .cs file: System.Windows.Data.Binding IDBinding = new System.Windows.Data.Binding("ID"); IDBinding.Source = MyTrans; IDBinding.Mode = S...