how to handle Session In SilverLight
How can we store user information in session in silverlight, mean how to handle it ? ...
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does silverlight support streaming through mms?
Hello everyone, I am using Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows Media Service. At the client side, I want to use Silverlight to play the media file. I am using VSTS 2008 + Silverlight 3 + ASP.Net + .Net 3.5. I want to know whether Silverlight supports play mms streaming file from Windows Media Service? If yes, any code samples that I can...
Tracking changes to individual fields - Silverlight
I have a page which has got several text boxes. These controls are bound to a model. I am using MVVM. Assume I have three text boxes, FirstName, LastName and Company. So in the model, I have three properties to bind. Now I need to track the changes happened to each field. If FirstName changes from original value, I need the text box to...
Windows Media Service authentication issue
Hello everyone, I am using Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows Media Service. At the client side, I want to use Silverlight to play the media file. I am using VSTS 2008 + Silverlight 3 + ASP.Net + .Net 3.5. I want to know how to implement a custom authentication protocol (I have a custom user database, which contains user name and passw...
Custom Checkbox style for WPF
I would like to skin a wpf default checkbox to something custom. Since it does not really make sense to start off a entirely new control, i'd like to override the Windows Chrome template binding for the Bulletchrome sub component of the checkbox. However I cannot do this like I can with checkboxes for example. tried using something like...
Can you data bind to a property that contains parameter in Silverlight?
In silverlight, can you bind to a property that contains parameter? For example, the following doesn’t seem to work. Am I missing something or is this not possible? C# private System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string, string> ValuesField = new System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string, string>(); public string Value { get { ...
Is there a better way than this to find out if an IsolatedStorage file exists or not?
I'm using IsolatedStorage in a Silverlight application for caching, so I need to know if the file exists or not which I do with the following method. I couldn't find a FileExists method for IsolatedStorage so I'm just catching the exception, but it seems to be a quite general exception, I'm concerned it will catch more than if the file ...
Binding to a dictionary in Silverlight with INotifyPropertyChanged
In silverlight, I can not get INotifyPropertyChanged to work like I want it to when binding to a dictionary. In the example below, the page binds to the dictionary okay but when I change the content of one of the textboxes the CustomProperties property setter is not called. The CustomProperties property setter is only called when CustomP...
Is there anyway to change title of OpenFileDialog in Silverlight 3?
Hi, I'm using OpenFileDialog in a Silverlight 3 application (sample code below). OpenFileDialog dialog = new OpenFileDialog(); dialog.Multiselect = false; dialog.Filter = "XML Schemas (*.xsd)|*.xsd"; dialog.ShowDialog(); It was a surprise to me that there's no such property like 'Title' to...
How to get Firefox to not continue to show "Transferring data from..." in browser status bar after async data is loaded?
The following silverlight demo loads and displays a text file from a server. However, in Firefox (but not Explorer or Chrome) after you click the button and the text displays, the status bar continues to show "Transferring data from test.development..." which erroneously gives the user the belief that something is still loading. I've n...
Getting Runtime Assemblies in Silverlight 3
Hello, I am currently writing a framework dll which has an AssemblyHelper. This helper stores Runtime and UserAdded assemblies to easily instantiate new objects. The .NET part of the framework uses: AppDomain MyDomain = AppDomain.CurrentDomain; Assembly[] AssembliesLoaded = MyDomain.GetAssemblies(); _runtimeAssemblies = AssembliesLoad...
Can two Silverlight applications share IsolatedStorage on one machine?
What identifies an silverlight application and when can two silverlight applications share IsolatedStorage if at all, i.e.: if I want to have two Silverlight applications share IsolatedStorage space, is this possible? What kind of "application id" do I need to give to do this? if I don't want two Silverlight applications to share Isola...
Windowsless property is not working in Firefox ONLY
Hello, I have created a simple silverlight application to display some text at realtime from xml. The text display using HTML DIV tag. I have added plugin property windowless=true, enablehtmlaccess=true,background=transparent. On Silverlight I have added a Button "Continue" at Top & Bottom, which shows some message on that click. Sil...
Silverlight 3.0 Custom Cursor in Chart
Hello All, I'm probably overlooking something that will be obvious when I see the solution, but for now... I am attempting to use a custom cursor inside the chart area of a Toolkit chart. I have created a ControlTemplate for the chart, and a grid to contain the cursors. I show/hide the cursors, and attempt to move the containing Grid...
put Silverlight user control into an asp.net website
Hi, If i have two aspx pages in each of them i want to put differents silverlight contents (2 differents usercontol) what can i do?.. am i obliged to add 2 silverlight projects with my asp.net website and insert in each page an *.xap content..? Thanks. ...
Why does this silverlight code get a "catastrophic failure" when reading a BitmapImage out of IsolatedStorage?
In a Silverlight app, I save a Bitmap like this: public static void SaveBitmapImageToIsolatedStorageFile(OpenReadCompletedEventArgs e, string fileName) { using (IsolatedStorageFile isf = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication()) { using (IsolatedStorageFileStream isfs = new IsolatedStorageFileStream(fileName, Fil...
Silverlight and data bound property animation (Margin)
Hello! I have Border element with Margin property bound to StartDate (DateTime) property of some class. If property changed margin is changed also (with a help of converter). I'd like to make changes as smoothly as possible. for example, on UI side one hour in data class equals to 15 pixels on screen and when i change StartDate +/- o...
Changing or accessing a control in a Silverlight Data Form Edit Template
I came across an interesting issue today when playing around with the Silverlight Data Form control. I wanted to change the visibility of a particular control inside the bound edit template.. see xaml below. <df:DataForm x:Name="NoteFormEdit" ItemsSource="{Binding Mode=OneWay}" AutoGenerateFields="True" AutoEdit="True" A...
Inheriting Silverlight 3 control does not initialize content
I have a silverlight custom control named "BASE". I have another control that inherits from this class, "CHILD1". BASE has a ContentPresenter that holds the content from the CHILD1 control. I need to access a TextBox that is in the content of the CHILD1 control, it initiailzes, and displays, but it is always null in the code. Is ther...
Using xml to feed a silverlight application
Hey! I am building a Silverlight application that should get it's elements from XML defined objects, but I am kinda stuck: how should I feed the Silverlight application with the data in the XML? Example: get data from the following XML to display it in silverlight dynamically: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <item> 0 item...