silverlight

.NET Web Application Portability to SilverLight

The company where I work created this application which is core to our business and relies on the web browser to enforce certain "rules" that without them renders the application kinda useless to our customers. Sorry about having to be circumspect, An NDA along with a host of other things prevents me from saying exactly what the applica...

So which is faster truly? Flash, Silverlight or Animated gifs?

I am trying to develop a multimedia site and I am leaning heavily toward Silverlight however Flash is always a main player. I am a Speed and performance type developer. Which Technology will load fastest in the given scenarios? 56k, DSL and Cable? ...

Deepzoom for WPF

Are there any ports to WPF of Silverlight's MultiScaleImage (aka DeepZoom)? Have Microsoft road-mapped this at all for WPF? I want to move from WinForms to WPF and require something like DeepZoom, using Silverlight isn't an option. ...

Silverlight 2 Drag and Drop tutorials

Hi all, I'm wondering if people can suggest the best tutorial that will walk me through the best way to do Drag and Drop with control collision detection etc, using MS Silverlight V2. I've done the Jesse Liberty tutorials at Silverlight.net, and they were a good introduction, but I'm looking for something a bit deeper. Suggestions? U...

Programmatic binding in Silverlight

I'm missing the boat on something here, kids. This keeps rearing its head and I don't know what's going on with it, so I hope my homeys here can help. When working in Silverlight, when I create bindings in my c# code, they never hold up when the application is running. The declarative bindings from my xaml seem ok, but I'm doing somet...

Silverlight Cross Domain Policies

In a silverlight application, I want to access the page the silverlight .xap file from an HTTP subdomain, but have the web services access a different subdomain for sensitive information over HTTPS. I set up clientaccesspolicy.xml at the root of the subdomain and it lets the silverlight app access its services over http, but not over ht...

Silverlight- DataGrid control - Selection Changed event interfering with sorting

I'm currently playing with the Silverlight(Beta 2) Datagrid control. Before I wired up the SelectionChanged event, the grid would sort perfectly by clicking on the header. Now, when the grid is clicked, it will fire the SelectionChanged event when I click the header to sort. Is there any way around this? In a semi-related topic, I'd ...

Are there any projects for replacing HTML and the current javascript?

Google created protocol buffers as a replacement for the bulky XML method of data transition. Faster XML processing was just not good enough. Most of the web has grown up as a hodge podge of different technologies that have been integrated to work within the browser or to generate html. JavaScript is separate from HTML. Flash and Sil...

Is there a way to productively do Silverlight development without buying VS2008?

It seems that Microsoft wants Silverlight to take off, yet I cannot find an easy way to develop in it without buying Visual Studio 2008. Has anyone out there found a way to get the silverlight development environment in the express editions of Visual Studio? Any other tools? ...

TileBrush for SIlverlight 2?

As you may know, Silverlight does not have the TileBrush found in WPF. Is there a workaround to do tiling? ...

Silverlight Datagrid Control - How do I stop the sorting on a column?

Continuing my problem from yesterday, the Silverlight datagrid I have from this issue is now causing Stack Overflow errors when sorting a column with a large amount of data (Like the text column that contains a where clause for a SQL statment). When you sort, it'll fire the SelectedIndexChanged event for the datagrid and then still try ...

Silverlight interaction with DataSet web services

My colleague has found himself in an "interesting" situation. He is working on a Silverlight (2.0) prototype that needs to call existing web services in the enterprise and bind the returned data to data-display controls. The thing is, the web services return .NET DataSets (they are not about to change existing implementations) and Silver...

Silverlight app and an iframe co-existing on the same page

Hi guys, this should be simple...could someone provide me a simple code sample that has an aspx page hosting both a silverlight app (consisting of, say a button) and an iframe (pointing to, say stackoverflow.com). The silverlight app and iframe could be in separate div's, the same div, whatever. Everything I've tried so far leaves me w...

Best way to catch a WCF exception in Silverlight?

I have a Silverlight 2 application that is consuming a WCF service. As such, it uses asynchronous callbacks for all the calls to the methods of the service. If the service is not running, or it crashes, or the network goes down, etc before or during one of these calls, an exception is generated as you would expect. The problem is, I d...

How to have silverlight get its data from MySQL

I've written a small hello world test app in Silverlight which i want to host on a Linux/Apache2 server. I want the data to come from MySQL (or some other linux compatible db) so that I can databind to things in the db. I've managed to get it working by using the MySQL Connector/.NET: MySqlConnection conn = new MySqlConnection("Server=...

Reuse of StaticResource in Silverlight 2.0

I am currently testing with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2, and my goal is to define a resource element once and then reuse it many times in my rendering. This simple example defines a rectangle (myRect) as a resource and then I attempt to reuse it twice -- which fails with the error: Attribute {StaticResource myRect} value is out of range. [L...

Farseer Physics Tutorials, Help files

Is there a tutotial or help file, suitable for a beginner c# programmer to use. ...

Flash vs. Silverlight

We are building a training website where we need to track viewers watching videos and store detailed info about the viewing (when they paused, if they watched the whole video etc) What should we consider when deciding between the two technologies? I forgot to add. This is for an in house app. We have complete control over the environme...

Any automated tool for silverlight xap deployment with web services?

Does anyone know of any tools, or even good processes for deploying Web Services and Silverlight applications that rely on those, and have it be able to automatically change the web services url and port nunbers in the config files automatically? right now I am always finding myself having to change the web service config on the server ...

How do I stop Blend 2.5 June Preview replacing Canvas.ZIndex with Panel.ZIndex on SL1.0 XAML?

I have a Silverlight 1.0 application that I edit with Blend 2.5. Whenever I touch a UIElement in the designer that has a Canvas attribute such as Canvas.ZIndex="1", when it updates the XAML, it changes the Canvas prefix to Panel, leaving Panel.ZIndex="1", causing the page to fail to load. How do I make it stop the insanity!?! I have u...