Common mistakes / issues when creating and using Composite Stream Mani (blogs.southworks.net)

submitted by ejadib(155) 4 days, 5 hours ago

One of the greatest features added on the Beta 2 version of the IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit (SSPDK) is the support for Composite Stream Manifests for Rough Cut Editing. This a powerful feature which I really recommend looking at I’ve been working with CSMs for three months now, so in this post I would like to share with you the lessons I’ve learnt during the process of creation and usage of the CSMs. There are a few common mistakes and issues you might face during that process, so I hope this post will be helpful for the community. read more...

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Silverlight 4 Hack: Use Native/Desktop CLR Without COM Registration (jmorrill.hjtcentral.com)

submitted by jdollah(340) 4 days, 23 hours ago

Optimally, it would be nice to be able to add your desktop CLR objects as resources to your XAP, and from Silverlight code, be able to instantiate and use your Desktop .NET classes. This is a hack to do just that without registering any COM dlls. read more...

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Using the free Babel Obfuscator in Silverlight projects (www.apijunkie.com)

submitted by APIJunkie(475) 5 days, 7 hours ago

One of the problems with Silverlight managed code is that it can easily be reverse engineered using standard .NET reflection tools. Although no method can completely prevent reverse engineering your code there are ways to slow down and even deter all but the most persistent hackers. read more...

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Silverlight 4 How to Command Control (www.silverlightshow.net)

submitted by KMillerr(210) 6 days, 14 hours ago

In this article, Joel Neubeck demonstrates how through the use of commanding and binding you can virtually eliminate all code behind and implement to a strong MVVM architectural pattern. read more...

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SilverCooler - a MIX 10K entry (gregdoesit.com)

submitted by gergely.orosz(190) 6 days, 17 hours ago

On the MIX 10K competition the goal is to write an application using no more than 10KBytes of source code in Silverlight. I’ve implemented a cool cocktail selector application - check it out and vote if you like it! read more...

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Creating a Silverlight Microsoft Bing Map with Editable Pushpins in C# (www.primaryobjects.com)

submitted by surfer6(125) 7 days, 8 hours ago

Learn how to use the new Silverlight Microsoft Bing Map SDK to create a basic mapping web application with editable pushpins, hover effects, and database persistence via WCF in C# ASP .NET. read more...

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Silverlight 4 vs Flex 4: Data Validation (blogs.infosupport.com)

submitted by alexb(65) 8 days, 17 hours ago

In this post I’m again comparing two features of Silverlight and Flex, this time we’re going to take a look at how data validation is implemented on both platforms. This will be a very interesting comparison, since Flex and Silverlight take entirely different approaches. Which one is better? I can let you know in advance that one of the two is a bit broken. Read on to find out which one…… read more...

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Siaqodb launched (siaqodb.com)

submitted by cristoph1(20) 9 days, 5 hours ago

We just released first version of Siaqodb ready for production.Siaqodb is object database for .NET, Mono and Silverlight. As release notes: -automatic object schema refactoring: For example you design a class and at a certain point you want to add/change/remove members of that class, but you already had saved in DB objects with old Type definition. Now siaqodb support automatic change of objects stored in DB... read more...

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Aligning RowDetails Controls to DataGrid columns in Silverlight (bpampuch.blogspot.com)

submitted by ralph7(10) 9 days, 10 hours ago

Ever wondered how to "extend" Silverlight DataGrid columns so they're available in RowDetails? bpampuch explains how to do this. Demo app + code + ready-to-use sln file included. read more...

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ColorFromString for Silverlight or .NET (yinyangme.com)

submitted by jmccurdy(30) 11 days, 10 hours ago

Here is a simple static class, ColorFromString, that offers a single string extension method, ToColor, to create Color objects from various strings representations of color: •Named colors •ARGB colors as Hex (8 nibbles) •RGB colors as Hex (6 nibbles) •ARGB colors as comma or space separated decimal •RGB colors as comma or space separated decimal read more...

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Cookies for Silverlight (yinyangme.com)

submitted by jmccurdy(30) 11 days, 10 hours ago

Here is a simple static class, Cookie, that offers methods to Read and Write cookies from Silverlight applications. You can also specify the cookie expiration as a number of days: •expireDays = 0, indicates a session cookie that will not be written to disk •expireDays = -1, indicates that the cookie will not expire and will be permanent •expireDays = n, indicates that the cookie will expire in “n” days read more...

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The simplest way to detect DoubleClick in Silverlight (yinyangme.com)

submitted by jmccurdy(30) 11 days, 10 hours ago

Here is a simple static class, MouseButtonHelper, that offers a single method, IsDoubleClick, to determine if a standard MouseLeftButtonDown or MouseLeftButtonUp event is a double click. In the past I have used timers, and Triggers and Behaviors to accomplish the same thing, but this approach is less code, less XAML, and uses a lot less resources. read more...

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Settings for Silverlight using IsolatedStorageSettings (yinyangme.com)

submitted by jmccurdy(30) 11 days, 10 hours ago

Here is a simple static class, Settings, that offers methods to Read and Write application settings and preferences from Silverlight applications. These settings are similar to the ones that Windows apps would store in the registry or in an INI file, but in this case, are written to Silverlight’s isolated storage. This class wraps Silverlight’s IsolatedStorageSettings class, so remember; since a user has the freedom to purge isolated storage at will, this class is mostly useful for storing application preferences like layout sizes and locations, and other creature comforts for regular users. This class can read or write any data type to settings storage; the IsolatedStorageSettings class will automatically serialize and deserialize the settings for you. read more...

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A TextBox that selects its text on focus for Silverlight (yinyangme.com)

submitted by jmccurdy(30) 11 days, 10 hours ago

A minor annoyance of mine is that there is no way to wire up a standard Silverlight TextBox to select its text when it receives the keyboard focus; either via a mouse click or a tab key. And since users are accustomed to web apps, browsers, and desktop applications that offer the the convenience of selecting textbox text upon focus, I wanted that behavior in my Silverlight applications. So to satisfy user expectations as a matter of consistency, I wrote a very simple derived class, TextBoxEx, that will offer this functionality. The TextBoxEx class derives from TextBox, and can be referenced in XAML for any and all of your TextBox’s. There are no methods to call. It just listens for Focus events and selects it own text. Very simple. read more...

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Easy access to Silverlight file resources with my ResourceFile class (yinyangme.com)

submitted by jmccurdy(30) 11 days, 10 hours ago

Silverlight application developers have several choices when deploying file resources for a Silverlight application. For my own Silverlight application, YinYangMoney, I developed a ResourceFile class to make access to those resource files flexible and simple - regardless of the deployment choice. I will be sharing that class with you in this blog post. read more...

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Implement MouseWheel support for Silverlight 3 controls (yinyangme.com)

submitted by jmccurdy(30) 11 days, 10 hours ago

In the upcoming Silverlight 4 release, mousewheel support for controls will be implemented out of the box. However Silverlight 3 still requires you to roll your own mouse wheel support. The following MouseWheelProps class provides generic mousewheel support for all Silverlight controls that support the IScrollProvider interface (ScrollViewer, ListBox, DataGrid) or the IRangeValueProvider interface (Slider). This class implements a single attached property called Enable that can be added directly to a control, or as a style for a control. read more...

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