By Landon Ferguson, on February 13th, 2012%
This post discusses to edit the displayed data in Silverlight page and save the changes back to database. Insert, Update and Delete operations can be done using domain service object context. All the changes you made to this object are collectively submitted to the database when you call the SubmitChanges method.
This post requires to create a . . . → Read More: Silverlight Hosting :: Editing Silverlight page data using Domain Service
By Jonas OReilly, on February 3rd, 2012%
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By Mark Latchey, on January 27th, 2012%
Introduction:
As we know, Silverlight has limitations for accessing files from local drives. In this article, we will see how to read and write files anywhere in local drives.
Creating OOB Silverlight Application:
Fire up VS 2010 and create a Silverlight Application with the name ReadingWritingFiles.
Setting for OOB Silverlight Application:
The settings for OOB application is given here.
First, go to the . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: How to Read and Write Files in Silverlight 4
By Mark Latchey, on November 16th, 2011%
We can create a custom menu control in Silverlight using the following steps.
Step 1: Create a Custom Menu control in Silverlight.
With the help of ToggleButton and Popup controls in Silverlight, we can create a custom menu control as follows.
<ToggleButton x:Name=”toggleButton” Style=”{StaticResource ColorToggleButtonStyle}” BorderBrush=”{x:Null}” Height=”20″ Width=”90″ Click=”toggleButton_Click”>
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width=”20″ />
<ColumnDefinition Width=”58″ />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
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By Mark Latchey, on October 11th, 2011%
I’ve been doing some fun Silverlight & Bing Maps development at the moment for ID (more to be revealed later!). Now I have really got stuck in to Silverlight development I figured I would do a blog post on a couple of things I came across and cool functionality I found.
1. Asynchronous calls and updating the . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: Silverlight 4 Development Tips & Tricks
By Jonas OReilly, on September 16th, 2011%
Sometimes we need to use controls like TextBox, TextBlock etc (that set their width automatically depending on content) in a ListBox’s ItemTemplate. If we need to draw Borders or assign Background colors to each such controls then we may end up having non-equal rows. Here’s a sample markup:
Here’s the output for the above XAML:
A quick thought . . . → Read More: Silverlight (and WPF) Hosting: How to make items stretch horizontally in a ListBox
By Mark Latchey, on September 16th, 2011%
One of the popular HTML5 tags is the video tag. The ability to play videos without depending on a plugin is something that excites web developers to a great extent and no wonder you end up seeing video demos in all . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: How to Play HTML 5 Video Using Silverlight
By Jonas OReilly, on September 13th, 2011%
Entity Framework 4 allows us to create complex types. Typically, such types are used to get the result of a stored procedure. However, when we try to send such a complex type using a WCF RIA Domain Service, the following error is encountered.
What to do? Adding attributes to EF designer generated classes is a bad idea; . . . → Read More: WCF RIA Hosting: Sending complex types to the client
By Landon Ferguson, on September 13th, 2011%
More often, the data to shown in an AJAX page is retrieved from the Web server using a Web service, a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service. The services that can also return JavaScriptObjectNotation(JSON) are potential candidates for AJAX pages.
This post explains about calling a WCF service using ASP.NET AJAX Library Data View control. The following are . . . → Read More: WCF Service Hosting :: Using ASP.NET AJAX Library in WCF Service
By Landon Ferguson, on September 8th, 2011%
When Microsoft Silverlight — a web application that integrates multimedia, computer graphics, animation, and interactivity into a single runtime environment — was initially launched as a video streaming plug-in in 2007, Microsoft’s hopes were high. In the three years since its release, four versions have been released, and with each new one comes additional interactivity features . . . → Read More: Silverlight Hosting News :: SRS and Microsoft to Bring 5.1 Surround Sound