Questions tagged [silverlight-3.0]

Silverlight is Microsoft's cross-browser, cross platform plug-in for media experiences and rich interactive applications. Silverlight 3 was released July 9, 2009

Microsoft Silverlight is an application framework for writing and running rich Internet applications with emphasis on multimedia, animations, and graphics, with features and purposes similar to those of Adobe Flash. The run-time environment for Silverlight is available as a plug-in for most web browsers. While early versions of Silverlight focused on streaming media, current versions support multimedia, graphics and animation, and give developers support for CLI languages and development tools.

Silverlight 3 introduced

  • Tooling
  • Controls
    • DataForm
    • DataPager
    • Navigation (SEO, deep linking)
    • New Toolkit Controls
  • Media Graphics
    • 3D Pixel Effects
    • Animation Easing
    • Bitmap API
    • GPU Acceleration
    • Text/Image Improvements
  • Element-to-Element Binding
  • LocalConnection API
  • Binding Validation UI
  • SaveFileDialog
  • Dynamic Styling and BasedOn
  • CaretBrush
  • Merged ResourceDictionary
  • Assembly Caching N
  • Network monitoring API
  • Out-of-browser and Offline
  • .NET RIA Services
  • Binary XML
  • Web Service Utility

See also:

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Create Dependency Properties for setting Custom EventHandlers in XAML

i want to do add custom event handlers to default framework elements using DependencyProperties. Something like the following: ... Here is the code behind for the control that contains the…
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Silverlight: Find all controls of type in layout

I'm looking for a reliable method to build a list of controls of contained in a specific derived control - this includes those that are direct children, and those which are children of children and so on. The most obvious way was to…
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silverlight - communicate between 2 view models in MVVM using commands

i am working on MVVM and using commanding in silverlight(DelegateEvent and ICommand) I want something like this ,(say) i have 2 usercontrols , parent and child . Parent is hosting the child , both have thier own viewmodels . On parent i have a…
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How to remove the black space around the button in WP7?

As I see, WP7 buttons are surrounded by a black space of some pixels. How I can remove it? I've read this post, but I didn't managed to remove it! Could you please give a working example? I've tried to wrap button with element, but it…
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Is there value in using a Silverlight framework?

I'm three weeks into designing a Silverlight 3 LOB application and I've decided to go with Entity Framework, RIA Services, and the MVVM pattern. Now I'm looking into all the glue. I'm checking into behaviors, ICommand, dependancy properties, IoC,…
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which frameworks(MVVM light, Prism, MEF,..) should i use for my Financial Silverlight application?

first of all, I am new to silverlight(play around with it for one month) and this is my first job. However, i am willing to learn anything which can let me advance my silverlight knowledge. Currently, I need to implement a big Silverlight project…
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Is there any difference in x:name and name for controls in xaml file?

I am new in Silverlight. When I add some control to my xaml file with Visual Studio it set controls name with Name property, but there is also x:Name. Is there any difference and when to use each of them? Thanks.
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Can I have a ValueConverter in my ViewModel?

I have a combobox bound to a collection, so the user can select one of the items. So far, so good. The content of the combo box is driven by the item, but also by a value in my viewmodel. Imagine the value in my viewmodel is the language, I have…
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Debugging silverlight 3 in vs2008 after vs2010\silverlight 4 installed

I've installed vs2010 on my machine now it seems that I can't debug\run my silverlight 3 app in vs2008. The debug play button (F5) is grayed out. And when an exception is throw it says "Debugging resource strings are unavailable". I feel like I…
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get the coordinates of a FrameworkElement bounding rectangle

How does one get the upper left coordinates of a framework elements bounding rectangle? let fe : FrameworkElement = ea.Item.Content let p = fe.TranslatePoint(new Point(0.0, 0.0), null) The preceding code is giving me: The field,…
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Can we manipulate (subtract) the value of a property while template bidning?

I am currently defining few grids as following:
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ag_e_parser_bad_property_value Silverlight Binding Page Title

XAML: C# public TablePage() { this.DataContext = new Table() { Name = "Finding Table" }; InitializeComponent(); } Getting a ag_e_parser_bad_property_value error in…
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XAML: make a ScrollViewer show scrollbars when the ScaleTransform of a child object gets big

I am making a sort of "print preview" control for some documents in my Silverlight 3 application. I have a Canvas (for showing the document) inside of a ScrollViewer, and I have zoom in / zoom out buttons that control the X and Y Scale properties…
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Can I add dll to Silverlight 3 application?

I am tring to add dll file to my Silverlight application but get error which says that I can't add reference which wasn't built with Silverlight runtime. Is there any solution? Thanks.
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Silverlight Issue with Firefox 3.6?

Recently I updated my firefox to 3.6 and the silver light app on my web app has weird behavior. No button click happens in the silverlight app, it just gives it the focus and if we 'TAB' around, we can get the click working. But this is not like…
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