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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How can I put a Silverlight 3 DataGridCell into edit mode in code?

I want to be able to pick a specific cell in a Silverlight 3.0 DataGrid and put it into edit mode. I can use the VisualTreeManager to locate the cell. How do I switch to edit mode? Each DataGridCell looks like this in the VisualTreeManager: …
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Silverlight Control Lifecycle

Could anyone tell me the events that are fired during a Silverlight control's lifecycle please? For instance in ASP.NET you would have PreInit, Init, PreLoad, Load, etc.
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How does a Silverlight DataForm auto-generate a binding from a ComboBox to an enum?

I'm trying to understand DataForm as implemented in the November 2009 toolkit and I can't work out how to bind a ComboBox to an enum. Does anyone know how the DataForm does this automatically? Background First I created a class and an Enum,…
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Domain Service vs WCF Service?

Im slowly delving into Silverlight and after a good while trying I am finally able to return my own Custom Object from my web to my silverlight client, use a Siverlight enabled WCF service. Now, im a little at a loss between the differences of a…
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Silverlight DataGrid Updating SelectedItem from code

When I update a datagrid SelectedItem from code (via a bound object in a ViewModel), how to I get the visual grid to highlight the newly selected item? Thanks, Mark UPDATE: This is still an issue for me. My SelectedItem property already implements…
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Autocompletebox SelectedText Bug

I want to bind both the SelectedText and SelectedItem properties of an AutocompleteBox because my client wants to be able to input text and select from the list also. It's working properly but ... The MainPage has one DataGrid. When I select a…
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While creating new project I am getting error "object reference not set to an instance of an object"

I have just started to use silverlight in visual studio 2k8. I have installed silverlight 3 tools for visual studio 2K8. Now while creating a new project an error is thrown - "object reference is not set to an instance of an object". Screen-shots…
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Cleanest single click + double click handling in Silverlight?

I've been finding various methods of dealing with double click and then the authors slap on some if code for handling single clicks. Is there a standard now in Silverlight 3 that everyone is using to handle both a single and a double click on…
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How maintain the Silverlight application state aftwer the user press the browser refresh button?

I'm learning Silverlight 3 and, in all of my tests, when I press the browser refresh button, the SL application restarts. Is there any way to avoid this?
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Silverlight 3 out-of-browser: set host window size?

Is it possible for a Silverlight 3 application which is running in out-of-browser mode to set the size of the container window? I've got an app with collapsible panel sections and I want the window to automatically size to the current size of the…
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Is Silverlight isolated storage treated as permanent, or as a cache?

How persistent is isolated storage - does Silverlight treat it like a cache, deleting items when it needs more space, or only when the user or application request it? There also seems to be a wide variety of means to identify isolated storage -…
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Silverlight user authentication

I am currently developing a Silverlight 3 app that needs some sort of user authentication, because the data pulled from a WCF service is user specific. Target audience is the regular Internet - so there is no AD to authenticate against. Here are…
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Silverlight ComboBox and SelectedItem

I have the following scenario: 1 List which contains the months of the year: public List Months { get { return m_Months; } } m_Months = new List(); for (int i = 1; i <= 12; i++) { DateTime date = new…
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Modifying look/behavior of the new Popup control (ChildWindow) in Silverlight 3

I would like to remove grey header of the new Popup control in Silverlight 3. Any ideas if this is possible?
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Windows Phone 7 Push Notifications Not Showing Up On My Phone

UPDATE: The plot thickens. I changed my channel name and it is suddenly working (which means it wasn't a problem with my push service, since I'm getting the same HTTP response from the Microsoft Push Notification server). To me, however, this is…