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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Is there a click behavior for a list?

I have a list view, on a panoramic control. I've also created an event for MouseLeftButtonUp however I find that when scrolling between the panorama items the MousLeftButtonUp is triggering (it makes sense why but it is unexpected from a user…
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Windows phone 7 button "borders"

By default WP7 buttons are surrounded by a black space of 5ish pixels. I'd like to remove this, but I've tried setting the Margin, BorderThickness, Padding properties to be a Thinkness of zero, but this seems to have no effect on this mysterious…
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How wrap image around cylinder in Silverlight

I am trying wrap image around cylinder in silverlight. I looked a lot in Google but don't found anything. As I know it can be done with pixel shader, but don't know how. Is it possible? Thanks.
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Access Element inside Silverlight DataTemplate

I have not been able to find a clean solution to the following problem even though there are a few related questions already on SO. If I have a data template that is being used multiple times, for example, a TreeViewItem.HeaderTemplate, how can I…
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Storing application settings in Silverlight

I want to be able to change a setting in my silverlight assembly at runtime, i want a bit like a web.config in a asp.net web site? what is the best way of doing this? thank you
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Which dll has 'BusyIndicator' for silverlight?

I have installed Nov '09 silverlight 3 toolkit. Referenced System.Windows.Control from C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v3.0 Libraries\Client\System.Windows.Controls.dll but when I compile my code I am getting "Error 6 The type or…
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Take Screenshot of current user control or any GUI in Silverlight 3

I would like to ask if it is possible to take screenshot of current user control programmatically and save as a file in silverlight 3. I found some ways to save as an image file for a Canvas in silverlight 3, but how about user control or…
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Getting Runtime Assemblies in Silverlight 3

I am currently writing a framework dll which has an AssemblyHelper. This helper stores Runtime and UserAdded assemblies to easily instantiate new objects. The .NET part of the framework uses: AppDomain MyDomain = AppDomain.CurrentDomain; Assembly[]…
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Multitasking and Multithreading in silverlight

I have a silverlight application in which i have multiple requests that goes to the server.I want that all these request to be synchronized i.e by means of queue or by means of multitasking.What is the best mean of doing so.Plz provide some example…
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How to Detach a Behavior from an UIElement in Code Behind for Silverlight?

In Silverlight 3.0 I have added a custom behavior to some UIElement in Code Behind. I wanted to remove the Behavior later in runtime. What is the C# syntax to Detach an already added Behavior from an UIElement?
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What are the split characters in Silverlight's TextWrapping?

The TextWrapping feature in Silverlight is described here. However, I'm trying to find out the details of their line-breaking algorithm. Obviously a space will cause the text to break (or split), encouraging the text to wrap to the next line. And…
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How to rollback changes made to a object in silverlight 3 with a TwoWay binding

I have a Silverlight 3 project. I have a textbox that is TwoWay data bound to an object. If the user wants to cancel the changes that they made to the textbox, what is the best way to undo the changes to the bound field on the object? I know I…
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How do you draw a string to a Bitmap in Silverlight?

In normal C# it is easy to draw to a bitmap using the Grpahics.DrawString() method. Silverlight seems to have done away with Bitmap objects and Graphics is no longer available either. So...How am I meant to manipulate/create a bitmap when using…
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FindElementsInHostCoordinates Relative To Control Space Not Entire Page

I'm using the VisualTreeHelper method FindElementsInHostCoordinates to find a ListBoxItem at the given X and Y location. However, X and Y value appear to be related to points in the entire page not just the ListBox I'm interested in (even though…
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What is the Silverlight 3.0 equivalent for BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Type TextBlock}}"

I am trying to extend a base style for a TextBlock. Simple think in WPF world, should be the same in Silverlight. But I get a error on x:Type. How can I translate BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Type TextBlock}}" in Silverlight. Anyone out there who…
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