Introducing Blacklight - our new (Silverlight) CodePlex project

Introducing Blacklight - our new (Silverlight) CodePlex project : EasyCoded

Introducing Blacklight - our new (Silverlight) CodePlex project : EasyCoded — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:44:02 GMT

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re: Introducing Blacklight - our new (Silverlight) CodePlex project

Vladimir — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:17:41 GMT

Thank you very much for sharing!!!

Great controls and blog posts. Keep on posting.

Demo site doesn’t btw

re: Introducing Blacklight - our new (Silverlight) CodePlex project

Martin Grayson — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:06:52 GMT

Thanks, I have plenty more in the pipeline!

FYI - the showcase site is back up :)

re: Introducing Blacklight - our new (Silverlight) CodePlex project

Feihong — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:14:50 GMT

Thanks for sharing !!! You're really doing a great job.

I can't wait to see more of it....

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re: Introducing Blacklight - our new (Silverlight) CodePlex project

David Roh — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:50:22 GMT

Hi Martin,

Very nice - thank you!

David Roh

re: Introducing Blacklight - our new (Silverlight) CodePlex project

unruledboy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:56:10 GMT

how about the following style buttons:

http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/2008/09/15/how-to-make-innerglows-with-expression-blend.aspx

and the "next" button in the flash sample(after clicked and enabled):

http://www.shinedraw.com/mathematics/silverlight-vs-flash-mathematical-locus/

re: Introducing Blacklight - our new (Silverlight) CodePlex project

Martin Grayson — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:23:53 GMT

Hi all, thanks, and glad you like Blacklight. Keep checking here and on codeplex for updates.

unruledboy - there is a cool feature on code plex called issue tracker where you can created feature requests, and I can respond, and people can vote etc. Pop your ideas onto there, that way we can track them.

Thanks,

Martin

re: Introducing Blacklight - our new (Silverlight) CodePlex project

unruledboy — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:51:52 GMT

ok, I has quite a few more feature requests, I will submit them on codeplex.

re: Introducing Blacklight - our new (Silverlight) CodePlex project

unruledboy — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:52:39 GMT

hi, I would like to use ItemControls with DragDockPanelHost:

<controls:DragDockPanelHost x:Name="Panels">

<ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>

<controls:DragDockPanel Margin="15" Style="{StaticResource DragDockPanelStyle}">

</controls:DragDockPanel>

</DataTemplate>

</ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>

</ItemsControl>

</controls:DragDockPanelHost>

it VS threw exception that could not be trapped:

Unhandled Error in Silver 2 Application

Code: 4004

Category: ManagedRuntimeError

Message: System.NullReferenceException

is the ItemsControl could not do that way?

when I try another way, I add DragDockPanel to the DragDockPanelHost using code, I do not know how to set the Style to "{StaticResource DragDockPanelStyle}"

re: Introducing Blacklight - our new (Silverlight) CodePlex project

Martin Grayson — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:46:19 GMT

Hey unruledboy,

To get this working in an items control, there is a bit more you would need to do. The host is only expecting DragDockPanel children, however, here, the only child is an items control.

Items control creates a tree below it which will eventually show the drag dock panel, however, its a few levels down. Here is a quick idea for how to get this to work in an items control...

1. Create a new class that inherites items control

2. Set the items panel for you new items control to be a canvas.

3. Copy the layout code from host into the items control.

4. Override the items controls generate items base method, creating instances of DragDockPanels to pop into tht canvas.

5. Each time an item is generated, re-do the layout.

That is pretty highlevel, but would be my approach. I am seeing a need personally to do this, so may well end up having a go...

Thanks,

Martin

re: Introducing Blacklight - our new (Silverlight) CodePlex project

Bob W — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:47:43 GMT

Hey Martin, thanks for all the great stuff. You mentioned in an earlier blog post that you may be working on a port of the DragDockPanel for WPF - do you have any updates on that?

Thanks,

Bob

re: Introducing Blacklight - our new (Silverlight) CodePlex project

Martin Grayson — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:57:08 GMT

Hey Bob,

I will hopefully get to this by the end of october (sounds a life time away, i know!). We are currently upgrading the patient journey demonstrator to RC0, and this will take a little time.

I really want to get this done though, so watch this space!

Martin