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November 2008 - Posts

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 5:02 PM

Accessing .chm files in Vista

The other day I downloaded the Silverlight Toolkit controls and was attempting to view the accompanying help file when I ran into the same problem I had the first time I used the Silverlight .chm file ; the contents of the help file wouldn't display.
Posted by cherylws | 2 Comments
Monday, November 24, 2008 10:25 PM

Silverlight design time extensibility

Justin Angel has an exhaustive blog post on Silverlight design time extensibility. You can get it here . Nitya.
Posted by niravi | 0 Comments
Saturday, November 22, 2008 6:46 PM

Silverlight Tools for VS and F1 Help

If you've installed the Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 , you may have noticed that pressing F1 in the VS Code Editor or in XAML View can take you someplace unexpected. You'll see this with types and members that are "shared" between
Posted by jgalasyn | 5 Comments
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 5:51 PM

Using ViewportOrigin and ViewportWidth in Deep Zoom

I’m posting this because the documentation on ViewportOrigin is wrong and it might be a while before it can be updated on the live site. In the meantime, this post discusses how to use ViewportOrigin and ViewportWidth to control the viewport. Controlling
Posted by snoutholder | 2 Comments
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 8:33 PM

Limitations of Windowless mode for Silverlight

There seems to be a fair amount of misunderstanding about windowless mode, and the current documentation doesn't provide enough detail to help out. The upcoming doc refresh will fix this, but I thought it might be helpful to provide some information here.
Posted by Karl Erickson | 8 Comments
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:15 PM

WCF, HTTP, Security and Data Service topics for Silverlight

Our team has been watching the forums and there are a lot of questions regarding using Silverlight with WCF and data services, HTTP questions and security questions. We created some new topics and updated existing topics to better cover these areas for
Posted by cherylws | 5 Comments
Monday, November 10, 2008 12:02 PM

WPF Designer Hotfix posted

The WPF Designer team has publicly released a Rollup Hotfix (KB958017) for the WPF Designer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1.  This contains a number of important fixes for WPF developers (see below). Silverlight developers are not affected. If you already
Posted by jgalasyn | 3 Comments
Monday, November 03, 2008 9:29 PM

Offline Silverlight Documentation now has Index

The Silverlight 2 Offline documentation now has an index (before it only had a table of contents and search). When you open the CHM, click on the Index tab to try it out. IMPORTANT! If you open the CHM and cannot view content, do the following to resolve
Posted by snoutholder | 2 Comments
 
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