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May 2007 - Posts

Stack 3D Image Viewer
http://vivekdalvi.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/stack3d-image-viewer/ Read More...
Using Toolbar Sample
http://vivekdalvi.wordpress.com/2007/05/28/using-toolbar-control/ Read More...
Part I: Search Application (HTML -> Silverlight)
http://vivekdalvi.wordpress.com/2007/05/21/part-i-search-application-html-silverlight/ Read More...
Part 3: Search Application (Progress UI)
http://vivekdalvi.wordpress.com/2007/05/24/part-2-search-application-progress-ui/ Read More...
Part 2: Search Application (Live Web Service)
http://vivekdalvi.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/part-2-search-application-live-web-service/ Read More...
Fix for Button Control
http://vivekdalvi.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/fix-for-button-control/ Read More...
Fixes for Sample ScrollViewer Control
http://vivekdalvi.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/fixes-for-sample-scrollviewer/ Read More...
Using Browserhost to Resize the page size
http://vivekdalvi.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/using-browser-host-to-resize-the-page-size/ Read More...
Basics of Silverlight Alpha Application
There have been few question about how event handlers are resolved and how does it work from assembly download perspective etc. http://vivekdalvi.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/basics-of-silverlight-alpha-application/ Read More...
ListBox Clipping Issue
Fix for ListBox clipping issue http://vivekdalvi.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/listbox-clipping-issue/ Read More...
Warning in Tools about Custom Control
As many people on newsgroup have noticed that there is warning that shows up when you use a custom control in XAML. Warning 1 The element 'Canvas' in namespace ' http://schemas.microsoft.com/client/2007' has invalid child element 'ListBox' in namespace Read More...
Silverlight Toolbar
I wanted to build a toolbar where toolbar button expands when you hover over it. I will not only admit that I am not a designer, but also admit that I really suck at it when it comes to picking colors :) but that is why I wanted to build toolbar in such Read More...
Using ListBox
We have shipped source codes for some sample controls as part of the SDK . There was a question on forum about how to use the listbox in the samples so here is the sample. Few steps to get started... Create new project of type "Silverlight Project" Add Read More...
InitializeFromXaml Vs XamlReader.Load
When you create a new user control item in VS, it generates the following line of code. This API as I have said in this post, creates an object tree from the Xaml passed in string format. _progressBarRoot = InitializeFromXaml(_progressBarLook) as Canvas Read More...
Silverlight SDK
you can download Silverlight SDK from here. The problem is when you unzip all the files and try to open the help files (*.chm), you get following window. To make it work, you need to right click on those files and you get a properties dialog as below. Read More...
Silverlight ProgressBar Control
ProgressBar seemed to be the easiest control to start with as it does not have much visual complexity and even the OM it exposes is very simple. Only OM it exposes are Height/Width properties that are common for all controls and Maximum/Minimum/Value Read More...
Updating Height and Width
Since Silverlight V1.1 Alpha does not have layout functionality built in, control does not get notified when its size changes. This is very important because control might want to layout other elements that constitute the visuals for that control. It Read More...
Basics of Custom Control in Silverlight
At MIX lot of people were asking about where the controls were. I have also seen the blogs posts where some people have mistakenly equate not having canned controls to not being able to build control. It is true that we don't have any in build control Read More...
Silverlight Airline App Demo
David Anson has published a source for the Airline app that was part of Scott's demo. you can see it running at http://delay.members.winisp.net/SilverlightAirlinesDemo/ This app has some cool custom controls. Read More...
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