say your silverlight area on a webpage is 200px by 200px.you open a child window, is there a way to make it moveable outside the 200x200 silverlight area?or say you drop down a combo box, let the drop down go out side of the 200x200 aea?
View 1 RepliesI came across an issue which I see has been discussed a few times, but there doesn't seem to be a defintive answer to the question.How can the child windows in Silverlight 4 be dynamically sized to fit within the size of the current browser window?The problem is on smaller displays where the browser window may be smaller than what the child window was originally developed for.What occurs is the OK and Cancel buttons are off the screen and cannot be scrolled to via the browser.You can duplicate this problem by simply shrinking the height of a browser window manually while the child window is displayed.The controls will disappear and there is no way to get to them.This is pretty much simulates what users with smaller monitors see.So the question is how can you set up a child window to dynamically size itself so it users can still interact with it?
View 2 RepliesFollowing is the code I used to call the child window:
Dim c As New New_Contact()
c.Title = "New Contact Details"
AddHandler c.Closed, AddressOf NewContactClosed
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I have a LOB app written in VB.NET with a WinForms front-end and SQL back-end. After many months weighing up how to get onto the Web, I decided last month to use Silverlight 2. Now, Silverlight 3 Beta is out, but there is no end-user runtime.
Does anyone know when the runtime will be available for deployment of SL 3 apps onto client sites?
My dev timeline is about 3 months: should I persist with SL 2 and then u/g to SL3, or jump straight in to SL3?
I am making a user control named MultiSelect, which consists of a textbox. In this textbox I put substring. I want the user control to show a treeview outside the MultiSelect boundaries where items matching the substring will be shown.
For me its no problem to make a treeview inside the MultiSelect boundaries but I need to save space on the original form where a MultiSelect control will appear, so I need to do it like the treeview will appear and after I choose items, it will disappear
i am trying to make a game in vb.net and so far have managed to create a sprite which is animated on key event. the only problem is it able to walk off the form out of site. i want to be able to create some sort of boundary so that when sprite position equals greater or smaller then the form width it can no longer walk in that direction, the same goes for the hight. i have tryed this myself like this
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I'm using KeyDown to get the picturebox to move around, but I don't know how to keep the boat within the boundaries of the form. So if it hits the side of the form, I want it to just stop.
What control/procedure should I use to do this?
[url] How is this done? Is it a control of that form? Or is it a splashscreen or something like that?. I've tried by doing that with another form instead, but the first form will get unfocused, and i want the main form to be always focused.
View 6 RepliesToday I started a little sub that would let me move a control around the form using ssigned keys but would stop at the edges of the form. I can get it to move around alright but I can't get it to stop at the edges of the form.
View 2 RepliesSo I've created a series of objects that interact with a piece of hardware over a serial port. There is a thread running monitoring the serial port, and if the state of the hardware changes it updates properties in my objects. I'm using observable collections, and INotifyPropertyChanged.
I've built a UI in WPF and it works great, showing me real time updating when the hardware changes and allows me to send changes to the hardware as well by changing these properties using bindings.
What I'm hoping is that I can run the UI on a different machine than what the hardware is hooked up to without a lot of wiring up of events. Possibly even allow multiple UI's to connect to the same service and interact with this hardware.
So far I understand I'm going to need to create a WCF service. I'm trying to figure out if I'll be able to pass a reference to an object created at the service to the client leaving events intact. So that the UI will really just be bound to a remote object.
Am I moving the right direction with WCF?
Also I see tons of examples for WCF in C#, are there any good practical use examples in VB that might be along the lines of what I'm trying to do?
is it possible to draw an accurate circle in vb.net with mouseDown and mouseUp boundaries? I only manage to create circle-settings with rectangular boundaries using DrawEllipse. I've tried to work around it using pythagoras but it just doesn't work and I'm pretty sure I've got my maths right...
Is it possible to define a circle with DrawEllipse(pencil,x1,y1,width,length) ?
i've drawn two boxes (one with spotcolour color of orange) in a picture box. box a stays fixed at the bottom and box b can move. i've restricted box not move outside the picbox, but it needs to change color (to red) when it touches the picbox, and i've tried can't seem to do it. boxb also can't overlap boxa.
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initialize an indefinite (eg. Decimal) array without setting boundaries on the array length?
View 2 RepliesI read the boundary thread and I think im still lost on how to do this but my goal is to set boundaries so the snake doesnt just keep going off the screen, also how to set a boundary up so the snake cannot hit itself (like in the original snake game)
View 4 RepliesI am trying to implement multibinding in Silverlight using VB.Net. I have found a very good reference for an implementation in C# here. I spent some time trying to use various converters to migrate it into VB.Net but I still didn't get it working properly. So..
I'm looking for some references that exemplify how MultiBinding can be done in VB.Net. Also an example using Silverlight 5 beta would be fine (I read in a post right here on Stack Overflow that it supports multibinding).
is it possible to write xml in silverlight with vb
View 5 Repliesif this has been asked before (I couldn't find the answer anywhere), but I have a WCF Service Application that I have created, and am trying to access via my Silverlight 4 app. I have added the service reference to the SilverLight App and am just trying to call one of the default pre existing methods on the service (GetData). When calling the method i get an error of:
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How can i use SilverLight Video Player on Visual basic 2010
View 1 RepliesI am designing a web application in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, using Silverlight 3, with Visual Basic as the underlying programming language. What is the Visual Basic code that I would put in a Button1_Click event to tell the program to navigate to another UserControl XAML file?
View 4 RepliesI'm testing and trying to understand how to create a DLL and call a function from it in my Silverlight project. I'm getting an exception: Unable to find an entry point named 'WriteTextFile' in DLL 'C: empTestDLL.dll'.[code]...
View 1 Replies I call upon your combined intellects. I have a web application with a silverlight app that calls a ria service. The ria service is defined inside the web application and everything else is just dandy.
The issue is this.It is my understanding that in order for the silverlight application to talk and know what the ria service is, you need to add a service reference for that service. The service reference defines the ria service and sets up the connection binding. One of the files it adds is the ServiceReference.ClientConfig which has the connection binding in it. During the course of this application's development, this is the way it was set up. And it worked perfectly fine locally and on the dev server.
Unfortunately there were issues when deploying to the clients in-house server. At this point I was onto other projects while my co-worker continued with the deployment. He soon became frustrated with the goofy errors that were occurring and recruited some help. This dev came in and, albeit got it working, but in order to do so he removed the service reference from the silverlight project but left the ServiceReference.ClientConfig which pointed to the location of the service in the web application(but that's it, no definition or explanation as to what the service does and I'm not sure how the silverlight app is supposed to know how to work with it..). This works perfect on my co-workers workstation and he has deployed this version to the clients server fine.
When I open the project it doesn't run at all. And the reason why is that it doesn't know what the service is that i'm using in code. Specifically, it doesn't know where this is (names changed for clarification):
Imports SilverlightApp.ServiceReference.WebApp.Service
I have cleaned the solution, completely deleted and got the latest from source control, built the web app first and made sure the asp.net dev server was running so that the address in the ServiceReference.ClientConfig resolved correctly. But, alas, it still doesn't know what Imports SilverlightApp.ServiceReference.WebApp.Service is.
So, to get it working on my workstation, I added the ServiceReference back but kept the current connection bindings so that it matched the endpoint in the web app web config. and changed the import statement to Imports SilverlightApp.ServiceReference and everything works fine.
I currently have a silverlight application which has silverlight class library. The silverlight class library has a WCF service reference which works as expected for small data. However we have come across a problem which is caused by the default value of maxItemsInObjectGraph. We have tested it with an increased value (called from vb app set in behaviour) and it works however we are unsure how to set the value of maxItemsInObjectGraph when it is in a silverlight class library (as it is only defined in the clientconfig file and no services are added to the client). I have seen posts about adding it to the web.config but this only seems to apply when the service is called directly by the app not by a class library?
View 1 RepliesI have found the MySQL .NET Connector - am I correct that this is not compatible with Silverlight and I do not need it?I understand I must use a Web Service for this. Can I use WCF or WCF RIA, or am I best using a more traditional web service method like REST or SOAP?
What's the best web service method for many quick queries (such as updating a search as the user types in the keywords)Do I have to use technology like LINQ, Entity SQL, ADO.NET Framework, or a stored procedure? Is one of these the best way to do it or should I just skip them all and create a simple web service?What's the best source to learn how to do specifically Silverlight VB.NET and MySQL and learn to do it the best way as explained above. Everything I've found (books and websites) seems to be in C#, not a Silverlight product, or just uses built in SQL Server support. For our web app, we need to be able to give the buyer not just access to our client side application via a browser but also the server side so they can OPTIONALLY host the entire product themselves. We're hoping to have one installer for them on their server (so they wouldn't have to set up php or mysql to host the product for example). If I use a VB.NET website and web service, will that deploy as just an exe or dll so the user won't have to install anything special?
how to use Silverlight to play audio from local ASP.NET folders?
View 1 RepliesI've been toying with the idea of building a web-based Roguelike game using Silverlight (or maybe just a desktop game using WPF).
If you don't know what a Roguelike is, it's a type of graphical RPG where the graphics are rendered using text. Because the graphics engine is relatively simple, you get to spend your time building features into the game and it's possible for one person to quickly build something fun.
For instance, a typical screen might look something like this (the @ is the player, # is a wall, the other characters are things like monsters, stairs, and items):
I'm an experienced ASP.Net dev and I'm just getting started with Silverlight. Is there a particular approach I should take for this? To provide some background, in Winforms, most standard approaches are too slow -- the text ends up updating with a visible, ugly blink. I'm thinking something to do with the Canvas might be appropriate, but even better would be to somehow draw a screen into a buffer and then instantly flip that onto the screen so that it becomes visible instantly.
But I don't really want to mess around with DirectX right now - I'm hoping WPF can get me to where I need to be without a big learning curve.
Update: So this turned out to be pretty challenging. I tried a lot of different approaches and I was finally able to get it to actually render fast enough, but I think that to make it blazing hot fast you should probably build a sprite map of the font you want to use and work from that instead of trying to use any of the built in font rendering stuff. I didn't do that.
When I got the core rendering engine done, I ended up with some annoying artifacts related to quirks of font rendering (even fixed width fonts are sometimes a liiitle bit wide...), and when I finally worked that out I discovered libtcod, which is a very impressive roguelike engine that has a C# wrapper. That's all console based. I played with it a little and I was blown away.
As of 1.5.1, everything I've touched in libtcod works great except for the mouse input stuff and one of the keyboard input modes (which I think they recently ditched), but everything you need to make a roguelike is in there, and that includes several line-of-sight, pathfinding, and even dungeon generation algorithms. It's pretty advanced visually. Have you ever seen an RL like this?
In a nutshell, it's possible to build a roguelike with silverlight, but I wouldn't go in expecting it to be easy unless you've already got a strong silverlight or game dev background. You're going to be re-inventing some serious wheels, and even with a powerful toolkit that allows to focus on gameplay, there's no shortage of things to do.
I need to figure out a way to project pictures in Silverlight (<Matrix3D/>) based on some predetermined variables that I have available to me.I have a need for the following projections:
Isometric
Orthographic
Oblique
Perspective
So, I have a number of variables provided to me like X, Y and sometimes Z. For example, this -
Type: Orthographic
X: 70°
Y: 10°
Z: 20°
somehow turns this -> into this -> and
Type: Isometric
X: 314.7°
Y: 35.4°
Z: 299.8°
into this ->
I have other information, like the coordinates of where the picture appears on a canvas, it's width/height, etc. if that information is useful too.
I have a Silverlight Datagrid who's DataSource I refresh every 5 seconds.I would like when the grid refreshes, for the focus to be on the last row, not the first.I have tried setting the SelectedIndex property of the grid to be the last row, but it did not work.
The details:I am binding the DataGrid to an ObservalbleList(Of MyObject) property on it's ViewModel, and the SelectedIndex is also a property on the ViewModel. Both properties raise the property changed event (able to witness this working by seeing the DataGrids DataSource clearly changing, but the SelectedIndex is never set.I have read reports that setting the SelectedIndex on a DataGrid is a known issue, but have not found a work around.
I created a usercontrol in a silverlight library. This control will be used among several different projects. It uses a reference to a third party dll. When I try and drag the control from the toolbox it throws an error about finding the third party control.If i add a referene to my application to the third party and then add my control it works fine. My question is there any way that when i add this usercontrol I can force it to add the thrid party reference to the project its being added to first?
View 2 RepliesI'm converting a WinForms app to Silverlight (VB.NET). What should I use instead of Char.ConvertFromUtf32 as it's not available to use in Silverlight?
View 1 RepliesI am having difficulty dynamically compiling a DLL for use with Silverlight 3.0. My goal is to take some rules provided by my users and compile them into a DLL for custom editing purposes.I created a Silverlight class library project in Visual Studio to get the command line for compiling a Silverlight class library. Based on that and the many examples for compiling VB using the VBCodeProvider, I came up with the following method for comping code in a string to a DLL:
Public Function Compile(ByVal code As String, ByVal assemblyName As String) As CompilerResults
' set the compiler parameters
Dim parameters As CompilerParameters = New CompilerParameters()
parameters.OutputAssembly = assemblyName
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This does not compile with the following error:vbc : Command line (0,0) : error BC2010: compilation failed : 'Member 'IsNumeric' cannot be found in class 'Microsoft.VisualBasic.Information'. This condition is usually the result of a mismatched 'Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll'.'
I've looked and, in fact, the Silverlight version of the class Microsoft.VisualBasic.Information does not contain member IsNumeric. So I appear to be picking up the correct libraries using the sdkpath option. But I have no idea why I'm trying to call that method in the first place.how to successfully compile source code dynamically into a Silverlight compatible class library?