Category Archives: silverlight

Our application at Microsoft VORTEX 2008

I had the chance to demo our Silverlight application at Microsoft’s virtual CEE Remix event (thanks Dénes!).
It’s a web application for companies with many employees on the move.
Using the system you can track details like position, speed, driving behavior of moving units real-time or with reports. You also have a personal security function, with […]

Remembering Füles

I was upgrading my posted Silverlight projects when I ran into my oldest one.
One and a half year ago Füles was with us in the living room, wagging his tail just like in the animation I was showing to my family.
It was a great thing as he had just recovered from a serious stroke endured […]

A Hungarian DeepZoom experience

It’s a joy to see such a polished Hungarian Silverlight solution as the recently launched site of our 14th century chronicle by Eyedea.
It puts a really good use of Silverlight’s DeepZoom technology by synchronizing audio and text commentary with the pages creating an engaging and authentic experience.
It’s only in Hungarian yet, but I hope there […]

SilverBites 1: Adding metadata to Xaml in design-time

This little lolcat will show you a cool feature I discovered recently.
Using its ‘Tag’ property you can add metadata to a FrameworkElement (so practically every graphical element Silverlight provides) and read it out in code as a string.
Even better, you can set Tag property in design-time with Expression Blend support!
This is a start of my […]

Data Binding in Silverlight and XamlParseException

Playing with data binding I had the System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException whenever I ran my app.
It turns out the problem was putting a binding statement into a <Run … /> element. Silverlight supports data binding only on FrameworkElements and the Run class contrary to the Textblock is not a descendant.

My keynote presentation on Silverlight

Shot at Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 official launch, Budapest

A short interview with the keynote presenters. I’m the third one.

Silverlight 2.0 beta 1 download and documentation

Silverlight 2.0 beta 1 plugin download:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=108182
 MSDN documentation:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb404700.aspx

I hope it’s a start


Dashed line in Xaml

Maybe I’m the last one on Earth figuring this out, but here it is:

<Path StrokeDashArray=”1,1″ …

More on the StrokeDashArray and creating dashed line from code here.

Beware the decimal separator

The clash between decimal separators, double values and application culture already made Point type a victim. Today I found abound another one..
I had an iframe positioned above my silverlight control. Its dimensions was controlled from C# managed code (with the use of System.Windows.Browser library).Or at least it should have been.
ERROR:
No matter I gave the right […]