<Button x:Name="btnSubmit" FontFamily="Arial"
FontWeight="Bold" Width="100" Height="25"
Margin="10" />
<Button x:Name="btnCancel" FontFamily="Arial"
FontWeight="Bold" Width="100" Height="25"
Margin="10" />
<Application.Resources>
<Style x:Key="ButtonStyle" TargetType="Button">
<Setter Property="Width" Value="100" />
</Style>
</Application.Resources>
<Button x:Name="btnSubmit" Content="Submit"
Click="btnSubmit_Click"
Style="{StaticResource ButtonStyle}" />
<my:DataGrid x:Name="myDataGrid" AutoGenerateColumns="true" />
Q. What is Silverlight Tool Kit?
Ans: To create an application or game you need to design, code and give some extra feature to your output.
To do the above, you need some controls, IDE etc.
Silverlight Tool kit is nothing but is a collection of Silverlight Tools, Components etc. It includes source code describing the all you need to develop an application.
Please visit this link for more info:http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight
Q. Can I add more than one .xaml pages in silverlight application?
Ans: Yes, you can have multiple .xaml files in a single project.
In the App.xaml, in the method Application_Startup you can choose, which page you want to initially display.
Q. How can I create image pieces/sub image?
Ans: In straight way you can''t create a subimage from an existing image. Here you just clip an image, Clipping is just different from Cropping. In clipping, first you have to dictate which part of the images to draw and later you have to remove all but the desired part of the image. Silverlight does not support cropping.
Q. How does Silverlight 2 differ from Adobe Flash?
Ans: As I am from .Net background so in my views you can get C# / Vb.net compiled code but in Flash there is only action script.
You can find difference in depth at : http://silverlight.net/forums/t/3015.aspx
Q. How can I switch to Expression Blend from Visual Studio?
Ans: Expression blend provide great extensibility for XAML files.To switch to Expression Blend, right-click on the XAML file and select Open in Expression Blend.
Q. What happened when I press F5 within Visual Studio to run Silverlight application?
Ans: When you run the Silverlight application within Visual Studio, a new folder created in the web-site project for silverlight solution and it happened only first time. The folder name is ClientBin and having package with XAP extension which contains compiled project.
Q. Can you elaborate how to start a silverlight application with Visual Studio?
Ans : You can find a fully described article from http://www.silverlightclub.com/resources/1858-silverlight-lets-start-building-applications.aspx.aspx
In the following step(s) I am giving the ideas all about:
1.Create a project:Here you just start your visual studio, Select your programming language [C#/VB], Choose Silverligh Template give the name and save it.
2. Adding SIlverlight COntrols:One thing is happened here, controls cannot dragged onto the designer, you can draw/drag the controls on XAML page.
(a) Naming to control:In this step just give the name to your silverligt control like for Button you can give name as : btnmySilverligtButton
(b)Adding event handlers to Silverlight controls:Here you can give the event handlers like for click etc.
(c)Testing Silverlight applications in Visual Studio:Now just press F5 and test your application
Q. What is the best place to start Silverlight application?
Ans: There is no hard and fast rule to start Silverlight application. Every developer can start as per his/her experience. like as per my case I always prefer Visual Studio. SO, in my view Visual Studio is the best place to start with Silverlight2 applications.Microsoft provides templates for creating Silverlight applications and libraries in C# and Visual Basic.
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| Beginning Silverlight Development Beginning Silverlight Development,Microsoft introduced Rich Internet Application with the introduction of Silverlight which is a very lightweight and a client-side application. |
| Better Practices on Building High Performance Web Pages This article details out the better practices on how to get the most out of your web pages in terms of delivering, parsing and rendering the content on a web browser. |
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| How to perform WPF Data Binding using LINQ to XML Most of the times, you may have to display XML data in your WPF applications. Traditionally, you might use XML plug-ins offered by ADO.NET. But, LINQ is the mantra now. Using LINQ to XML, it is much easier and fun to bind your WPF controls and perform data binding as a new fashion. |
| Using HyperLink Control in DataBound Controls In this article, I will explain different ways of using hyperlink control in data bound controls like GridView,DataList and Repeater control. |
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| Picasa Style Photo Album Using ListView Control in ASP.Net 3.5 ListView is a new databound control that is shipped with ASP.Net 3.5. Read my previous article - ListView Control in ASP.Net 3.5 which elaborates the usage of this new control. ListView control is one of the most flexible databound control that can be used to present the data in any custom format. Moving forward, in this article we will use this new control to create Google’s Picasa style photo album. |
| Building Collapsible Panel Control using jQuery in ASP.Net Page It is a technique where we can provide expand/collapse feature to a section of page. Technically, it is nothing but providing expand/collapse feature to a DIV element. So, a page with lengthy content can make use of this feature to display only less content and show the full content on demand. |
| Single Button Click Custom Control This article demonstrates a custom control for button which gets disabled after user clicks on it so that we can stop user to resubmit the same information again and again intentionally or unintentionally. Here, when user clicks on submit button, its first checks the validation part. After passing it, the data gets posted & button gets disabled. After that the button gets enabled for new submission. Also the text written in the textbox gets changes dynamically. |
| Useful Tools for Web Developers There are so many handy tools that we use in our day to day life to simplify our work. This article will list some of the useful tools that a webdeveloper should be aware. |
| Silverlight 2 Controls – Overview In the present article we will learn something about the available Silverlight Controls.Silverlight Controls basically can be divided into: Layout Controls, Input Controls, Media Controls and Other Controls. |
| How to perform WPF Data Binding using LINQ to XML - Part 2 This article is a sequel to the previous artile that shows how to perform binding to inline XML data using XLINQ objects. In this part, we discuss how to bind to an XML file using XLINQ objects and details out a sample application. |
| Choosing the Right DataBound Control in ASP.Net There are various databound controls available in ASP.Net to display data. For example: GridView, DataList, Repeater, ListView, etc. Whenever we get a requirement to display data, there is always a confusion to choose the right databound control that can satisfy our needs. This article will help you to understand all these controls and their advantage in a particular scenario which can help us to choose the right control that can fit our needs. |
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