I have recently completed to develop the Routed Events topic in my Silverlight course. The course community version is available for free personal usage at www.abelski.org. The professional version is available at www.abelski.com.
I have recently completed to develop the Navigation topic in my Silverlight Basics course. You can find the community free version (for personal usage) at www.abelski.org. The professional version can be found at www.abelski.com. The video clips below were prepared as part of this topic.
I have recently completed to develop the 6th topic of my Silverlight Basics course. It covers the application model in a Silverlight application. The community version of my course is available for free personal usage at www.abelski.org. The professional version is available at www.abelski.com. The following two video clips were developed as part of this [...]
We can easily handle the various mouse events by referring their events. These events are usually available as properties of the elements we work with. The following code sample access those properties using their corresponding attributes in the XAML code. The XAML file: <UserControl x:Class=”SilverlightApplication13.MainPage” xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation” xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml”> <Grid> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition></ColumnDefinition> <ColumnDefinition></ColumnDefinition> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <Canvas x:Name=”Surface” Grid.Column=”0″> [...]
The dependency property is a property that can be set directly by various different property providers while having them prioritized. The dependency property depends on multiple property providers. Each one of them has its own level of precedence. We use dependency properties just as any other property. There is no need knowing in advance that [...]
Using a new font family in a Silverlight application is fairly simple. There are several ways for doing it. The simplest of them is adding the TTF file to our application (simple drag & drop when using the Visual Studio IDE) and referring it from within the XAML file. <UserControl x:Class=”SilverlightApplication15.MainPage” xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation” xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml” xmlns:d=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008″ xmlns:mc=”http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006″ [...]
The Stretch possible values include Fill, None, Uniform which is the default value and UniformToFill. Fill will stretch the image in width and height to fit the Image element. None will keep the image native size. Uniform will set the largest possible size while keeping the aspect ratio unchanged. UniformToFill will size the width and [...]
We can easily pass initialization parameters from the HTML code that invokes the Silverlight application to the Silverlight application itself. The parameters should be placed as key value pairs, while the keys are their names and the values are the values of each one of them, as a string which is the value of a [...]
The tooltips are represented by the ToolTip content control. We don’t need to add a ToolTip element. We can set an attached property and the Silverlight platform will create the tool tip automatically. <UserControl x:Class=”SilverlightApplication15.MainPage” xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation” xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml” xmlns:d=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008″ xmlns:mc=”http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006″ mc:Ignorable=”d” d:DesignHeight=”300″ d:DesignWidth=”400″> <Canvas> <Button FontSize=”22″ ToolTipService.ToolTip=”This is a Simple Tooltip” Content=”OK”></Button> </Canvas> </UserControl> The following [...]
Instead of specifying separately for each and every element how exactly it should look we can define a style and then apply it on various elements. Using styles promotes code reuse, makes our code shorter and assists with the code maintenance in the long run. Defining a style is about defining a collection of property [...]
