I had to do some work in a Silverlight (I know, I know) application recently. One of the features I was working on is to show a web page in out-of-browser running Silverlight application. The page is a modern page that I wrote using Angular JS. What I found is that as soon as the …
One of the simple tasks I needed to work on last week was to implement simple screen printing on certain screens in a Silverlight application. Once I got home, I wrote a very generic routine that could print any control at all. I wrote it as an extension method on System.Windows.Controls.Control class. I used a …
if you worked with Silverlight and WCF, you no doubt are familiar with ClientAccessPlicy.xml. Recently I found a use case that is not documented in the link above and had me stumped actually. Our application was hosted on a subdomain, something like my.mysite.com. I added client access policy file to the root of the domain, …
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Last week I was faced with this exact problem in the title. As I was migrating an existing Silverlight application to run on Azure, I wanted to have a solution to the requirement that stated that the users must be able to upload files to the server and view them in the application. Previously, those …
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I blogged a long time ago on how to use WinDbg to find memory leaks in Silverlight application. Yesterday I had to face a variation of the problem, but this time I had to debug a custom issue. So, what we did is have customer create memory dumps. To do that we instructed them to …
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Surprisingly enough, I never ran into this issue, event though I worked with Silverlight for three years now. The specific issue is that some keyboard events are not echoed in KeyUp events. For example, if you subscribe to KeyUp in a textbox and you hit Backspace key, KeyUp event does not fire. This is quite …
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I have had a small number of requests to enhance the functionality of my Windows Phone 7 database project on CodePlex. In light of Mango release for WP 7 that will contain SQL CE database, I think that my project will likely be used less in just a few months. The reason being is that …
I have been working on a project that is based on Silverlight. It is a large application that performs a variety of tasks, but also needs local access. Basically, it needs access to scanner in order to scan and upload documents up to the data store. I had an idea to create a WPF tray …
In the spirit of further improving my calendar control for Windows Phone 7, I added ability to show week number in the first column of the calendar control. As you can see, the very first column can show week number,. If course, I cannot break existing functionality, so the feature is disabled by default. You …
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Today due to numerous requests (technically one request from one person ), I updated my CodePlex project for calendar control for Windows Phone 7 – http://wpcontrols.codeplex.com/. I added gesture support to the project. You can now swipe (flick) from side to side to increment or decrement month, and swipe top to bottom and back to …
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