I embedded Geckofx 33 in my winform application, but that version is too old for what i have to do, so i would like to figure out with the latest version of gecko embedding it in a winform.
Is this a way to do this with the latest version of gecko??
And if yes, does the latest version support the mp3/mp4?
Thanks
At this point no, there is not a way to use gecko 45. There have been substantial changes since 33 that require some work before we can move forward. However there are plans to start work on 45 this month. If you sign in to https://bitbucket.org/geckofx/, you can follow the project and should get a notification when 45 is added.
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Apparently, the ExtJS' forum isn't working anymore, so asking the question here.
I am trying to upgrade ExtJS integrated in a big application. Currently, it's using version 3.4.1 and I have to upgrade it to 7.5.0, so a lot of changes are expected. It's my first time working with ExtJS. I've been reading their documentation & examples for a while now, but I'm having issues understanding some things.
If someone's experienced with ExtJS, could you tell how big is the difference between these versions? What kind of effort is expected for this upgrade? Will I have to rewrite everything, or just changing files and API calls would be enough?
Another thing is that the folder structure in the new version looks quite different from the older version. Ours using 3.4.1 looks like this -
ext-js 3.4.1 image
There are no new adapter or resources folders in the new verion. Are these folders not required anymore, or is it possible to get the same folder structure with the new version?
Is it possible to download older versions of ExtJS like 4.x, 5.x etc.? I tried but couldn't find it, I was able to download the older documentation though.
Downloaded the latest ExtJS version from here.
Referring this Sencha ExtJS documentation.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Download
You should download the version from support.sencha.com. There you can find all versions.
To access the download page, you need to log in. If you have lost your login, you can contact Sencha's licensing department.
Make sure you have a valid license.
Upgrade
If you are new to Sencha, you should not do the work yourself. Between version 3 and 7, there are at least two new coding paradigms and you'll have to rewrite everything. Unfortunately, there is no easy upgrade process from 3 to 7. If you had to upgrade from 5 to 7, it would be possible to ignore all the cool new features, but if you are starting from 3, you will have to rewrite everything.
Building process
In your screenshot, I can see that you are using the full ExtJS file. But are you really building the application? That means you end up with a single js file and a single css file.
Are you building your application?
Are you using SCSS?
You should definitely contact someone with experience. I've done quite a few upgrades in ExtJS to know that you need help with this.
I have one very old application with millions loc developed using .NET FX 3.5.
The winforms embedded IE 11. But since MS is going to retire IE 11 soon. May I know is there any other browser which I can still embed into my WinForm?
I have no luck with WebView2. Doesn't seems to work.
The reason why WebView2 does not work is related to your current environment. WebView2 requires .net Framework 4.6.2 or later.
For more detailed, you could refer to this document.
Regarding the IE 11 you mentioned, how do you embed it? Do you use the WebBrowser control or something else?
According to this official blog, IE engine MSHTML (Trident) will continue to be supported, so I think you don’t have to worry about it.
On our developer machines, we have Silverlight 4 installed. We upgraded to VS 2010 SP1, and now our Silverlight projects won't open; it is prompting us that we need to install the newer version of Silverlight, and takes us to a link to download Silverlight 5.
We are not ready to go to Silverlight 5 yet, and need to be able to open up our Silverlight 4 projects in VS 2010 SP1.
Any suggestions?
This sounds like it may be a duplicate of this question, but since you say you had Silverlight 4 installed before it may not be.
I recently rebuild my development machine and ran into a similar problem, but closer to that other question. Ultimately, I found this blog post, which led me to a installer for Silverlight 4 Developer Runtime.
There was one issue the author mentioned, that I have not run into yet:
I have noticed a large number of people hitting this page. Well,
let me help you guys out a little more. It turns out that EVERY time
Microsoft decides to update the Silverlight runtime. A patch, string
change, someone looked at it wrong, the Developer runtime gets
invalidated.
You will need to reinstall it each time. So make sure you keep it
handy! Thanks Microsoft for such a wonder feature. I love reinstalling
things every week.
EDIT:
I ran into the issue mentioned above and reinstalling the Silverlight 4 Developer Runtime did not fix the issue for me. I ended up installing the Silverlight 5 Developer Runtime (32 bit, 64 bit), which I obtained from this page, and that fixed the issue.
How safe is it to use Silverlight in production for a graphic form?
Is it installed on most computers, do to Windows Update feature?
If so, which version is it installed? What is the safest target version?
I don't know whether it's installed on most computers, but the number is growing. It's a small download and if it's not installed the user can install it with a single click.
This page has some graphs:
Adobe Flash is on 97% of computers.
Silverlight is on 55% of computers.
Java is on 73%
I have no idea how accurate these figures are, but they seem to be believable.
Once installed it uses Windows Update to keep itself up to date.
As Anthony states the current released version is 3. Version 4 is at Release Candidate and will probably be released within the next couple of months (as of March 2010). I originally thought that the update would happen automatically, but the RIA Stats page indicated that Silverlight 2 and even 1 were still installed on some machines so this can't be the case.
My company is using silverlight 3, this is the current version, silverlight 4 is currently a RC.
Safest version to target right now is Silverlight 3. At Mix10 it was indicated that Silverlight has 60% coverage.
Windows Update may patch an existing Install I doubt it will push Silverlight or perform a major upgrade (imagine the law suit that would result in).
I need to develop a part of a business application in a flashy eye candy way. Therefore wanted to see if I can use DirectX. Here's what I got.
First I read how using C/C++ is like shooting yourself on the foot and I should use DirectX.NET instead. I couldn't disagree. It's the 21st century.
Downloaded DirectX SDK but couldn't find the .NET assemblies in there. Searching the net now revealed that DirectX .NET (called MDX) is now obsolete (released in 2006). And that I should use XNA instead which was mainly developed for XBOX.
Downloaded XNA. But it won’t install because I don't have C#.NET Express 2005 SP1. Installed SP1 on my VS Pro 2005. But it won’t install still. It needs Express 2005 and exactly that single one version, not Pro, clearly not 2008.
Frustrated tried to download C#.NET Express which is free. But the link from MS which says C#.2005 actually downloads C#.2008, because C#.2005 is now obsolete.
And now I read that MS is now putting it's force behind WPF/silverlight. And XNA doesn't support DX10 and Vista doesn't come with DX9.
Now I have two choices:
Go 15 years back and code in plain old C/C++. At least C has proven itself to be timeless.
Try silverlight.
What would be your advice? Or am I missing something?
Udpate: Would like to add that DX10 is not backward compatible with any other DX version. SlimeDX looks really promissing. But as a very new package, I am not sure how much helpful the documentation and tutorials will be.
Udpate 2: It seems that the first download link that google brings up when searching for XNA download, which I used, is not the latest one. Thanks DouglasH for providing the link to v.3. Downloaing it. Probably it will work.
But then agian. Should I switch to WPF/Silverlight? Or go with XNA? Which one is better documented and future-profe?
More update: Vista realy doesn't come with DirectX 9 preinstalled [check by googling]. At least it didn't on my machine bnough last year. Googling for it revealed that I have to manually install DirectX 9 on Vista after downloading it from MS. But my attemet failed beucase hardware drivers for DX9/vista were missing or didn't work. I got the idea that it's not supported that well.
MS has stopped supporting the .net DirectX libraries. There is an open source alternative called SlimDX, and it works well. The documentation leaves some to be desired, but it can be puzzled together by using the DirectX C++ documentation and some common sense.
WPF does pretty good 3D stuff, and there are lot of fish eye panels and source code available for WPF, yes since MS has gone ways from their technology, in today's terms, we can not focus on only one technology by MS to make entire one business application.
Sure we are also tired of using multiple different versions of technologies even to do smallest parts, but I believe they are doing great job by serving billion machines, it sure isnt easy but WPF and .NET seem to be most stable technologies by microsoft and also they are spending good money on making completely managed operating system as well.
If you ever go back to C or C++, you might want to check out Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL).
IMHO, it is much easier than DirectX.
URL: http://www.libsdl.org/
DirectX is fully backwards-compatible. Any DX9 application will run on Vista and DX10. As for XNA and VS2005 - that's a bit weird. That would make XNA effectively useless. Check if you haven't missed something.
couple of points, which version of XNA did you download. Here is the link for XNA Studio 3.0 which will run on Visual Studio 2008. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7D70D6ED-1EDD-4852-9883-9A33C0AD8FEE&displaylang=en
2nd, I sure hope that Vista has Direct X 9, since that is the version of direct X that the DWM runs on in Vista. I think you will find the DLLs for Direct X 9 and before and the DLL,s for DirectX 10 loaded in Vista. Or for that Matter Windows 7 which will also have directX 11 (edit 2 note that the DWM is built on DirectX10, with a software emulator for systems that don't have 3d video hardware, a dx10ondx9 drivers for those with directx 9 cards and of course full support for directx 10 cards).
edit,
Additionally if you downloaded the March directx sdk, you download, directx 9.0c, directx 10, 10.1 and the beta of directX 11. and I would have to check if DirectX 8.x is still included or not although DirectX 9 is backwards compatible with most of that platform.
Though I never worked directly with DirectX (little bit with OpenGL) - I would take WPF. The least-painful to implement (transparency, gradients, brushes, animations, etc.) and it provides solid-performance from what I have seen and experienced myself.
But yes, it's not platform-independent.