I'm trying to port my existing silverlight project to xbox Lakeview.
I got a compilation error saying "System.Windows.Browser" is not supported in ADK
and in Microsoft.Xbox360.Adk.targets "System.Windows.Browser.dll" is listed as the
unsupported assemblies.
I'm using APIs such as "System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage" and
"System.Windows.Browser.HttpUtility". How can I work around it?
I'm not sure if you've gotten this figured out or not, but my version of the ADK I don't believe supports this namespace. If you would like to send me yours, I'd be more than happy to lend a hand in figuring out what's causing this issue.
LakeView is a profile of the .NET framework that is in accordance with Silverlight, but is not the same as the SL Runtime.
For instance, there is no "Browser" when running a LakeView app on your devkit.
You have a special bootstrapped container in one process that your Title will be contained within, which makes it more like a full-fledged application running in a portable OS than a Silverlight application.
What are you trying to achieve with your interaction with the HTMLPage?
Can you redirect your HttpUtility usage to the System.Net.WebUtility?
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So I have an existing windows desktop application which is written using WPF. I searched through the net for possible ways of upgrading it to Windows 10 universal app but cant seem to find anything on this upgrade path. There are documentation available to port WPF desktop app to WinRT (which according to my understanding is no same as Universal platform) but nothing on this topic.
This link https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn751495.aspx
shows up options to "Port your app to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP)" but doesn't mention anything for this upgrade path.
So I am curious if this is even possible? If yes, are there any documentation or examples to follow? If no, why?
Thanks in advance!
You cannot upgrade a WPF app to a Windows 10 Universal app, because those are very different platforms.
Both have capabilities and markups that doesn't exist or have an equivalent in the other.
So there is no "simple" upgrade path, you would have to rewrite a lot of UI but you can maybe reuse the "business" part if it's written in a Portable Class Library.
I'm planning web application and considering silverlight as development platform. Will it help to solve browser compatibility issues? The app intended to be used on desktops only (no mobile).
Yes, it will solve browser compatibility issues, and could work on both Mac OS and Windows with the very same code.
The only drawback is that, the first time your user connect to your application, he will need to download the Silverlight plugin.
Awesome you would say? Well, unfortunately some people that probably never try to do something like image processing or advanced line of business application in a browser decide that plugins are not so cool and that you would be able to do the same thing with the magic power of HTML5.
We are still waiting to have the same possibility in HTML5 that we have in Silverlight or Flash, but plugins are already dead. At least as long as no big compay want to push them again.
So, my advice would be: don't start a project in Silverlight. You will have problems, even if you do not target mobile. For example it becomes harder and harder to find compatible good tools (like ReSharper, NCrunch, or even just a decent unit testing library). And in further release of Windows and Mac OS, it will probably not be supported at all (IE for Windows RT already does not support Silverlight).
Sorry man, Silverlight is dead, you arrive after the battle.
If your developing your application for an Intranet, I would say Silverlight is an excellent choice.
If you are developing for the Internet, use an HTML based language
Is there any way I can invoke White UI Automation tool from Java?
I already have a Java framework with me and now I need to handle some Silverlight application (which is legacy code and the developer has not made it scriptable). I don't want to maintain a separate workspace/technology for this. Is there any way I can call White UI or the underlying Windows UI Automation from within my Java code?
Perhaps IKVM would work? I haven't used it before, but it looks like it allows you to run Java code that can directly access .NET assemblies.
So, sounds like it might be a way to use both White and your Java test framework at the same time.
There's an interesting tutorial here (see the section Developing a .NET application in Java):
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ikvm/index.php?title=Tutorial
And the main IKVM website is at ikvm.net
How can I use it on WinRT (Windows 8) - I can't compile it. Can I use it also with "normal" Windows (WPF)?
There isn't currently an mvvmcross port specifically for wpf - a couple of people have suggested building one, but the majority of users have so far requested more work on mobile platforms instead. There is a current console (win32) port and extending that towards WPF should be quite straight-forward.
Future development is now based around the Portable Library branch - see some info on http://slodge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/mvvmcross-vnext-portable-class.html and the code on https://github.com/slodge/MvvmCross/tree/vnext
For WinRT, the TwitterSearch example within the vNext branch is a good place to start - it should compile and work across all of MonoTouch, MonoDroid, WP7, WinRT and Console:
If you find you can't compile then please log specific compiler error messages either here or to github issues.
MvvmCrossLibs\MvvmCrossLibs.sln consists of many projects, requiring different runtimes to be installed to open properly (Mono Touch, Mono Droid, WP7). If you only need the library in WinRT, your best bet is to open Cirrious\Cirrious.MvvmCross\Cirrious.MvvmCross.WinRT.csproj directly and add the missing Newtonsoft.JSON package with NuGet (you'll need to save the automatically created .sln file before that). It should compile just fine after that, at keast it did for me. Now just reference the assembly in your Windows Store app project and start using it.
I don't have any previous experience with MVVMCross, but it doesn't look like it currently supports despktop WPF apps. I don't know how difficult it would be to create/compile such a version, though.
I am thinking of making a website using a WPF browser application, but would like to know the minimum requirement a client/internet user must have to access this website made by using WPF.
Please state even the very basic requirements, like does he need to run Windows or will even Mac and Linux do, with any browser to view the application?
Three main requirements:
User has to run the application under Windows;
The browser should be either Interned Explorer or Firefox;
The .Net Framework should be installed on user's machine.
One requirement is to have the .NET framework installed (same version as you used to build your application), so that means it will only run under Windows.
Also I think only Internet Explorer and Firefox support XBAP applications.
Also I assume that you know there is a lot of restrictions for you, the developer, on what is allowed or not compared to a full trust program. For example, the file system and registry among other things are restricted in a WPF browser application.