Silverlight 2.0 binding to images vs. Silverlight 3.0 - silverlight

I have a Silverlight 2.0 application which binds a listbox to a collection of classes that contain a BitMap property (which are used for navigation). I've both included the images in the XAP as content and created the BitMap manually and set it as the controls source and I have also embedded the images as resources in the DLL and got the image from the manifestresourcestream and set the image. Both of these routes work great when the XAP is displayed using the Silverlight 2.0 plugin so I know my images are being deployed correctly. Unfortunately, when viewed on a machine with the Silverlight 3.0 plugin, neither of these methods display the images in the listbox.
Note that this problem only occurs when the binding takes place in an ItemTemplate of a Listbox. If I set the same property outside of the listbox it appears to find the images and work fine.
Any idea what has changed in ListBox binding between 2.0 and 3.0? I do have build 3.0.40307 of the Silverlight plugin on the machine I can reproduce the error on.
-Kevin

Ok...a solution was found (thanks to some help on the Silverlight boards):
First, it only works with the full release of the Silverlight 3.0 plug-in. Which poses a strange problem (described below).
Second, I had to switch from binding directly to an Image or Bitmap class and instead use an Imagesource class (which can be easily instantiated with a Bitmap passed to the constructor). Simple enough... Don't know why this is required in SL 3.0 but not 2.0 but it broke my code. My code is still written and compiled against the 2.0 plug-in but just runs in the 3.0 plug-in on computers that have it.
Which brings me to the strange issue...I have VM's or desktops with SL 2.0, SL 3.0 (Beta), and SL 3.0 (Full Release) available for testing. My plug-in now works fine in SL 2.0 and SL 3.0 (Full Release) but not in SL 3.0 (Beta). I get no warning and it opens fine, just that my images do not bind. So my concern is that a number of developer/techy oriented people will have the beta of 3.0 which still runs 2.0 plug-ins as it's backward compatible. They aren't forced to upgrade for any reason to run my site.
If you have any of these environments available here is a link to the site in question: http://stlouisdayofdotnet.com/DayOfDotnet.html

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Extended DataGrid in Silverlight

How can I add this (ExtendedDataGrid) to my Silverlight project ?
Here is the link to the project I am referring to
http://wpfextendeddatagrid.codeplex.com
Error is:
You can't add a reference to ExtendedGrid.dll as it was not built
against the Silvelright runtime. Silverlight projects will only work
with Silverlight assemblies.
That project was built for WPF and not Silverlight.
This is extended version of WPF toolkit DataGrid control.
Please note: As code of wpf datatgrid in wpftoolkit is moved inside
ExtendedDataGrid project , kindly update Microsoft.Windows.Controls
namespace to ExtendedGrid.Microsoft.Windows.Controls to use existing
objects.
The error message you included in your post states as much.
Silvelright projects will only work with Silvelright assemblies
Remember Silverlight is a stripped down version of .Net used for the browser plugin, and as such will not work with full version of .Net.
Unless you actually go into the source code of that project and try to port it to silverlight then there is currently no other way for you to add that project to your Silverlight project.
I would advise looking into the Silvelright toolkit and it's datagrid. It may not be as full featured as the one you are trying to reference but it covers the basic requirements for a datagrid in silverlight. There are also some open sourced versions that have been extended for silvelright.

Errors when referencing Silverlight class library from WPF application

I have a WPF application and a Silverlight application. They are both used to display a map and share some of the same functionality.
I have created a Silverlight class library project in order to stay DRY. I'm referencing this from both Silverlight and WPF. It contains some utility methods that are useful in both projects. For example, I have this method:
public static void CenterText(TextBlock name, Polygon poly)
The silverlight project has no problem with this. However, I get the following error when calling this from my WPF application:
The type 'System.Windows.Shapes.Polygon' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'System.Windows, Version=2.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e'
However, I have this line at the top of the file:
using System.Windows.Shapes;
so WPF can see the Polygon class perfectly fine.
My guess is that the silverlight class library uses a version of the framework which is not compatible with the version that the WPF project is using.
So the question is, am I stuck rewriting exactly the same code in my WPF application or is there some way I can share between the two?
Thanks!
You are right, Silverlight uses a completely separate version of the framework. It's much, much smaller than event the .NET client runtime.
This means you can't mix WPF and Silverlight assemblies in the same application.
I ran into this error because I had downloaded the Expression Blend SDK for Silverlight instead of what I SHOULD have downloaded: Microsoft Expression Blend Software Development Kit (SDK) for .NET 4. It can be found on MSFT's website, here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10801
As soon as I downloaded the Expression Blend SDK for .Net, removed all of the Blend SDK for Silverlight references, and added those same references as Blend for .Net, I was up and running.
In Silverlight the class is in System.Windows.dll while in WPF it is in PresentationFramework.dll the library tries to get a hold of the Silverlight assembly which is not referenced by default in a WPF application.

Exception when add Silverlight dll in WPF application

When i added the silverlight dll in the wpf application , i got the following exception.
Could not load file or assembly "System.Core, Version=2.0.5.0". The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the
assembly reference.
This is happening only in VS 2010 professional Beta 2.
You cannot use Silverlight directly in a WPF application, as they do not use the same version of the .NET Framework, thus the error message
Could you give some more details on your scenario ?
If you have a WPF app, you have more than what Silverlight can give to you.
If you are building a solution with multiple products, and one is WPF for the desktop, one is Silverlight for the Web, you need to create 2 different projects in VS.
Take a look at the source tree here:
http://expressionblend.codeplex.com/
Specifically, the Expression.Samples.Interactivity.Design branch.
This shows a few examples of how to put in property editors for use with Blend. I'm not sure if the same concept is transportable to the Cider design surface, but heck, Blend is nicer for pure XAML editing anyways. :)

WPF vs Silverlight [duplicate]

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What is the difference between WPF and Silverlight application?
What are the exact differences between WPF and Silverlight?
That's an extremely broad question. My company recently wrote a whitepaper outlining the differences between the two technologies, and it's around 70 pages. Unfortunately, it's not published yet, or I'd give you the link.
EDIT: As promised, here's the link
to the whitepaper on Codeplex:
http://wpfslguidance.codeplex.com/
However, I'll try to summarize.
WPF is a thick Windows client platform that has access to the full .Net Framework. Silverlight is a browser-based technology that has access to a subset of the .Net Framework (called the CoreCLR). So, you'll notice differences using seemingly every day methods and objects within the framework. For instance, the Split() method on the String class has 3 overrides in Silverlight, but 6 in the .Net Framework. You'll see differences like this a lot.
Within WPF, all visually rendering elements derive from the Visual base class. Within Silverlight, they do not; instead, they derive from Control. Both technologies, however, eventual derive from the DependencyObject class up the hierarchy.
WPF, currently, ships or has available more user controls than Silverlight; though this difference is being mitigated through the Silverlight Toolkit and the upcoming release of Silverlight 3.
WPF supports 3 types of routed events (direct, bubbling, and tunneling). Silverlight supports direct and bubbling only.
There's quite a few data-binding differences that will be somewhat mitigated with the next version of Silverlight. Currently, Silverlight doesn't support the binding mode, OneWayToSource, or Explict UpdateSourceTriggers. In addition, Silverlight defaults to OneWay databinding if none is set, while WPF uses the default mode specified by the dependency property.
Silveright doesn't support MultiBinding.
Silverlight supports the XmlDataProvider but not the ObjectDataProvider. WPF supports both.
Silverlight can only make asynchronous network calls. WPF has access to the full .Net networking stack and can make any type of call. Also, currently, Silverlight supports SOAP, but can not handle SOAP fault exceptions natively (this may change in Silverlight 3).
There are huge differences in Cryptography (Silverlight has 20 classes in the namespace, while WPF has access to 107). Basically, Silverlight supports only 4 hashing algorithms and the AES encryption protocol.
Silverlight doesn't yet support: Commanding, Validation, Printing, XPS Documents, Speech, 3D, Freezable objects, or InterOp with the Windows Desktop; all of which are available in WPF.
Silverlight supports browser interop, more media streaming options including timeline markers, and Deep Zoom. WPF doesn't support these features yet.
This is by no means complete as I was trying to reduce a 70-page document into bullet points.
Finally, even with all these differences, Microsoft is trying to close the gap between the two technologies. The Silverlight Toolkit and the WPF Toolkit both address some of the shortcomings of each technology. Silverlight 3 will be adding many features not currently available (such as element-to-element data binding). However, due to the differences in the core libraries, there will always be some Framework differences.
WPF is a Windows desktop technology for developing Windows application in the .Net framework.
Silverlight is a web technology, that is fully supported by a browser plugin on both Windows and MAC (in a similar fashion to Flash). There is also a plugin for running Silverlight on Linux (Moonlight).
While there are similarities between the functionality provided by both WPF and Silverlight (in terms of user interface components and support for XAML) Silverlight is a much small framework, containing a subset of WPF functionality. Newer versions of Silverlight actually contain some functionality not found in WPF, so it is no longer a true subset.
Things that WPF has that Silverlight doesn't: Full 3d engine based on DirectX, Windows integration such as Windows 7 taskbar thumbnails and system registry availability as well as access to the full .NET Framework including Oracle database support. Also, SL runs in a secure sandbox that prevents access to things such as the entire file system where WPF apps can run full trust with complete system access.
As mentioned above, SL pioneered some technologies such as the VisualStateManager which are making their was secondarily into WPF through the Microsoft supported WPF toolkit.
If you're looking to gauge which technology is right for your project here's a simple way to look at it: If you're writing an app that's meant to run while disconnected from the web, or if you're writing an app that needs access to Windows specific features like the ones listed above then WPF is the way to go. For platform-agnostic, web enabled apps Silverlight is an appropriate choice. Hth.
You could say that it is [VERY] roughly analogous to the difference between Flex and Adobe Air, but that is somewhat misleading.
WPF refers to the set of technologies (exposed via APIs) that .NET Framework 3.0 and above users have access to in order to draw to the screen.
Many of the WPF APIs are available for Silverlight apps.
There are, of course many other APIs besides WPF that are available under Silverlight since SL apps will need to do a lot more than just draw on the screen.

Is any source code available that has an Active X control hosted in WPF?

I am looking for some source code and a project to download and look at that has an Active X control hosting WPF. I can not find any source code anywhere on the net.
I can not add a WPF resource the usual way in an Active X control. I have to add it manually to the reference section.
Not sure if this is even possible. I would check out WPF browser applications. That may be a better solution for you given that if you are going to be running an active x control with WPF the user will need 1) Internet Explorer and 2) .net 3.0+ installed locally. A WPF Browser application will work with IE if the user has .net 3.0+ installed and will work with IE and FireFox if the user has .net 3.5+ installed. Check out WPF Broswer Apps here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970060.aspx
It should be possible, although I don't have the code for it off-hand. You can create an HwndSource, which allows a normal window to host WPF controls, in your ActiveX controls. Then it is only a matter of adding your WPF UI to that window.

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