When using silverlight in a browser is there anyway to switch xaml pages? I'm also wondering how to go about using my encryption class I've wrote in c# to validate users in silverlight. Any help would be much appreciate!
If you're using Silverlight 3 Beta then what you're looking for is the Navigation system using the Frame and Page controls. There are lots of tutorials available online for this.
In Silverlight 2 the easiest solution is to replace the RootVisual with a Panel (like Grid or Canvas) and have your own code to switch the child elements (which are usually your own UserControls).
There's a good tutorial available at Flawless Code
We are using Jesse Liberty's method of doing the page switching in SL2. It is explained here. Jesse Liberty SL2 page switching
It also look or feels a lot like how SL3 does it with the Navigation mentioned above.
Caution: If you do this, the back button on the browser will need to be handled - users will exit out of your SL2 app when hitting the back button. SL3 has built in support for handling and responding correctly to the back button.
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I have developed a pluggin on Revit in WPF but I have a problem.
I load a family from a button in the user interface but the user interface does not update or refresh.
I force the refresh by resizing the window.
I did some research on the net but I did not find any information.
I post a youtube link to show you the manipulation.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gb_YZH6i9s&feature=youtu.be
I have heard of similar issues in the past. In general I prefer using Windows Forms over WPF, since they seem to be easier to handle. Afaik, all WPF problems have been solved, though. Here is a whole list of related discussions on The Building Coder:
http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/wpf/
You can try a "WPF DoEvents" after the loading of your family. See the answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11899439/200443
I bet you guys know Google Chrome browser, yeah it comes from Chromium open-source projects, added some Google specific features.
I found the multi-tab GUI is quite attractive, especially the "drag-and-drop" feature for tabs and windows:
to "pull a tab" out to form a separate window, or
vice versa, to join a tab into a windows (that has a collection of tabs).
This would be quite helpful for designing some multi-process applications to achieve the stability, and a cool user experience, but ... how?
is it possible to do this in WPF?
or even one step more, is it possible to do this in MVVM?
Yeah, technically, everything is possible, but I can't see an easy pattern to do this
for WPF, how to handle such specific "crossing window" mouse interaction?
for MVVM, hmmm, will this be too challenging for MVVM?
cheers
maybe you should have a look at these libs/frameworks:
http://fabtab.codeplex.com/
http://avalondock.codeplex.com/
http://fluidkit.codeplex.com/
Its definitely possible. I've recreated the chrome tab look in the past with MVVM, complete with drag and drop, and I know another guy who created a tabbed application that lets you "pull away" tabs into a new window of its own. I believe it was all one application with multiple windows, so all open windows were part of the same application even if they show up separately in the task bar.
I'm not sure if I have his source code or not, I'd have to go digging for it.
I am developing the application which consists of two pages. The first page is a menu where you can navigat to the second page which is some sort of a map. This application supposes to be run on Windows Phone 7 and Silverligth 4. Everything is built up on the MVVM pattern. For S4 I am using Unity, for WP7 I am creating very simply IoC container.
Getting to the bottom of the matter, I need to provide this application with a common navigation system. I know that S4 supports the new interface INavigationContentLoader which allows us to use our own content loader. Unfortunately, this does not work for WP7.
I am also thinking about taking advantage of the Shell/Frame approach. Basically we have a shell or a frame control with a replaceable content. The navigation in this case is about replacing content. But I am afraid that this solution won't work properly for WP7, since the BACK button will close the app instead of stepping back to the previous page.
Guys, do you have other ideas? What solution do you have? I want to stress that this solution should be consistent with MVVM.
Best regards Jarek
For such a small simple app I'd create my own wrapper around selecting the navigation mode dependent upon the platform.
Something like:
void MyNavigate(uri page)
{
#IFDEF WINDOWS_PHONE
NavigationService.Navigate(page);
#ELSEIF
NavigateTo(page); // or whatever is appropriate to your Silverlight 4 app
#ENDIF
}
I need a WPF control that acts like the Panorama control for Windows Phone 7, but I need it for a desktop application.
It will contain a series of panels (or Panorama Items) that the application will be able to slide through horizontally programmatically.
Also, the content inside the panels not currently displayed on the screen will need to be "lazy loaded". In other words, they should be referenced but not loaded or rendered.
Can I somehow adapt the WP7 Panorama control to do this? Or will I have to develop a custom control from scratch to behave similarly to it?
Thank you!
EDIT:
I could probably use a VirtualizingPanel to implement the lazyload behaviour.
MahApps.Metro while still not super mature does allow for the wp7 Panorama control. Demo of how to use a panorama here. I've played with it a little and while its not the most customizable thing out there it gets the job done. Pretty sweet. Also Sacha Barber (Codeproject Demigod) wrote up an article on making your own. Of which I haven't looked at yet but, the guy usually does awesome work. So I'd check that one out as well.
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/arielbh/archive/2010/10/21/porting-windows-phone-7-s-panorama-control-to-silverlight-4.aspx gives some clues about how do to this.
It suggests using http://phone.codeplex.com/ as your base and then you can use http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4b281bde-9b01-4890-b3d4-b3b45ca2c2e4 (Microsoft Surface Manipulations and Inertia Sample for Microsoft Silverlight) to run convert get it to respond to touch.
Seems none exist as far as I can see so far.
This blog has started an attempt at making it, so you could work from there to make your own. Be sure to also check out this page which details the creation of an individual panorama item too.
It seems like a common question on Google, but I couldn't find a satisfactory answer (unless the answer is 'no')
I would like to add menu items or show a custom menu when a user right-clicks on my Silverlight app.
The closest thing that I found catches the context menu in IE, but not in Firefox, and Chrome shows the context menu and then shows the custom event.
(The tutorial I mentioned was here
http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/07/01/tip-of-the-day-14-how-to-right-click-on-a-silverlight-application.aspx)
Here you have an implementation but it's CTRL+Left click, then you get a context menu (about the text, sorry it's in spanish):
http://www.albloguera.es/?p=29
Another option, is the one pointed out do it via javascript, quite chunky solution, and not sure if now it's working in the current 2.0 version :-(.
Good Luck
Braulio
There is no way to do this natively in Silverlight.
I believe that the Telerik control noted elsewhere uses the HtmlBridge to intercept the context click, then draw their own menu, however it does not appear to be working with Silverlight 2.0.40115 now, so maybe Microsoft have closed that gap.
Having no right click is a design decision based on security concerns, rather than a technical one. However I believe that the Microsoft team are considering allowing context menu's in future versions (perhaps even v3)
I've come to the conclusion that it seems it is possible based on my use of Telerik's context menu which works fine on IE, Chrome and Firefox.
Check it out, http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/#ContextMenu/FirstLook