RE: Browser scroll bars

2012-06-26 Thread John OBrien
We have this problem in IE7 and below, never been able to fix it. Works fine in IE8+, CROME etc. From: dotnetnoo...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:04:54 +0700 Subject: RE: Browser scroll bars To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Have changed the way vs generates the html In the page that

RE: Web / Graphic design companies in Brisbane

2011-04-17 Thread John OBrien
Give nick a call at www.digicon.com.au they have a good team and a focus on delivery.Sent from my Windows Phone 7 From: David ConnorsSent: Monday, 18 April 2011 1:03 PMTo: ozDotNet; ozSilverlight; ozWPFSubject: Web / Graphic design companies in Brisbane Can anyone recommend any graphic

RE: Dynamic assembly loading

2011-02-10 Thread John OBrien
Are you running Silverlight 4 and don't need OOB support? Simple solution is the built in application library caching. For external dlls you may need to manually create the exmap. Also I saw you mention they were c1 controls, have you used their XAPOptomiser to trim out unused code instead?

RE: Dynamic assembly loading

2011-02-10 Thread John OBrien
Absolutely worth looking at those options, It should have been extmap, MSDN article covers it well: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd833069(VS.95).aspx Looks like C1 has an online version if you want to test their optomiser instead:

RE: Silverlight Deep linking and redirections

2010-10-27 Thread John OBrien
Do you have the option to do this in IIS instead? IIS6/7 both have a simple mechnism to do the redirect and preserve the path/parameters. Do a quick search if this is an option, we use for the typical www redirections. Subject: Silverlight Deep linking and redirections Date: Thu, 28 Oct

RE: Silverlight Deep linking and redirections

2010-10-27 Thread John OBrien
...@michaelhill.com.au To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Thanks John, Do you know if this method will preserve the anchor (eg. #screen) or only the path/parameters? My current method preserves the path/parameters, but not the anchor. Simon. From: John OBrien [mailto:j

Cross framework control development - Silverlight 4 and Phone 7

2010-09-26 Thread John OBrien
Guys, any experiences or suggestions for developing a Silverlight control that you'd like to run on both Silverlight 4 and Phone 7? Having looked at it currently we are planning to: Have two Solutions, A Silverlight 4 and a Phone 7, replicate projects, same namespaces but different

RE: Hijack: iPhone dev - was RE: Who is using Silverlight?

2010-07-27 Thread John OBrien
Paul, Apple essentially stopped anything but Web or ObjectiveC with their change to the TOU earlier this year. You can no longer use Adobe's products or .Net to create great iPhone apps. John. From: subscripti...@theglavs.com To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Subject: RE: Hijack: iPhone

RE: Silverlight 4

2010-04-15 Thread John OBrien
it look a bit funny. JAK From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of John OBrien [j...@soulsolutions.com.au] Sent: Thursday, 15 April 2010 12:00 PM To: 'ozSilverlight' Subject: RE: Move Silverlight

RE: How to hack Expression Blend.

2010-04-08 Thread John OBrien
Does Expression Encoder fall into the same bucket? Is it possible to write plugins / extensions to the UI? What I've always wanted to do is create a Silverlight host within encoder, allow for all the richness of encoder to record a Silverlight application in full quality and with automation

RE: Create a child for a UserControl?

2010-03-23 Thread John OBrien
I use the Parts and States model with a generic.xaml template if you want/need a default style. Control.cs inheriting from Control or ContentControl then in the constructor if you want to wire up a generic template you do the DefaultStyleKey = typeof (MyClass); Then override

RE: xaml icons

2010-03-08 Thread John OBrien
Icons are really time consuming for a graphic designer, I like this site: http://www.iconfinder.net as it has good quality free icons with a filter to show the ones allowed for commercial use. Even an API in there J I started out thinking everything in Silverlight should be vector based XAML

RE: xaml icons

2010-03-08 Thread John OBrien
that for small icons this won't be an issue. I don't have experience in this area, but it's something I would try to test/google before going with that approach. On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:25 PM, John OBrien j...@soulsolutions.com.au wrote: Icons are really time consuming for a graphic

RE: xaml icons

2010-03-08 Thread John OBrien
to convert ping me as i'd be curious to see why. From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of John OBrien Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:24 PM To: 'ozSilverlight' Subject: RE: xaml icons We ran into trouble with animated

RE: Expression Blend/Sketchflow training in Brisbane on March 17.

2010-02-28 Thread John OBrien
Shane, how much is the course and how can people book? (the itts site needs some serious work) From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Shane Morris (Automatic Studio) Sent: Monday, 1 March 2010 1:13 PM To:

Knowing when a custom control has actually loaded

2010-02-18 Thread John OBrien
Hey guys, I'm still having the classic issue of the loaded event firing before the visual template has been applied to the custom control. Is the only solution to manually call the ApplyTemplate on the custom controls loaded event?

RE: Best floatable panel library?

2010-02-04 Thread John OBrien
-4567 | Microsoft Silverlight blog: http://timheuer.com/blog/ http://timheuer.com/blog/ | twitter: http://twitter.com/timheuer @timheuer From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of John OBrien Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 6:32 PM

Best floatable panel library?

2010-02-02 Thread John OBrien
Hey guys any recommendations on a good library to make floating / resizable panels? Tim's one looks good: http://floatablewindow.codeplex.com/ ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com

RE: Real time updates to and from clients

2010-01-27 Thread John OBrien
Peter, We used sockets in Silverlight2 to prototype a spatial collaboration concept. The main issues we faced were: 1. Needed to run a windows application (testing=console app, production=windows service) for both server side processing and also as a policy service. Made it hard to deploy.

RE: NearMap in Silverlight, is that your washing on the line?

2009-12-02 Thread John OBrien
. :) On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Jordan Knight jordan.kni...@readify.net wrote: Hey that's pretty impressive... but... You could get so busted on that :P From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of John OBrien Sent

RE: NearMap in Silverlight, is that your washing on the line?

2009-12-02 Thread John OBrien
that on SilverlightCream? -Dave From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com on behalf of John OBrien Sent: Wed 12/2/2009 12:21 AM To: 'ozSilverlight' Subject: NearMap in Silverlight, is that your washing on the line? (just don't tell the Bing Maps team I did

RE: Our new silverlight site

2009-12-01 Thread John OBrien
Except that in this case Michael Hill are clearly using their website as a brochure and as an engaging experience not a retail store. You can’t (and I don’t imagine why you would) buy the products online. You still go into their store right? I assume that if you don’t have Silverlight

RE: Our new silverlight site

2009-12-01 Thread John OBrien
So now that all the banks have exposed their systems to the iphone, is there anything stoping us from making a different interface? I think a nice OOB Silverlight interface would make a nice new fad ;) Mmm where is iFiddler? -Original Message- From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com

RE: ozsilverlight Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1

2009-12-01 Thread John OBrien
digest... Today's Topics: 1. Silverlight 3 getting 407 proxy auth errors? (John OBrien) 2. Re: Silverlight 3 getting 407 proxy auth errors? (Miguel Madero) 3. Our new silverlight site (Ross McKinnon) 4. RE: Our new silverlight site (Nick Randolph

RE: Our new silverlight site

2009-12-01 Thread John OBrien
Fortunately Googlebot and BingBot are both blind, deaf and dumb so most sites either comply or are never found in the first place ;) From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Damian Edwards Sent: Wednesday, 2 December 2009 1:56

Silverlight 3 getting 407 proxy auth errors?

2009-11-29 Thread John OBrien
Has anyone had this problem before? I have a Silverlight 2 application running fine, fully upgraded to Silverlight 3 and now from behind a proxy server all my WCF requests are getting 407 errors, the old Silverlight 2 site still work fine. The client is pretty sure their proxy is using AD to

RE: $10 million with Bing Maps and the NAVTEQ LBS Challenge

2009-11-23 Thread John OBrien
/ www.readify.net _ From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of John OBrien [j...@soulsolutions.com.au] Sent: Saturday, 14 November 2009 12:44 PM To: 'ozSilverlight' Subject: $10 million with Bing Maps and the NAVTEQ LBS Challenge

$10 million with Bing Maps and the NAVTEQ LBS Challenge

2009-11-13 Thread John OBrien
Fellow Silverlight devs, As you know the new Bing Maps Silverlight control was released this week and now I have the exciting news that you can use it in a web application to win your share of $10,000,000 with the NAVTEQ Location Based Solution comp. Details are mainly focused around the mobile

RE: New release of the Silverlight Bing Maps control

2009-11-11 Thread John OBrien
Awesome list Craig, I noticed a few minor corrections below (target stuff) DeepEarth Toolkit has now been upgraded J From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Craig Dunn Sent: Wednesday, 11 November 2009 8:55 AM To:

RE: VS2010 SL2

2009-10-22 Thread John OBrien
Tim, have you tried / is it possible to have VS2008 still configured for SL2 and VS2010 for SL3 on the same machine? We're still waiting for corporate clients to roll out SL3 updates, once that happens I'll wipe all knowledge of SL2 but until then From:

RE: Determining what is causing high CPU usage

2009-10-21 Thread John OBrien
that a background image I hadn’t considered was being constantly redrawn when a unrelated animation was in progress on the same screen. From: John OBrien [mailto:j...@soulsolutions.com.au] Sent: Thursday, 22 October 2009 11:41 AM To: 'ozSilverlight' Subject: Determining what is causing high

RE: Multitouch Silverlight3

2009-10-15 Thread John OBrien
/ www.readify.net _ From: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com [ozsilverli...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of John OBrien [j...@soulsolutions.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, 26 August 2009 8:53 PM To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Subject: Multitouch Silverlight3 Hey guys, anyone working with Multitouch

WCF information panel

2009-09-30 Thread John OBrien
I want to build an informational panel for Silverlight to report on exactly what is happening with WCF data requests, any suggestions? The idea is a power user could expand this panel to identify things like: . Outstanding requests . Failed requests + reason .

RE: animation cpu usage

2009-09-21 Thread John OBrien
http://www.microsoft.com/australia/remix/videos/default.aspx?vid=v24 About 10min in. Shane From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of John OBrien Sent: Monday, 21 September 2009 1:43 PM To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com

RE: Toolkit style manager

2009-07-18 Thread John OBrien
I'm not using the datagrid Stephen but was having CPU utilisation issues and had to do these two things, they may also work for you. Set mode to OneTime: Grid x:Name=LayoutRoot Theming:ImplicitStyleManager.ResourceDictionaryUri=Themes/DeepEarthDark.xam l

Do we upgrade to Silverlight3 on our dev machines?

2009-07-10 Thread John OBrien
It's getting late on Friday I know but did I miss a post about what happens when we upgrade to Silverlight3 as developers? It's awesome that the runtime is backwards compatible so existing sites won't break but... 1) Can we still target Silverlight2 in Visual Studio? 2) What happens

RE: Silverlight/Expression Aussie Tour Thoughts welcomed.

2009-06-27 Thread John OBrien
Sounds great Scott. Let us know when the 8th is confirmed for Brisbane and I'll help spread the word - not very far away at all. John. From: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverli...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Sunday, 28 June 2009 4:22 AM To:

Silverlight limited to 2 simultaneous connections?

2009-06-22 Thread John OBrien
Anyone know why Silverlight2 seems to be restricted to 2 simultaneous requests only? I have changed the browser settings to allow 8, put in 4 different domains to allow for 8 and even used firefox that supports 8 natively with no luck. Is there a configuration somewhere at the plugin level to

RE: Silverlight limited to 2 simultaneous connections?

2009-06-22 Thread John OBrien
from Windows Mobile 6) From: John OBrien j...@soulsolutions.com.au Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 2:16 AM To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Subject: Silverlight limited to 2 simultaneous connections? Anyone know why Silverlight2 seems

RE: Designing a Silverlight control - DeepEarth

2009-06-18 Thread John OBrien
changes soon! From: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverli...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of John OBrien Sent: Friday, 19 June 2009 10:00 AM To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Subject: Designing a Silverlight control - DeepEarth Hey guys, Over at the DeepEarth project we

RE: Long weekend or Too busy

2009-06-08 Thread John OBrien
-makes-2008-mis-strategic-100 -list/ MIS Email Signature Banner From: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverli...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of John OBrien Sent: Sunday, 7 June 2009 6:24 PM To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Subject: RE: Long weekend or Too busy Yes, we are all hard

RE: Long weekend or Too busy

2009-06-08 Thread John OBrien
after REMIX? thanx barry.b On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:29 AM, John OBrien j...@soulsolutions.com.au wrote: We are presenting the new Messenger Web Toolkit, they are XHTML controls and although not Silverlight are still pretty impressive. For example you get full featured messenger bar

RE: Long weekend or Too busy

2009-06-07 Thread John OBrien
Yes, we are all hard at work polishing off our presentations. The international speaker is Chris Pendleton who will be showing the Bing Maps Silverlight control, it's very impressive. Along with Bronwen Zande I'm presenting in the design track this year on the new Messenger Web controls. If

RE: Exception handling / reporting RIA

2009-05-24 Thread John OBrien
the connection is reestablished we can log any information left might do for an interesting experiments. On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:14 AM, John OBrien j...@soulsolutions.com.au wrote: Has anyone come across a good architecture for handling exceptions in Silverlight gracefully? Ideally we want

RE: Memory leaks and garbage collection

2009-04-29 Thread John OBrien
Sam, I'm building a GIS system with the new Virtual Earth Silverlight control and had a memory leak issue. The good news is I fixed it and it didn't take that long. I used Silverlight Spy to detect the leak and to confirm I had fixed it: