Re: Silverlight Combobox not binding correctly on all machines.

2011-02-03 Thread tonywr
Hi all, Never mind, we've figured out what it was. When the set property was called, it called an Update Property method in the base class to hide the details of the property it ultimately had to raise the change event for. In the base class, it used reflection to identify the property

Re: Silverlight RIA Services

2010-08-12 Thread tonywr
Hi Shingi, It sounds like the object does not exist within the generated code within the Silverlight component. This means that the object is not shared properly from the web app. There are a number of reasons for this - perhaps you don't have an [EnableClientAccess] attribute on your class?

Out of memory exceptions in VS2010 with Silverlight 4

2010-07-22 Thread tonywr
Hi all, It's Friday, so I thought I would let you know about one issue in our team. Basically, we are running 32-bit Windows XP. The machines have anywhere between 2 and 4GB RAM. Everyone in the team gets System Out Of Memory Exceptions. When that happens, you have wasted the compile time,

Re: Out of memory exceptions in VS2010 with Silverlight 4

2010-07-22 Thread tonywr
Yea, I try that. We even clean it first, but it seems you are luckier than us as it rarely works for us! Could have something to do with all the extra stuff we have going on in our systems. Having Outlook open doesn't help. Having SQL Management Studio open also doesn't help. We have both

RE: Out of memory exceptions in VS2010 with Silverlight 4

2010-07-22 Thread tonywr
Actually compile time and time to run takes a while anyway, so there is plenty of time to do other activities. T. On Fri, Jul 23rd, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Steven Nagy steven.n...@readify.net wrote: Yes but everyone's Facebook status will have been updated during that outage period so its not a

RE: Out of memory exceptions in VS2010 with Silverlight 4

2010-07-22 Thread tonywr
That's the plan! On Fri, Jul 23rd, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Corneliu Tusnea corneliu.tus...@readify.net wrote: Oh, just make sure you go for the x64 version of W7. (the packages you can purchase they all have two DVDs in there one for 32b and one for 64b). Trust me, you'll never look back! :)

Transforms - rotating a page

2010-06-27 Thread tonywr
Hi all, I am currently attempting to rotate a form which is rendering to the screen in Landscape to a printed page which is Portrait. While I don't think it's that important, the dimensions of the form are Width=1112, Height=793. The print surface (I am just printing to an XPS file) are

Re: Transforms - rotating a page

2010-06-27 Thread tonywr
Ok, I tried to render the landscape control to a bitmap first and perform the transform on that. Unfortunately, the results are the same as the previous one - the content gets clipped. Code below: WriteableBitmap bitmap = new WriteableBitmap(1112, 1112); LandscapePrintTemplateControl

Re: Printing in Silverlight / Writing a bitmap that's not visible

2010-06-24 Thread tonywr
Thanks Dan, Is there a predefined set of arguments that I pass in to Measure and Arrange? Regards, Tony On Thu, Jun 24th, 2010 at 4:02 PM, danlaz...@arcamis.com wrote: Hey Tony, more info on what I meant: I believe this is happening because the bitmap does not render from a tab that

Printing in Silverlight / Writing a bitmap that's not visible

2010-06-23 Thread tonywr
Hi all, We have moved to Silverlight 4 due to the printing capability. I have been working on the best way to enable printing in my application. I have settled on writing page components to Bitmaps, then slotting those bitmaps into a page template control (printTemplate) and printing that.

Printing in Silverlight

2010-06-17 Thread tonywr
Hi all, We have finally made the move to Silverlight 4. It was a hard slog, mainly due to third party control library issues, and we still have some styling issues, however we've made it. One of the key reasons that we made the move to Silverlight 4 was for its print functionality. So

Re: XAML editing crash

2010-05-03 Thread tonywr
Hi Greg, One possibility is to change the default editor that it opens with. This is actually what I do sometimes to speed up xaml page loads. The down side is that you lose intellisense - but if you're having serious problems with crashing this might be a better option. To do this,

Re: XAML editing crash

2010-05-03 Thread tonywr
whoops, and I just read that you've already tried that. Sorry. T. On Tue, May 4th, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Since I rebuilt my new machine last Xmas I have been suffering a terrible intermittent problem where Visual Studio 2008 SP1 crashes when I edit the XAML of

Impediments to upgrading / WCF RIA Services

2010-04-26 Thread tonywr
Hi all, We are currently experiencing some impediments to upgrading our Silverlight application and VS2010. Firstly, we have installed VS2010, which installs WCF RIA Services for 2010. This uninstalls WCF RIA Services for 2008. The problem is that we need the 2008 version to continue to

Prism, how to switch Regions

2010-03-23 Thread tonywr
Hi all, I have created a basic Prism application with buttons as menu items. I have an About button and a Home button. I have a MenuClickedEvent. Within my Shell, I have created a Region called MainContentRegion within a ContentControl. Ok, so now I've created a HomeModule (a basic home

The verboseness of Visibility

2010-03-11 Thread tonywr
Hi all, Does anyone else get annoyed at the extra hastle required to set and bind the Visibility property? I mean, how easy was it in the old days to simply set IsVisible=true or IsVisible=false? You didn't need a Visibility to Bool converter, which is extra unneccessary processing, and an

RE: The verboseness of Visibility

2010-03-11 Thread tonywr
Cool, at least now I know the reason! Thanks. On Fri, Mar 12th, 2010 at 10:10 AM, ste...@snagy.name wrote: No idea about this in SL but in WPF we have the same. Visibility DOES have 3 states: Visible, Hidden, Collapsed. Hidden is much differen from collapsed - a hidden object will

Re: Domain Service Custom Validation

2010-03-10 Thread tonywr
never mind - I denormalised my table, adding a HasAmount field, and populated the field when the TermTypeID was changed. Then when the object gets marshalled to the server, there is no need to worry about associated objects. On Thu, Mar 11th, 2010 at 12:19 PM, ton...@tpg.com.au wrote: Hi

Silverlight ComboBox ItemsSource won't OneWay bind

2010-03-03 Thread tonywr
Hi all, I have a strange situation where the ItemsSource property on a combo box won't OneWay bind to the data source. That is, after the initial bind to the ItemsSource bound property, I change the contents of that bound collection, call the PropertyChanged event for that property, but it

Re: Silverlight ComboBox ItemsSource won't OneWay bind

2010-03-03 Thread tonywr
I do have other combo boxes that do successfully bind on the page, which are pointing to static viewmodel resources. That is, the collection associated with the viewmodel is intially empty, then after the async callback, it is populated, calls the propertychanged event, then the combobox list

Silverlight binding on page exit

2010-02-28 Thread tonywr
Hi all, I was hoping that someone could explain to me why XAML causes an extra bind when I am transitioning to another page. What I am experiencing is that when I click on a menu item, the load event fires on the bindings for the page I am leaving. Is this normal? At least in ASP.Net I could

Dataforms in silverlight

2010-02-17 Thread tonywr
Hi, I am having a problem cancelling a data form. Basically, I am displaying a dataform after calling AddNewItem() on the dataform. Then I click Next, which fires ValidateItem(). Of course, with no values set, it fires a number of validations. Then I click Cancel, which callse CancelEdit()

Re: Dataforms in silverlight

2010-02-17 Thread tonywr
Hmmm. It turns out CanCancelEdit is set to false in the EditableCollectionView, which means that when CancelEdit is called, it simply returns without clearing the errors. The EditableCollectionView is a PagedCollectionView. Not sure yet how I can make it so that the CanCancelEdit can be

How to detect that a control is bound..

2010-02-14 Thread tonywr
Hi all, I need to attach an event to a ViewModel object that is bound to a control via DataContext. The problem is, I can't attach the event in the constructor because the DataContext object has not been set at that point. So how do I attach that event if I want it to execute code within the

Re: RIA Domain Services and required dependencies

2010-01-27 Thread tonywr
Hi Miguel, I ran the code: var ctx = new ValidationContext(dfTermItem.CurrentItem, null, null) { MemberName = TermCategoryID }; var validationResults = new CollectionValidationResult(); //validate against a guid that should fail if (Validator.TryValidateProperty(new

Re: RIA Domain Services and required dependencies

2010-01-27 Thread tonywr
I just reflected over the code and found that it was using some reflection to retrieve the custom attributes. So I added in this code to see if the attributes were, in fact, visible. foreach (PropertyInfo info in typeof(Term).GetProperties()) {

Re: RIA Domain Services and required dependencies

2010-01-27 Thread tonywr
It's ok, I think I figured it out. The attribute is not available on the client side. Within the generated code for the class, it was missing the TermCustomValidation class and it has the following message. So now I just have to figure out why the class isn't coming across to the client. T.

Re: RIA Domain Services and required dependencies

2010-01-27 Thread tonywr
It was because I had forgotten to change the filename to have the .Shared.cs extension. Then I needed to do a clean and build again. Thanks all for the help. T. On Thu, Jan 28th, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Chris Anderson christheco...@gmail.com wrote: Try deleting the contents of the Generated_Code

RIA Domain Services and required dependencies

2010-01-26 Thread tonywr
Hi all, Say I have a car. Car has Make and Model. Then I have terms. Terms can apply to an entire Make, or they can apply to a particular Model. A Term in the database would be TermID, TermType, Make, Model, Description. I don't have the ability to change the table structure. So I have

Accessing Page Resources from User Controls

2010-01-24 Thread tonywr
Hi, Apologies for the change of title - I don't have access to the original emails. Thanks to the people who have replied so far. I am still having problems with trying to access page resources from a user control. If I put this withing the control: UserControl.Resources

Re: Re: Accessing Page Resources from User Controls

2010-01-24 Thread tonywr
Hi Miguel, Thanks for that; that is the approach I will take. Regards, Tony On Mon, Jan 25th, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Miguel Madero m...@miguelmadero.com wrote: As I mentioned in the other thread, I would try to avoid accessing other View's ViewModel. There're other ways of communicating them.