Re: Layout controls

2009-01-13 Thread Stephen Price
and have the LI as display:inline; You can use a repeater to achieve this quite nicely. Avoid the grid like the plague. Corneliu. *From:* ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com [mailto: ozsilverli...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Wednesday, 14 January 2009 1:10 AM

Express Expression (Blend)

2009-01-19 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, Does anyone know if there is (or is going to be) an Express version of Blend or Expression? I'm doing a presentation next month at the Perth .Net user group (with Ola Karlsson) and wanted to promote Silverlight on a budget. Going to show off Silverlight development using Visual Studio

video player

2009-01-30 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I'm going spare here. I've got a simple mediaelement, and when I set the source in the xaml it works fine. If I set the source in the codebehind it doesn't work. It doesn't even seem to hit the url. (using Fiddler aimed at www.somesite.com) has something changed with Uri's? I've

Re: video player

2009-01-31 Thread Stephen Price
at the App.xaml.cs file where the problem lay. On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Jonathan Parker jonathanparkerem...@gmail.com wrote: Surely debugging would have found that as the URL would have been empty. On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: Gah!! I found

Illustrator to xaml

2009-01-31 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, Hopefully someone has already done what I'm trying to do here and can give me some tips. I've got some controls designed in Illustrator and I can import them into Design and then export into xaml. Where I'm getting stuck is that the conversion ends up as canvases with absolute

Re: Blend error

2009-02-10 Thread Stephen Price
... } } These are the two ways I get my controls to display in Blend correctly, HtmlPage.IsEnabled = false you are in Blend, HtmlPage.IsEnabled = true you are running in the browser On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.comwrote: Help! Has anyone seen this error

Re: Blend crash

2009-02-16 Thread Stephen Price
Will have a look at that tonight. Only have iPhone / GPRS Internet in the evenings ( at the moment while here in Queensland) On 2/16/09, .net noobie dotnetnoo...@gmail.com wrote: you are going to post a standalone project to demo the issue? On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Stephen Price step

Re: Asynch downloading

2009-03-01 Thread Stephen Price
: www.readify.net [image: MIS Email Signature Banner]http://readify.net/about-readify/press/readify-makes-2008-mis-strategic-100-list/ *From:* ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com [mailto: ozsilverli...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Sunday, 1 March 2009 4:34 PM

Re: Blend 3

2009-03-19 Thread Stephen Price
, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.comwrote: Has anyone installed Blend 3 yet and tried to edit a Silverlight 2.0 project?I'm wondering if installing Blend 3 would allow me to continue developing on a Silverlight 2.0 project or if its an all or nothing thing going

Re: Set value on combobox

2009-03-19 Thread Stephen Price
Ooooer, I like that. I'll have a look at that tomorrow. I ended up with a work around. The combobox is not visible until the user clicks the edit button, and the stackpanel those controls are in are made visible, so I'm using the same method load the required value. As for MVVM, I like the idea

Re: Memory and bindings

2009-04-11 Thread Stephen Price
/search?q=cache:rulOy4_nwlgJ:silverlight.net/forums/p/72532/175206.aspx+silverlight+observable+collection+memorycd=2hl=enct=clnkgl=auclient=firefox-a On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.comwrote: Hi All, I've noticed a strange problem, I've got a search happening

Re: Perth Silverlight user group meeting (SDDN)

2009-04-20 Thread Stephen Price
At this stage (unless someone shows up with a video camera, hint hint Ola) it probably won't be recorded. Has anyone had good success with that sort of thing with user groups? I've not seen any posted about but then have not really gone looking for them either. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:59 PM,

Style checkbox in a custom control

2009-04-23 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I'm wanting to create a default style for a number of checkboxes that are added to a custom control dynamically in code. I'd like the style to go in the generic.xaml and have found some info on applying styles to controls via TemplateBindings, but it doesn't look like I can do that in

Re: Style checkbox in a custom control

2009-04-23 Thread Stephen Price
Ah-hah! there they are... thanks for that. :) On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Chris Anderson christheco...@gmail.comwrote: You'll find the .g.cs files under your obj folder in your project... Hope this helps Chris Anderson 2009/4/23 Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com Hey all

Re: OzSilverlightFeed

2009-04-27 Thread Stephen Price
Am in the process (slow process, I keep forgetting about it) of moving my blog over to here. blog.lythixdesigns.com.Have set up the feed on feedburner at http://feeds2.feedburner.com/lythixdesigns but have some old posts to move over before I delete the original one. I blog about Silverlight

Re: First Virtaul SDDN Meeting

2009-05-18 Thread Stephen Price
Thanks again for getting this happening, I got lots from it. I think once a month is pretty good, as long as it doesn't clash with the Alt.net virtual meeting that happens fortnightly. I think a presentation on a topic (with code! learn the most from seeing it). I think the best

Re: Silverlight 3 to be released July 10

2009-06-01 Thread Stephen Price
While we are on the subject of new releases, I draw your attention to the new Microsoft search site, Bing.com. I'm a little surprised that Silverlight is not being used for video playback, rather Flash. They could have put code in there to check if you have Silverlight and fall back to Flash

Re: Silverlight 3 to be released July 10

2009-06-01 Thread Stephen Price
:* ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com [mailto: ozsilverli...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Monday, June 01, 2009 6:57 PM *To:* ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com *Subject:* Re: Silverlight 3 to be released July 10 While we are on the subject of new releases, I draw your

Re: Silverlight 3 to be released July 10

2009-06-01 Thread Stephen Price
is in the proprietary flv format … which is opaque to Silverlight Thankfully, H.264 is coming on youtube + Silverlight 3 … oh, oops, don’t mention the war. *From:* ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com [mailto: ozsilverli...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Tuesday, 2 June

Was it good for you too Honey? UX - Getting it wrong

2009-06-07 Thread Stephen Price
Just announcing the next Perth SDDN presentation. TOPIC:User Interface Design DATE: Wednesday, June 24th, 6:00pm VENUE: 43Below. 43 Barrack Street, Perth COST: Free. All welcome Join us at the Perth Silverlight Designer and Developer Network, Wednesday June 24th to hear Gary

Toolkit style manager

2009-07-18 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, Has anyone noticed that the style manager styles in the toolkit don't seem to be applied to controls in the details pane of a datagrid? I'm using Silverlight 2 with the July toolkit. Not tested it out with Silverlight 3 yet. cheers, Stephen

DataGrid mouseover vsm

2009-08-10 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, This is probably simple when you know how, but I'm trying to customise the mouseover storyboard of a DataGrid. I'm using Blend 2 and have also looked in Blend 3 but when you create copy for the Edit Template option the copy has no states. I've also looked in the additional templates menu.

Re: DataGrid mouseover vsm

2009-08-11 Thread Stephen Price
, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.comwrote: Hey all, This is probably simple when you know how, but I'm trying to customise the mouseover storyboard of a DataGrid. I'm using Blend 2 and have also looked in Blend 3 but when you create copy for the Edit Template option

Re: DataGrid mouseover vsm

2009-08-11 Thread Stephen Price
/ControlTemplate /Setter.Value /Setter /Style *From:* ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com [mailto: ozsilverli...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Tuesday, 11 August 2009 6:14 PM *To:* ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com *Subject:* Re: DataGrid

Perth SDDN Meeting 26th Aug

2009-08-22 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, Just a quick plug for the Perth SDDN meeting happening this Wednesday at the usual time and location. Presenting: Stephen Price Topic: Silverlight 101 Date: Wednesday, August 26th, 6:00pm Venue: 43Below. 43 Barrack Street, Perth Cost: Free. All welcome (Extra discount if you bring

Mocking frameworks...

2009-09-28 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I've used a little bit of TypeMock (I have a license) but due to the cost of the build server license it's put off projects I'm on from using it. I was just wondering what the most popular mocking frameworks out there are. I've used a little bit of Rhinomocks for Silverlight, and will be

VS2010 SL2

2009-10-22 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I was playing around tonight with VS2010 and following Tim's post here ( http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/05/20/silverlight-and-visual-studio-2010-beta.aspx) I thought I'd try to get the multi-target support working. No go, I installed SL2 SDK and then Installed SL3 SDK (and got the

Re: Silverlight 4.0 beta

2009-11-23 Thread Stephen Price
were a book author! SL4 could be out before these SL3 books reach the shelves... http://twitpic.com/q21be cd On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Is anyone playing with the Silverlight 4.0 beta? How come everyone here is so quiet about it? I'm

Sideways headers

2009-11-23 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I'm trying to put some headers in a simple datagrid and make them sideways. I've tried this before and have noticed a weird behaviour that seems to be caused by the rotation being applied after all the autosizing (probably the MeasureOverride) has happened. So creating a Header template,

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

2009-12-02 Thread Stephen Price
I like that you can't zoom in past a certain level of detail (no annoying no image tiles if you go too close). Also pretty cool how Nearmap collect their photos. Sounds like a HyperPod is essentially a flying camera. Can't find any more info on them. Wonder how they got permission to fly these

Silverlight 4.0 question

2009-12-03 Thread Stephen Price
The .NET Common Runtime (CLR) now enables the same compiled code to be run on the desktop and Silverlight without change. Just curious if anyone has tested this out to see what it actually means? The way I read it, I should be able to compile my dll, then reference it in a normal .Net project and

[OT] Perth SDDN Christmas drinks/meeting

2009-12-18 Thread Stephen Price
For the Silverlight ppl in Perth, Christmas drinks this meeting, plus we'll discuss the Silverlight 4 beta features! http://sddn.org.au/meetings/perth/perth-christmas-meetup/ for all the details. Merry Christmas to those who can't make it, and see you there to those who can. :) cheers, Stephen

Re: Accessing page resources from user controls

2010-01-23 Thread Stephen Price
Have a look at the VisualTreeHelper (I think that's it's name, I'm not near a real internet connection - am on a cruise ship anchored off Geraldton!) which has some static methods for finding child or parent elements etc Cheers, Stephen (from mobile) On 24/01/2010, at 8:16 AM, Paul

Re: How to detect that a control is bound..

2010-02-15 Thread Stephen Price
Hi Tony, You can put a method on your ViewModel, and then in the Loaded event on your control in the View, call your viewmodel method. Your ViewModel should exist by that stage (assuming you are hooking up the ViewModel in the construction stage of your view). HTH, Stephen On Mon, Feb 15, 2010

Perth SDDN Feb Meeting

2010-02-16 Thread Stephen Price
have some cool door prizes, 5 copies of Windows 7 Ultimate (thanks Microsoft!!) - which I'll be giving away, (one copy per month) as well as one license of Silverlight Spy. For more details see our website. http://sddn.org.au/meetings/perth/perth-sddn-february-meeting-wed-24th/ cheers, Stephen Price

Re: Silverlight ComboBox ItemsSource won't OneWay bind

2010-03-03 Thread Stephen Price
Possibly related to the fact you are using a property on a class that's referenced as a StaticResource? My understanding of StaticResource is that once it's created then it's immutable. That might not limit properties of said instance tho, so am just guessing. It might work fine if you were using

Re: Silverlight ComboBox ItemsSource won't OneWay bind

2010-03-03 Thread Stephen Price
. On Thu, Mar 4th, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Possibly related to the fact you are using a property on a class that's referenced as a StaticResource? My understanding of StaticResource is that once it's created then it's immutable. That might

Re: xaml icons

2010-03-08 Thread Stephen Price
I've done Xaml icons in the past. I break out Expression Design and then cut and paste them into Blend to get xaml versions. Embrace your inner Devigner. Don't resist it, or be ashamed. We're a rare breed. We're the bridge between those who design but shall not code and those coders with UI

Re: xaml icons

2010-03-08 Thread Stephen Price
” though. It makes us sound like a geeky zealot or something. Carl. *From:* ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 March 2010 10:58 AM *To:* ozSilverlight

Button in a datagrid cell

2010-03-08 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I'm writing a unit test (MS's Silverlight Unit Test framework) and am wanting to simulate pressing a button by using ToggleButtonAutomationPeer. I've no problems with the code one I have the instance of the button, but I'm having problems figuring out how to get a particular button from

Re: Button in a datagrid cell

2010-03-08 Thread Stephen Price
Strange, Not getting a DataGridRowsPresenter or any children from the datagrid in the unit test. I think I need to look at what data is in it, and somehow mock it (so it's still a unit test and not an integration test). The viewmodel data object its binding to is pretty complicated. I just want

Re: Silverlight site.

2010-03-11 Thread Stephen Price
Took too long to load, the default load progress indicator should be changed (doesn't MS always say how easy it is to change?). Also took me about a minute to figure out mousing over the text at the bottom would select the panel. Also shouldnt be two sites. Silverlight.net is the place to be.

Layout loops

2010-03-11 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I've just gotten a layout loop which was thrown when I grab the column resizer on a datagrid and drag it back and forth (which is resizing its autosize container). I'm wondering if its somehow related to me setting heights of controls in the ArrangeOverride method of my usercontrol. The

Interactive builds

2010-03-12 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, Apologies for cross posting... We are using Cruisecontrol to run our automated tests hosted on a Windows Server 2008 machine. I've started writing some View tests that use the Silverlight Unit Testing framework and when the tests are run on the server they fail, but when run on my

RegionManager/PRISM question

2010-03-23 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I'm writing a unit test for a view and am having trouble figuring out where the regionmanager is. From reading I've found that if a view doesn't have a regionmanager then it uses the Shell's regionmanager. When running a unit test I don't actually have a Shell, I'm creating the view and

Re: RegionManager/PRISM question

2010-03-23 Thread Stephen Price
Will be investigating this further this morning. Will look into the bootstrapper, from memory, I'm using a fake/mock bootstrapper that's just enough to get the job done. Might be what i'm after. thanks! Stephen On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Miguel Madero m...@miguelmadero.com wrote: AFAIR

Re: RegionManager/PRISM question

2010-03-23 Thread Stephen Price
Hey Miguel, Have spend a couple of hours looking into this. Stepping into the Unity code and all, it seems to register the Region, but when I try to get the region out of the RegionManager it's empty, has no regions in it. Unfortunately I've used up my time on it and have to move onto other

Re: RegionManager/PRISM question

2010-03-23 Thread Stephen Price
I was about to post a question to StackOverflow and it showed me similar questions. In one I found a link to another similar question that had the answer i was after. RegionManager.SetRegionManager(view, this.Container.ResolveIRegionManager()); RegionManager.UpdateRegions(); I've added the above

Re: Prism, how to switch Regions

2010-03-24 Thread Stephen Price
Being a content control, I'm thinking the region can only contain a single view at a time. On your click event handler how are you telling it to show your new view? Are you using unity to resolve your view or are you creating a new instance of the view manually? Can you post a snippet of the

Re: You can't set Global Styles right?

2010-03-31 Thread Stephen Price
You can use the Silverlight toolkit to apply your theme.xaml file and then put implicit styles in that theme file. Its funny, I was surprised you couldn't do it, had forgotten I was using the toolkit to apply my implicit styles. Glad its part of SL4. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:53 PM, ross

Re: Closing childwindow

2010-04-14 Thread Stephen Price
*From:* ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Wednesday, 14 April 2010 3:57 PM *To:* ozSilverlight *Subject:* Closing childwindow Hey all, I've hit what seems to be a race condition, I've got

Re: App loading speed

2010-04-14 Thread Stephen Price
Know what you mean there. I was implementing Prism by looking at the source code and writing my own bits with the same names that they used in Prism. Prism was in alpha at the time. Switching over was fairly easy (mainly because of my choice of copying that which we ended up using.) Heck, it's

Re: VHDs in Windows 7 (was RE: Silverlight 4)

2010-04-16 Thread Stephen Price
Language is a living breathing thing that evolves and changes. Embrace the change or go back to the original language before it began changing, banging on rocks and pointing. Of course one could also argue that what follows the phase of evolution and improvement is chaos, devolution and decay.

Silverlight 4 bugfixes

2010-04-26 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I was wondering if anyone has seen or know of a list of bugfixes in Silverlight 4 specific to the DataGrid? I'm having an issue with horizontal scrolling in the datagrid which I've found mentioned by others on the forums. I don't want to spend any time on this if its already been fixed

Silverlight 3 datagrid

2010-05-03 Thread Stephen Price
Again I've hit a weird issue with the Silverlight (3) datagrid. I hope the SL4 datagrid is more stable, this is driving me nuts. I'm using a textbox in my CellEdit column template and am navigating to the next row when a key value is pressed. The issue I've hit is when I resize the datagrid so

Keyup event

2010-05-05 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I'm having an issue with the keyup event of textbox. I posted recently about my datagrid messing up on the textchanged so I switched to keyup event and for the most part that's solved the issue with the datagrid raising the textchanged event (even though the text had not changed). I'm

Re: Keyup event

2010-05-05 Thread Stephen Price
Yes, the Text property is databound. I added the following line to the keyup event handler and removed the databinding to see what would happen. Debug.WriteLine(Keypressed +e.Key.ToString() + textbox value: + tb.Text); Keypressed A textbox value:A Keypressed A textbox value: Keypressed A

Re: Keyup event

2010-05-08 Thread Stephen Price
Not at the moment, but will see if i can replicate it in a sample app cheers, Stephen On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Miguel Madero m...@miguelmadero.com wrote: I'm intrigued now. Do you have a mani sample that you could share that replicates this issue? -- Miguel A. Madero Reyes

Re: Invalid or malformed application

2010-05-10 Thread Stephen Price
A useful tip that some may not know (apologies if I'm telling anyone how to suck eggs). Turning on Break on Exceptions in VS (Ctrl-Alt-E then check the Thrown checkbox next to Common Language Runtime Exceptions) can help catch Silverlight/Xaml exceptions. Resharper (5) also seems a lot nicer

Validation on non visible datagrid

2010-05-10 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, Not sure where to go with this one. I have a datagrid on a tab displaying some data and some validation which works fine. The same data is displayed in a second tab in another datagrid (different layout). I'm not sure how to trigger the validation on the second tab/datagrid. If user

Re: Validation on non visible datagrid

2010-05-10 Thread Stephen Price
Silverlight 3 (at the moment, not sure when the schedule to upgrade to 4 is yet). We're using Data annotations though so will have a look at the Validator class. We're using CSLA so it was tricky getting it working. One thing I've noticed is that when you get an error in the datagrid it won't let

Re: Long running animation

2010-05-17 Thread Stephen Price
I've done some really slow moving backgrounds before (was in WPF) with really nice effect. So slow they don't notice the movement but notice things look different if they come back to the screen later. Mine wasn't randomly calculated but nice idea. I used Blend and storyboards so I'm thinking if

Liquid Rich Text control

2010-05-27 Thread Stephen Price
Quick one, Has anyone used the Liquid Rich Text box? It doesn't seem to be real rtf format and we need a way to convert it's output into rtf for Active Reports. thanks, Stephen ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com

Re: Images invisible

2010-05-28 Thread Stephen Price
It may fail for you from home too. I just tried it on my machine and it didn't work. Pinging somesite.com is actually resolving to a real looking IP address. I'm wondering if either someone is now using it for real?! it now resolves to 82.98.86.175. I started to think i had the wrong url but

Re: Images invisible (SOLVED)

2010-05-28 Thread Stephen Price
Yay me :) I think the setting that does that is related to the Use Local IIS Web server. I do the same, tell it to use IIS. I think if you select a Silverlight unit test project it generates a test page and launches that via the file system path by default. It's fine for a unit test but not for

Re: Prism caching dll's

2010-06-10 Thread Stephen Price
[mailto: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Thursday, 10 June 2010 4:24 PM *To:* ozSilverlight *Subject:* Prism caching dll's Hey all, I've hit a problem on some sites where they appear to be using a proxy of some kind in between the IIS

Re: Dynamic themes and resources

2010-06-21 Thread Stephen Price
+1 for the themes in SL toolkit. I've not looked at how that works in Silverlight 4.0 though, currently using SL3. I'm assuming they've not removed the theming stuff with the introduced implicit styling? (nice to be able to use either and it keeps the backward compatibility) cheers, Stephen On

Re: Deploying RIA service for Silverlight 4

2010-06-23 Thread Stephen Price
628 Email: vinay.tripa...@nab.com.au *From:* ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Thursday, 24 June 2010 1:59 PM *To:* ozSilverlight *Subject:* Re: Deploying RIA service for Silverlight 4 Can you

SDDN Meeting Perth

2010-07-24 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, Starting things up again after a few months break. I'll be showing off some Windows Mobile 7 stuff, and have a few prizes to give away. SDDN Perth July 2010 Meeting When: Wednesday July 28th, 2010, 6:00 pm Where: 43 Below, 43 Barrack Street. Perth. Cost: Free, All welcome. For no extra

Re: Next Vic.NET/SDDN Meeting: Monday 2nd August, 2010

2010-08-06 Thread Stephen Price
Hi Asheesh, The SDDN sites seem to have fragmented somewhat on where events are promoted. I think it was due to not having a site for a while. We're planning an SDDN mixed event at Teched (Stay tuned for details, we need to figure out a free evening if there is one, or shoehorn between other

Re: Next Vic.NET/SDDN Meeting: Monday 2nd August, 2010

2010-08-16 Thread Stephen Price
Oh, yes please! No hurry on when you upload it. Alternatively I can grab it from you at Teched via thumbdrive (assuming I find you among all those people :) I'll be at the UserGroup stand spreading the Silverlight word (Thursday afternoon, but probably other times too) cheers, Stephen On Tue,

Fwd: Windows Phone 7 Deep Dive Workshop [Perth]

2010-10-07 Thread Stephen Price
Just in case Nick hasn't cross posted this to the Silverlight list... (He doesn't appear to have, and am not sure if he's subscribed) Workshop details at the link below. cheers, Stephen -- Forwarded message -- From: Nick Randolph n...@builttoroam.com Date: Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at

Re: Control thumbnails

2010-12-05 Thread Stephen Price
You could look at the wrappanel in the Silverlight toolkit. That would handle your wrapping in a 4 x 4 grid (if you limit the width). If you want to get fancy you could write your own custom control, basing it on a Panel. That way you can have full control over how your panel displays its

Re: Dynamic assembly loading

2011-02-09 Thread Stephen Price
Have a look at this http://development-guides.silverbaylabs.org/Video/Dynamically-Loading-.Dlls-in-Silverlight It seems to cover how I started off doing it on a project last year. I started off copying how Prism does it (it's a pattern with some helper dll's essentially) and then later we swapped

Re: Dynamic assembly loading

2011-02-09 Thread Stephen Price
2010 Bank of the Year From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com Sent: Thursday, 10 February 2011 12:28 PM To: ozSilverlight ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Subject: Re: Dynamic assembly

clearing validation errors

2011-03-01 Thread Stephen Price
Hi all, I've got a Silverlight 4 + RIA + EF4 app here. Using a RadGridView and doing Row validation via; Validator.TryValidateObject(operation, context, results); this.validationSummary.Errors.Add(new ValidationSummaryItem(err.ErrorMessage, string.Empty, ValidationSummaryItemType.ObjectError,

MVVM frameworks

2011-03-01 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I just wanted to kick off some conversation on MVVM frameworks. Self interest - I need to choose one for an upcoming project. The current project is using nRoute but only using a small part of it. It's working but I've not looked at how it's being used too closely (it was already in

Re: MVVM frameworks

2011-03-01 Thread Stephen Price
(caliburn.codeplex.com) -- Now comes with a Windows Phone 7 version I think - MEFedMVVM (mefedmvvm.codeplex.com) - Calcium (calcium.codeplex.com) - WPF Onyx (wpfonyx.codeplex.com) On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Hey all, I just wanted

Load Xap in aspx page

2011-03-10 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I want to open up a xap file and get the AssemblyVersion from a dll in the xap. Can't seem to find any examples of anyone done this, so I'm flailing about trying to find how to open a xap file. I think I may have to resort to treating it like a zip file (maybe using #ZipLib) any other

Re: Load Xap in aspx page

2011-03-10 Thread Stephen Price
*From:* ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Thursday, 10 March 2011 7:08 PM *To:* ozSilverlight *Subject:* Load Xap in aspx page Hey all, I want to open up a xap file and get the AssemblyVersion

Removing an entity

2011-03-14 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, Apologies in advance for the crosspost I have a Silverlight app and am using the Telerik RadGridView control. When I press escape to undo a newly inserted row, I'm getting an exception thrown that is essentially the Entity Framework removing the item from the source. What's strange is

mouseup being swallowed

2011-03-22 Thread Stephen Price
Hey silverlighters, I've got a popup on a usercontrol that's inside a datatemplate on a RadGridView. Hmm... there's a possibility that could be turned into a merry song over some beers tomorrow night at the Perth Silverlight Designer and Developer Network meeting. But I digress So anyway,

Re: EF gurus

2011-03-28 Thread Stephen Price
March 2011 15:05, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Yep, totally understand. Not using EF isn't an option for this project as it's already being used. That leaves finding a work around as the best option. Sort of like jumping off the cliff then having to deal with the fall

Silverlight build

2011-04-20 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, Am just setting up a build server on TFS (finally!) and am getting this error: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\Silverlight\v4.0\Microsoft.Silverlight.Common.targets (104): The Silverlight 4 SDK is not installed. I've installed the Silverlight 4 SDK on the TFS/build server but

More build trauma

2011-04-21 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, Ok, I'm on to the next hurdle I think... I've copied some of the missing folders from msbuild folder onto the build/tfs server, and installed Silverlight SDK and Toolkit. Its fixed a bunch of issues with Silverlight files not being found. I'm still having issues with RIA services

problem installing

2011-04-28 Thread Stephen Price
Hi, I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2010 + Silverlight 4 Tools onto my build server (in the desperate hope that it will then allow me to build Silverlight solutions) It won't allow me to install the Silverlight 4 Tools, it says I have to install Visual Studio, Express or Web. I have VS2010

Re: problem installing

2011-04-29 Thread Stephen Price
Systems Exego Group Ph: +61 3 9566 5243 Mob: 0411 203036 www: http://www.exego.com.au Australasia's preferred supplier of aftermarket vehicle parts, solutions and accessories From:        Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com To:        ozSilverlight ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Date

Re: Tip: Silverlight page authorisation

2011-05-15 Thread Stephen Price
On the note of security, I had a look at PrinciplePermission, an attribute you can set on your domain service methods to check if the user is in a particular role and throw security exception if they are not. What I also need to check is if the user has permission to access a particular job.

Silverlight versions

2011-05-23 Thread Stephen Price
Hi all, I decided to have another quick look at getting my build server (TFS) to build a solution. Vanilla solution created today, pointed the server at it and got some errors. Frustrating. I looked at what was missing and tried to identify why it was failing. Discovered that the RIA services

Re: Silverlight versions

2011-05-23 Thread Stephen Price
be warned (or better yet, the SP2 preview stuff should be installed elsewhere). Chris On 23 May 2011 19:31, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Hi all, I decided to have another quick look at getting my build server (TFS) to build a solution. Vanilla solution created today, pointed

Perth May SDDN meeting

2011-05-23 Thread Stephen Price
Reminder for Perth SDDN meeting tomorrow evening. http://www.meetup.com/Perth-SDDN Jake Ginnivan will be presenting this month, sharing his road trip to Mix/Las Vegas and then some stuff on whats coming Mango/SL 5. Then if people are keen he'll show off some MVC framework for WP7. Date:

XAML Source

2011-06-14 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, selfish plug Just wanted to let everyone know I've launched a new blog. http://www.xamlsource.net Normally I wouldn't wave my arms about so much about yet another blog, but I have a page on the blog I'm calling the XAML Cheatsheet. Essentially, its a cheatsheet of all the XAML things I

Re: Silverlight object not showing - xap downloading but not launching

2011-06-16 Thread Stephen Price
I've not seen that problem so don't have anything useful to add. I did want to comment on the update though. I noticed a strange thing on my play dev machine yesterday. I had installed the Silverlight 5 beta stuff and was poking around with it a little to check out the new stuff. Yesterday I told

Re: Refreshing an SL4 app

2011-09-07 Thread Stephen Price
hehe, re-read your email and you did say it was SL4 app, so yeah, its probably what I said. :) On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.comwrote: sounds like it may be the client machine caching the xap file. If that is your problem, if you clear the cache

Build

2011-09-21 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, So most people have probably absorbed the stuff shown at BUILD and so I thought I'd kick off a new thread and see what people think. (I'm yet to spend any time watching videos but have read a few blog posts about it) A couple of things spring to mind. Silverlight will soon be (if not

Re: Build

2011-09-21 Thread Stephen Price
. Which could mean XAML Design Developer Network or with the X meaning anything if you want to include HTML5 (like the XMUG run by thoughtworks). -David Burela ** ** On 21 September 2011 19:12, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Hey all, ** ** So most people

RE: ozdotnet vs ozwinrt etc

2011-09-28 Thread Stephen Price
+1 ozXaml. Will cut down the cross posts as well as give wp7 dev a list (and cover future flavours) Sent from my Windows Phone -- From: Scott Barnes Sent: 29/09/2011 7:16 AM To: ozSilverlight Subject: Re: ozdotnet vs ozwinrt etc Thus a point earlier, have ye not

Re: Skills

2012-02-29 Thread Stephen Price
I think he meant *real* designers, Shane. :p On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Shane Morris (Automatic Studio) sh...@automaticstudio.com.au wrote: Damn straight! You don't see me coding do you? ... Well, much. Shane Shane Morris | Automatic Studio |

Re: Skills

2012-02-29 Thread Stephen Price
if they were that it be a bad thing. Just saying. On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:18 PM, carl.scarl...@bankwest.com.au wrote: What about us closet designers? ** ** *From:* ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price step

Re: Ria services, Data annotations

2012-03-01 Thread Stephen Price
Try [DisplayFormat(ConvertEmptyStringToNull = false)] This post isn't exactly your scenario but it could be related to the strings you have (nvarchar) and they might be defaulting to null?

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