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Create an automatic scrollable image slider in Silverlight
I guess someone will send me an comment and say something like: “Why not simply use XXXX, why write your own control” ;) I know there are a lot of controls out there that will do stuff for me, but I want to know how they are created, and try to create my own solution to learn more etc.
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ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview 5 – Working with Converters and the new CDN
In this blog post I’m going to show you how you can use the new Converter feature during data binding, to make this post more special I have used the new Microsoft AJAX CDN (Content Delivery Network), so I don’t need to have the AJAX 4.0 script on my server. The example code I use in this post, will use the ASP.NET AJAX DataView and also Microsoft ADO.NET Data Services to retrieve data from the server. My fantasy isn’t so special good, but I decided to make a little “rental” application, where I will use ASP.NET AJAX to simply show a list of cars and the current rental status. The status of a rental car will be sent to the client as a string and can be of the following values, Approved, Not Approved and Pending. The little app I’m building for this post, will show the rental status as different colors for the user.
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Use a ResourceDictionay and an external resources located in an assembly
I have notice that some developers are asking questions about how to use a ResourceDictionary and reference it to a resource located in a separate assembly. Here is a simple step by step guide to make it possible, I assume you already have a Silverlight project created:
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Silverlight and scaling
I have tried so many different ways to scale a Silverlight app while resizing the browser. When I almost got everything to work, the Grid control start to behave really strange, start to clip my app. Why should it be so hard to get scaling to work, why not just add a property to the Silverlight host, scaling=”enable”, and it will automatically scale our Silverlight app. After some time I got everything to work perfectly and thought maybe some other people would be interested in how to create a Silverlight app that can scale, so here is my solution. This post will ONLY focus on scaling the whole Silverlight host content with the ScalingTransform feature, to make the app fit into any kind of resolution. The code is tested on Silverlight 3.0.
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Keep the first “empty” Item in a listbox when using ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview 5 and Observer
I got a question as a comment on my previous post about the new features and changes to ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview 5. I hope I understood the question right ;) It was about using a listbox and add an empty item at the top of the list, and keep it there when adding new items to an array that is bounded to the list, and by using the Observer feature. Maybe some more have or will have the same question, so I decided to write a blog post about it.
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ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview 5 available
Microsoft have recently released the Preview 5 of ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 on CodePlex.