Thursday, September 9, 2010

Bet You Didn't Know

Well ... Of course you know some of them ... Here are they ...

1. When you install Silverlight toolkit, a sample page gets into your machine: You can open the page and have a quick look at the controls. Default location is ...
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v4.0\Toolkit\Apr10\Samples\default.htm
You also get the toolkit document in
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v4.0\Toolkit\Apr10

2. My domain hosting company doesn't support .xap MIME type: The solution is to change your .xap extension to .zip and it will work. Don't forget to change this in the Object tag source param also. One tiny problem with this approach is that your Splash screen (That you built using plain old XAML and JavaScript) won't work.

3. MouseLeftButtonDown event is not fired when there is no background specified: When you write an mouse event in a Panel you need to specify some background. So if you want to make the background transparent add Background="Transparent" instead of leaving it blank. This is true for other FrameworkElements too (Like Fill in Rectangle)

4. You can specify your custom xml namespaces with default url: You need to add XmlnsDefinitionAttribute in AssemblyInfo.cs file and give an unique url as xml namespace. For example [assembly:XmlnsDefinition("http://mrgni.com","TestLibrary")]

5. You can go full-screen automatically: Well only for Out of Browser applications with elevated trusts. And guess what? All keyboard controls work there.

6. There is no cross domain restriction when your application runs in elevated trust: Well isn't it nice? For elevated trust you can work with COM components. Specially helpful for working with Microsoft Office documents. But whatever you do You can not go Administrator mode in elevated trust mode.




1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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Best, Candace