A New Age: Silverlight: 2010

mercredi 6 octobre 2010

<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" style="position:absolute" />

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdevtools/archive/2008/03/11/absolute-and-relative-positioning-in-visual-web-developer-2008-designer.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533005%28VS.85%29.aspx

lundi 4 octobre 2010

Javascript Review

JavaScript is what the language is usually called. However, the name JavaScript is owned by Netscape. Microsoft calls its version of the language JScript. The generic name of the language is EcmaScript.

Difference between Javascript and JScript :

http://javascript.about.com/od/reference/a/jscript.htm

Hello World :

<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
    document.write("Hello World!");
</script>
</body>
</html>

Javascript in the Head section :

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
    function message() 
    {
        alert("This alert box was called with the onload event");
    }
</script>
</head>

<body onload="message()">
<p>We usually use the head section for functions (to be sure that the functions are loaded before they are called).</p>
</body>
</html>

For browsers that do not support JavaScript :

Browsers that do not support JavaScript, will display JavaScript as page content. To prevent them from doing this, and as a part of the JavaScript standard, the HTML comment tag should be used to "hide" the JavaScript. Just add an HTML comment tag  (end of comment) after the last JavaScript statement, like this:

<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
    document.write("Hello World!");
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>

Alert Box :

alert("You pressed Cancel!");

Confirm Box :

confirm("Press a button");

Prompt Box :

function Prompt() {
    prompt("sometext","defaultvalue");
}

The for Loop :

for (var=startvalue;var<=endvalue;var=var+increment)
{
    //code to be executed
}

getElementById() Accesses the first element with the specified id.

<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
    function getValue() {
        var x = document.getElementById("myHeader");
        alert(x.innerHTML);
    }
</script>
</head>
<body>

<h1 id="myHeader" onclick="getValue()">Click me!</h1>

</body>
</html>

getElementByName Accesses all elements with the specified name.

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
    function getElements() {
        var x = document.getElementsByName("x");
        alert(x.length);
    }
</script>
</head>
<body>

<input name="x" type="text" size="20" /><br />
<input name="x" type="text" size="20" /><br />
<input name="x" type="text" size="20" /><br /><br />
<input type="button" onclick="getElements()" value="How many elements named 'x'?" />

</body>
</html>

mardi 28 septembre 2010

Slider : MouseLeftButtonDown event

Constructor :

mediaSlider.AddHandler(FrameworkElement.MouseLeftButtonDownEvent, new MouseButtonEventHandler(mediaSlider_MouseLeftButtonDown), true);

Event handler :

private void mediaSlider_MouseLeftButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
txt.Text ="MouseLeftButton DOWN";
}

http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/p/117368/264314.aspx

mercredi 18 août 2010

Silverlight: UserControl vs CustomControl

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/jbienz/Creating-Lookless-Controls-for-WPF-and-Silverlight/

mercredi 28 avril 2010

Find a control in a WPF/Silverlight by name

Public static T FindVisualChildByName(DependencyObject parent, string name) where T : DependencyObject

{
  for (int i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(parent); i++)
  {
      var child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(parent, i);
      string controlName = child.GetValue(Control.NameProperty) as string;
      if (controlName == name)
      {
          return child as T;
      }
      else
      {
          T result = FindVisualChildByName(child, name);
          if (result != null)
              return result;
      }
  }
  return null;
}

This works for the Visual elements, not for the current elements of a parent: http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/p/85766/402922.aspx

Ref:
http://flatlinerdoa.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!17124D03A9A052B0!566.entry
http://blogs.msdn.com/kmahone/archive/2009/03/29/visualtreehelper.aspx
http://enterpriseetc.com/post/VisualTreeHelper-Class-in-Silverlight.aspx

mercredi 21 avril 2010

SL Custom Controls

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc721611.aspx#id0430049

Step 1: Create a New Silverlight Project
Step 2: Derive from Control (or ContentControl)
Step 3: Create a Control Template
Step 4: Create a Default Control Template
Step 5: Add Template Bindings
Step 6: Replace TextBlock with ContentPresenter
Step 7: Add a Click Event
Step 8: Add Visual States
The Completed Control

MVVM

http://blogs.silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2010/01/28/mvvm-it-s-not-kool-aid.aspx

Silverlight: Refresh DataGrid

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1826593/silverlight-3-how-to-refresh-a-datagrid-content

vendredi 5 mars 2010

Silverlight 3: Copier Coller du texte

La version 3 de SL ne permet pas d'avoir le menu contextuel habituel en faisant un click droit, donc pas possible de faire du copier/coller avec click droit.. en effet, le click droit sera géré dans Silverlight 4.

Cet article présente une solution pour contourner le problème :
http://geekswithblogs.net/bdiaz/archive/2010/03/01/a-simple-selectable-silverlight-textblock-sort-of.aspx

mardi 23 février 2010

Cacher le DataPager si une seule ligne de données à afficher

http://blogs.msdn.com/mairaw/archive/2008/03/25/how-to-hide-a-datapager-control-when-there-is-only-one-page-of-data.aspx

mercredi 10 février 2010

A new age

After several months in a crapy mission with self absorbed people, I'm glad to have this new start in a new Silverlight 3 project. This might sound dumb, but it's so releaving to see that the people you're dealing with are more into their job and more interested into going forward than in their ego and doing everything to look better than anyone, while they actually suck !

I'm creating styles for SL3 controls, and probably will turn to creating custom controls. It's really exciting to work on new stuff, pull your hair out to fix and solve things ! the work load and late hours don't matter anymore, you're into it and glad to be ! It feels alive !

I've been making a mistake thinking i don't need Expression Blend, but it turned out to be a very interesting and powerful tool, not meant only for designers, but also for developpers.

I'll try and post new things about styles in SL within the next weeks.

This is only the start, and hopefully this will last for very long !

A New Age: Silverlight