Silverlight Blog http://silverlightblog.saschabaumann.com Alles Rund um Microsoft Silverlight - Blog.SilverlightDeveloper.de Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:42:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Styles from different files as static resources http://silverlightblog.saschabaumann.com/2009/10/styles-from-different-files-as-static-resources/ http://silverlightblog.saschabaumann.com/2009/10/styles-from-different-files-as-static-resources/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:42:56 +0000 admin http://silverlightblog.saschabaumann.com/?p=81 Hello everyone,

to start a silverlight project, i have a kind of default-template which I enriched with a CSS-like decentralized style today. This is done very easy now in Silverlight 3. First you habe to set up a file containing your style. In my case it was a file in a new Styles folder called TextBock.Default.xaml where I entered this dummy code:

<ResourceDictionary
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" 
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" 
    xmlns:Windows="clr-namespace:System.Windows;assembly=System.Windows">
    <Windows:Style x:Key="TextBlock.Default" TargetType="TextBlock">
        <Windows:Setter Property="FontFamily" Value="Times New Roman"/>
        <Windows:Setter Property="FontSize" Value="16"/>
        <Windows:Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Black"/>
        <Windows:Setter Property="LineHeight" Value="26"/>
    </Windows:Style>
</ResourceDictionary>

after that, I created a MergedDictionary in my app.xaml like that:

 <Application.Resources>
         <ResourceDictionary>
             <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
                 <ResourceDictionary Source="Styles/TextBlock.Default.xaml"/>
             </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
          </ResourceDictionary>
     </Application.Resources>

from now on, you can call this style like you’re used to with {StaticResource TextBlock.Default} within your application. Nice way to manage the styles as I think, and much easier to maintain than having all your styles plugged in your app.xaml in total.

Have fun playing with it :o)
Sascha

]]> http://silverlightblog.saschabaumann.com/2009/10/styles-from-different-files-as-static-resources/feed/ InitParams with Out-Of-Browser Apps http://silverlightblog.saschabaumann.com/2009/09/initparams-with-out-of-browser-apps/ http://silverlightblog.saschabaumann.com/2009/09/initparams-with-out-of-browser-apps/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:00:39 +0000 admin http://silverlightblog.saschabaumann.com/?p=76 Hello everyone,

I just tried to figure out, how to pass initial parameters to a Silverlight App, that runs out of browser. We dont have a Webpage to pass InitParams and we cannot access Web.Config entries.

So i came up with the idea, to use Isolated Storage for this task. Before installing an App Out-Of-Browser we need to access the Webpage. In this case, we can read the initial paramters from Web.Config or from Silverlight-Tag, and store them to Isolated Storage.

Now we need a code-block to check, if app runs OOB (Application.Current.IsOutOfBrowser) and in this case, we read the paramters from Isolated Storage instead. So the OOB-App is configured the same way as the Web-App.

This was just one Idea, that worked. Any other suggestions are very welcome.

]]> http://silverlightblog.saschabaumann.com/2009/09/initparams-with-out-of-browser-apps/feed/ Silverlight 3 Out of Browser Experience http://silverlightblog.saschabaumann.com/2009/09/silverlight-3-out-of-browser-experience/ http://silverlightblog.saschabaumann.com/2009/09/silverlight-3-out-of-browser-experience/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:36:25 +0000 admin http://silverlightblog.saschabaumann.com/?p=72 Hello everyone !

Hallo zusammen,

um schlichtweg mehr Leser anzusprechen werde ich die Blog-Sprache auf englisch umstellen. Ich hoffe, es stört nicht zu sehr :o)

A nice video about the usage of silverlight apps out-of-browser by Tim Heuer can be found here:

Video about Out-Of-Browser Experience

]]> http://silverlightblog.saschabaumann.com/2009/09/silverlight-3-out-of-browser-experience/feed/ Mike Snows ‘Silverlight Tips of the Day’ #91 -#100 http://silverlightblog.saschabaumann.com/2009/03/mike-snows-silverlight-tips-of-the-day-91-100/ http://silverlightblog.saschabaumann.com/2009/03/mike-snows-silverlight-tips-of-the-day-91-100/#comments Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:28:25 +0000 admin http://silverlightblog.saschabaumann.com/?p=50 Bei Mike Snow geht es Schlag auf Schlag, und jetzt hat er schon den 100sten “Tip of the Day” für Silverlight online gestellt. Herzlichen Glückwunsch von mir, und hier eine Zusammenfassung der letzten 10 Posts…

Besonders interessant ist für Entwickler der 100te Post. Dort geht es um die Details der kommenden Version 3 von Silverlight, deren Beta 1 man sich unter http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight3/default.aspx herunterladen kann