A common mistake in Silverlight is for people to use the Canvas.Left and Canvas.Top property when positioning elements. In Silverlight 2, there is a push towards a relative positioning model. This makes the Margin, HorizontalAlignment, and VerticalAlignment very important (for all you CSS people the Margin starts on the Left and goes clockwise). So, how [...]
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Set the source for an image from C#
In Silverlight, there are two ways to set the source for an image.
image.SetValue(Image.SourceProperty,value);
image.Source = new BitmapImage(new Uri(value, UriKind.Absolute));
For the second option you will need to include the following namespace: using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;.
How to dynamically create animations from C# in Silverlight
So you want to create an animation from managed code. To do this, there is quite a bit of code needed. For every animation there needs to be a new StoryBoard, and unfortunately a StoryBoard can not be reused between objects. (Correction: You can reuse a dynamically created StoryBoard. Make sure to [...]
Why won’t media play in Silverlight 2?
The Media Element handles errors pretty gracefully. The errors that do occur are usually related to cross domain problem and setting the Source from managed code.
If you are experiencing errors, make sure to take a look at the address bar. If the site is being run from the local file system and you [...]
Animate multiple transforms from C# - WPF
I have been stuck in the world of WPF for a while, hence the lack of posts. Things have calmed down and I am back.
Let’s talk about animating objects in WPF/XAML/C#. Animating multiple transforms in XAML is easy: setup the initial transforms, add a storyboard, set up an event trigger, and go. [...]
