Agh, I spoke too soon! There is a perfectly good solution, at least in Silverlight 3. (It might only be in 3, since this thread indicates that a bug related to this stuff was fixed in Silverlight 3.) Basically, you need a single converter for the ItemsSource property, but it can be entirely generic without … Read more
Well, you already found the solution 😉 StackPanels won’t fill any remaining space by default because their size is always equal to the combined required size of their child elements. Grid is a great way to go because it will dynamically resize when the browser size changes. Mark’s answer of using a DockPanel works fine … Read more
That’s the frame rate counter for the emulator / phone that is on by default whenever you debug. To turn it off, go to App.xaml.cs and comment this line out: Application.Current.Host.Settings.EnableFrameRateCounter = true; For more information on what the numbers mean (they can be pretty helpful for tracking app performance), see Jeff Wilcox’s post on … Read more
A straight forward approach for this in a textbox is private void textBox1_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e) { if (e.Key == Key.Enter) { Debug.WriteLine(“Enter”); } }
I definitely think you should use the MVVM pattern for Silverlight applications – and one of the benefits of the pattern is that you can actually make your application really blendable through some simple techniques. I often refer to “blendability” as “design for designability” – that you use certain techniques to make sure your application … Read more
Basically a ViewModel is a wrapper around model. Now that might not be very helpful yet 🙂 Think of the model as the data your application works with, say a person. Now a person has a birthday and you might want to have a form to enter the person’s birthday. Suppose we are just using … Read more
The query string works perfectly, but I wouldn’t use DateTime.Now, because it forces the user to re-download the app every time. Instead, we use the following: protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { var versionNumber = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version.ToString(); this.myApp.Source += “?” + versionNumber; } This way all you have to do is increment the version number … Read more
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