There is an excellent demo of using Out Of Brower (OOB) disconnected Silverlight on the official home page of:
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/silverlight/demos/oob/default.html
Does anyone know where I could find / download the source of this and modify it to use as a proof-of-concept to show my boss so he can green-light a Silverlight project?
thanks!
Update: I am also aware of the very rough demo made available at:
http://www.silverlight.net/learn/videos/silverlight-videos/out-of-browser-experiences/
but it is very basic and ugly, unlike the one I am attempting to locate.
This demo is part of a Microsoft demo kit that the Silverlight team has put together for the Microsoft field to use when demoing Silverlight and the new features. Unfortunately it is not available externally at this time.
John Wiese - ISV Architect Evangelist/Microsoft
For those interested in an answer to this, the closest solution to be found is to use a Silverlight Reflector to inspect the code and styles. This is VERY useful for seeing how someone did a certain effect.
Silverlight Spy (trialware)
A Silverlight Reflector plug-in (untested)
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I am planning to integrate Mvc.Futures in my project, but am unable to find any official documentation for this library.
Official project page on nuget.org points to old asp.net project page on codeplex and even there is not so clear where information about Futures can be found.
I might be missing something, but would appreciate if anyone can give me pointers to the right place.
Thanks.
This is follow up on my own question:
I haven't found anything else related to Mvc.Futures after i posted this question, so i ended up using T4MVC which seem to get more love from MSFT than the Futures itself (lead developer of this template is MSFT employee David Ebbo).
We are using it quite successfully so far (more than 8 months) and i am pleased with the results.
For better integration with Visual Studio i am using AutoT4MVC extensions which runs the T4 templates on each change in the sections of the MVC app that require rebuild (such as Controllers, Content*, Views etc..)
To sum up - i would suggest that you stay out of Mvc.Futures for now and use T4MVC instead.
As part of the next project I'm working on, the customer has asked for a user-customisable dashboard-style web page where they can place multiple different chart controls populated with various bits of data.
There are tons of libraries out there that allow you to do this kind of thing but most do not support IE6. (it's out of my hands, we have to target IE6. I know, pity me)
I've had great difficulty finding any appropriate 3rd party control libraries that will work on IE6 and are still supported so any recommendations would be welcome.
The rest of this app is ASP.NET (3.5) but we are wanting to make the dashboard section MVC so either native ASP.NET or MVC components would be fine but MVC would be preferable.
jqChart supports IE6. It has version for ASP.NET MVC - http://www.jqchart.com/SamplesAspNetMVC
By far the best IE6-compatible library for charts is Raphael and its sister library g.Raphael. The main library is a general graphics library; the sister lib is for graphs and charts.
Hope that helps.
Is any tools for automation in internationalization for mvc exist? I need to internationalize web solution now. it wasn't implemented any features for internationalization there. All content are hard coded mostly (I mean view texts, messages and so on). Maybe some one could advice something that will be helpful in this case.
I am not aware of any tools that might help you if everything is hardcoded. I would recommend you the following guide.
Unfortunately with MVC we don't have the benefit of Visual Studio's "Generate Local Resources" command (available in the Tools menu when a Web Form is open), which does just what you need. So unless someone wrote a tool for this, you are stuck with copying your text to resources manually.
I've always used VS for .NET development, but am just wondering about the alternatives around now. I'm especially interested in use for ASP.NET MVC development. I'm not bothered about any of the visual design aspects of vs, but of course love intellisense and the debugging features.
So, for anyone who has tried SharpDevelop when doing ASP.NET MVC:
How did you get on?
What are the main disadvantages and pain points?
Thanks
By the looks of it, SharpDevelop won't have any problems compiling the project and editing the source...you just won't get any tooling support. From what I've read, that includes aspx files.
Having said that, there does seem to be some movement around an ASP.NET plug-in editor for SharpDevelop here.
Source: http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/t/7872.aspx
As an aside, it might to nice to update this question with your experiences if you go down that route... (:
I have used SharpDevelop to create an ASP.Net WebForms project - didn't have too many issues with it. The lack of a visual designer is certainly annoying, but it forces you to think about the source directly, which is a good thing...
I haven't done anything with MVC yet - though from the sounds of things the only thing that's stopping SD at the moment is the tooling. The core developers might have no plans for that, but it's an open source project, so there's nothing stopping an independent effort.
I've gone a very limited amount of work (bug investigation) with the SD code - it seems to me that once you understand their classes it's not bad code... Their failing as a project has been (as it is with most open source efforts) that everyone wants to code, so the documentation gets ignored. No-one likes writing documentation, but clear documentation might have led to far greater participation...
It's a great project, but their decision to ignore the web is madness.
As Kieron said, you'll be able to compile and you'll lack tooling. Unfortunately, #Develop's forum says that they don't plan to directly support it:
ASP.NET support is not planned for SharpDevelop.
The lack of tooling and knowing that it's not coming anytime soon would be the major pain point for me.
I'm looking for the best way to localize a Prism 2 WPF app that might have several modules ported to Silverlight 3. Has anyone successfully localized a Prism 2 WPF app with several modules?
I'm solved the same problem by having a static LocalizationManager that is reachable from XAML by a custom markupextension, and that works very well.
Take a look at http://www.wpftutorial.net/LocalizeMarkupExtension.html for an example!
Yes. You have a lot of options and the gamut of them can be found in this excellent article on CodePlex:
http://wpflocalization.codeplex.com/
There is very little that is specific to Prism regarding localization.