One of our early blogs was about extracting images from databases, websites and showing them on the screen. The blog(see it here) dealt with a) Retrieving images from the www b) Retrieving images from the database when retrieved as a binary. We realized there are some more scenarios to take care of here c) Save […]
Category Archives: Silverlight
WPF/Silverlight Canvas Vs Single Cell Grid
I’ve often been asked the question of when should we use a Canvas and when a Single Celled Grid…. This is a snapshot of the an MSDN article . Our inputs are marked as [Cennest:]. The source can be read at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff646962.aspx A single-cell Grid is just like a regular Grid except without any row […]
Improving WPF/Silverlight- WCF Communication!
While working on a recent assignment related to establishing and optimizing duplex communication with Silverlight and WCF,we learnt quite a lot of new concepts like HttpPollingDuplex binding with multiple messages mode Http Long Polling designs etc. While most of these concepts were new we did get a bulb flash on how to improve basic WPF/Silverlight […]
Monetize your Silverlight Videos!!
Silverlight streaming seems to have caught the fancy of many and a lot of sites are now streaming Silverlight videos.. however very few are making money from doing so!!.. Recently came across an Open Source Silverlight Media player called OpenVideoPlayer which lets you do just that!!.. Dynamically Insert ads into your media files with configurations […]
Silverlight:- Browsing without a Browser??
Wanna navigate to Google.com from your Silverlight application?? Just put the following code HtmlPage.Window.Navigate(new Uri(“http://www.google.co.in/”) We all know THAT…so what’s this blog all about??.Now lets take this application Out of Browser This is what you will get.. WHY???:- Because there’s no browser when running out of browser, so you can’t use the DOM and Scripting.Html […]