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I've just bought an upgrade to Blend 2, which I notice still doesn't appear to be able to target silverlight 2.
I see that the 2.5 preview does, but I can't seem to find any info on what the upgrade path (any costs and timescale) will be. Has anyone seen any details of what this will be?
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The Expression team has said that Blend will continue to rev as Silverlight revs. I'm not sure whether there will be a full studio update when Silverlight ships, but I would expect a more finalized release or service pack for Blend at that time.
You can view upgrade information here:
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Upgrade.aspx[^]
Service packs and minor releases are of course free. When Blend went from 1.0 to 2.0 the upgrade cost was $99. You can also buy a subscription for continuous updates.
Other ways to get Expression:
If you have an MSDN Pro license you have Expression Blend already.
If you have an MSDN Pro Premium license you have Expression Studio already.
If you are a college student you have access to Expression Studio through DreamSpark:
https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com[^]
DreamSpark is currently only available in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium.
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Thanks Jared,
Could you just clarify, are you saying that silverlight 2.x will correspond to Blend 2.x, and therefore Silverlight 2 support will *likely* be added to Blend 2 as a (free) service pack -
Or - When Silverlight 2 is finally released, a new release of Blend 3 will fully support it, which is likely to be available at an upgrade cost?
Obviously it's all guesswork to a certain extent until it's announced, but intelligent guesses are usually better than my guesses 
Cheers,
Steve
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I just forwarded the question on to the Blend team for a more official answer. They said they don't have any annoucments to make about future versions or service packs at this time. However, they also went on to say they are committed to enabling existing Blend 2 customers to create Silverlight 2 content when it is released at no charge.
So, yes, there should be some sort of free update or add-on for existing Blend 2 users.
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Many thanks for your help Jared
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Hello
How can i access to an Element of the Startup-Form from a other (WPF-)class??
My start is:
Public Sub New()
MyBase.New()
Me.InitializeComponent()
End Sub
Many thanks to all!
Peter
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You can always use the StartupUri on the Application to find this. Here's an example, in C#:
MyControl control =((Window1)Application.Current.StartupUri).MyControl
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Hi,
i was reading this http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WCF/WCFWPFChat.aspx[^]
article, and working with the application and its source code, as well as this one
http://www.ms.phy.hr/wcfchat/[^]
which it is somewhat based on.
I got my client/server to communicate with each other, but only if i run them on the same machine. I just don´t know how to configure the client and server when they are running on different machines in a network or over the internet. Every single example i found so far was about localhost. So I was hoping you could tell me how to set the endpoints(and the bindings) for Network and Internet on Client and server. An Example would be very helpful. Have a lot of thanks
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Hi All, i'm trying to replicate the Windows Media Player style buttons in WPF, however i cant quite get it right, specifically the glow on the bottom. I've searched google and MSDN however i cant find a guide or existing control anywhere.
I can replicate them with a airbrush and colour dodge in photoshop, with a overlay layer for the top gradient. The glow effect in WPF doesnt quite get the right look though. I'm also having a bit of trouble figuring out the orders (the highlight part) without moving a path around when an item is selected. See this image:
http://www.intelligentflight.net/mark/WMP-MenuBar.jpg
taken from WMP and blown up 200%.
The corners on the top are easy enough using a border and just adding a corner radius to the top left/right, the highlight i can do with a rectangle or path and about 60% opacity, however the blue glow at the bottom has me rather confused. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
--
Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
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Hi,
some of you might have already seen this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CufEjqqZ7WU
Does anybody know if and where there's some code around?
Kind regards,
Stevie
Greetings,
Stephan Eberle
hawke@deltacity.org
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That's really neat--but no, I don't sorry.
“Time and space can be a bitch.”
–Gushie, Quantum Leap
{o,o}.oO( Looking for a great RSS reader? Try FeedBeast! )
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Just to let you know - I'm most of the way through the auto commenting power toy. It's working pretty neatly right now - although I still haven't figured out the whole commenting attributes bit yet. Boy am I having fun.
The next bit is to work on the auto-uncommenting. 
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Awesome! Can't wait to see what you've come up with. It'll sure be nice to comment XAML with some authority!
Pete O'Hanlon wrote: The next bit is to work on the auto-uncommenting.
 That would be nice, too. 
“Time and space can be a bitch.”
–Gushie, Quantum Leap
{o,o}.oO( Looking for a great RSS reader? Try FeedBeast! )
|)””’) Built with home-grown CodeProject components!
-”-”-
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I'm wishing that I'd done it sooner - it's already proving to be a time saver.
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“Time and space can be a bitch.”
–Gushie, Quantum Leap
{o,o}.oO( Looking for a great RSS reader? Try FeedBeast! )
|)””’) Built with home-grown CodeProject components!
-”-”-
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Well - I've uploaded the source for MoXAMLPowerToys to my blog here[^]. Please feel free to download it and have a look (and be my unofficial beta-tester  ). I'd love to know what you think.
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Hey Pete. I'm away from my comp for a couple days, but will definitely check that out when I get home (probably Tuesday)!
Looking forward to trying it out.
Logan
“Time and space can be a bitch.”
–Gushie, Quantum Leap
{o,o}.oO( Looking for a great RSS reader? Try FeedBeast! )
|)””’) Built with home-grown CodeProject components!
-”-”-
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Logan - I've updated the code for MoXAMLPowerToys. I hope you like it - the code is significantly reengineered, and it should be easier for me to add new features now.
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Interesting.
Try searching for augmented reality if you haven't done so already.
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I'm trying to make an RSS reader in WPF. Everything works fine in terms of getting the data, but when the description is loaded, some websites use XML to format the description and add images, etc. to it. What is the best way to convert the XML code that they use and convert it into something that XAML can use?
Thanks.
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Search google for "html to xaml". RSS descriptions would be in html or xhtml, for display on a web page.
This[^] looks promising.
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Can someone show me how to add the
ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible" as a property to the WPF Listbox properties. I have the code below:
Public Property HorizontalScrollBar() As ScrollViewer
Get
HorizontalScrollBar.VerticalScrollBarVisibility = ScrollBarVisibility.Visible
End Get
Set(ByVal value As New ScrollViewer()
Dim sv As New ScrollViewer()
Me.HorizontalScrollBar = value
End Set
End Property
Thanks
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Your code doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but to add a dependency property to an object, say myListBox, do this:
myListBox.SetValue( ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibilityProperty, ScrollBarVisibility.Visible );
I presume that would work, but I don't know for sure.
“Time and space can be a bitch.”
–Gushie, Quantum Leap
{o,o}.oO( Looking for a great RSS reader? Try FeedBeast! )
|)””’) Built with home-grown CodeProject components!
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Hi All,
I've been plodding through msdn (and several websites including this excellent one ) and meddling around for the last few hours to find a solution to the aforementioned issue and was wondering if any kind soul would be willing to offer some assistance
I'm in the middle of writing a simple reporting application. The application should function as follows:
1. A TreeView is populated with a load of XML Tag names
2. The displayed TreeViewItem(s) (the XML tags) are dragged and dropped onto a RichTextBox
3. The items should become ReadOnly so the user doesn't accidentally delete any parts of the tag (thus messing up the report generation), although the user should be able to delete the object entirely by selecting the whole thing
4. The reporting magic happens
I can insert the tags as hyperlinks but it's a naff approach and I'd quite like to have the tags as objects in their own right as it's possible that users might want to insert their own hyperlinks....
Anyone got any ideas? It's been doing my head in for the last few hours...
Cheers,
Drew
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The only way I can think of doing this would be to extend the RTB and insert a custom run, which you would use. You would basically handle the keypresses in your RTB and see if you were inside the run - if you were, you'd suppress the keypresses - if not, you'd let them bubble up.
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