Re: Silverlight or WPF - WPF Discussion Boards

Mycroft Holmes10-Feb-11 21:06

Mycroft Holmes

10-Feb-11 21:06

WPF is desktop
Silverlight is Web

This should be enough to base you decision on. Although the lines are quite blurred. Basically they are the same with the same learning curve - steep.

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Toniyo Jackson10-Feb-11 21:39

Toniyo Jackson

10-Feb-11 21:39

So to start sliver light what are things i need to install?
and also give some good links or books to learn silver light?

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Abhinav S10-Feb-11 21:40

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10-Feb-11 21:40

For learning purposes, you could start with WPF.
Silverlight is more or less a subset of WPF.

Depends on what you want to do though.

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Toniyo Jackson10-Feb-11 21:42

Toniyo Jackson

10-Feb-11 21:42

Ok. thanks for the reply.
Can u suggest me some good links or books to learn?

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Abhinav S10-Feb-11 21:49

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10-Feb-11 21:49

Unfortunately, I'm not sure about WPF books.
For Silverlight, •Pro Silverlight 4" by Matthew MacDonald, is IMO, a good book.

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Pete O'Hanlon10-Feb-11 11:58

10-Feb-11 11:58

Why not just search the Visual Tree for it? That would be a fairly simple, and convenient, way to do it. Just start at the root visual and iterate over the tree until you find it.

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Pete O'Hanlon11-Feb-11 3:23

11-Feb-11 3:23

If you take a look at the VisualTreeHelper[^] class, you can use it to iterate over the visual tree from your root element (e.g. the top level window).

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Pete O'Hanlon11-Feb-11 9:08

11-Feb-11 9:08

You're welcome.

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dasblinkenlight10-Feb-11 15:20

dasblinkenlight

10-Feb-11 15:20

Could you please explain what the string variable "name" represents? Also please tell us in what class is the GetContentControl method defined?

memory usage

arkiboys8-Feb-11 23:11

arkiboys

8-Feb-11 23:11

My silverlight application seems to be using more memory and more memory every time I refresh the page.
If I close and re-open the page, the the memory usage is low but then if the page is refreshed each time, then the memory usage increases.
On each refresh of the page, the page retrieve data from the database and displays on a grid control on page.
I check the memory usage in the task manager...
How can I solve this please?
Thanks

Pete O'Hanlon9-Feb-11 0:49

9-Feb-11 0:49

For a start, don't rely on Task Manager as a gauge. It's a poor mechanism because it does not reflect real memory usage.

Get yourself a profiler and use that to monitor your application. Also, ensure that you don't maintain any hard references that aren't getting garbage collected. Unreleased event handlers are a typical bugbear here.

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Steve Maier9-Feb-11 4:27

Steve Maier

9-Feb-11 4:27

We had found in WPF before a memory leak in 3.5 if you used an indeterminate progress bar. They fixed it in WPF 4.0, but what version of Silverlight are you using? It could be a particular control.

Steve Maier

arkiboys9-Feb-11 5:25

arkiboys

9-Feb-11 5:25

I am using silverlight 4

Stored Procedure Population of Silverlight Combo Box

Steve Maier9-Feb-11 7:36

Steve Maier

9-Feb-11 7:36

It still could be one of the controls causing it. i have not tested SL4 to see if anything there leaks.

Steve Maier

VSS712J8-Feb-11 9:41

VSS712J

8-Feb-11 9:41

New to Silverlight - Using four areas Three of which looking for guidance to make a combo box work in a Silverlight Grid from a stored procedure:
Any thoughts are much appreciated

Hello,
I am new to silverlight. Can some please guide me with the appropriate syntax for displaying a combo lookup box which is being loaded by a stored procedure? In addition, can you tell me how to turn on and off the Display of the combo box. It requires two clicks to open the combo box. Here is my code:
XAML
<sdk:datagridtemplatecolumn x:name="patIdEssentrisColumn" header="Pat Id Essentris" width="SizeToHeader">
<sdk:datagridtemplatecolumn.celltemplate>
<datatemplate>
<textblock margin="2" text="{Binding PatIdEssentris}">

<sdk:datagridtemplatecolumn.celleditingtemplate>
<datatemplate>

<combobox name="cboTest"
=""
itemssource="{Binding GetComboboxItems_PatIdEssentris}"
displaymemberpath="PatientName">

Combo Box Class
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Configuration;
namespace CorporateHR.Web
{
public class ComboBoxItem
{
[Key]
public int ComboID_Int { get; set; }
public string ComboDisplayValue { get; set; }
private static List<comboboxitem> GetComboBoxItems(string strStoredProcedure)
{
SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["RefConnectionString"].ConnectionString);
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(strStoredProcedure, con);
cmd.CommandType = System.Data.CommandType.StoredProcedure;

List<comboboxitem> comboList = new List<comboboxitem>();
con.Open();
SqlDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader(behavior: CommandBehavior.CloseConnection);
while (dr.Read())
{
ComboBoxItem ComboBoxItem = new ComboBoxItem();
ComboBoxItem.ComboID_Int = Convert.ToInt32(dr[0].ToString());
ComboBoxItem.ComboDisplayValue = dr[1].ToString();
comboList.Add(ComboBoxItem);
}
return comboList;
}
public static List<comboboxitem> GetComboboxItems_PatIdEssentris()
{
return GetComboBoxItems("uspLookupPatIdEssentris");
}
//Secondary ComboBox Lookup:
public static List<comboboxitem> GetComboboxItems_Department()
{
return GetComboBoxItems("uspLookupPatIdEssentris");
}
}
}
Code Behind Page
namespace CorporateHR
{
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Navigation;
using CorporateHR.LoginUI;
public partial class MainPage : UserControl
{
public MainPage()

{
InitializeComponent();

this.loginContainer.Child = new LoginStatus();
this.Loaded += new RoutedEventHandler(Page_Loaded);
}

void Page_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{this.employeeDataGrid.ItemsSource = GetComboboxItems_PatIdEssentris();}

private object GetComboboxItems_PatIdEssentris()
{
throw new System.NotImplementedException();
}

Re: Stored Procedure Population of Silverlight Combo Box

Vimalsoft(Pty) Ltd8-Feb-11 19:57

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8-Feb-11 19:57

What do you mean when you say ?

can you tell me how to turn on and off the Display of the combo box

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Re: Stored Procedure Population of Silverlight Combo Box [modified]

VSS712J11-Feb-11 8:17

VSS712J

11-Feb-11 8:17

My combo box works outside the grid, but it does not work inside the grid.
Question: how do I make a combo box work inside of a grid.
The following code works fine outside of the grid, but does not work in the grid. How do I make this work inside the grid?

This works outside of the Grid:

<ComboBox Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" ItemsSource="{Binding ElementName=comboBoxItemDomainDataSource, Path=Data}" Margin="112,72,0,0" Name="comboBoxItemComboBox" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="185" SelectionChanged="comboBoxItemComboBox_SelectionChanged" DisplayMemberPath="ComboDisplayValue">
<ComboBox.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<VirtualizingStackPanel />
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ComboBox.ItemsPanel>
</ComboBox>
</Grid>
<riaControls:DomainDataSource AutoLoad="True" d:DesignData="{d:DesignInstance my:ComboBoxItem, CreateList=true}" Height="0" LoadedData="comboBoxItemDomainDataSource_LoadedData" Name="comboBoxItemDomainDataSource" QueryName="GetComboboxItems_PatIdEssentrisQuery" Width="0">
<riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext>
<my:ComboBoxItemContext />
</riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext>
</riaControls:DomainDataSource>

This does not work within the Grid:

<sdk:DataGridTemplateColumn x:Name="patIdEssentrisColumn" Header="Pat Id Essentris" Width="SizeToHeader">
<sdk:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Margin="2" Text="{Binding PatIdEssentris}" />

</DataTemplate>
</sdk:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate>
<sdk:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellEditingTemplate>
<DataTemplate>

<ComboBox Name="cboPatIdEssentris"

ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource comboBoxItemDomainDataSource}, Path=Data}"
DisplayMemberPath="PatientName"
/>

</DataTemplate>
</sdk:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellEditingTemplate>
</sdk:DataGridTemplateColumn>

-- Modified Friday, February 11, 2011 4:32 PM

Re: Stored Procedure Population of Silverlight Combo Box

Pete O'Hanlon11-Feb-11 9:10

11-Feb-11 9:10

You may want to edit your post. Basically, you've added code that appears as HTML type tags; in other words, they are between <>tags. What you need to do is convert your tags to be <> tags so that they will display properly.

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