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Silverlight 5 now supports,multiple clicks events like double click, triple clicks etc. MouseLeftButtonDown event exposes a property, "ClickCount", which indicates how many times mouse has been clicked.
In below example, when you click on mouse multipl...
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Until silverlight 4, while saving a file using FileDialog, we can't specify "DefaultFileName" property. User has to explicitly specify file name. Now in
Silverlight 5, FileDialog has an property "DefaultFileName", by using which, we can specify the def...
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In WPF, when datacontext of a control changes, it will provide an explicit event, so we can track changes when the datacontext changes. But until silverlight 4, we don't have this event. Silverlight 5, now provides the datacontext changed event. When da...
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We often use In-Built markup extensions such as Binding, Static Resource, Template Binding and Relative Source. We will use these markup extensions with curly braces {}. Now in Silverlight 5, we can also write our own Custom Markup Extensions.
Implem...
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This is very interesting feature in Silverlight 5. PivotViewer control will be helpful in viewing large collections of data. This control reminds the look and feel like Excel pivot. By using this control, large collections of data can be filtered by usi...
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SIlverlight 5 introduced a feature, "Ancestor Relative Source Binding", which is already exists in WPF before. This gives the controls to bind the properties of its parent controls in any level. To bind the property of its parent control, we need to spe...
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This is one of very useful addition for designers. Until silverlight 4, while defining a style, there is no binding support. Property setter values needs to be entered as static values or either to be used as static resources.
Now in silverlight 5, Wh...
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Often we will show pop-up windows in applications. One problem with the pop-ups is user needs to close the popup to continue with the background application. Suppose, if you want your application to continue to work while playing some audio in a separat...
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Win32 API has thousands of utlitity fuctions which will do a lot of range of tasks. From C# manage code, we can call these native functions. Now Silverlight 5 also started to support calling native code from manged code.
This support if only for OOB ap...
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Until SIlverlight 4, UpdateSourceTrigger enum has only 2 options, "LostFocus" and "Explicit". "LostFocus" will update the source value back only when the focus lost. "Explicit" will update the source value, when the user explicitly press "OK" button in ...
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