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Displaying Notification Messages in a Silverlight Dashboard Application

dpatra1982 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:49:21 +0000

Nowadays dashboard applications are becoming popular in Silverlight applications. Well Dashboard applications are normal Silverlight application, with a home screen that displays some information about different modules involved in the application. Take an example of a dashboard where all Social Networking sites are in different modules and you need to see the notification or messages pushed to you by the modules. In this article we will see how we could display a notification message and further a list of notification messages.

To read the full article and download the source code click here.

Filed under: Silverlight 4 Tagged: Dashboard, ListBox, Silverlight 4

“Take a Test” Application in Windows Phone 7

dpatra1982 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:48:16 +0000

In this article we would see how to make a Test application, what I mean is an application where a user can select a category based on that some questions would be displayed and the user can test their knowledge in selected category.

To read the full article and download the source code click here.

Filed under: Windows Phone 7 Tagged: Windows Phone 7

Folder Dialog in Silverlight 4

dpatra1982 — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:42:21 +0000

In Silverlight 4 we have access to dialog boxes such as Open File Dialog and Save File Dialog. But we don’t have access to Folder Dialog. A folder dialog is used to help us select a path from the file system. In some project requirements we need to give a custom path to save files, for example we need to save the snapshot of a video application to a specific folder or saving log files, reports to a custom folder path that has to be given by the end user.

To read the full article and download the source code click here.

Filed under: Silverlight 4 Tagged: Out of Browser Application, Silverlight 4

Bus Finder Application for Windows Phone 7

dpatra1982 — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:37:15 +0000

In this article we will see how we can make a simple bus finder application for Windows Phone 7.

To read the full article and download the source code click here.

Filed under: Windows Phone 7 Tagged: Bus Finder, WCF, Windows Phone 7

Storyboard Playing with Playlist Manager in WPF

dpatra1982 — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:35:20 +0000

In last article we achieved clipping videos out of the parent video. To see the article: Click Here. In this article we will see how we can play the clipped video and the good news is Playlist Management is also could be achieved.

To read the full article and download the source code click here.

Filed under: WPF Tagged: Playlist Manager, Storyboard Playing, WPF 4

Creating Video Clips in WPF

dpatra1982 — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 04:01:39 +0000

Ever you wanted to clip videos you like! There are a vast number of software’s available to achieve video clipping. But have you ever felt like your clipped videos are eating lot of your disk space. Because each time you create one clip, it saves as a new video and you wanted to keep the original video. Well in this article we will see how we can clip videos with few kilobytes of memory being used by your hard disk.

To read the full article and download the source code click here.

Filed under: WPF Tagged: Video Clip, WPF 4

Sliding Window Protocol Simulation in WPF

dpatra1982 — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:33:16 +0000

This article would demo you a simulation of Sliding Window Protocol. With different parameters how the protocol works. All an all it’s a visual representation of the Sliding Window Protocol.

To read the full article and download the source code click here.

Filed under: WPF Tagged: Animation, Sliding Window Protocol, Storyboard, WPF 4

Color Picker Control In Silverlight 4

dpatra1982 — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:14:13 +0000

Color Picker Control is a menu driven control for selecting a color of choice. This control is often provided by 3^rd party control providers.

In this article we will see how we can make our own control to look like Office 2007 or 2010 styled Color Picker Control.

To read the full article and download the source code click here.

Filed under: Silverlight 4 Tagged: Color Picker Control, Silverlight 4

Drag from Multiple Source In Silverlight 4

dpatra1982 — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:08:42 +0000

In this article we will see Dragging of item from multiple sources and dropping into the target to display data, with rule which we will discuss at the end of the article.

If we have same DataTemplate for each of the sources, in our case ListBoxes then dropping the item would have no issues displaying the dropped data in a ListBox. But assume such scenario where we need to have different DataTemplates for each ListBox with the Context is different, which also means different Entity. The target ListBox would unable to display the data, though the content will be added. So to achieve the scenario we need to have a Panel where UIElements are displayed irrespective of any datatemplate.

To read the full article and download the source code click here.

Filed under: Silverlight 4 Tagged: Drag & Drop, ListBox, Multiple Resources, Silverlight 4

Converting Video Using FFMPEG In Silverlight 4

dpatra1982 — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 04:02:09 +0000

FFMPEG, is a free command line tool, which can convert audio and video. This article explains how it could be useful for converting video in Silverlight 4.

With Silverlight 4′s OOB mode application state, and COM accessing features the video is converted.

To know more about FMPEG tool, click here.

To read the full article and source code click here.

Filed under: Silverlight 4 Tagged: COM Automation, Convert Video, FFMPEG, Silverlight 4