When you create a Silverlight project, it asks you to create a Web Application project. This project is responsible for hosting your XAP file. Generally Silverlight application doesn’t require any server to host it to run, but if you are planning to host it in web you must need a… Continue reading
XAP (pronounced as ZAP) is the compressed output of the Silverlight Application which includes application manifest file, compiled output assembly and other resources used by your silverlight application. This uses the normal ZIP compression method to reduce the total download size. When you build your Silverlight application, it actually generates… Continue reading
When you create the Silverlight project, Visual Studio IDE will automatically add a default “MainPage.xaml” file which is actually a startpage for your Silverlight application. You can modify this page as per your need or can create a new one. So, what’s there inside the file? Lets look at it:… Continue reading
XAML stands for eXtended Application Markup Language. It is nothing but an XML file which is used to declaratively create the User Interface of the Silverlight or WPF applications. This XAML file generally rendered by the Silverlight plugin and displayed inside the browser window. When you compile your projects which… Continue reading
App.xaml file is the loader of your Silverlight Application. You can declare your shared/global resources, styles, templates, different brushes inside this file which will be accessible by your application. A typical App.xaml file looks like: It has a code behind file too named as “App.xaml.cs”. This file is used to… Continue reading
Silverlight is a web based technology, launched by Microsoft in April 2007. Silverlight is considered as a competitor to Adobes Flash. Silverlight is a powerful cross-browser & cross-platform technology for building the next generation web experience & rich internet applications for the web. You can run Silverlight in most of… Continue reading
It supports playback of WMV files on both PC and Macintosh, with many options for interactivity during playback; with just a couple of lines of code, you can provide a platform-neutral way to handle all your movie files. Silverlight supports full-screen 720p video and offers seamless transitions between full-screen and windowed mode… Continue reading
Question: Resource Files are used to store the data in which of the following conditions? When you are not concerned about application startup time. When you want to simplify application distribution complexity by reducing the number of file dependencies. When you don’t need to update the resource file after it… Continue reading
Question: The CultureInfo class of the System.Globalization namespace is used to retrieve which of the following information for a specific culture: Character set Currency symbol Date All of the above. None of the above. Correct Answer: 4 Question: We can specify that the XAML file has sample data by setting… Continue reading
Question: Which of the following is correct? Enable “NotifyOnValidationError” when you want the errors to be passed on in the hierarchy Enable “ValidateOnExceptions” property if you want to throw exceptions in your setters. If ValidatesOnNotifyDataErrors is set to true on a control, ErrorsChanged can be used to notify UI that… Continue reading