Monday, April 07, 2008 - Posts

• Clipping of child elements

  On the forums I saw this interesting problem where there was a need to round the corners of a stackpanel inside a border with cornerradius set... The top is what you get and the bottom image is what you want. The simplest thing to do here is to set the padding on the border so that the stackpanel doesnt bleed around the corners. But when that doesnt meet your requirements you will need to set the clip property on the child in the OnRender function so that you get the correct clipping. The code for the above is attached .(thanks to Ifeanyi) Share this post Read More... Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 11:18 AM from Lester's WPF blog | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, Avalon, WPF samples, .net 3.5

• Controlling the Distribution of Silverlight Updates in the Enterprise

  I've posted a few times about issues relating to enterprise distribution of Silverlight , and I thought I'd mention one additional topic that came up during a customer tour that I've been on for the last ten days. If you're a systems administrator, one of the aspects of Silverlight that concerns you is probably controlling the distribution of updates. In general, enterprises like to control their desktop and laptop environments to ensure no sudden surprises are caused (for example, by a runtime update that breaks a commonly used application). So some people may wish to dial down the update settings that are optimized for end-users when Silverlight is running in a corporate environment. Silverlight supports enterprise rollout via WSUS and we provide guidance on how to roll it out across an enterprise via other means such as Group Policy (using the EXE-based installer). Silverlight is installed via a normal MSI plus an MSP-based patch which can be chained through a variety of means. Updating Read More... Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 11:02 AM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: silverlight, enterprise

• Silverlight 1.0 - New Maintenance Release Available

  We released a minor maintenance update to Silverlight 1.0 over the weekend (internally known as GDR3 , where GDR stands for "General Distribution Release"). I'm sure most readers of this blog already have Silverlight 2 Beta 1 installed on their own machines, but if you're building a site for the tens of millions of users that already have Silverlight installed on their machine, you'll be pleased to know that we're continuing to service the 1.0 release to take account of customer-reported issues. The latest release is live now on the web for both Mac and PC ; it reports itself as 1.0.30401.0 (where the build number indicates that it was compiled on April 1st). The changes are minor in nature and shouldn't affect existing applications; they include an audio bug fix for nForce 4 motherboards , an update to support custom parameters in ASX playlists , fixes to font support on Mac OS X Leopard and improved multi-language support during installation and update. As ever, the way to check Read More... Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 10:08 AM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: silverlight, changes