I can place a couple of buttons in Silverlight, but I'm not that experienced with the Silverlight tools and capabilities.
What do you think I should use to create something like this?
The control would have to pull and ID from the database and according to that place an image asociated with the record.
I need it to be animated with some crispy movement.
How can I achieve this?
It's all possible, but you need to break the task down into smaller steps.
Once you've done that you should find that you can solve some of these with your current knowledge, others will resolve themselves with a little more research, but there will be some you need to ask questions about here.
I'd suggest you start that break down and try to solve the little problems. Then if you get stuck come back and ask more specific questions.
Well, with Silverlight and c# you can make the animations needed and such, and you can set a Silverlight Image control with a data bound source, so it loads the images dynamically, but Silverlight can't talk with databases directly, you'll need to use a webservice to interact between Silverlight and the database. Don't know how much you know but to not leave anything out, with Expression Blend you can make the graphical part of you're app fast and easy, and with Visual Studio you'll add the code-behind and functionality.
In this link you can find a example of how to make an image slide show with Silverlight, it may not be exactly what you're looking for, but it should give you a heads start.
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Is it possible to to these kind of textbox in windows form ? If yes, How? and can you give me a reference of that in order to achieve this. I've been a front end developer before and it's easy to do on web. I think i'm not the only one who want to know these. Thank you
I think to a certain extent you can get above animations but it will not be fast or extremely customizable like WPF here are my recommendations:
Bunifu framework
Syncfusion
Unfortunately both these are paid frameworks. If I do find a stable free framework I will update this answer.
Also Please Read up on more at How good can Winforms make a UI look using free resources only?
Could someone please advise me on the "correct" way of implementing Pull to refresh on UWP?
Below are some examples I've found however I'm not sure which one is using the best approach:
Microsoft sample which is for a ListView - This works however it is specific to the ListView Control
AmazingPullToRefresh is a NuGet package that also works however it is somewhat limited in terms of styling
PullToRefreshUWP_WindowsComposition is another example however it works differently to the other two as it does not use an extension class
Any advice is much appreciated
There is no standard answer for this question, basically, there are two points we need to implement:
Get the offset changes when user pull something on the control
Generate some indicator to notify user
Both XamlPullToRefresh and PullToRefreshUWP_WindowsComposition use the new Windows Composition API: Windows.UI.Composition namespace
Ref Windows.UI.Composition Overview
The API is a powerful supplement to existing frameworks such as XAML
to give developers of UWP applications a familiar C# surface to add to
their application. These APIs can also be used to create DX style
framework-less applications.
Please notice that this API works only on Windows 10.
While AmazingPullToRefresh uses Manipulation API and implement all things by calculating offset changes. A similar implementation can be found here
If you want to implement a cool pull-to-refresh control, I would recommend using the Windows.UI.Composition API. You can get start from here
The functionality of pulling to refresh is not used by microsoft.
Reloading a page / data is something we have still in our mind from thinking apps like a website.
Why not have a synced database and alway update your UI with the data which got changed in your local db? For eg. see firebase.google.com
If you want to implement this feature anyway there is not really a way to go.
I have used the PullToRefresh.UWP library from NuGet. For a tutorial see:
codeproject.com
With some tweaking it works but sometimes when I lift my finger of the screen after pulling down the bar won't go up again.
So the answer is: Sorry, but nobody can give you an answer on how to do this the "correct" way. But is there a correct way anywhere? Like almost always in programming. It depends on the case you will use it.
Hope this will help you.
I need to zoom in and out of a picture, grab it and browse different parts of it as you would a map, and set pushpins as markers to remind me of locations I found interesting. Essentially I want to perform similar functionality that bing (or google) maps provides but on a picture I have. From this tutorial : http://www.microsoft.com/web/post/using-the-bing-maps-api
I have tried swapping the source to point to the picture on my local drive but that don't work. What would be a good language / approach to take/use in solving this issue? I was trying to do this in C# first but now need to do this for a web application, please advise; newbie to Web development btw...
I am not able to understand why are you trying to view Picture as Map; zooming, clicking, dragging. But however, try to use jQuery for this.
The API that you are using, would work for Bing Maps. Its their server API and I don't think you can use that for any other work. But you can still re-write it and compile it to work for you.
The basic code or what you can say, the basic events for it would be .click() .dblclick() then you can use jQuery Draggable. These would be the basics only.
However if you are working with image. You would definitely need some other tools that would be able to let you work with Images, try SilverLight.
You mentioned Google Maps, Bing Maps, I need to clarify they use huge amount of JavaScript. To check where click was made, what is its location, where to zoom in where to zoom out. If it was me, I would have first tried to learn jQuery and JavaScript. To learn what are events, how they are used, and how I can use them in my project.
jQuery zoom is nothing or should I say, there is no such thing as a Zoom for any object in jQuery API. But this is a great site that I just found right now I hope it would be a kick start for you jQuery Zoom jacklmoore.com. For this site, you might need some plugin from the person, link is provided on that page! Go an have a look. :)
Again: Try to learn the basics first. You never know when the very basic event is needed and you are trying to use the expert level one. I hope it helps! :) Comment for any question or any objection.
Cheers.
I'm wanting to create an animation in C# such as what you would see in a slot machine where the pictures spin round. I know I could manually move the location of a PictureBox or something like that but that seems like not a good idea to me.
How would you guys do it? It doesn't actually matter whether its in standard forms or WPF or anything else similar. Possibly using XNA?
I suggest you use WPF.
With Expression Blend you can easily do the animation you need.
I think I've already seen a slot machine WPF sample somewhere on the web.
I'll search for it and post it if I find it again
Edit
Nope it was a silverlight application, but code is almost the same. Here is the link:
http://www.dolittle.com/Silverlight/SlotMachine/SlotMachine.html
Anyway, if you find that approach to difficult I suggest you read a bit about simple WPF programatically driven animations. They're very easy to do, and with a few lines of code you can accomplish your needs.
Best regards
I'm working on a solution for my new project (in C#). I'm trying to make a dynamic image/animation combiner (maybe later even work with video's, but that's not required atm).
So basically my program is reading a xml file with all kinds of instructions the user needs to do. In the xml file it is possible that for 1 instruction multiple pictures are needed. So when there are 2 or 3 pictures (the maximum amount of pictures is 4) they need to be combined to 1 picture so I can show that on the image object on the main form. Also it is important that the pictures keep there proportions so the image doesn't look deformed.
I found a solution with GDI+ but it isn't that good as I wanted it and runs pretty slow on a bit older computers. Also combining animations with normal images is a real pain and goes very slow!
Is there a faster/easier way to do this? Maybe WPF is a solution but I got no experience with this.
Thnx for any help in advance!
This questsion is open now for mor then a year but I found the solution some time ago so I will post it here in case it is usefull for somebody else.
The best way to do this was creating to set up a grid dynamic. And then fill up each element of the grid with the needed media (Video, Image, animated gif's and even Viewport3D from another xaml file). Creating a grid in code is really easy so it should be a good solution for everybody who wants to do this in WPF.