Re: Date Problem in SL - WPF Discussion Boards

1-Sep-10 0:21

You could always upload it to a service such as Windows Live, or Dropbox and then provide a link here.

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Re: How to post my example

AspDotNetDev1-Sep-10 9:31

AspDotNetDev

1-Sep-10 9:31

Is it just a code snippet? If so, you can just paste it here with Encode "<" (and other HTML) characters when pasting checked. Then you can surround it in a PRE block and specify the lang attribute. With WPF XAML, you'd specify the lang as "XML". For example, typing this:

HTML

<pre lang="xml">&lt;Window x:Class="MainWindow"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525"&gt;
    &lt;Grid&gt;
        &lt;TextBlock&gt;Hello World&lt;/TextBlock&gt;
    &lt;/Grid&gt;
&lt;/Window&gt;</pre>

Will produce this:

XML

<Window x:Class="MainWindow"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
    <Grid>
        <TextBlock>Hello World</TextBlock>
    </Grid>
</Window>

And if you had some VB.Net, you'd specify the lang as "VB", like so:

HTML

<pre lang="vb">Class MainWindow 
    Public Sub DoStuff()
        Dim x As Integer = 5
    End Sub
End Class</pre>

Which would look like:

Class MainWindow 
    Public Sub DoStuff()
        Dim x As Integer = 5
    End Sub
End Class

If you click the "Preview" button before you post, you can make sure the code looks as you intended.

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Date Problem in SL

Jagz W31-Aug-10 21:05

Jagz W

31-Aug-10 21:05

I am displaying date in my .XAML page
In .XAML.VB
e.g

variablename = date.now()

But it is returning my client date. i want to display server date.

One person's data is another person's program.

--J.Walia

Pete O'Hanlon31-Aug-10 21:36

31-Aug-10 21:36

You'd have to call a method on the server side through a WCF call. Be aware, though, that because of latency issues, the value that you receive would be the time that the server received and processed the request, and then by the time the message was transmitted back there would be extra latency involved.

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Jagz W1-Sep-10 3:16

Jagz W

1-Sep-10 3:16

how i can handle this??

One person's data is another person's program.

--J.Walia

Pete O'Hanlon1-Sep-10 3:17

1-Sep-10 3:17

I already told you. Use WCF.

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V.1-Sep-10 9:52

1-Sep-10 9:52

For many applications they in fact use the database datetime for being consistent. in Oracle this could be Select getdate() from dual; I believe.

Pete O'Hanlon1-Sep-10 23:03

1-Sep-10 23:03

V. wrote:
in Oracle this could be Select getdate() from dual

No it isn't - Oracle uses select sysdate from dual. Why would you consider doing this though? If you have a web server, then the application has access to the server time anyway, why on earth would you expect it to make an unnecessary call to a database. Bear in mind that the db connection might need to be created which is an expensive operation and database connections should not be squandered on trivial tasks like this; it it's a high traffic site then this is an unnecessary waste of resources.

Supplying the date in this format should only be used when attempting to perform an operation on the database, e.g. an insert or update.

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Setting the cursor for all controls

V.1-Sep-10 23:37

1-Sep-10 23:37

I wasn't 100% sure about the select statement, it might very well have been select sysdate from dual;

You can argue about the design, but the concept of taking the database datetime does exist. I never said I was pro or con. If you use more then 1 webserver you also need additional setting up for making sure the time is equal (granted this can be done via time synchro eg).

dbrenth31-Aug-10 8:39

dbrenth

31-Aug-10 8:39

Is there a way to change the cursor for every control at once? Or do I have to visit every single control and flip each one individually. I have a stackpanel, but changing the cursor on the stackpanel doesn't affect any of the controls in the stackpanel. The treeview in the stack panel has numerous checkboxes, images and other things. It seems impractical that I have to set the cursor on each control.

Thanks

Brent

Pete O'Hanlon31-Aug-10 9:08

31-Aug-10 9:08

Try using Mouse.OverrideCursor.

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dbrenth31-Aug-10 9:33

dbrenth

31-Aug-10 9:33

I'm sorry I forgot to mention I'm in Silverlight which apparently doesn't have Mouse.OverrideCursor, unless I'm missing a reference.

Brent

Pete O'Hanlon31-Aug-10 9:35

31-Aug-10 9:35

Luckily for you, I wrote a blog post on this a while ago. Fill your boots.[^]

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dbrenth31-Aug-10 9:37

dbrenth

31-Aug-10 9:37

Thanks to your prior post, I had just Googled into that same page when I got your response.

Thanks

Brent

Pete O'Hanlon31-Aug-10 9:41

31-Aug-10 9:41

No problems mate. Enjoy.

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Re: pluggable gadget system

pluggable gadget system

karanba31-Aug-10 0:53

karanba

31-Aug-10 0:53

Hi, I am looking for a framework that runs for .NET 3.5 or better for 4.0 that support pluggable gadget system for windows user interface development. I want to develop a main container window application that can load gadgets that I or my team develop. User could manage gadget like google home page..add gadget and set layout. Also there must be interface to talk each gaget with the container static components or other gadgets. Is there a framework that is written open source or paid api?

karanba

Pete O'Hanlon31-Aug-10 2:01

31-Aug-10 2:01

You could always look at using Prism[^] for this.

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