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One of the most common issues with UI design that seems to be missed is the consistant placement of the widgets from screen to screen. If the widgit is called "Add" then place it in the same location from screen to screen and make the functionality be the same. This will help the users learn your application quicker and they will have less frustration.
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Try the following link - http://www.perceptualedge.com/library.php#Articles.
Tons of insight into designing UI's.
Also try "Microsoft Inductive User Interface Guidelines" at MSDN.
But Perceptual Edge should be your first stop. 
Best Wishes
Steve
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Took a few on-line courses in usability & instructional design, if you google those terms there's alot out there..
also http://www.usability.gov/[^]
is not bad...
Toto1107
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Check out smashingmagazine.com they've got awesome design tutorials.
edit...nevermind, people already said that. I'd highly recommend it though.
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Hi,
My OS is Windows XP. I am using Firefox and IE.
I installed Silverlight 4, 3, and 2. All these version does not work for me.
How can I fix this?
Thanks
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I have no idea from this what problem you are facing. Can you not view any Silverlight content?
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It's hard to tell the kind of problem you're facing. have you tried this on another PC running the same features as your PC? There are certain test you need to do in order to know is the problem is a generalized one or it's only specific to your PC.
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for the first time silverlight ask for download if you have some firewall or if you rejected that file then also it may show you blank page...
if possible post your code which is used to call ...
Reasons are not Important but Results are Important.
http://www.sql4professional.blogspot.com
Swati Tripathi
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Hello,
My goal is to add dynamically some control to the main window.
When the user preeses mouse right button on the window the position where the button pressed is the top left of the control, then the user keeps the button pressed and drags the mouse on the window and the position where he releses the button is the right bottom of the control.
What i want is while the user drags the mouse while he is pressed is that some square appear on the screen to show user the size of the control that will be created.
This is exactly like when you try to create new fence on youre desktop with the "Fences" application.
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And your problem is?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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My problem is how to paint the square on the window while thw user moves the mouse with right button pressed:
I want the square to be transparent but vissible and his size changing if the user move the mouse
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Although I don't really get your question fully and I don't know what Application platform (WPF or Silverlight or Winform)you're using but I will suggest this. You need to work with three parameters: The height of your square, the width and the mouse pointer position. You will need to do some math to calculate a new width and height for your square based on the position of the mouse pointer.
I will suggest that you make your question more clearer so that people can really understand you and help you out.
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Drag and Drop in Silverlight 2[^] is a nice and useful article on this topic.
Another nice example can be found right here[^].
Too much of heaven can bring you underground
Heaven can always turn around
Too much of heaven, our life is all hell bound
Heaven, the kill that makes no sound
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Hi,
What is the difference between windows 7 86x and 64x ?
I would like to purchase a laptop with windows 7 for silverlight, wpf and windows phone 7, sql server 2008 developments.
I know I can install the sql server 2008 express and visual studio 2010 express on windows 7 but not sure whether to have 86x or 64x.
Any thoughts please?
Thanks
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x86 is 32 bit and x64 is 64 bit hardware, so you need to get the version that matches your hardware. If you are buying a totally new system then go for 64 bit.
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To confirm, for the purpose of developing using sql server 2008 express, visual studio 2010 express and windows phone 7, then it is ok to have windows 7 home edition 64 bit?
Thanks
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arkiboys wrote: for the purpose of developing using sql server 2008 express, visual studio 2010 express and windows phone 7
This is not a software issue, you can only use 64-bit software on a PC that has 64 bit hardware. If your PC is not a 64-bit machine then you cannot install 64-bit software on it.
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The machine is a 64bit hardware... and comes with windows 7 home edition 64bit.
for the purpose of developing using sql server 2008 express, visual studio 2010 express and windows phone 7 is the home edition ok for my purposes?
Thank you
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arkiboys wrote: is the home edition ok for my purposes?
Short answer: Yes.
But you may wish to check here[^] also.
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Hello everyone,
I am making a sample application test with WPF creating some UserControls to increase maintainability.
In this way I created a toolbar usercontrol where I put a combobox and I created a dependency property, since it's the best tool for binding than datacontext when having more than one binding, and in main xaml I called a xmldataprovider loading a xml file to fill the combo box in the UserControl.
in the toolbar's usercontrol xaml file I put
<ComboBox ItemsSource="{Binding Path=epToolbarItemSource, RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType={x:Type UserControl}}}" DisplayMemberPath="shortname" />
In the toolbar's usercontrol xaml.cs file I declared the dependency property as:
public static DependencyProperty ItemSourceToolbarProperty;
static epToolbar()
{
epToolbar.ItemSourceToolbarProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("epToolbarItemSource", typeof(IEnumerable),
typeof(epToolbar));
}
public IEnumerable ItemSourceToolbar
{
get { return (IEnumerable)GetValue(epToolbar.ItemSourceToolbarProperty); }
set { SetValue(epToolbar.ItemSourceToolbarProperty, value); }
}
In the Window.xaml file I declared the xmldataprovider as:
<XmlDataProvider x:Key="dpOperators" XPath="operators" Source="/Data/Operators.xml" IsInitialLoadEnabled="True" />
and I declared the usercontrol setting the dependency property I thought it was correctly declared, epToolbarItemSource:
<uc:epToolbar DockPanel.Dock="Top" epToolbarItemSource="{Binding Source=dpOperators, Mode=TwoWay}" />
In the examples found about Dependency Properties I always read the dependency property can be called as a property attribute when calling the usercontrol but in this case it says an error like: "The property 'epToolbarItemSource' was not found in type 'epToolbar'."
So I am asking here what's the right syntax to bind the content of xml file to the combo in the way I add new operators in the xmldataprovider so they would be inserted in xml file and refreshed the combo box?
Thanks in advance to all
Cheers, Luigi
modified on Sunday, August 14, 2011 12:48 PM
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