Re: GUI updations on socket callback - WPF Discussion Boards

Rajeev Raina12-Aug-09 4:01

12-Aug-09 4:01

I have load a large set of data from SQL Server into a three level tree. It is taking long time to populate the tree.

Is there a way (e.g. lazy loading) to load only few records first and then load the rest of the records so that the tree area doe not remain empty for a long time.

Re: Silverlight - VectrolLight Tree View

Pete O'Hanlon14-Aug-09 4:18

Pete O'Hanlon

14-Aug-09 4:18

The normal way to do this is to load all the items at the level you are at, and then add a dummy item to the level below. Then, when you expand your treeview you check to see if the first node below is a dummy node - if so, you remove it and attempt to retrieve data from the database that's a child of the expanding item.

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Re: Silverlight - VectrolLight Tree View

Michael Sync14-Aug-09 4:18

Michael Sync

14-Aug-09 4:18

Have you tried using TreeView from Silverlight Toolkit? We can probably provide more helps if you are using Silverlight Toolkit.

Thanks.

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Re: Silverlight - VectrolLight Tree View

Pete O'Hanlon14-Aug-09 4:43

Pete O'Hanlon

14-Aug-09 4:43

Oh how I wish Silverlight 3 supported virtualization on hierarchical items.

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Re: Silverlight - VectrolLight Tree View

Rajeev Raina16-Aug-09 20:29

Rajeev Raina

16-Aug-09 20:29

Hi Thanks for reply. Yes we tried the Silverlight tree, but results are not encouraging. We are only loading few hundred records and most of them are at first noode. It is still taking un-acceptable amount of time.

Regards

Rajeev

GUI updations on socket callback

JS 200812-Aug-09 1:29

JS 2008

12-Aug-09 1:29

I have a silverlight application,that communicating and getting data through socket communication.At each Receive callback i want to get data and update in the GUI at the moment itself.In this case sending and receiving data asynchronously,but the delegate for GUI updation in action only after all receive callbacks.How can i execute GUI updations sequentially with each callback?

Re: GUI updations on socket callback

Michael Sync12-Aug-09 3:21

Michael Sync

12-Aug-09 3:21

You can call another service after completing of first call.

For example:

service.Call1Completed += (sender, e) => {
//Update the UI.

service.Call2Completed += (srd,e1) => {
//Update the UI.

};
service.Call2Async();
};
service.Call1Async();

Thanks and Regards,
Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)

Microsoft MVP (Silverlight), WPF/Silverlight Insiders

Re: GUI updations on socket callback

JS 200812-Aug-09 19:11

JS 2008

12-Aug-09 19:11

My scenario is like this.

SocketReceiveCallback(object sender, SocketAsyncEventArgs e )
{
// read data from e.Buffer.
if ( dataReceived == TotalDataSize ) // checks of the complete reception of one image
{
// update the GUI using the received data.
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine( “ received image “ );
Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(new DisplayImageDelgate(DislayImageData), imageData); // imageData is a class containing the received data

}
Else
{
// call socket.receiveAsync() to get next set of data.
}
}

private void DisplayImageData (MyImageData data)
{
if (data.ImageStream != null)
{

BitmapImage bmp = new BitmapImage();
bmp.SetSource(new MemoryStream(data.ImageStream));
myReceivedImageCtrl.Source = bmp; //GUI update should happen at this point.
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine( “ Draw image “ );

}

}

Please note that my application, there is continues async requests to server ( corresponding to user action ) and server responds with a stream of image data( eg:- 100 images. The application needs to update the GUI immediately after each image is received ( even while the server streams the data). In the above case although the SocketReceiveCallback is getting the data continuously from server, the GUI update happens only after all the data receive is completed( which can take a long time ).
It seems that although the DisplayImage function is invoked using BeginInvoke, the system actually executes the display function at a later stage, causing ‘jumping’ image displays
The debug trace obtained was:-

received image
received image
received image
received image
Draw image
Draw image
Draw image

Instead of the needed

received image
Draw image
received image
Draw image
received image
Draw image

What could be done?
Thanks and Regards
JS

Re: GUI updations on socket callback

Michael Sync14-Aug-09 4:10

Michael Sync

14-Aug-09 4:10

You can create one List and add the image data on completed event. and call the draw before receiving all data.

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Microsoft MVP (Silverlight), WPF/Silverlight Insiders

Cancel rendering of a Control in Wpf

jopiron12-Aug-09 0:25

jopiron

12-Aug-09 0:25

Dear all,

I've looked around to find an elegant solution to my problem, but not with a log of success... Sigh | :sigh:

I would like to prevent a control (custom label, custom button,...) from being rendered (drawn, painted.. ?) based on a condition (actually, a database linked security check)
but not by using the visibility or opacity properties as I would like to keep these properties freely usable by the users of the control in design mode.

I tried to override OnRender, passing a null drawingContext etc. but it doesn't work.

Does anyone have an idea how to do this ?

Thanks all!

Re: Cancel rendering of a Control in Wpf

Pete O'Hanlon12-Aug-09 0:37

Pete O'Hanlon

12-Aug-09 0:37

You could always create an empty style for the control if necessary.

Apply a DataTrigger to apply this style based on your condition.

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Re: Cancel rendering of a Control in Wpf

jopiron12-Aug-09 0:43

jopiron

12-Aug-09 0:43

Yes I investigated this, but how can I reset the style to the default one after ?

The process is quite like this:

public MyLabel()
{
SecurityHandler.Instance.SecurityChanged += new SecurityChangedEventHandler(Instance_SecurityChanged);
}

void Instance_SecurityChanged(object sender, string newUsername, int newSecurityLevel)
{
this.securityVisibilityCheck(); // Should change the style here so
}

Thanks for your quick reply!

Re: Cancel rendering of a Control in Wpf

Pete O'Hanlon12-Aug-09 0:56

Pete O'Hanlon

12-Aug-09 0:56

When the condition triggering your data trigger is removed, the default style is automatically reapplied. That't the beauty of triggers - you don't have to write a lot of code to reset things when the condition is no longer true.

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Re: Cancel rendering of a Control in Wpf

jopiron12-Aug-09 1:32

jopiron

12-Aug-09 1:32

Indeed

But unfortunately I do not have a simple trigger to decide, and if I have to handle converters, I prefer to make everything in code.

Re: Cancel rendering of a Control in Wpf

jopiron12-Aug-09 1:52

jopiron

12-Aug-09 1:52

So simple...

Just set object.Style = null;

Thanks all! Laugh | :laugh:

What do i need to install silverlight and make it run in visual studio2008

Andile.M11-Aug-09 22:44

Andile.M

11-Aug-09 22:44

I'am trying to develop an asp.net website using silverlight but i've tried to install silverlight but it says i need pre requisites please point me to the correct direction

Re: What do i need to install silverlight and make it run in visual studio2008

Pete O'Hanlon12-Aug-09 0:02

Pete O'Hanlon

12-Aug-09 0:02

All that you need to download is linked to from this page[^].

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Re: What do i need to install silverlight and make it run in visual studio2008

Michael Sync12-Aug-09 3:18

Michael Sync

12-Aug-09 3:18

You need to have .NET 3.5 service pack 1 and Visual Studio 2008 service pack 1 before installing Silverlight Tool for Visual Studio.

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How to use same usercontrol multiple time in the silverlight

Nekkantidivya11-Aug-09 20:40

Nekkantidivya

11-Aug-09 20:40

Hi,

I am working on a silverlight application. In this I need to place usercontrols on a canvas in the Page.xaml page dynamically at run time. Later I need to set the data values for the datagrid on these user controls from the Page.xaml itself. I want to set different data for different user controls.

How can i differentiate these user controls from one another and set differnt data to their datagrid from Page.xaml itself.

please reply me if u have any idea to solve this.

Thanks in advance

Re: How to use same usercontrol multiple time in the silverlight

Pete O'Hanlon11-Aug-09 21:45

Pete O'Hanlon

11-Aug-09 21:45

There are a couple of ways to do this; it just depends on whether or not you are using pure databinding and MVVM. If you are using MVVM and pure databinding, then there's very little that you need to do because the View/ViewModel integration will take care of the hard work for you. If you aren't, then you can assign a name to each control when you assign it using the x:Name property, e.g. x:Name="myUserControl1" (this is if you add it into the XAML). If you add it using code behind, you just assign the name to the Name property.

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Re: How to use same usercontrol multiple time in the silverlight

Jeremy Likness13-Aug-09 5:32

Jeremy Likness

13-Aug-09 5:32

Either you are instantiating the objects yourself, and can take them with x:Name and have your own reference, or you are using them in a template in the DataGrid. If you are using them in a template, you can hook into the <coded>Loaded event and do something with them. For example, you might do this:

XML

<DataGrid>...<u:MyControl Loaded="MyControl_Loaded".../>...</DataGrid>

In the MyControl_Loaded you can then take the event arguments and do something with the control, either processing, passing it into a controller, etc.

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Positioning controls on a WPF form

Etienne_12311-Aug-09 10:27

Etienne_123

11-Aug-09 10:27

I have a pretty basic question to which I want a solution.
I have a bunch of controls on a WPF form. Some controls are within a Grid. I want these controls to stay centered within the grid when maximizing and resizing the window, but as soon as I maximize my window the controls get thrown out of position. I know this probably has someting to do with the Margin property of the controls. Can someone just please tell me how to set the margin or any other property so that the controls stay where I want them too

Thanks in advance

Re: Positioning controls on a WPF form

Mark Salsbery11-Aug-09 10:59

Mark Salsbery

11-Aug-09 10:59

Etienne_123 wrote:
Some controls are within a Grid. I want these controls to stay centered within the grid when maximizing and resizing the window

What is the parent of the grid with the controls? The parent may
be affecting the layout.

Here's an example of a grid with controls that stays centered in a window:

<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" >
    <Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <RowDefinition Height="*" />
        <RowDefinition Height="*" />
    </Grid.RowDefinitions>
    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
        <ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
        <ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
    </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
    <Button Content="button1" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" />
    <Button Content="button2" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" />
</Grid>

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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Re: Positioning controls on a WPF form

Etienne_12311-Aug-09 21:30

Etienne_123

11-Aug-09 21:30

The parent control is a Groupbox

Re: Positioning controls on a WPF form

Mark Salsbery12-Aug-09 6:41

Mark Salsbery

12-Aug-09 6:41

Etienne_123 wrote:
The parent control is a Groupbox

Ok....and how is this groupbox supposed to behave when the window
is resized?

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

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