SilverlightShow: The Silverlight BlockText Control Comments

RE: The Silverlight BlockText Control

Shohan — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:01:03 GMT

Hi,

Your BlockText control works fine, but wanted to know how to implement the Style property in the BlockText control which is similar to the TextBlock control.

Thanks

RE: The Silverlight BlockText Control

Tom — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:59:55 GMT

Hi,

thanks for using my code and reporting this issue. As a workaround, insert in BlockText.cs at the beginning of the function "public void UpdateAll()", at line 187 the following code:

if (DesignerProperties.IsInDesignTool == true)
return;

then it works. I will update the online project the next days.

Maybe You could send a link, where I can see the BlockTextControl life in action
inside Your project.

Greetings, Tom

RE: The Silverlight BlockText Control

Abhilash — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:54:45 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for the solution.
I'm getting an error as "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" during design time, whenever I try to add more than one <kir:BlockText> tag in my markup. I'm using Silverlight 4. I'm placing all inside a stackpanel like:

StackPanel Background="White" Width="750">
<kir:BlockText x:Name="txtBlockPrivacyPolicy">kir:BlockText>
<kir:BlockText x:Name="txtBlockTermsAndCondtions">kir:BlockText>
StackPanel>

Thanks.

RE: The Silverlight BlockText Control

Todd — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:05:32 GMT

Your source link is no longer working.

RE: The Silverlight BlockText Control

Thomas Kirchmair — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:17:01 GMT

Hallo M.,

Danke für Deine Information. Die ContentCompression vom IIS ist nun ausgeschalten, dadurch wird das zip-File richtig übertragen. Falls Du Fragen hast, Du kannst mich unter kir.at kontaktieren.

Grüße, Tom

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For those who had problems downloading the sample zip-file: My IIS is now running with deactivated ContentCompression. So the zip will be downloaded correctly.

Greetings, Tom

RE: The Silverlight BlockText Control

LawBot — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:44:16 GMT

Hallo Thomas,

ich habe Probleme, den ZIP-Download zu öffnen. Erhalte eine Fehlermeldung, der Ordner sei leer. Hast Du eine Idee?

Beste Grüße,

RE: The Silverlight BlockText Control

Thomas Kirchmair — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:12:45 GMT

Hi Sachin,

thank you for your interest on my BlockText-Control. I tried to include 3 BlockText-Controls into one StackPanel and inserted the StackPanel into a Canvas. I didn't get the error in Silveright 3 Release, but I mentioned that the layout update is different the time the control is inside a canvas. This results in the different layout-cycles of the canvas and that the HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" does not work for controls inside the canvas (which is default in all other situations).
Please download the sample again, because I recently updated the sample project and online demo to Silverlight 3 Release. Then specify a width in pixels for each BlockText-Control inside your Canvas in xaml, so that the layout-system is able to determine the width for the first calculations.

If you need further info please provide your contact,
Tom Kirchmair

RE: The Silverlight BlockText Control

Sachin Mukhija — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:10:46 GMT

In my project I have added all the controls at runtime but when I add the blocktext control to statckpanel and then stackpanel to canvas, I get the error Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED)), Can u please specify the solution for this

RE: The Silverlight BlockText Control

marko — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:09:02 GMT

i hope that this will be fixed in final sl3

RE: The Silverlight BlockText Control

Ruurd Boeke — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:17:06 GMT

Very innovative, however, I'm not sure if this solution is not somewhat to heavy. I would sooner have liked a custom panel for this kind of layout that does all the measuring and layout. That would be many times faster than having soo many instances of grid behind the scenes

RE: The Silverlight BlockText Control

Nair — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:17:05 GMT

Very good solution. Still wondering why MS couldn't implement the feature.

Thanks