SilverlightShow: Silverlight 1.0 Bar Chart Tutorial Comments

RE: Silverlight 1.0 Bar Chart Tutorial

( jp) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:43:19 +0300

Adding the Background and Container

The first piece we need is the background. Not only does it serve the purpose of a contrasting color, but also it acts as the container for the bars.

File -> New -> File...
Choose the Silverlight JScript Page template
Name the file Chart.xaml
In the root Canvas of the Chart.xaml file add the following XAML:

What XAML?

RE: Silverlight 1.0 Bar Chart Tutorial

( Jain) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:43:14 +0300

Can any one tell how to render the chart using XML.

RE: Silverlight 1.0 Bar Chart Tutorial

( emil) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:13:51 +0300

Justin, next week we will publish a tutorial how to make a silverlight 1.1 bar chart. It's more advanced than this bar chart and, of course, with less fragile code ;)

RE: Silverlight 1.0 Bar Chart Tutorial

( Justin-Josef Angel [MVP]) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:10:12 +0300

Yep, so the next obvious step it taking this example toward OOP. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/PathToReusableXAML.aspx Nice job, I can hardly do this math myself :) While the code you presented works, It's basically tons of javascript all meshed up together. That'll be VERY hard to maintain as it's extremely fragile to changes. It works, but for how long?