Il blog di Netpalantir

1970-01-01T01:00:00+01:00

Silverlight 5: beautifying fonts

2011-12-28T00:00:00+01:00

Silverlight 5 introduces several noteworthy features, and a new fonts rendering system is among them. This post will explain how to employ it to beautify your application typografy and how to apply them using Silverlight Toolkit themes.

Silverlight 5: migrating a project, and setting proper fonts

2011-12-28T00:00:00+01:00

Silverlight 5 is out, and, despite rumors about its upcoming dismissal by Microsoft, the new version is appealing. The new typographical improvements for example are a neat feature to have. So let's see how to migrate your project to the new framework.

SCRIPT1028: Expected identifier, string or number

2011-08-23T00:00:00+02:00

Ever fought with this on IE7?

How to use brush resources in Silverlight

2011-06-08T00:00:00+02:00

It is important to keep a consistent style, when it comes to the visual appearance of your application. Similarly to what you do when you theme a website using CSS, Silverlight provides you with Resources to manage colors, brushes, and many other visual styles consistently across the application.

Pollo in agrodolce alla cinese

2011-05-30T00:00:00+02:00

Di cinese probabilmente non ha molto, comunque l'idea è suggestiva. Benvenuti nell'angolo cottura di Palantir!

Silverlight: the breakpoint will not currently be hit

2011-04-18T00:00:00+02:00

A quick tip for those scratching their heads with this error when debugging Silverlight in Internet Explorer (and possibly other browsers):

The breakpoint will not currently be hit. 
No symbols have been loaded for this document.

When this happens, it means that the browser is not loading the correct binary. It could mean several things.

The browser is using a cached and outdated version of your binary files. You just need to clear the browser's cache! Hint: Click on the Wheel icon in IE - Developer tools. In my experience, this is the most common situation.

You have multiple silverlight components on one page, or you are using multiple browser pages. This is more complicated. If you can, you should alway use one single window when debugging, so you may want to load your popups in the main window temporarily, to allow debugging.

Easiest and free way to georeference an image file

2011-04-14T00:00:00+02:00

Some time ago I was confronted with the following problem: I was given a historic map of a certain city in jpg format, and I was requested to make it available to MapServer in order to be displayed along with the already available shapes and ecw raster imagery. I had no idea about how to proceed... but in the end it worked. Here is how.

How to apply a Silverlight 4 theme to an existing project

2011-03-03T00:00:00+01:00

The JetPack themes are a great resource for those of you who seek a quick and elegant way to make your Silverlight applications look good and consistent. This post explains how to apply them to your existing Silverlight 4 project.

Fotografie

2011-02-15T00:00:00+01:00