10 Minute Tutorial - Silverlight: Mouse button and scroll wheel event handling using managed code (C#)

Originally, I wanted this post to stand as the definitive tutorial on mouse handling in Silverlight. However, after researching all the different methods people use to handle the right mouse button and scroll wheel in Silverlight, I quickly gave up that pipe dream. Instead, this tutorial serves as merely a starting point for handling mouse events in Silverlight. If you can’t find what you need here, chances are, someone else has hacked together the solution you nedd. I provide links to a few of these solutions on my Silverlight Portal page.

So, for this tutorial, we will create a rectangle that you can drag using the left mouse button, resize using the scroll wheel and change its color using the right mouse button. Hopefully, this examle will give you a basic overview on how to handle mouse events in Silverlight.

With all that said, let’s get started. Read more

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10 Minute Tutorial - Silverlight: Using JavaScript to Call Scriptable Managed Code (C#)

My event handling tutorial walked through manipulating a Silverlight control using managed code. Today, we will learn how to access that managed code from JavaScript in an HTML page. The blandness of my last tutorial (a blue rectangle, whoopie) inspired me to spice things up for this tutorial and give you: animated, multi-color rectangles! Lacking the desire or the time to create the necessary XAML myself, I “borrowed” it from one of the samples embedded in the absolutely awesome SilverlightPad application.

Man, I hope that code is open source. ;)

In addition to snazzy animations, the application for this tutorial will also contain a couple of form controls that will manipulate the Silverlight content at runtime. The first control, a simple drop down, will allow the user to select the number of rectangles displayed on the screen. The second form control will act as a pause/resume button for the animation.

Okay, let’s get started! Read more

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