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  1. Have Window control that (like ScrollViewer) adorns other control and makes it draggable + resizable

    Why should I as application developer define what size and position my (e.g.) DataGrid and DataForm have on a page? Why wouldn't I just wrap these controls in a Window control that allows the user to position them the best way for what they are doing? They could minimize a control, and reopen it. On small screens this would be really neat (and all screens too small anyway).
    Excel allows me to drag, resize, and minimize different sheets, so why wouldn't applications not support the same feature? It becomes more valuable with Silverlight web applications because unlike HTML apps they…

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      • BubbleDataPoint seems to have a bug on ToolTip

        Charting Bubble Series
        BubbleDataPoint has a built in Tooltip which displays the DependentValue by default. Any attemtps to set or customize the tooltip aside from creating a full template fails.

        Code Sample:
        BubbleDataPoint dp = new BubbleDataPoint();
        dp.DependentValue = data.SalesQuantity;
        dp.IndependentValue = data.SalesAmount;
        dp.Size = Convert.ToDouble(data.PercentGoal);
        ToolTipService.SetToolTip(dp, "testy test"); // does not seem to have any effect

        It's my understanding that the call on ToolTipService to set the tooltip should work.

        I've tried the templating but it won't work because in doing so it destroys some built in defaults that I want to keep. Very simple thing - just want…

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          • Silverlght for Android phone

            Provide silverlight plug in for android phone or brower it support to run silverlight application on andoird device..:)

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            • Hi i have suggestion for silverlight and Microsft Expression Sdk . We try to Stream Client Webcam an

              Hi i have suggestion for silverlight and Microsft Expression Sdk . We try to Stream Client Webcam and voice to MS Encoder Serivice but in Expression Encoder library and Expression Utility lib. can not referance if it is successfull import that will enable silverlight to stream client Web cam and Voice. I am software devoloper and i see this. Briefly we should mark these library to add silverlight project. Please notice that requertment it will en able silverlight better on web solitions. if it can be,it will be perfect for everybody plase notice that.Microsft Encoder Expression Encoder and utility dll…

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              • MS expression, for version 5.0,

                right now the tools to use the Sliverlight is MS expression, for version 5.0.

                I hope it can really be native 64 bits and take advantage of the Intel iCore 7 Exterm edition. For GPU, I think it has to utilize the Nvidia GTX 480 series GPU so that the CUDA feature will be use.

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                  • wcf progress events

                    It would be very nice to get WCF progress events (%complete or Total Bytes + Progress Bytes)

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                      • Richtextbox Support all format,Report design from silverlight

                        Richtextbox Support all format,Report design from silverlight

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                        • INSERT/OVERRIDE option for TextBox

                          Make possible the use of INSERT so we can be in override mode or insert mode for the TextBox

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                          • supports tiff

                            supports tiff

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                            • integrate native extensions for silverlight into silverlight 5

                              Bring all the features of NESL (http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/nesl) into Silverlight 5 without extensions, especially video encoding (local and streaming:)

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                              • http://www.tescokitchens.com/

                                Kitchen Design
                                Tesco offer a free Kitchen Design service on their new Tesco Kitchens website. You can get a professional designer out to your home to design your bespoke fitted kitchen

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                                • New Things that want in Silverlight

                                  1. Multi-binding
                                  2. Relative Binding
                                  3. Support UpdateSourceTrigger="PropertyChanged" event on binding
                                  4. Support navigation on collection like I can use the following syntax in xaml
                                  LastItem = "{Binding Path=Collection.Last().Value"}" to find out the last item in a binding collection.

                                  thanks for your effort

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                                  • Use video card's GPU to encode or decode a AVCHD format to other format without any CPU by default.

                                    Use video card's GPU to encode or decode a AVCHD format to other format without any CPU resource by default.

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                                    • Make SL the primary tool for developing IE plugins (“Applications”)

                                      Firefox has its model, why can’t IE ?

                                      Think about it, Silvelight powered tabs, Silverlight application sidebar and shortcuts. Makes much more sense than enhancing the DOM to expose Windows specific API’s (No body will use these extensions. The lowest common denominator always rules for websites)

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                                        • Provide tooling to get rid of SL percentage loading indicator

                                          Modern Web Apps are snappy, people hate being told to wait. We need some profiler enhancement that will trace our build to inform us when / what causes our XAP files to be bloated and what is the required size for snappy display. There is no reason we cannot develop on-demand fetching of Silverlight pages that behave exactly like HTML pages.

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