Useful to know: If you set the Width and Height on the UserControl though, you have set a fixed size and thus even if its parent tool window changes size, the UserControl never will.  You should not set Width and Height on the UserControl if you want that event to be raised as the parent […]

I just checked in the implementation code for a new feature for ClipFlair Studio’s Captions/Revoicing component: When playing back recorded (or loaded from a WAV or MP3 file) audio for a caption/revoicing entry, the playback is now limited to the duration of the respective caption, (End-Start) time that is (btw that component has a duration ...

At ClipFlair’s AudioRecorderControl (used in Captions/Revoicing component of ClipFlair Studio), I use the following code to initialize a MediaElement to use for playback. After a long time a found out that if the MediaElement is not in the visual tree (for example defined in XAML, or defined in code and then added to the visual […]

Just added the following comment to: https://github.com/loarabia/ManagedMediaHelpers/issues/15 Managed Media Helpers contains the very useful Mp3MediaSource class for .NET / Silverlight / Windows Phone. Added compile-time SWITCHES and respective code to Silverlight demo code for PRELOAD (into memory stream) and AUTOPLAY (this was a bit tricky, ...

It seems that CaptureMouse is behaving differently in WPF and Silverlight, in that in the former one it immediately calls OnLostMouseCapture at a Visual, whereas in Silverlight it doesn’t get called if the element didn’t have the mouse capture already (btw, in Silverlight that method is at a UIElement – there is no Visual ...

At ClipFlair Studio (a Silverlight app), I had some time ago implemented a confirmation warning upon user trying to close the webpage (when it was running inside the web browser), which then had stopped functioning. It seems at some refactoring I had added code like the following: var activityView = activityView(); and it was failing […]