MCTS- Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (Silverlight Technology) Viral Rathod

Dear Friends,

I am glad to share with you all, that, Finally, I became MCTS- Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist.

Since 3+ years, I am using Silverlight Technology (Since version 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 & currently 5.0). But, I don't know why, I was afraid of giving Exam 70-506.

Well, I got 980/1000.

Apart from my joy, I also faced difficulties doing preparation for the same. One of my Techie friend Mr. Jay Nanavaty helped me for the same.

And now, I feel its my turn to help others, hence below mention are few links which shall help to prepare for the examination:

1. Exam 70-506

2. Silverlightshow

3. Codeproject

4. Silverlight-MCTS-Exam: What to expect and how to prepare

5. E-Book of Microsoft Silverlight Development (70-506) Certification Guide

For, any other queries, do not hesitate to contact me @ vr7viral86@gmail.com , I will be more happy to help any one.

 
Cheers!

Viral Rathod

Silverlight Testing Tools

While going through Silverlight Development, I felt to analyse of testing tools can be used with Silverlight Application Development:

TestComplete:
 http://support.smartbear.com/screencasts/testcomplete/testing-silverlight-4-apps/
Video Help:
http://support.smartbear.com/screencasts/testcomplete/testing-silverlight-4-apps/

Statlight:
http://statlight.codeplex.com

Module for Silverlight testing:
http://www.loadtestingtool.com/silverlight-testing.shtml

Telerik:
http://www.telerik.com/automated-testing-tools/silverlight-testing.aspx

Hope this helps you.

Silverlight object Tag param list

Dear All,

Since few months, I was developing Silverlight 5 Application, but while Deploying I got confused regarding configuring various param inside the application.

Basically, Integration of Silverlight with HTML can happen through two ways:
1. Using the object Tag.
2. Using the JavaScript helper files.

Here, I have listed out param Configurations with its Description, Type & Default value for object tag for Silverlight in HTML.

Sr.No.	Parameter	Description	Type	Default
1	allowHtmlPopupWindow	Specifies whether the HtmlPage.PopupWindow method is allowed.	Bool	Defaults to true for applications in the same domain, otherwise false.
2	autoUpgrade	Specifies whether the plug-in should attempt to upgrade if minRuntimeVersion is newer than the current Silverlight version.	Bool	TRUE
3	background	Plug-in background color.	Color Code	null i.e. White
4	enableAutoZoom	Indicates whether the host (for certain platforms) can invoke zoom behavior that increases the DPI.	Bool	TRUE
5	enableCacheVisualization	Indicates whether to use a non-production analysis visualization mode, which shows areas of a page that are being GPU accelerated with a colored overlay. Do not use in production code.	Bool	FALSE
6	enableFramerateCounter	Indicates whether to display the current frame rate in the hosting browser's status bar (IE/Win only).	Bool	FALSE
7	enableGPUAcceleration	Indicates whether to use graphics processor unit (GPU) hardware acceleration for cached compositions, which potentially results in graphics optimization.	Bool	FALSE
8	enablehtmlaccess	Specifies whether the plug-in has full access to the browser DOM.	Bool	Defaults to TRUE for applications in the same domain, otherwise FALSE.
9	enableNavigation	Indicates whether the hosted content in the Silverlight plug-in can use a HyperlinkButton to navigate to external URIs.	all: the hosted content can use HyperlinkButton to navigate to any URI.	all
			none: the hosted content cannot use HyperlinkButton for navigation to an external URI. Relative URIs for internal navigation are still permitted.
10	enableRedrawRegions	Determines whether to visually indicate the areas of the plug-in that are being redrawn with each frame. This property is for performance tuning and visualization during development only; do not specify it for any deployed Silverlight-based application.	Bool	FALSE
11	initParams	User-defined string of parameters.	Comma separated key=value pairs	-
12	maxframerate	Specifies the maximum number of frames per second that the plug-in can render. The default is 60.	Integer	60
13	minRuntimeVersion	Specifies the earliest version of the Silverlight plug-in required.	Version number	-
14	onError	Error handler for parse and native code run-time errors.	JavaScript function name	-
15	onFullScreenChanged	Function to call when the FullScreen property changes.	JavaScript function name	-
16	onLoad	Function to call when the plug-in has finished loading in the DOM.	JavaScript function name	-
17	onResize	Function to call when the plug-in size changes.	JavaScript function name	-
18	onSourceDownloadComplete	Function to call when the source download has completed.	JavaScript function name	-
19	onSourceDownloadProgressChanged	Function to call when the source download progress changes.	JavaScript function name	-
20	onZoom	Specifies the handler for a Zoomed event that occurs when the Silverlight plug-in content area receives a host-generated zoom event.	JavaScript function name	-
21	source	Specifies the address or relative path of either an initial XAML file or XAP.	URI	-
22	splashScreenSource	Specifies a XAML page to use as the splash screen.	URI	-
23	windowless	Specifies the rendering mode for the plug-in for Windows versions of Silverlight.	Bool	FALSE

Hope all have found many tags which they might not have came across, but any ways, its basic although I felt to put over my blog.

Do feel free to post your Suggestion & Comments, whether any param is missed up by me. If at all needed I will update this.

Cheers,
Viral Rathod
viralrathod.blogspot.com