Sending Email
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OK, I have to admit that this makes me a bit, well, ticked... How is something that is supposed to be a web technology for up-to-date cool looking web stuff lacking these features: 1) The ability to send an email without having to drop down and write a web service to do it? 2) The ability to post a blocking and modal dialog box to the user. Geeeeeze... And I was really starting to like Silverlight...
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OK, I have to admit that this makes me a bit, well, ticked... How is something that is supposed to be a web technology for up-to-date cool looking web stuff lacking these features: 1) The ability to send an email without having to drop down and write a web service to do it? 2) The ability to post a blocking and modal dialog box to the user. Geeeeeze... And I was really starting to like Silverlight...
Ray Cassick wrote:
- The ability to send an email without having to drop down and write a web service to do it?
Silverlight is client-technology. It runs on the browser. Can you send a mail from Javascript without using web service, web server or ActiveX object??
Ray Cassick wrote:
- The ability to post a blocking and modal dialog box to the user.
I'm not sure what you meant.
Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)
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OK, I have to admit that this makes me a bit, well, ticked... How is something that is supposed to be a web technology for up-to-date cool looking web stuff lacking these features: 1) The ability to send an email without having to drop down and write a web service to do it? 2) The ability to post a blocking and modal dialog box to the user. Geeeeeze... And I was really starting to like Silverlight...
Ray Cassick wrote:
The ability to post a blocking and modal dialog box to the user
There are a couple of workarounds floating around but neither works perfectly. Using Popup to create a Dialog class[^] Create a Silverlight 2 User Control from a Popup Control[^] With both of these I can still tab to the background controls. In other words, TabNavigation=Cycle does not work.
Kevin
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Ray Cassick wrote:
- The ability to send an email without having to drop down and write a web service to do it?
Silverlight is client-technology. It runs on the browser. Can you send a mail from Javascript without using web service, web server or ActiveX object??
Ray Cassick wrote:
- The ability to post a blocking and modal dialog box to the user.
I'm not sure what you meant.
Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)
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About e-mail you have to go WCF and then in the server side use that service. Even if you could send an email to an SMTP server from silverlight you would have to set your credentials in your client code... this means... an spammer would be quite happy to dessasembly your code get the credentials and use them to rely on your SMTP and send tones of nonsense emails. On the other hand, you create modal popups (I used them on my app), the result that you get is similar to the AJAX ASP .net modal popup. Thanks Braulio
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