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Silverlight Quick Tip: Controlling the Out-of-Browser Window

Pete Brown - 03 February 2010

If your Silverlight 4 application is running with Elevated Permissions, you can control a fair number of aspects of the hosting out-of-browser window. You can change the size, location, make it top most, set window state and Activate it. Here’s some simple example code:

if (Application.Current.HasElevatedPermissions)
{
    Window win = Application.Current.MainWindow;

    win.WindowState = WindowState.Normal;

    win.TopMost = true;
    win.Height = 200;
    win.Width = 200;

    win.Left = 150;
    win.Top = 150;

    if (!win.IsActive)
        win.Activate();
    
}

Of course, use good judgment when moving the window around, or making it top-most.

   
posted by Pete Brown on Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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4 comments for “Silverlight Quick Tip: Controlling the Out-of-Browser Window”

  2. Gravatar of Pete BrownReply
    Pete Brownsays:
    Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 6:20:26 PM
    For RTM, I believe you'll be able to control the chrome. That likely means borderless window with an optional corner radius and custom titlebars of your design. I don't believe we'll support non-rectangular windows, but can't say for sure.
  4. Gravatar of Bill StorageReply
    Bill Storagesays:
    Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 4:52:48 PM
    It doesn't appear that there is a means of detecting that the OOB window has been minimized, i.e., no WindowStateChanged event and no notification of minimizing via SizeChanged. Notification of state change would really be useful.

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