Daily Archives: July 6, 2007

Professional, Software

Using Resources out of ZIP

using Silverlight Alpha 1.1, you can zip your images/media files and use them in your application using downloader class. It is pretty straightforward.

  1. Download zip file using Downloader class
  2. hook the completed event for the Downloader class
  3. Use image.SetSource API that takes Downloader object and part name to set the image source

page.xaml

<Canvas 
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/client/2007" 
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" 
        x:Name="parentCanvas" 
        Loaded="Page_Loaded" 
        x:Class="zippedimages.Page;assembly=ClientBin/zippedimages.dll" 
        Width="640" 
        Height="480" 
        Background="White" 
        > 
    <Image Width="350" Height="250.757" Canvas.Left="152" 
         Canvas.Top="119.129" x:Name="image" /> 
</Canvas>

page.xaml.cs

using System; 
using System.Windows; 
using System.Windows.Controls; 

namespace zippedimages 
{ 
    public partial class Page : Canvas 
    { 
        public void Page_Loaded(object o, EventArgs e) 
        { 
            // Required to initialize variables 
            InitializeComponent(); 
            Downloader d = new Downloader(); 
            d.Open("GET", new Uri("images.zip", UriKind.Relative), true); 
            d.Completed += new EventHandler(d_Completed); 
            d.Send(); 
        } 

        void d_Completed(object sender, EventArgs e) 
        { 
            Downloader d = (Downloader)sender; 
            image.SetSource(d, "image1.jpg"); 
        } 
    } 
}

Unfortunately there is no way today to just download the image directly and get a stream for that image and set the source of image element using that stream.

Source code for this simple project is here.

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