Resource can't be found even when it's present - asp.net

I've got a really weird issue I can't fix within a Wpf Application. We built a Common Library containing many useful components, one of them is a fancy MessageBox which has the company style. There're three dictionaries that contains nearly everything we require:
<ResourceDictionary Source="/Library;component/Style/Styles.xaml" />
<ResourceDictionary Source="/Library;component/Themes/Globals.xaml"/>
<ResourceDictionary Source="/Library;component/Themes/Controls/Button/Template.xaml"/>
There's a footer for the MessageBox into Globals.xaml, footer uses a template from Template.xaml. It works perfectly but not in one case. I have a main window that dinamically create a plugin and open a window. This window is a regular Window Wpf application loaded through reflection.
Method to open MessageBox is within the same DLL as Resource Dictionaries.
If I call this MessageBox method from the plugin it throws an exception because "Footer" is not found. I set a breakpoint before
window.ShowDialog();
And I see MergedDictionaries is empty into window. Also empty everywhere, only owner of this MessageBox contains those resources. Doing
window.FindResource("key");
Get a null value as expected. However, if I manually copy merged dictionaries using this code lines before open dialog:
foreach (var dict in owner.Resources.MergedDictionaries)
{
window.Resources.MergedDictionaries.Add(dict);
}
And then look for window.FindResource("key") I can see the style, but even though it continues throwing an exception:
Cannot find resource named '{Footer}'. Resource names are case sensitive.
Footer style is used in this line of MessageBox:
<StatusBar Style="{StaticResource Footer}" DataContext="{Binding ElementName=window}"...
I've also tried to declare this resource into the DialogWindow in the library, even when I've not gonna be allowed to change it:
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source="/Library;component/Themes/Generic.xaml" />
<ResourceDictionary Source="/Library;component/Themes/Globals.xaml"/>
<ResourceDictionary Source="/Library;component/Themes/Controls/Button/Template.xaml"/>
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
I've been 2 days knocking my head on the monitor and nothing, everything I tried failed. Despite of breaking a monitor of course.
Ran out of ideas...
Regards.

Make sure of the following things
The resource dictionary Build Action is set to Page
Every project that references the Style has a library reference to it (Even if you put the Dictionary in App.xaml if a project that doesn't reference the Resources Library then it wont find it
Place the MergedDictionaries in App.xaml (or in the specific page you want to use them)

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Uno Platform initialize Material

I have an app that is using Material extensively. Recently there was an update to Material and looking at the documentation- they have changed how material is initialized. This is the code that I had previously added to my onLaunched method in app.xaml.cs:
this.Resources.MergedDictionaries.Add(new Uno.Material.MaterialColorPalette());
this.Resources.MergedDictionaries.Add(new ResourceDictionary() { Source = new Uri("ms-appx:///MaterialColorPaletteOverride.xaml") });
this.Resources.MergedDictionaries.Add(new Uno.Material.MaterialResources());
In looking at the updated documentation at Uno Platform Material How To
The initialization has changed to the following:
Uno.Material.Resources.Init(this, null);
I tried this and Visual Studio tells me that Resources does not exist in the namespace Uno.Material. I also looked at the sample app example and it was similar:
Uno.Material.Resources.Init(this, new ResourceDictionary { Source = new Uri("ms-appx:///MaterialColorPaletteOverride.xaml") });
Obviously it suffers from the same issue- Resources does not exist- the exact error is the method Resources does not exist in Uno.Material. I have verified the other Uno Packages are at the latest. I do have Xamarin.AndroidX.Lifecycle.LiveData installed as well. Before this update to Material- everything was working as expected. The specific update is to 1.0.0-dev.778. I have reverted to 1.0.0-dev.774 and reverted my code to the three lines I first listed- and it is working again as expected. What should I do so I can implement the new changes?
The Uno.Material library recently introduced a breaking change to the way the Material resources are initialized. Going forward, resource initialization should be done via XAML, similar to the way we initialize <XamlControlsResources /> for WinUI.
The documentation is in the midst of being updated but basically you need to move the initialization to your App.xaml like so:
<Application x:Class="Uno.Themes.Samples.App"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:material="using:Uno.Material">
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<!-- Load WinUI resources -->
<XamlControlsResources xmlns="using:Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls" />
<MaterialColors xmlns="using:Uno.Material"
ColorPaletteOverrideSource="ms-appx:///ColorPaletteOverride.xaml" />
<MaterialResources xmlns="using:Uno.Material" />
<!-- Rest of your application resources .... -->
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>
</Application>
Notice the new <MaterialColors /> and <MaterialResources /> tags. Keep in mind that order is important here and MaterialColors must be initialized before MaterialResources.
The ColorPaletteOverrideSource is optional, but if you are overriding the default Material colors, you would set it here to the path where your new color palette is defined.
You can then go ahead and remove the calls to Uno.Material.Resources.Init from your App.xaml.cs.
You can have a look at the Uno.Material example for a sample of what your app might look like using the new method of resource initialization.

Why won't my Silverlight PivotViewer load?

I have a PivotViewer app I am working on, but, I cannot get it to run.
I have a good .cxml file (I used Pauthor to generate the related deep-zoom files). I have tried running it from inside VS 2010 int debug and even built it and tried running it from my localhost. I've checked it in both Firefox and IE. I've made sure it is in a container with set width and height. I've made sure I have the most current silverlight.js, I've set the appropriate MIMEs on IIS.
My XAML:
<UserControl x:Class="DomPivot.MainPage"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
xmlns:pivot="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Pivot;assembly=System.Windows.Pivot"
mc:Ignorable="d"
d:DesignHeight="400" d:DesignWidth="400" Loaded="UserControl_Loaded">
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White" Width="400" Height="400">
<pivot:PivotViewer x:Name="myPivot" Height="350"></pivot:PivotViewer>
</Grid>
</UserControl>
My error:
Error: Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application Set property 'System.Windows.FrameworkElement.Style' threw an exception. [Line: 11 Position: 52]
at System.Windows.Application.LoadComponent(Object component, Uri resourceLocator)
at DominionPivot.MainPage.InitializeComponent()
at DominionPivot.MainPage..ctor()
at DominionPivot.App.Application_Startup(Object sender, StartupEventArgs e)
at MS.Internal.CoreInvokeHandler.InvokeEventHandler(Int32 typeIndex, Delegate handlerDelegate, Object sender, Object args)
at MS.Internal.JoltHelper.FireEvent(IntPtr unmanagedObj, IntPtr unmanagedObjArgs, Int32 argsTypeIndex, Int32 actualArgsTypeIndex, String eventName)
Source File: DomPivotTestPage.aspx
Line: 0
Line 11 Position 52 of the main.xaml is now the equal sign for the Height property of the pivotviewer. Interesting that BEFORE I added the height property, the project threw this error at the equal sign for the x:Name property.
I don't understand why I'm getting this error and would appreciate some help. I've investigated the other topics here but none of those answers either worked or pertained to my situation.
UPDATE:
I've attempted to make sure it isn't some kind of other error cascading into an inability for the control to load by attempting to load a .CXML file from a public source. Same result. I don't think the control itself is loading, so, I can't even debug the code that loads the collection.
Googling "Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application Set property 'System.Windows.FrameworkElement.Style' threw an exception." is no help. It returns 24 hits. Half of those are unrelated. The other half is another person with what appears to be the same problem posting to half-dozen or more forums and getting no answer either.
OK....so here are a number of issues that a lot of frustrating googling and futzing revealed:
Loaded="UserControl_Loaded"
I'm not entirely sure how this parameter ended up in my UserControl tag, but, it is unnecessary and eliminated the error referenced in my question.
I also moved the LoadCollection method out of its own event and into the UserControl_Loaded event and got things to progress.
Next I found that if you are using Visual Studio to run the project, make sure you specify the port number both in your code and in your web project settings. These obviously need to be changed when you post to a live server.
Lastly, I was led to believe that you HAD to use either the freely available Pauthor tools or the Excel plug-in to transform your collection into a Deep Zoom. Which also requires futzing with IIS to allow .dzi and .dzc.
Not so. There is a freely available Microsoft Deep Zoom Composer tool. In that tool you can compose your deep zoom and export the collection. You'll end up with several xml files and image folders. I found that all you have to do is then reference the output_dzc.xml file in your collection.cxml as your ImgBase and make sure your IDs match between the two files. That's all.
I hope this saves someone the frustration I've experienced the last few weeks trying to use this awesome but pathetically under-documented control.
I would also recommend this blog entry:
http://indiandotnet.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/pivot-viewer-example-cricket-world-cup-2011/
It contains a link to a very simple pivotviewer VS 2010 solution file you can use to examine and familiarize yourself with file and directory structure as well as the necessary XML file structure and solution settings.

Flash Builder: "Access of undefined property Bindable"

I have inherited an Adobe AIR application, and am attempting to debug it through Flash Builder 4.5. Within Flash Builder, when I look at one of the MXML files, I see warnings for each use of the [Bindable] tag:
[Bindable]
internal var selectedPreviousID:String=null;
[Bindable]
internal var recent:mx.collections.ArrayCollection;
The warning is:
Access of undefined property Bindable
There is an import for what I believe to be the appropriate library:
import mx.binding.utils.*;
And there are no missing semi-colons on the lines preceding each warning as per the suggestion in this blog post.
The project is configured to use Flex SDK 3.6.
Additionally the file will not load in the designer, with this warning:
Design mode: Error during component layout. Choose Design > Refresh to refresh design mode.
What am I missing? At runtime I am seeing a blank window - which I assume is the result of the bindings not being triggered. Is this tag not available in Flex SDK 3.6?
By removing elements from the code one by one, I discovered that the warnings somehow appear to have been caused by an <mx:WebService> element declaration earlier:
<mx:WebServiceid="service"
wsdl="https://blah.com/blah?WSDL"
operations='{{"Op1":this.method1()}}'/>
</mx:WebService>
Specifically, if I remove the inline 'operations' attribute - then the warnings against Bindable disappear. Must be triggering some issue with the parser.
Further testing reveals that any attributes that use the inline attribute syntax, e.g.:
properties='{{"outerDocument":this}}'
Trigger this parser issue. This code was generated by a decompiler, so it may be that it is not valid.
There is an alternative syntax for specifying the operations as XML nodes instead of an attribute:
<mx:WebServiceid="service"
wsdl="https://blah.com/blah?WSDL"/>
<mx:operation name="Op1" result="this.method1(event)">
<mx:request>
<token>{credentials.token}</token>
</mx:request>
</mx:operation>
</mx:WebService>

How to suppress Flash migration warnings (1090)

In Flash Professional CS4, I get "migration issue" warnings when I use mouse/keyboard input handler names such as onMouseDown, onKeyUp, etc., even though I have added event listeners for them. These names are perfectly legal for functions, but since these were automatically fired in ActionScript 2.0, we are now (albeit sensibly) warned that their use is no longer automatic in AS3.
I understand the purpose of the warnings, but they aren't useful for me. I want to suppress these warnings, but without suppressing any other warnings, which I generally do find useful.
E.g., when I use code like this:
/** #constructor */
public function MyClass() {
addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onMouseDown);
}
protected function onMouseDown(e:MouseEvent):void {
I get an annoying warning like this:
Warning: 1090: Migration issue: The onMouseDown event handler is not triggered automatically by Flash Player at run time in ActionScript 3.0. You must first register this handler for the event using addEventListener ( 'mouseDown', callback_handler).
There are flex compiler (mxmlc) flags (and a Flash Pro setting) which can suppress actionscript warnings, or all warnings, but I don't want that. That's too general.
Ideally I could suppress a specific error/warning number (Warning #1090).
Edit: I've found more "advanced" compiler flags with mxmlc -help advanced, which look promising. Specifically, the following seem like likely candidates:
warn-deprecated-event-handler-error
warn-deprecated-function-error
warn-deprecated-property-error
How do I get Flash to use these?
Edit 2: I found a flex-info.xml style document in the Flash User Data dir.
[userdatafolder]/Adobe/Flash CS4/en/Configuration/ActionScript 3.0/FlexInfo.xml
However, this file contains a disappointing comment: <!-- Flash does not support most flex-config options. -->, and doesn't seem to respond to my directives even after restarting flash.
This is getting sad.
Edit 3: Found an issue "Erroneous, annoying "Migration issue" warnings" on Adobe bug tracker. A fix is confirmed for the Flex SDK, but no mention of Flash...
You can if you edit EnabledWarnings.xml in $Flash/$LOCALE/Configuration/Actionscript 3.0/EnabledWarnings.xml, where $Flash is the path to Flash inside your Applications/Program Files folder and $LOCALE is your language.
e.g.
/Applications/Adobe Flash CS4/en/Configuration/ActionScript 3.0/EnabledWarnings.xml
You will need to edit line 29, setting the enabled attribute to false for warning with id 1090:
<warning id="1090" enabled="false" label="kWarning_DepricatedEventHandlerError">EventHandler was not added as a listener.</warning>
Quick sidenote:
"Flash Builder (CS4)" is a confusing term. After Flex Builder 3, Flex Builder got renamed to Flash Builder, there is no Flash Builder CS4. The regular Flash IDE is known as Flash Professional/Flash Professional CS4, this was to avoid confusion between products with similar names: Flash Catalyst, Flash Builder(was Flex Builder), Flash Professional. Obviously it doesn't always work that great :)
What about changing the name of the function being called from onMouseDown to handlerOnMouseDown. Would it solve the issue?
Are you using Flex Builder?
If so, go to Project -> Properties -> Flex Compiler. There you can add arguments to the compiler.
Why are you overriding that? It never existed in the first place. The error message is actually telling you something useful. Don't suppress it.
If you want to create an event handler called onMouseDown, try something like
private function onMouseDown(e:MouseEvent) : void {
// statements
}
I agree with the previous post; the message is trying to tell you that you need to register that event handler. Just adding a method called onMouseDown() won't do it. What you need to do is to add something like
addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onMouseDown);
in either your constructor or maybe in the parent component.
You can filter out these warnings using Flash Builder's problems filtering capability:
open problems view
on the right click on the small triangle that opens a drop-down menu
select Configure Contents...
on the left side, create a new configuration, name it as you wish
on the right side adjust its settings:
Scope: On any element in the same project (or anything you want)
Description: choose doesn't contain and type in Migration issue (this will filter out warnings with migration issue in the description)
choose at least Flex problems
You can combine predefined and custom configurations by selecting more then one on the left side.

MVVM Light + Blend designer view error: Cannot find resource named 'Locator'.

The application runs fine but i could not see my design in the designer view.
It says Cannot find resource named 'Locator'. Obviously, i did not change anything in the code, i just did the data binding using the data binding dialog...
anyone facing the same problem?
There are two known occurrences where this can happen.
If you change to Blend before you built the application, the DLLs are not available yet and this error can be seen. Building the application solves the issue.
There is a bug in Expression Blend where, if you are placing a user control in another user control (or Window in WPF), and the inner user control uses a global resource, the global resource cannot be found. In that case you will get the error too.
Unfortunately I do not have a workaround for the second point, as it is a Blend bug. I hope we will see a resolution for that soon, but it seems to be still there in Blend 4.
What you can do is
Ignore the error when working on the outer user control. When you work on the inner user control, you should see the design time data fine (not very satisfying I know).
Use the d:DataContext to set the design time data context in Blend temporarily.
Hopefully this helps,
Laurent
I've come up with a reasonably acceptable workaround to this problem since it doesn't appear to have been fixed in Blend 4:
In the constructor for your XAML UserControl just add the resources it needs, provided you're in design mode within Blend. This may be just the Locator, or also Styles and Converters as appropriate.
public partial class OrdersControl : UserControl
{
public OrdersControl()
{
// MUST do this BEFORE InitializeComponent()
if (DesignerProperties.GetIsInDesignMode(this))
{
if (AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory.Contains("Blend 4"))
{
// load styles resources
ResourceDictionary rd = new ResourceDictionary();
rd.Source = new Uri(System.IO.Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, "Resources/Styles.xaml"), UriKind.Absolute);
Resources.MergedDictionaries.Add(rd);
// load any other resources this control needs such as Converters
Resources.Add("booleanNOTConverter", new BooleanNOTConverter());
}
}
// initialize component
this.InitializeComponent();
}
There may be some edge cases, but its working OK for me in the simple cases where before I'd get a big red error symbol. I'd LOVE to see suggestions on how to better solve this problem, but this at least allows me to animate user controls that otherwise are appearing as errors.
You could also extract out the creation of resources to App.xaml.cs:
internal static void CreateStaticResourcesForDesigner(Control element)
{
if (AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory.Contains("Blend 4"))
{
// load styles resources
ResourceDictionary rd = new ResourceDictionary();
rd.Source = new Uri(System.IO.Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, "Resources/Styles.xaml"), UriKind.Absolute);
element.Resources.MergedDictionaries.Add(rd);
// load any other resources this control needs
element.Resources.Add("booleanNOTConverter", new BooleanNOTConverter());
}
}
and then in the control do this BEFORE InitializeComponent():
// create local resources
if (DesignerProperties.GetIsInDesignMode(this))
{
App.CreateStaticResourcesForDesigner(this);
}
Note: At some point in time this stopped working for me and I ended up hardcoding the path to the Styles.xaml because I got frustrated trying to figure out which directory I was in.
rd.Source = new Uri(#"R:\TFS-PROJECTS\ProjectWPF\Resources\Styles.xaml", UriKind.Absolute);
I'm sure I could find the right path with 5 minutes work, but try this if you're at your wits end like I was!
In MyUserControl.xaml, instead of:
DataContext="{Binding Main, Source={StaticResource Locator}
use:
d:DataContext="{Binding Main, Source={StaticResource Locator}
where "d" has been previously defined as:
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
The reason and workaround explained here
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/unnir/archive/2009/03/31/blend-wpf-and-resource-references.aspx
Look at (b) part of the post.
I had a similar problem with a user control resource.
I added this in my usercontrol xaml code:
<UserControl.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/GinaControls;component/Resources/GinaControlsColors.xaml"/>
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>
</UserControl.Resources>
Where GinaControls is the namespace where the control class is declared and /Resources/GinaControlsColors.xaml is the project folder and xaml resource file name.
Hope this helps.
Just add this in your App.xaml.cs at the very beginning
here's my piece of code
[STATThread()]
static void main(){
App.Current.Resources.Add("Locator", new yournamespace.ViewModel.ViewModelLocator());
}
public App(){
main();
}
Make sure the Blend has opened the entire solution and NOT just the single project containing the views. I was right-clicking in Visual Studio and selecting Open In Expression Blend. To my surprize, Blend could not find the solution file, so it only opened the single project.
When I realized this, I launched Blend directly, pointed it to the solution file, and then Blend was able to find the ViewModelLocator in my view.

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