Introduction

If you are developing a Silverlight Application, and you need to pass some parameters inside – for example a key and value pair then we can pass the key value pair from the aspx page itself. We will see how we can do this in Silverlight.

Create a Silverlight Project

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Figure 1.1 Creating Silverlight Project

Adding parameters

Open the "InitializingParametersTestPage.aspx" and find the tagtag <asp:Silverlight add an attribute InitParameters

Enter the following code to the tag
  1. InitParameters="Key1=Value1,Key2=Value2"
Defining the Parameters

In App.xaml.cs add an object of IDictionary<string,string> as follows
  1. public IDictionary<string, string> AppParams;
  2. In Application_Startup event initialize the parameters as follows
  3. private void Application_Startup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e)
  4. {
  5. AppParams = e.InitParams;
  6. this.RootVisual = new Page();
  7. }
Using Parameters

In Page.xaml add ListBoxes to show the parameter values

Xaml Code
  1. <UserControl x:Class="InitializingParameters.Page"
  2. xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
  3. xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
  4. Width="400" Height="300">
  5. <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="#FFB7C2E5">
  6. <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
  7. <ColumnDefinition Width="0.472*"/>
  8. <ColumnDefinition Width="0.025*"/>
  9. <ColumnDefinition Width="0.502*"/>
  10. </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
  11. <ListBox x:Name="myKeysList"/>
  12. <ListBox x:Name="myValuesList" Grid.Column="2"/>
  13. </Grid>
  14. </UserControl>
In code behind of the Page.xaml.cs add the following code to bind the parameters
  1. namespace InitializingParameters
  2. {
  3. public partial class Page : UserControl
  4. {
  5. public Page()
  6. {
  7. InitializeComponent();
  8. App myApp = App.Current as App;
  9. foreach (string item in myApp.AppParams.Keys)
  10. {
  11. myKeysList.Items.Add(item);
  12. }
  13. foreach (string item1 in myApp.AppParams.Values)
  14. {
  15. myValuesList.Items.Add(item1);
  16. }
  17. }
  18. }
  19. }
Runnning the Application

When you run the application the list will carry the key and value pairs.

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Figure 1.2 Displaying Key Value pair

Hope you like the article, Enjoy Coding.