The Silverlight extension is deprecated and no new development will be actioned. All new features and functionality for the support of Silverlight are now handled instead by the .NET XAML extension. Please see the section of documentation entitled Existing extensions for WPF and Silverlight for more information about the .NET XAML extension and the impacts of moving to it.

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Target audience:

Users of the extension providing Silverlight support for C# and VB.NET.

Summary: This document provides basic information about the beta release of the extension providing Silverlight support for C# and VB.NET

Extension ID

com.castsoftware.silverlight

What's new?

See Silverlight 1.4 - Release Notes for more information.

Description

This extension provides support for Silverlight. The calculation of Automated Function Points for your .NET analyses will be supplemented through the creation of new objects and links specific to the Silverlight framework that will link back to objects/links produced by the base .NET analyzer.

In what situation should you install this extension?

If your .NET application contains Silverlight source code and you want to view these object types and their links, then you should install this extension.

Silverlight framework support

The following Silverlight frameworks are supported by this extension:

Version	Supported
All versions up to 5.0

Function Point, Quality and Sizing support

This extension provides the following support:

Function Points (transactions): a green tick indicates that OMG Function Point counting and Transaction Risk Index are supported
Quality and Sizing: a green tick indicates that CAST can measure size and that a minimum set of Quality Rules exist

Function Points (transactions)	Quality and Sizing

CAST AIP compatibility

This extension is compatible with:

CAST AIP release	Supported	Technology
8.3.x		C# and VB.NET
8.2.x		C# and VB.NET
8.1.x		C# and VB.NET
8.0.x		C# and VB.NET
7.3.7 and all higher 7.3.x releases		C# only

Supported DBMS servers

This extension is compatible with the following DBMS servers:

AIP releases	CSS	Oracle	Microsoft
All supported releases

Prerequisites

An installation of any compatible release of CAST AIP (see table above)

Download and installation instructions

Please see:

The latest release status of this extension can be seen when downloading it from the CAST Extend server.

CAST Transaction Configuration Center (TCC) Entry Points

In Silverlight ≥ 1.2.x, if you are using the extension with CAST AIP ≥ 8.3.x, a set of Silverlight specific Transaction Entry Points are now automatically imported when the extension is installed. These Transaction Entry Points will be available in the CAST Transaction Configuration Center:

Manual import action for CAST AIP ≤ 8.2.x

Locate the .TCCSetup file in the extension folder: Configuration\TCC\DotNet_Silverlight.TCCSetup
In the CAST Transaction Configuration Center, ensure you have selected the Templates node:

CAST AIP Technologies > Silverlight - 1.4 > templates.jpg

This .TCCSetup file is to be imported into the CAST Transaction Calibration Center using either the:
- File > Import Configuration menu option:

CAST AIP Technologies > Silverlight - 1.4 > TCC1.jpg

- Or right clicking on the Template node and selecting Import Configuration:

CAST AIP Technologies > Silverlight - 1.4 > TCC2.jpg

The import of the "DotNet_Silverlight.TCCSetup" file will provide you with a sample Transaction Entry point in the Free Definition node under Templates:

CAST AIP Technologies > Silverlight - 1.4 > entry_points.jpg

Now right click the "Default Entry Point Silverlight" item and select copy:

CAST AIP Technologies > Silverlight - 1.4 > copy.jpg

Paste the item into the equivalent node under the Application, for example, below we have copied it into the Application MEUDON:

CAST AIP Technologies > Silverlight - 1.4 > paste.jpg

Packaging, delivering and analyzing your source code

Once the extension is installed, no further configuration changes are required before you can package your source code and run an analysis. The process of packaging, delivering and analyzing your source code does not change in any way:

Package and deliver your application (that includes source code which uses Silverlight) in the exact same way as you always have.
Analyze your delivered J2EE application source code in the CAST Management Studio in the exact same way as you always have - the source code which uses Silverlight will be detected and handled correctly.

What results can you expect?

Once the analysis/snapshot generation has completed, you can view the results in the normal manner. The following objects and links will be displayed in CAST Enlighten:

Objects

All objects are represented under the File browser > Xaml Source file folders in CAST Enlighten:

Icon	Object type
	Silverlight XAML Control
	Silverlight XAML Custom Control

Note that if the Name Attribute of an object is present, then it will be used to display that object in CAST Enlighten. For example:

Name not present	Name present

The following objects are detected:

Border

BulletDecorator

Button

Calendar

Canvas

CheckBox

ComboBox

ContextMenu

DataGrid

DatePicker

DockPanel

DocumentViewer

DropShadowBitmapEffect

Expander

FlowDocumentPageViewer

FlowDocumentReader

FlowDocumentScrollViewer

Frame

Grid

GridSplitter

GroupBox

HyperlinkButton

Image

Label

ListBox

ListView

Menu

Panel

PasswordBox

Popup

ProgressBar

PrintDialog

RadioButton

RepeatButton

Ribbon

RichTextBox

ScrollBar

ScrollViewer

Separator

Slider

StackPanel

StatusBar

TabControl

TextBlock

TextBox

ToolBar

ToolTip

TreeView

UserControl

WrapPanel

Viewbox

Links

Source	Link type	Target	Example
XAML Control	call	Action Event method implemented in source file
XAML Control	relyOn	Set and get accessors of Property implemented in source file
XAML Control	relyOn	XAML Control which is used by another XAML Control
XAML Control	call	Binding property in DataContext	-
XAML Source File	relyOn	Referred Class
C# property (relay command)	relyOn	C# method (delegate
XAML Control	call	C# property (relay command)
XAML Source File	relyOn	Datacontext class

Limitations

In this section we list the most significant functional limitations that may affect the analysis of applications using Silverlight:

Binding in code is not supported - see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms742863(v=vs.110).aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=csharp#code-snippet-1 for an example
Binding links are not handled correctly when the same binding target exists in different classes
The direction of the data flow (Binding.Mode properties such as OneWay, TwoWay and OneWayToSource) is not supported - see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752347(v=vs.110).aspx#direction_of_data_flow for an example
The RelativeSource property (Gets or sets the binding source by specifying its location relative to the position of the binding target) is not supported - see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.data.binding.relativesource(v=vs.110).aspx for an example
Some XAML control objects which are visible in CAST Enlighten may not be seen in the CAST Application Engineering Dashboard.
Links between XAML Control objets and code embedded in XAML are not supported.