Question

I’m kinda new to WPF and .Net programming in general.
I have downloaded this Source Code.

Now, it has a solution which contains a Paris.Controls csproj.

This was originaly made for Silverlight, when i try to add referance to the outputed dll of those controls, i get an error:

               Error    1   Unknown build error, 
'Cannot resolve dependency to assembly
         'System.Windows, Version=2.0.5.0, Culture=neutral,
     PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e' 
        because it has not been preloaded. When using the ReflectionOnly APIs, dependent assemblies
         must be pre-loaded or loaded on demand through the ReflectionOnlyAssemblyResolve event. 
        Line 9 Position 80.'    C:\Users\Eric\Documents\Visual Studio 
        2010\Projects\WpfApplication1\WpfApplication1\MainWindow.xaml   9   80
            WpfApplication1

After a bit of googling, i found out It’s most likley because of the Silverlight – WPF transformation.
That Silverlight uses different referances then WPF.
Which is kinda dumb i think because as i understood Silverlight is a substraction of WPF, but nevermind.

So my question is what should i do and how?
Should i edit the Paris.Controls and make it WPF-Available?
Change referances and stuff like that? and if that’s what i should do,
How do i do that?
And if not, what are my options?

Please help guys,
Sincerly yours,
Eric

Answer 1

You can’t.

Silverlight and WPF, while very similar are based on different versions of the .NET runtime. WPF uses the full version, while Silverlight uses a lighterweight version optimised for the Internet.

As you have the source code you should be able to incorporate that into a WPF control – it will mean recompiling against the full libraries and fixing any errors that the compiler throws up.