I've been working a bit more on Silverlight so here is another quick tip on it. This time it's about supporting the fullscreen mode of a Silverlight application.

ScottGu wrote about this topic back in early days of Silverlight 1.1 (Tip/Trick: Supporting Full Screen Mode with Silverlight) but I had a few problems implementing it: I tried to send my application in Full Screen mode handling an event raised by a control on my HTML page but the IsFullScreen property didn't want to go to true.

Let's first see how to send a Silverlight application in FullScreen mode:

private void OnFullScreenClicked(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
    BrowserHost.IsFullScreen = true;
}

This code can be called from everywhere: Scott added is as handler for the MouseLeftButtonUp event of Silverlight canvas element:

Canvas fsBox = FindName("fullScreen") as Canvas;
fsBox.MouseLeftButtonUp += OnFullScreenClicked;

while I did the same, but with a HTML button:

HtmlDocument doc = HtmlPage.Document;
HtmlElement btnFs = doc.GetElementByID("btnFullScreen");
btnFs.AttachEvent("onclick", OnFullScreenClicked);

But I found out that my version didn't work: even after having set the true, the IsFullScreen property always stayed false.

After a bit of testing I found out that the Full Screen mode cannot be changed if the event that triggers it comes from the HTML/JavaScript side of the application.

Not sure if this a bug or a security feature, but if you find yourself in the need of send your Silverlight application to Full Screen, do it from a control inside the app.