How do I show off-screen elements in Expression Blend/VS2013? - windows-phone-8

I've got a page in Expression Blend (Windows Phone) that has a large stackpanel which scrolls.
I want to be able to see the elements in designer which are scrolled off screen. All I've been able to get is something like this:
which of course isn't what I want. Same effect in both Visual Studio 2013. Fit to Selection, Ctrl+9 - tried them both in both applications.
Any ideas? thanks!

Up in your namespaces you should have something like mc:Ignorable="d" where next to it you can put d:DesignWidth="1000" (or whatever size you want) to expand the area only for design time.
You can do the same with Height if you like via d:DesignHeight
Hope this helps, cheers.

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How can I get the Android soft keyboard to overlay my website?

I have a problem that seems pretty simple to me, but so far it was impossible to find a simple solution: On my website, whenever the Android soft keyboard pops up, it resizes the window and shrinks the content, instead of just overlaying the page.
See these pictures for reference:
The first two are the current situation, the third is what I want. It works like this on iOS. What can I do to make it work that way?
The screenshots were taken in Firefox - this is a website based on HTML, not a native app.
I tried setting body size and position, but so far, no luck. I've seen some very complicated JS code snippets for similar problems, but I didn't get any of them to work the way I want, and it also seems like there should be an easier way around it. The sizes of all the elements are determined with vh and wv. Setting fixed pixel values seems like it would kill the responsiveness of the design, no?
I'm not a very experienced developer, my page is just very basic HTML and CSS. Is there a way to achieve what I want with only that?
On your manifest.xml you can set android:windowSoftInputMode to adjustPan.
<activity
android:name=".WebActivity"
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" />
From Android documentation:
Don't resize the window to make room for the soft input area; instead
pan the contents of the window as focus moves inside of it so that the
user can see what they are typing. This is generally less desireable
than panning because the user may need to close the input area to get
at and interact with parts of the window

How to create HTML5 popup with minimize etc

I am really new to HTML and CSS but have created a prototype page to get a reasonable size, look, and feel to fit on a 768x1024 or larger display. I revised it to be used in landscape mode but it's apparent it won't fit in a typical browser window even at full screen with my minimum height and width criteria. The page doesn't contain text; just buttons, check boxes, text, and textarea "widgets". I think that I can fiddle with sizing and make it fit into a window if there is only a top "title" bar with the minimize and close buttons but absent all the other "stuff" such as the navigation bar, tool bar, etc. found in a typical browser.
I do use a couple of web apps that are like this so I know that it is possible. I've searched Google for examples and found popups but none are like this.
My question is: how do I do this, preferably without javascript, and what is this type of window called?
This should help with the minimizing: Is there a good jQuery plugin for a hide effect that looks like minimizing windows in Windows
You're going to have to include jQuery from http://www.jquery.com and call this animate script when the window you want to minimize is clicked.
This will help you with the 'closing'.
https://api.jquery.com/hide/
When you click on an element you can call .hide() on it, effectively closing it from the user's perspective.

HTML Tools: Ways to get the width and height of a desired div?

If I want to make a div class in a CSS file which is simply a rectangular box on a page. how can I calculate the height and width of this div without excessive trial and error?
Really all I need is a simple tool which you can click on one section of the screen, and then click on another section of the screen and it gives you the horizontal, vertical, and diagonal pixel distance between the 2 clicked points. Does anyone know of a tool to do this? Perhaps I can create one, this seems very useful.
Screenshot > Open in GIMP or something similar > count pixels.
However, if you want actual developer tools, it depends on the browser:
Firefox has Firebug (add-on). To find it with Firebug, look in the HTML view, right-click your element, click "Inspect in DOM", and find "innerWidth/innerHright".
Chrome has Developer Tools (extension). I believe this shows you height/width just by hovering over the Element in HTML view.
Opera has something built-in called DragonFly. Select your Element in HTML view, and in the right window select "Layout" and look at the "clientWidth/clientHight".
I don't believe there's a way to find either with Internet Explorer or Safari though.
regarding the first part: you can tweak around with your div in chrome developer tools- very convenient.
https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/elements
regarding the second part: you can write a function than handles the mouseclick events and calculates the number you want based on the coordinates. this function can then be used as a snippet in chrome dev tools.
I will try to write one for you in a few minutes...

css dynamic icon layout without refresh, similar to amazon's website

I'm fairly new to stylesheet so this maybe a very simple question. I noticed that Amazon's website has 2 really cool features that I would like to replicate.
At the middle of the page, there is a grid that lay out icons horizontally for their recommendations and other stuff. Depending on the width of the page, it shows either 4 or 5, or 6 up to 8 icons/items horizontally. They do this without refreshing the page. I tried to read the source, but it looks like a bunch of stylesheet trick that is making this happen.
The "Shop by Department" on the left is also very interesting. If your page is narrow, it disappears, but it shows up when you mouseover. If the page is wide, then it shows up.
If anyone can point me to the right direction or some sample code, it would be great. Thanks
Question 1:
It's not just css.
Use a table to store however many elements you want in every row, and then set a general width to the whole table.
Use a javascript/jquery to calculate the width for each element according to that table size.
Question 2:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/layouts/item/css-liquid-layout-31-fixed-fluid-fixed/
You might want to take a look at that. As far as I see on Amazon's site, the sidebar never dissappears.
Edit:
1.Say you have a page of 1000px width.
2.First 200 px from the left is set for the sidebar.
3.Use jQuery to check the current page width.
4.if pageWidth<1000px, sidebar{display:none;}
But really, these codes are everywhere on the net.

SSRS PDF export errors

I have an SSRS 2005 report, the report has two groups and one nested table inside of a group, the report is displayed correctly in VS as two pages, but when trying to export it to PDF I get 17 pages and the only correct pages I get are at the end of the PDF file.
Check the grid vs the Page Size.
If you Page Size is set to 8.5" x 11 and you have 1" margins and your Grid (The "white" part of the report) goes beyond the margins, you will get overflow on to other pages.
If you look at the picture below, you can see the grid goes just beyond the 7" mark. My interactive snf Page Sizes are set to 8.5 x 11. This exports fine. A good way to check is to switch to "Print Layout" mode. You can do this by clicking on the little icon that looks like a white piece of paper on a green background just to the right of the Printer Icon. When you view it this way, you get a pretty good idea of how it will be exported.
I have run into this problem before, generally a Table or Rectangle control will inadvertently push to the edge of the Grid and in turn increase the size of the Grid beyond your paper size and margins.
Yes, but it's been a (long) while since I worked with SSRS. I remember having adjusted rsreportserver.config
This link should help:
Customizing rendering extensions
The link is just the result of quick googling. Didn't read it through.
I had to adjust values for i.e. border width and so on, which are by default somehow a mess. And if that doesn't help, you have to adjust your report.