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Thursday, 20 October 2011

sllauncher.exe 5.0.60818.0 - OutOfBrowserSettings.Icons Issue

We've been testing an SL4 app which is used both in and out of browser agains SL5RC. Which runs fine in browser, but when launched out-of-browser, sllauncher crashed with the following error:

Faulty module name: unknown v0.0.0.0

Exception Code: 0xc0000005

I created a dummy SL5 test app and it ran OOB fine.

After stripping back our main app to almost nothing I still had the same problem, but I noticed we had icons set in the OOB settings. OutOfBrowserSettings.xml Example:

<OutOfBrowserSettings ShortName="SLApp" EnableGPUAcceleration="True" ShowInstallMenuItem="False">
<OutOfBrowserSettings.Blurb>Install SLApp application out of the browser</OutOfBrowserSettings.Blurb>
<OutOfBrowserSettings.WindowSettings>
    <WindowSettings Title="SLApp" Height="60" Width="595" />
</OutOfBrowserSettings.WindowSettings>
<OutOfBrowserSettings.SecuritySettings>
    <SecuritySettings ElevatedPermissions="Required" />
</OutOfBrowserSettings.SecuritySettings>
<OutOfBrowserSettings.Icons>
    <Icon Size="16,16">Icons/SLApp16x16.png</Icon>
    <Icon Size="32,32">Icons/SLApp32x32.png</Icon>
    <Icon Size="48,48">Icons/SLApp48x48.png</Icon>
    <Icon Size="128,128">Icons/SLApp128x128.png</Icon>
</OutOfBrowserSettings.Icons>
</OutOfBrowserSettings>

(These settings can be set in the SL app OOB properties dialogue as well)

IF THE ICONS BLOCK IS REMOVED:

<OutOfBrowserSettings ShortName="SLApp" EnableGPUAcceleration="True" ShowInstallMenuItem="False">
<OutOfBrowserSettings.Blurb>Install SLApp application out of the browser</OutOfBrowserSettings.Blurb>
<OutOfBrowserSettings.WindowSettings>
    <WindowSettings Title="SLApp" Height="60" Width="595" />
</OutOfBrowserSettings.WindowSettings>
<OutOfBrowserSettings.SecuritySettings>
    <SecuritySettings ElevatedPermissions="Required" />
</OutOfBrowserSettings.SecuritySettings>
</OutOfBrowserSettings>

The aplication runs fine OOB!

This looks like a bug in sllauncher.exe 5.0.60818.0.

Wednesday, 7 September 2011

RichTextBlock XAML Bindable Rich Text Block

I recently needed to use a RichTextBox for a project, but was disapointed to find there is no way of binding the content of the control. Luckily it's possible to access the XAML property and inject RichText format XAML into it. I decided to create a control derived from RichTextBox with a dependency property used to bind the Rich Text XAML.

The first step is to create the control (I re-exposed the mouse click event as the RichTextBox buries it):

using System;

using System.Net;

using System.Windows;

using System.Windows.Controls;

using System.Windows.Ink;

using System.Windows.Input;

namespace RichTextBlock

{

  /// <summary>

  /// Used for databinding to Xaml property via new XamlSource DP

  /// </summary>

  public class RichXamlTextBlock : RichTextBox

  {

    public event MouseButtonEventHandler MouseClicked = null;

    private static string _xamlStart = "<Section xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation\"><Paragraph>";

    private static string _xamlEnd = "</Paragraph></Section>";

    public RichXamlTextBlock()

      : base()

    {

      base.Cursor = Cursors.Arrow;

    }

    #region XamlSource

    public static readonly DependencyProperty XamlSourceProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("XamlSource", typeof(string), typeof(RichXamlTextBlock),

        new PropertyMetadata(null, new PropertyChangedCallback(OnXamlSourcePropertyChanged)));

    public string XamlSource

    {

      get { return (string)GetValue(XamlSourceProperty); }

      set

      {

        SetValue(XamlSourceProperty, value);

      }

    }

    private static void OnXamlSourcePropertyChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)

    {

      RichXamlTextBlock rtb = (RichXamlTextBlock)d;

      rtb.Xaml = string.Format("{0}{1}{2}", _xamlStart, e.NewValue, _xamlEnd as string);

    }

    #endregion

    protected override void OnMouseLeftButtonDown(MouseButtonEventArgs e)

    {

      if (this.MouseClicked != null)

      {

        this.MouseClicked(this, e);

      }

    }

  }

}

The next step is to create a View Model with some XAML rich text. It is important to be careful what you bind as you could end up doing an 'injection attack' on your markup by accident!

using System;

namespace RichTextBlock

{

    public class ViewModel

    {

        private string _xamlSource = "This is a demonstration of the <Run Text=\"RichTextBlock\" FontWeight=\"Bold\" Foreground=\"Green\"/>. The control's XAML can be data bound unlike a normal <Run Text=\"RichTextBox\" FontWeight=\"Bold\" Foreground=\"Red\"/>.";

        public string XamlSource

        {

            get { return this._xamlSource; }

        }

    }

}

Next the new control needs adding to a view:

<UserControl x:Class="RichTextBlock.MainPage"

    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"

    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"

    xmlns:local="clr-namespace:RichTextBlock"

    mc:Ignorable="d"

    d:DesignHeight="300" d:DesignWidth="400">

    <UserControl.DataContext>

        <local:ViewModel />

    </UserControl.DataContext>

    <UserControl.Resources>

        <Style x:Key="RichXamlTextBlockStyle" TargetType="local:RichXamlTextBlock">

            <Setter Property="IsReadOnly" Value="True" />

            <Setter Property="Template">

                <Setter.Value>

                    <ControlTemplate TargetType="local:RichXamlTextBlock">

                        <Grid x:Name="ContentElement" Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" />

                    </ControlTemplate>

                </Setter.Value>

            </Setter>

        </Style>

    </UserControl.Resources>

    <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">

        <local:RichXamlTextBlock XamlSource="{Binding Path=XamlSource, Mode=OneWay}" Style="{StaticResource RichXamlTextBlockStyle}" />

    </Grid>

</UserControl>

I also added a stripped down template to remove the TextBox type appearance to get it looking like a TextBlock.

Wednesday, 10 August 2011

Toolkit Chart ControlTemplate

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

WIX 3 NETSH CustomAction

I've been writing a WIX 3 installer for a Windows Service with 2 self hosted WCF services. In order to connect to the WCF services, a Namespace reservation must be made using netsh.exe. I wanted to get the WIX installer to perform this operation during installation so decided to use a CustomAction to achieve this. As anybody who uses WIX will know, it is extremely powerful but sparsely documented and quiet frustrating to use. It took a while to get the CustomAction to work, so I thought I'd share the solution:

!-- Custom action to set WCF namespace reservation -->

<CustomAction Id="ListenerServiceAddReservation"
                  Directory="INSTALLLOCATION"
                  ExeCommand="[SystemFolder]netsh.exe http add urlacl url=http://+:8888/ServiceNamespace/TestService/ sddl=D:(A;;GX;;;WD)"
                  Return="asyncWait" />
<CustomAction Id="ListenerServiceDeleteReservation"
                  Directory="INSTALLLOCATION"
                  ExeCommand="[SystemFolder]netsh.exe http delete urlacl url=http://+:8888/ ServiceNamespace/TestService/"
                  Return="asyncWait" />

<InstallExecuteSequence>
    <Custom Action="ListenerServiceDeleteReservation" Before="InstallFinalize">Installed</Custom>
    <Custom Action="ListenerServiceAddReservation" Before="InstallFinalize">NOT Installed</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>

Thursday, 9 June 2011

SharePoint 2010 BDC Model Builder - Full Release

There is now a full release of SharePoint 2010 BDC Model Builder to download:

http://bdcmodelbuilder.codeplex.com/

Monday, 6 June 2011

Failed to create receiver object from assembly

I ran into a problem re-installing a WSP package which I'd added a feature receiver to, using powershell; it looked to have worked, but when I looked in Central Administration and looked at the solutions, it had installed with the following error:

ServerX : Failed to create receiver object from assembly "XXXX.YYYY.WebParts, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=abcd1234efgh5678", class "XXXX.YYYY.WebParts.Features.Feature1.Feature1EventReceiver" for feature "WebParts_Feature1" (ID: 57cf6cbd-72e9-43a2-bf85-bb947587073f).: System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: type
   at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFeatureDefinition.get_ReceiverObject()
ServerX : Failed to create receiver object from assembly "XXXX.YYYY.WebParts, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=abcd1234efgh5678", class "XXXX.YYYY.WebParts.Features.Feature1.Feature1EventReceiver" for feature "WebParts_Feature1" (ID: 57cf6cbd-72e9-43a2-bf85-bb947587073f).: System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: type
   at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFeatureDefinition.get_ReceiverObject()

It turns out that the SharePoint Timer service which handles solution installation caches DLLs and it had cached the old DLL which had no feature receiver. A simple re-start on the service solved the problem.

Found solution here after much googling:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010setup/thread/55217486-0df5-43ca-9487-cdb7a66334c9

Thursday, 2 June 2011

SharePoint Application Page With Ribbon Only Master Page

Overview
I recently created a site which contained a Silverlight (surprise surprise!) web part of fixed size as designed, however the users requested that it should be maximised with the SharePoint menus and headings removed to increase the footprint of the application. I didn't want to change the site definition master page, so decided to create a stripped down master page with only a ribbon and an application page with the SL app hard coded into the page to allow it to resize properly.

Master Page
I need to acknowledge Randy Drisgill for the base master pages. I stripped down the _starter_foundation.master page to look like the following (sorry about the lack of colour, it was making the browser rendering too slow):

<%@ Master language="C#" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint" %>

<%@ Register Tagprefix="SharePoint" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

<%@ Register Tagprefix="WebPartPages" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="wssuc" TagName="Welcome" src="~/_controltemplates/Welcome.ascx" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="wssuc" TagName="DesignModeConsole" src="~/_controltemplates/DesignModeConsole.ascx" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="wssuc" TagName="MUISelector" src="~/_controltemplates/MUISelector.ascx" %>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="<%$Resources:wss,language_value %>" dir="<%$Resources:wss,multipages_direction_dir_value %>" runat="server">

<head runat="server">

 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

 <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0"/>

 <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8"/>

 <!-- robots -->

 <SharePoint:RobotsMetaTag runat="server"/>

 <!-- page title - overridden by asp:content on pages or page layouts -->

 <title runat="server"><asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server">SiteName</asp:ContentPlaceHolder></title>

 <!-- favicon -->

 <SharePoint:SPShortcutIcon runat="server" IconUrl="/Style Library/sitename/favicon.ico"/>

 <!-- all OOTB css -->

 <SharePoint:CssLink runat="server" Version="4"/>

 <SharePoint:Theme runat="server"/>

 <!-- page manager interacts with script and the sharepoint object model -->

 <SharePoint:SPPageManager runat="server"/>

 <!-- unified logging service -->

 <SharePoint:ULSClientConfig runat="server"/>

 <!-- identifies to scripting elements that this is a v4 master page. required for scrolling? -->

 <script type="text/javascript">

  var _fV4UI = true;

 </script>

 <!-- load SharePoint javascript -->

 <SharePoint:ScriptLink language="javascript" Defer="true" runat="server"/>

  <style type="text/css">

  html, body {

     height: 100%;

     overflow: none;

        }

        body {

         padding: 0;

         margin: 0;

        }

 </style>

 <!-- link to our custom css  -->

 <SharePoint:CssRegistration name="/Style Library/sitename/style.css" After="corev4.css" runat="server"/>

 <!-- javascript to override the active-x message in ie 

  // See http://blog.drisgill.com/2010/02/removing-name-activex-control-warning.html for more info

  // Remove if the IM pressence icons are needed in SharePoint

 -->

 <script type="text/javascript">

  function ProcessImn(){}

  function ProcessImnMarkers(){}

 </script>

 <!-- additional header delegate control -->

 <SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server" ControlId="AdditionalPageHead" AllowMultipleControls="true"/>

 <!-- additional header placeholder - overridden by asp:content on pages or page layouts -->

 <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead" runat="server"/> 

 <!-- microsoft says these should always be inside the head tag. -->

    <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderBodyAreaClass" runat ="server"/>

 <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderTitleAreaClass" runat ="server"/>

</head>

<body onload="javascript:_spBodyOnLoadWrapper();">

<form runat="server" onsubmit="return _spFormOnSubmitWrapper();" style="height:100%">

<!-- handles SharePoint scripts -->

<asp:ScriptManager id="ScriptManager" runat="server" EnablePageMethods="false" EnablePartialRendering="true" EnableScriptGlobalization="false" EnableScriptLocalization="true" />

<!-- controls the web parts and zones -->

<WebPartPages:SPWebPartManager runat="server"/>

<!-- =====  Begin Ribbon ============================================================ -->

<div id="s4-ribbonrow" class="s4-pr s4-ribbonrowhidetitle">

 <div id="s4-ribboncont">

  <!-- ribbon starts here -->

  <SharePoint:SPRibbon

   runat="server"

   PlaceholderElementId="RibbonContainer"

   CssFile="">

   <!-- ribbon left side content starts here -->

   <SharePoint:SPRibbonPeripheralContent

    runat="server"

    Location="TabRowLeft"

    CssClass="ms-siteactionscontainer s4-notdlg">

     <!-- site actions -->

     <span class="ms-siteactionsmenu" id="siteactiontd">

     <SharePoint:SiteActions runat="server" accesskey="<%$Resources:wss,tb_SiteActions_AK%>" id="SiteActionsMenuMain"

      PrefixHtml=""

      SuffixHtml=""

      MenuNotVisibleHtml="&amp;nbsp;"

      >

      <CustomTemplate>

      <SharePoint:FeatureMenuTemplate runat="server"

       FeatureScope="Site"

       Location="Microsoft.SharePoint.StandardMenu"

       GroupId="SiteActions"

       UseShortId="true"

       >

       <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_EditPage"

        Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_editpage%>"

        Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_editpagedescriptionv4%>"

        ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/ActionsEditPage.png"

        MenuGroupId="100"

        Sequence="110"

        ClientOnClickNavigateUrl="javascript:ChangeLayoutMode(false);"

        />

       <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_TakeOffline"

        Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_takeoffline%>"

        Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_takeofflinedescription%>"

        ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/connecttospworkspace32.png"

        MenuGroupId="100"

        Sequence="120"

        />

       <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_CreatePage"

        Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createpage%>"

        Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createpagedesc%>"

        ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/NewContentPageHH.png"

        MenuGroupId="200"

        Sequence="210"

        UseShortId="true"

        ClientOnClickScriptContainingPrefixedUrl="if (LaunchCreateHandler('Page')) { OpenCreateWebPageDialog('~site/_layouts/createwebpage.aspx') }"

        PermissionsString="AddListItems, EditListItems"

        PermissionMode="All" />

       <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_CreateDocLib"

        Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createdoclib%>"

        Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createdoclibdesc%>"

        ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/NewDocLibHH.png"

        MenuGroupId="200"

        Sequence="220"

        UseShortId="true"

        ClientOnClickScriptContainingPrefixedUrl="if (LaunchCreateHandler('DocLib')) { GoToPage('~site/_layouts/new.aspx?FeatureId={00bfea71-e717-4e80-aa17-d0c71b360101}&amp;ListTemplate=101') }"

        PermissionsString="ManageLists"

        PermissionMode="Any"

        VisibilityFeatureId="00BFEA71-E717-4E80-AA17-D0C71B360101" />

       <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_CreateSite"

        Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createsite%>"

        Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createsitedesc%>"

        ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/newweb32.png"

        MenuGroupId="200"

        Sequence="230"

        UseShortId="true"

        ClientOnClickScriptContainingPrefixedUrl="if (LaunchCreateHandler('Site')) { STSNavigate('~site/_layouts/newsbweb.aspx') }"

        PermissionsString="ManageSubwebs,ViewFormPages"

        PermissionMode="All" />

       <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_Create"

        Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_create%>"

        Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createdesc%>"

        MenuGroupId="200"

        Sequence="240"

        UseShortId="true"

        ClientOnClickScriptContainingPrefixedUrl="if (LaunchCreateHandler('All')) { STSNavigate('~site/_layouts/create.aspx') }"

        PermissionsString="ManageLists, ManageSubwebs"

        PermissionMode="Any" />

       <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_ViewAllSiteContents"

        Text="<%$Resources:wss,quiklnch_allcontent%>"

        Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_allcontentdescription%>"

        ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/allcontent32.png"

        MenuGroupId="300"

        Sequence="302"

        UseShortId="true"

        ClientOnClickNavigateUrl="~site/_layouts/viewlsts.aspx"

        PermissionsString="ViewFormPages"

        PermissionMode="Any" />

        <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_EditSite"

        Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_editsite%>"

        Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_editsitedescription%>"

        ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/SharePointDesigner32.png"

        MenuGroupId="300"

        Sequence="304"

        UseShortId="true"

        ClientOnClickScriptContainingPrefixedUrl="EditInSPD('~site/',true);"

        PermissionsString="AddAndCustomizePages"

        PermissionMode="Any"

       /> 

       <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_SitePermissions"

        Text="<%$Resources:wss,people_sitepermissions%>"

        Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_sitepermissiondescriptionv4%>"

        ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/Permissions32.png"

        MenuGroupId="300"

        Sequence="310"

        UseShortId="true"

        ClientOnClickNavigateUrl="~site/_layouts/user.aspx"

        PermissionsString="EnumeratePermissions"

        PermissionMode="Any" />

       <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_Settings"

        Text="<%$Resources:wss,settings_pagetitle%>"

        Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_sitesettingsdescriptionv4%>"

        ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/settingsIcon.png"

        MenuGroupId="300"

        Sequence="320"

        UseShortId="true"

        ClientOnClickNavigateUrl="~site/_layouts/settings.aspx"

        PermissionsString="EnumeratePermissions,ManageWeb,ManageSubwebs,AddAndCustomizePages,ApplyThemeAndBorder,ManageAlerts,ManageLists,ViewUsageData"

        PermissionMode="Any" />

       <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_CommitNewUI"

        Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_commitnewui%>"

        Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_commitnewuidescription%>"

        ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/visualupgradehh.png"

        MenuGroupId="300"

        Sequence="330"

        UseShortId="true"

        ClientOnClickScriptContainingPrefixedUrl="GoToPage('~site/_layouts/prjsetng.aspx')"

        PermissionsString="ManageWeb"

        PermissionMode="Any"

        ShowOnlyIfUIVersionConfigurationEnabled="true" />

      </SharePoint:FeatureMenuTemplate>

      </CustomTemplate>

       </SharePoint:SiteActions></span>

     <!-- global navigation dhtml popout menu -->

     <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderGlobalNavigation" runat="server">

     <SharePoint:PopoutMenu

      runat="server"

      ID="GlobalBreadCrumbNavPopout"

      IconUrl="/_layouts/images/fgimg.png"

      IconAlt="<%$Resources:wss,master_breadcrumbIconAlt%>"

      IconOffsetX=0

      IconOffsetY=112

      IconWidth=16

      IconHeight=16

      AnchorCss="s4-breadcrumb-anchor"

      AnchorOpenCss="s4-breadcrumb-anchor-open"

      MenuCss="s4-breadcrumb-menu">

      <div class="s4-breadcrumb-top">

       <asp:Label runat="server" CssClass="s4-breadcrumb-header" Text="<%$Resources:wss,master_breadcrumbHeader%>" />

      </div>

      <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderTitleBreadcrumb" runat="server">

       <SharePoint:ListSiteMapPath

        runat="server"

        SiteMapProviders="SPSiteMapProvider,SPContentMapProvider"

        RenderCurrentNodeAsLink="false"

        PathSeparator=""

        CssClass="s4-breadcrumb"

        NodeStyle-CssClass="s4-breadcrumbNode"

        CurrentNodeStyle-CssClass="s4-breadcrumbCurrentNode"

        RootNodeStyle-CssClass="s4-breadcrumbRootNode"

        NodeImageOffsetX=0

        NodeImageOffsetY=353

        NodeImageWidth=16

        NodeImageHeight=16

        NodeImageUrl="/_layouts/images/fgimg.png"

        RTLNodeImageOffsetX=0

        RTLNodeImageOffsetY=376

        RTLNodeImageWidth=16

        RTLNodeImageHeight=16

        RTLNodeImageUrl="/_layouts/images/fgimg.png"

        HideInteriorRootNodes="true"

        SkipLinkText="" />

      </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>

     </SharePoint:PopoutMenu>

    </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>

   <!-- save button at top of ribbon -->

   <SharePoint:PageStateActionButton id="PageStateActionButton" runat="server" Visible="false" /></SharePoint:SPRibbonPeripheralContent>

   <!-- ribbon right side content starts here -->

   <SharePoint:SPRibbonPeripheralContent

    runat="server"

    Location="TabRowRight"

    ID="RibbonTabRowRight"

    CssClass="s4-trc-container s4-notdlg">

    <!-- GlobalSiteLink0 delegate - the variation selector / shows nothing by default otherwise -->

    <SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server" ID="GlobalDelegate0" ControlId="GlobalSiteLink0" />

    <!-- Welcome / Login control -->

    <div class="s4-trc-container-menu">

      <div>

      <wssuc:Welcome id="IdWelcome" runat="server" EnableViewState="false">

      </wssuc:Welcome>

      <!-- MultiLingual User Interface menu -->

      <wssuc:MUISelector ID="IdMuiSelector" runat="server"/>

     </div>

    </div>

    <!-- GlobalSiteLink2 delegate default shows nothing -->

    <SharePoint:DelegateControl ControlId="GlobalSiteLink2" ID="GlobalDelegate2" Scope="Farm" runat="server" />

    <!-- link to launch developer dashboard if its activated by admin -->

    <span>

     <span class="s4-devdashboard">

     <Sharepoint:DeveloperDashboardLauncher

      ID="DeveloperDashboardLauncher"

      NavigateUrl="javascript:ToggleDeveloperDashboard()"

      runat="server"

      ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/fgimg.png"

      Text="<%$Resources:wss,multipages_launchdevdashalt_text%>"

      OffsetX=0

      OffsetY=222

      Height=16

      Width=16 />

     </span>

    </span>

   </SharePoint:SPRibbonPeripheralContent>

   </SharePoint:SPRibbon>

   <!-- end main ribbon control -->

 </div>

    <!-- dynamic notification area -->

 <div id="notificationArea" class="s4-noti"></div>

    <!-- old navigation delegate? -->

 <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="SPNavigation" runat="server">

   <SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server" ControlId="PublishingConsole" Id="PublishingConsoleDelegate">

     </SharePoint:DelegateControl>

 </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>

 <!-- top web part panel -->

 <div id="WebPartAdderUpdatePanelContainer">

  <asp:UpdatePanel

   ID="WebPartAdderUpdatePanel"

   UpdateMode="Conditional"

   ChildrenAsTriggers="false"

   runat="server">

   <ContentTemplate>

    <WebPartPages:WebPartAdder ID="WebPartAdder" runat="server" />

   </ContentTemplate>

   <Triggers>

    <asp:PostBackTrigger ControlID="WebPartAdder" />

   </Triggers>

  </asp:UpdatePanel>

 </div>

</div>

<!-- =====  End Ribbon and other Top Content ============================================================ -->

<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server"/>

<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderFormDigest" runat="server">

 <SharePoint:FormDigest runat="server"/>

</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>

<input type="text" name="__spDummyText1" style="display:none;" size="1"/>

<input type="text" name="__spDummyText2" style="display:none;" size="1"/>

</form>

<SharePoint:WarnOnUnsupportedBrowsers runat="server"/>

</body>

</html>

I deployed the page to the masterpage gallery with the following module (elements.xml):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">

  <Module Name="ApplicationMaster" Url="_catalogs/masterpage">

    <File Path="ApplicationMaster\_ribbon_only.master" Url="_ribbon_only.master" IgnoreIfAlreadyExists="FALSE" Type="GhostableInLibrary" />

  </Module>

</Elements>

Application Page
The next step was to create an appication page, which is fairly straight forward, however there is a trick to get the new master page to load. The dynamic master page assignment is removed from the markup and then the new master page is assigned on page initialisation.
Markup:

<%@ Assembly Name="$SharePoint.Project.AssemblyFullName$" %>

<%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages" %>

<%@ Register Tagprefix="SharePoint" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

<%@ Register Tagprefix="Utilities" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

<%@ Register Tagprefix="asp" Namespace="System.Web.UI" Assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" %>

<%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint" %>

<%@ Assembly Name="Microsoft.Web.CommandUI, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="TrendViewPage.aspx.cs" Inherits="XXXX.AppPage" DynamicMasterPageFile="~masterurl/default.master" %>

<asp:Content ID="Title" ContentPlaceHolderID="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server" style="height:100%">AppPage</asp:Content>

<asp:Content ID="Main" ContentPlaceHolderID="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server" style="height:100%">

</asp:Content>

C# Code Behind:

using System;

using Microsoft.SharePoint;

using Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls;

using System.Web;

using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace XXXX

{

    public partial class AppPage : LayoutsPageBase

    {

        protected void Page_PreInit(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            // Override master page

            this.MasterPageFile = "../../_catalogs/masterpage/_ribbon_only.master";

        } 

    }

}

The master page is assigned during initialisation because custom master pages can't be dynamically assined to app pages in markup. I originally deployed the page to the _layouts folder for testing and was able to use the DynamicMasterPageFile="~masterurl/default.master" attribute in the Page element and override it in the PreInit method, however once I moved it to a library so it could be scoped at site collection level, this did not work and produced the following error :

The dynamicmasterpagefile attribute on the page directive is not allowed in this page. 

Removing this attribute (as the markup shows) works fine and simply allows the master to be assigned at runtime.
The app page is deployed to a document library using the following module (elements.xml):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">

  <Module Name="AppPage" Url="Lists/AppPageLib">

  <File Path="AppPage\AppPage.aspx" Url="AppPage.aspx"  Type="GhostableInLibrary" IgnoreIfAlreadyExists="False" />

</Module>

</Elements>

The page should look like this (obviously you would have some content in the app page!):