Learn about Windows Phone7 Development (13. Control)

Windows Phone7 provides a rich Silverlight control, but it differs from Silverlight in that many of the controls are not available, while others are available, but some properties are not. The basics of how each control is used and some special property usages are described later.

Two lists here illustrate the availability and use of controls.

Available Controls:

Unavailable controls:

However, these controls do not work, but some can be replaced with other controls, such as:

ScrollBar: Replaced by ScrollView.

There are also some controls that need to be customized, such as ComboBox.

For these possible controls, there are basically common properties:

Height/width: The size of the control set by the user is the expected size.

Actualheight/actualwidth: Read-only, the actual size of the control.

Cursor: Sets/Gets the control cursor shape.

DataContext: Sets/Gets the control binding data.

Horizontalalignment/verticalalignment: Sets/Gets the horizontal/vertical alignment of the control.

Language: Set/Get localization/globalization language information, such as language= "en-US"

Margin: Sets/Gets the margins of the control and the page.

Maxheight/maxwidth & Minheight/minwidth: Two of three properties (and Height/width) that set the size of the control. If three values collide, the first thing to ensure is min and then Max, but the two values must be valid between Height/width settings.