A Preliminary Study of Silverlight Toolkit

Silverlight toolkit has launched some controls. They launched controls in a way similar to agile development.

Widget category

Common -- these controls are usually common controls applied by most programs, such as autocompletebox and layout controls. It is placed in the Microsoft. Windows. Controls. dll assembly and starts with controls when referenced;

Input -- controls used to accept user input, such as numberupdown. It is usually placed in the Microsoft. Windows. Controls. Input. dll assembly and starts with input when referenced;

Datavisualization -- contains the charting component. It is placed in the Microsoft. Windows. Controls. datavisualization. dll assembly and starts with charting;

Layout, media -- no, it is estimated that there will be related Assembly in the future.

Quality Grade

Controls are released in stages with different quality levels. Determine whether to continue development based on user feedback, or modify bugs to Improve the quality. There are four levels:

Experimental-in the test phase, controls at this level may not be eventually release.

Preview -- this stage is equivalent to the Alpha stage, and 80% of the functions are complete. However, there may be some break changes between it and release. Exercise caution when using the SDK.

Stable-stable stage, equivalent to beta stage. More than 90% of the functions are stable. Unless there is an error, it will not go out to break changes.

Mature -- this stage is equivalent to completely RTM. The API stability and backward compatibility are the most important. Feel free to use it.

In actual use, pay attention to the quality band tag in the help document to adapt to the possible changes of controls in different quality stages, and prepare countermeasures.

New Control in Silverlight Toolkit

Controls in the preview stage:

• Autocompletebox
• Numericupdown
• Viewbox
• Expander
• Implicitstylemanager
• Charting

Controls in the stable stage:

• Treeview
• Dockpanel
• Wrappanel
• Label
• Headeredcontentcontrol
• Headereditemscontrol

Six Cool Themes:

• Expression dark
• Expression light
• Rainier purple
• Rainier orange
• Shiny blue
• Shiny red

Wow, there are a lot of new controls. No image is provided. You can download the control package from here. Here are some simple introductions. Feel the effect here. Here, here is... Silverlight is everywhere.

Not enough ?! Okay. Let's take a look at the controls that may be available in the future.

Widgets that may be available before mix09

• Mediaplayer
• Timepicker
• Carousel
• Rating
• Maskedtextbox
• Inplaceediting
• Appointmentcalendar
• Imagemap
• Fileupload
• Menu
• Slideshow

I believe we will soon be able to see some of them.