It's been a few months, but it's finally here...with a number of core updates and a few new controls too.

Here are some of the focus areas for this release:

  • Blacklight has been upgraded following the release of the Silverlight 3 runtime
  • Martin Grayson has provided a number of updates to his DragDock panel (most notably implementing it as an ItemsControl supporting full data binding amongst other things). You can read Martin's blog post for more information on this.
  • A couple of new controls have been added (detailed below) along with some other key bug fixes

And of course...the Showcase page has been updated and is now available to view.

Click here to view the showcase.

WatermarkedTextBox

Having frequently used this popular concept I have created a very simple control that displays a subtle "Watermark" in the background when no text has been input (and the control does not have focus).

 WatermarkedTextBoxControl

It can display simple text-based instructions or other UI elements such as imagery and other controls.

  WMTB Image Template

I intend to follow this up with a more detailed post on modifying the Watermark template.

Range Slider

Another top control from Martin providing the user with an intuitive way to specify a range of values.

Range Slider

This can be configured really easily using the properties shown below.

Range Slider Properties

You can download the latest release now along with the source code from the Blacklight Codeplex site.