Silverlight 2 Controls

As ScottGu announced in the Mix08 keynote today, we now have a full, rich set of controls built in to Silverlight 2. 

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Kathy Kam recently created a very cool control viewer to show off all the great built in controls.  

Oh, and don't forget about the really rich set of controls produced by our eco-system.  Just a couple of examples:

Published 05 March 08 04:30 by BradA
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# MSDN Blog Postings » Silverlight 2 Controls said on March 5, 2008 8:53 PM:

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# DG said on March 5, 2008 9:03 PM:

The controls are a decent first effort, but where is the ComboBox?  Treeview?  And I sure hope the anti-aliasing can be turned off - it makes the fonts look butt fugly.

# Laurent Duveau said on March 5, 2008 9:11 PM:

Hi,

Great stuff, what about the validators ?

# Scott Conrad said on March 6, 2008 12:12 AM:

We don't necessarily need validators for silverlight. It is nice, but I am glad they got out the beta quicker than I thought they would. Silverlight doesn't use a postback model, so you can simply validate using a RegEX match. You could update a textblock to show an invalid input :) and then bypass your call to a method that takes the input.

It works for now, and it doesn't hurt to run this same server side validation for a web method call or something of the sort in the future, so any validation code you would write now can still be used later.

-Scott Conrad

# Mojtaba Vali said on March 6, 2008 1:14 AM:

hi. i don't know how silverlight is rendered at client side?

i only know that it would require an activex in browser.can you descripe more?

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# Mark Blomsma said on March 6, 2008 1:43 AM:

It seems that after installing Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 all the eco-system websites are broken.

ErrorCode: 1001

ErrorType: ParserError.

:-(

# Christopher Steen said on March 6, 2008 2:03 AM:

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# DCMonkey said on March 6, 2008 3:05 AM:

No Cut/Copy/Paste on the TextBox context menu? I hope that gets fixed.

# steve said on March 6, 2008 4:27 AM:

All the other sites are coming up with errors

# Lars said on March 6, 2008 4:29 AM:

Chart control also seems to be missing - at least if this is going head-to head with Flex.

# John said on March 6, 2008 7:11 AM:

Installing Silverlight 2 beta 1 has caused all samples on the three links to third party component providers to stop working...

# Pete said on March 6, 2008 7:54 AM:

No Combo Box? You've got to be kidding.

# Mircea said on March 6, 2008 9:30 AM:

The Combobox/DropDown and the TreeView components were part of ANY set of web components since forever.

How come MS decided that the most used components (after the Textbox/Checkbox) are not to be included in this set.

Is like someone is giving us [developers] an airplain with only one wing and half of the engine.

I know that a very good developer will be able to use the given set of components to create a combobox/dropdown and a half-baked treeview, but it will be cumbersome to create them.

Also, MS, please fix your stuff. Breaking some other's applications functionality it's NOT considered acceptable when you install a new set of components.

# Mike said on March 6, 2008 9:34 AM:

Guys, it's a beta. Calm down.

# BradA said on March 6, 2008 10:23 AM:

>>Installing Silverlight 2 beta 1 has caused all samples on the three links to third party component providers to stop working...

Yes -- sorry about that... The good news is that a bunch these control vendors are here at Mix and they tell me they are actively working updating those sites...  stay tuned!

# DennisW said on March 6, 2008 12:17 PM:

When is a ComboBox/DropDownList control expected?

Also can the ItemsControl be use to do a custom ComboBox control?

# stop crying said on March 6, 2008 12:37 PM:

Sounds like a whole lot of you need your diapers changed. This is a BETA.

I'm sure with even a TOUCH of creativity you can figure out how to make a combo box. Same with treeview. Stop crying. Take a look at some of the demos out there already.

# Brig Lamoreaux said on March 6, 2008 12:58 PM:

You might have a typo.

echo-system => eco-system

# DennisW said on March 6, 2008 1:05 PM:

I would appreciate a serious answer to the when on controls like the combobox.  Sure a custom one can be created but it makes it easier to get support from management when basic controls like the combobox are supported natively.  Management likes to have a timeline on development on very large projects.

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