Controls and Control Libraries for Silverlight

Though the jury is still out on what controls we'll see in or alongside Silverlight 1.1 when it's released, there are a number of reusable controls and libraries emerging to help make development more efficient and familiar to developers used to WinForms and WebForms style programming.

• The Silverlight 1.1 SDK has a set of controls with source code.
  • Button, ScrollBar, ScrollViewer, Slider, ListBox
  • Ashish Shetty discusses these controls (or at least an earlier version.)
• Netika Tech has GOA WinForms for Silverlight
  • Free standard edition, available Professional edition
  • Control demos
• Telerik has RadControls for Silverlight
  • Newly-released Beta.  Shipping in September.
  • Control demos (with C#/VB and XAML source), including the very cool cube demo.
• Dave Relyea has created a layout framework and controls for 1.1.
• The Silverlight site has some sample 1.0 controls.
• Joe Stegman posted Richard Zadorozny's "Jelly Samples" along with the 1.0 source.
• Infragistics is working on Silverlight technology as well.
  • A preview demo

Of course, if others made the above controls, you can create your own as well:

• "How to: Create Custom Silverlight Controls" on Silverlight.net
• Rob Conery has two good posts on control creation:
  • "Creating a Data-Driven Control"
  • "Creating a Web Service-Enabled Login Control"
• Video: "How to Build a Silverlight Control" (in 1.0)
• "The Basics of a Silverlight Control" by Scott Barnes
• Great background reading in Ian Griffith's "Silverlight Controls and Objects"

-Chris