Keith's Blog

A customer recently asked how to change the selection of a row in the Silverlight 3 DataGrid based on the values of the columns. The brief answer is to add an event handler for LoadingRow and call dataGrid.SelectedItems.Add(e.Row.DataContext), but the Read More...

The Slider control that shipped with the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 SDK only supports picking a single value. Back at Mix08 in March I threw together a control that allows selecting a range using two thumbs, but I haven't had a chance to talk about it until now. So, without further ado let me introduce the RangeFinder control. Read More...

Hosted by Silverlight Streaming Ta-da! Here's a new look for the WatermarkedTextBox (a.k.a. WTB) in Silverlight 2 Beta 1. This was relatively simple to do just by changing the template. Here is the XAML for the template: < ControlTemplate x : Key ="wtbTemplate" Read More...

Remember, it is a beta so there are going to be some things that are by design and others which just need temporary workarounds. Here are some things I learned when developing and testing some of the controls delivered as part of the Silverlight 2 Beta Read More...