Why is the Silverlight Key enum missing common characters like comma and period?

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Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:49:02 GMT

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re: Why is the Silverlight Key enum missing common characters like comma and period?

Christopher Bennage — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:58:57 GMT

I appreciate decisions like this. Thanks for posting about it.

re: Why is the Silverlight Key enum missing common characters like comma and period?

Mike — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:40:37 GMT

Thanks for posting this. Good place to send whiners on the forums when they complain about Silverlight "missing" features

re: Why is the Silverlight Key enum missing common characters like comma and period?

Stefan Dobrev — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:51:58 GMT

Nice. Just an idea: you can provide a utility library with helpful extension methods that do the heavy lifting as part of the SDK :)

re: Why is the Silverlight Key enum missing common characters like comma and period?

Greg — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:22:30 GMT

Although this makes sense from a programmers "we can't deliver everything at once" perspective... I will say this: This type of limited implementation sucks and is a total drain on programmers time in the real world. What you should have done is for real characters pass the 'character' as an additional event arg. (and null for non-displayable characters) .. this would have prevented the need for any further changes going forward.