Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

re: Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

Chau — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:58:21 GMT

looks good so far.. can't wait to use it.. Scott should have been a bit more clear about the release details... :P I was looking all over his blog for the download link.. :P

-Chau

DNAfor.NET

re: Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

André van Heerwaarde — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:03:04 GMT

Looks good. Are the controls compatible with WPF? Both WPF and silverlight lack to many controls, so it's hard to wait.

re: Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

Arnoud van Bers — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:35:57 GMT

Looks great!

Do I see a "fieldset"/groupbox there? ;)

re: Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

Stefan Olson — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:07:38 GMT

Will the Label control support accelerator keys?

Until I did some testing the other day I had assumed that Silverlight would provide support for alt based accelerator keys. I have now discovered that if I press a key in combination with alt, I never get a KeyDown message!

I thought supporting accelerator keys was the purpose of label controls, maybe I was wrong!

I couldn't imagine producing a decent sized LOB application with no accelerator keys, it would be a nightmare to use like most web pages are.

...Stefan

re: Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

sburke — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:18:02 GMT

@Arnoud - groupbox is on the list but not in this control set

@Andre - the controls are API compatible with WPF when possible, what we're calling "subset compat" because some functionality doesn't exist on Silverlight. But we are being hard core about making them as close as we can. For the new controls, we will be making them available on WPF, not sure when we'll get that done though.

@Stefan - I believe the problem is that the browser eats the ALT keys so the Silverlight app never gets a chance to even process them.

re: Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

Stefan Olson — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:34:16 GMT

I haven't done enough research yet to confirm if there is a way of working around the browser eating the keys. My understanding from something I read is that in JavaScript you can actually deal with accelerator keys, but as I say, I'm not too sure.

My next point is that as Microsoft writes the major browser I'm sure this can be fixed! :-)

...Stefan

re: Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

Stefan Olson — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:40:49 GMT

Arnoud,

Once the HeaderedContentControl is in place (which I understand will be happening in this release) implementing a group box is relatively simple. I may well implement one in my WPF Silverlight compatibility library that I am building which implements a lot of WPF functionality in Silverlight. Once it's all done it will be posted on my blog.

...Stefan

re: Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

sburke — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:46:36 GMT

Yep, HeaderedContentControl is in there - TreeView uses it.

re: Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

Stefan Olson — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:12:54 GMT

Shawn,

Do you plan to reimplement the TabControl/TabItem in this controls library at some point? The TabItem that ships with Silverlight is not derived from HeaderedContentControl and does have a number of problems, including the fact that data binding to the ItemsSource is not possible (or different than WPF really).

Right now in my Silverlight version of my application I have to manually create the TabItems and their contents in code, which is a bit of a pain.

...Stefan

re: Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

Valentin Stoychev — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:43:25 GMT

Looks very good! See you on PDC :)

re: Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

Colin Blair — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:50:00 GMT

Are you going to put the existing controls up on Codeplex as well? Having the new controls under MS-PL is great but if we had the DataGrid under MS-PL as well that would be even better.

¿why not an Outlook bar control?

Jorge Luis De Armas — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:08:39 GMT

Scott

Is there any plan to develop an Outlook bar control or any other kind of navigation panel like Windows XP Explorer?

re: Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

sburke — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:00:38 GMT

@Colin - Yes, we'll be publishing source for the other controls, including DataGrid as well (not sure if it'll be on CodePlex, however)

@Jorge - Outlook bar is a variation of Accordion which is on our list. You'll need to furnish the content inside of each pane, however.

Silverlight Next Version at PDC

Community Blogs — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:44:05 GMT

So now that Silverlight 2 is shipped, I am now wondering what the shape of the next version of Silverlight

re: Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

Colin Blair — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:29:29 GMT

Any chance of a ribbon control? Like an official version of the one that Michael S. Scherotter was playing around with?

re: Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

xaep — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:18:10 GMT

Is there any plan to develop an MaskedTextBox?

re: Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

xaep — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:18:21 GMT

Is there any plan to develop a MaskedTextBox?

Silverlight Resources

Khurram Aziz — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:22:46 GMT

Announcements http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/10/14/silverlight-2-released.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Silverlight2IsOut.aspx

re: Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

Colin Blair — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:42:05 GMT

It would be helpful to get the code for MaskedEditProvider under MS-PL. A lot of existing code for WPF masked text boxes would work in Silverlight if we had access to MaskedEditProvider.

re: Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

sburke — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:26:54 GMT

@xaep & Colin - MaskedEdit is on the list for sure, and using MaskedEditProvider is one of the ways that could be done. At this point we haven't dug into it but that's certainly a potential option.

re: Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

Jon — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:39:20 GMT

The new controls look great! Hopefully you can add support for gauges, speedometers, traffic lights etc. that can be used to visualize key performance indicators (KPIs) for dashboards.

Silverlight Toolkit - Already 10k downloads!

Brian Goldfarb's Blog — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:18:29 GMT

We announced this awesome toolkit with the RTM of Silverlight 2 and shipped the first drop at PDC, just