Silverlight 3 Toolkit New Features for New Silverlight Application and Hosting Experience

The following list encompasses all changes made between the Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 release and the Silverlight Toolkit July 2009 release.

1 – TimePicker / TimeUpDown
* Setting an initial value will be propagated correctly.
* Full UI Automation hierarchy implimented.
* Renamed the BalloonHint states to TimeHint.
* Various minor bug fixes.

2 – TransitioningContentControl
* Changed the template to have two ContentPresenters instead of ContentControls.
* Fixed bug where switching between content would raise exception in certain scenarios.
* Handles setting the Transition to a transition that is not yet there (if template hasn’t been loaded yet).

3 – DomainUpDown
* Space bar now moves the DomainUpDown into edit mode.
* Better handling of mouse-events in edit mode.

4 – Charting Faetures
* WPF is now an official platform for Charting!
* Breaking Change: IRequireGlobalSeriesIndex’s GlobalSeriesIndexChanged method takes a nullable int parameter.
* Improved performance of internal data structures for many common scenarios.
* Numerous bug fixes for animation inconsistencies between Silverlight and WPF.
* Fixed handling of data objects with non-unique hash codes.

5 – AutoCompleteBox
* Breaking Change: The “DropDownToggle” template part of type ToggleButton has been removed.
* Breaking Change: New template part: “Selector”, typeof(Selector).
* Breaking Change: Renamed virtual method: TryGetSelectionAdapter(object o) is now GetSelectionAdapterPart().
* Breaking Change: AutoCompleteSearchMode is now AutoCompleteFilterMode (enum).

6 – ItemsControlExtensions
Provides useful extensions to ItemsControl:

* Get various collections representing the items and their containers.
* Get an items host or ScrollViewer.

7 – ScrollViewerExtensions
Provides useful extensions to ScrollViewer to make basic scrolling tasks easier:

* Enable mouse wheel scrolling in XAML!
* Scroll by page or line.
* Scroll to top, bottom, left or right.
* Scroll items into view.

8 – TreeViewExtensions
Provides useful extensions to TreeView and TreeViewItem to greatly simplify common TreeView tasks:
* Set selected item
* Easily add connecting lines and CheckBoxes
* Expand and collapse items.
* Get items and their containers for parents, siblings and descendants.
* Get path.

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Features of the Silverlight Toolkit Available

The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle. It adds new functionality quickly for designers and developers, and provides the community an efficient way to help shape product development by contributing ideas and bug reports. It includes full source code, unit tests, samples and documentation for 16 new controls covering charting, styling, layout, and user input.

You can download the Silverlight Toolkit at http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=Silverlight

the Silverlight Toolkit is released under the Microsoft Public License, so everyone, no matter a normal users, webmasters, developers or organization can download the toolkit and experience the great features that included. This is will a great masterpiece of tools that will assist you to design your Silverlight website before you deploy to your web application to your hosting server.

Silverlight Toolkit Features

Below are some of the Features in the Silverlgiht Toolkit:
* Components in the Stable Quality Band
o AutoCompleteBox
o DockPanel
o Expander
o HeaderedContentControl
o HeaderedItemsControl
o Label
o NumericUpDown
o TreeView
o Viewbox
o WrapPanel

* Components in the Preview Quality Band
o Accordion
o Charting
o DomainUpDown
o ImplicitStyleManager
o LayoutTransformer
o TimePicker
o TimeUpDown
o 11 Themes

* Component in the Experimental Quality Band
o TransitioningContentControl

More features and upgrades will be available soon. You’re welcome to leave a feedback or any suggestions after using the toolkit which might be helping the developer team to provide update / fixes for the toolkit.

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Microsoft Silverlight

Microsoft Silverlight Developement Development Tools

Microsoft has positioned Microsoft Expression Blend versions 2.0 and 2.5 for designing the UI of Silverlight 1.0 and 2 applications respectively. Visual Studio 2008 can be used to develop and debug Silverlight applications. To create Silverlight projects and let the compiler target CoreCLR, Visual Studio 2008 requires the Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio.

Silverlight applications can be written in any .NET programming language. Because of this reason, any development tools which can be used with .NET languages can work with Silverlight, provided they can target the Silverlight CoreCLR for hosting the application, instead of the .NET Framework CLR.

A Silverlight project contains the Silverlight.js and CreateSilverlight.js files which initializes the Silverlight plugin for use in HTML pages, a XAML file for the UI, and code-behind files for the application code. Silverlight applications are debugged in a manner similar to ASP.NET applications.

Visual Studio’s CLR Remote Cross Platform Debugging feature can be used to debug Silverlight applications running on a different platform as well.

In conjunction with the release of Silverlight 2.0 Eclipse was added as a development tool option.

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