Controls in Silverlight 4

[Dewei]

I am new to the Silverlight. So frankly speaking, I am not having knowledge about it. I am here to know about the controls in Silverlight 4. Also please provide some information about the Silverlight Toolkit. I think that you might got the point that what all I am looking for. So please help me by providing detailed information. Any other notes related to the topic would be grateful.

[Janet J]

The Silverlight Toolkit is an anthology of Silverlight controls, mechanism and utilities made obtainable exterior the normal Silverlight discharge cycle. A artifact of the Microsoft Silverlight product team, the Silverlight Toolkit rapidly adds innovative functionality for designers and developers, the community and offers an competent way to help silhouette product development by contributing ideas and bug reports. It includes full open source code, unit tests, samples and documentation for over 26 new-fangled controls covering charting, styling, layout, and user input.

[machok]

There also have the option to download both the latest version of the source code in the Downloads section, you will read of what is the Silverlight Toolkit. Once installed, you can access the source code of the controls on a route like this:

• C: \ Program Files \ Microsoft SDKs \ Silverlight \ v3.0 \ Toolkit \ Jul09 \ Source

The idea behind this project is to enable the community of developers have a way of giving feedback and control and shape the Silverlight SDK.

[Chingum]

The Chart control, included in the Silverlight Toolkit, allows us to graphically display data. It turned out that this was something very simple to do, but not so obvious:

<chartingToolkit: Chart Margin = "109,62,116,64" 
 Title = "Chart Title"> 
 <chartingToolkit: Chart.Axes> 
 <chartingToolkit: LinearAxis Orientation = "Y" 
 ShowGridLines = "False" /> 
   chartingToolkit: Chart.Axes> 
 <chartingToolkit: Chart.DataContext> 
 <PointCollection> 
 <Point> 1.10   Point> 
 <Point> 2.20   Point> 
 <Point> 3.30   Point> 
 <Point> 4.40   Point> 
   PointCollection> 
   chartingToolkit: Chart.DataContext> 
 <chartingToolkit: ColumnSeries DependentValuePath = "X" 
 IndependentValuePath = "Y" 
 ItemsSource = "(Binding) '/> 
   chartingToolkit: Chart>

Here we can see that line 3 to 6 Axes property define our control chart. We are saying that we will have an orientation LinearAxis "Y" (the lines show the values of the data on that axis) and define ShowGridLines to false to avoid appearing.

[Samra]

Now the features added in version Silverlight 4 :

• Management of copy / paste
• Up to twice as fast as Silverlight 3
• A boot 30% faster
• Support webcams
• Support microphones
• Support for mouse wheel events
• RichTextArea control for editing rich text
• An API to the clipboard, which will now allow the buffered data without going through solutions related to Internet Explorer only
• Content can now be stored as HTML via the WebBrowser control