October 23rd, 2009
Out-the-box controls in Blend
Silverlight Blend Tutorials, Working with Silverlight, by Gavin Wignall.This post is part of a string of posts found here: Learn Blend in a Month.
Silverlight ships with lots of built in controls ready for use with default skins applied. All of these controls are skinable following similar steps found here with the ‘Button’ control.
To access the full list of controls available to you in Blend access the last icon in the main tool bar called ‘Assets‘. This will open up a list of available assets of which one group is labled ‘Controls‘, open up this drop down to see the full list of available controls.
With Blend 3 and the Silverlight SDK installed I have a list of over 100 controls to look through. Here is a list of ten useful controls I have picked out, ideal for beginner users:
CheckBox - Works like standard check boxes
ComboBox - A drop down selection box
DatePicker - A drop down date picker box
HyperlinkButton - A button linking to a web url
ListBox - A scrollable list
RadioButton - Works like standard radio buttons
Rating - 5 Star rating
ScrollViewer - Area to display content within a scrollable area
Slider - A dragable thumb on a linear scale
ToggleButton - An on / off button
To access even more controls go visit the Expression Gallery and CodePlex to see whats available.
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Frank La Vigne, Jason Hawgood. Jason Hawgood said: Out-the-box controls in Blend » Silverlight Buzz http://bit.ly/1uLNgo [...]
[...] Out-the-box controls in Blend [...]
[...] Out-the-box controls in Blend [...]