Controls

Telerik is a leading vendor of tools and UI components for Silverlight and .NET. In this video, Deyan Ginev, Software Developer in Telerik's Windows Phone team, gives us a very comprehensive preview of Telerik's upcoming control pack for Windows Phone. Deyan also plugs in their blog, where they…

In this episode, Adam Kinney discusses how you can completely customize how a control looks and behaves. Adam explains how all Silverlight controls are lookless and that they can be customized using various templates depending on what you want to achieve. Instead of starting with a simple…

In this video, Brian Goldfarb and Brett Brewer stop by to discuss the new Silverlight PivotViewer control release. In addition to discussing its immediate availability, they talk about tech transfers between labs and product groups like Silverlight. For those of you who haven’t heard of it yet,…

Robby has shared the source code for a TextBlock with TextTrimming for Silverlight, that neatly truncates text and adds an ellipses based on the amount of space available to the TextBlock.

Josh Smith posted a tutorial on creating and displaying a matrix using a custom control in WPF.  Not only does he use the control, he explains how it works and the thinking behind the architecture.  And as expected from Josh, there si a full seperation of model, control and a template …

IDV Solutions announced their Visual Fusion product today which integrates SharePoint data with Virtual Earth and Silverlight. Other SharePoint controls are available from ComponentOne, who is offering a DataGrid, Charts and Maps.  Perpetuum Software is offering Report Sharp Shooter…

Another opportunity I had at MIX09 was to talk to the guys from DevExpress about the controls they are working on.  Azret Botash explains how they are going after the features that people say can't be done and doing them. In this video he demos…

During MIX09 I had the opportunity to sit down with the guys from ComponentOne and take a look at the controls available in their new Studio for Silverlight 2009 release. Along with a full-featured datagrid and richtextbox, they demoed a BitMap API and Effects running in Silverlight 2,…

Wenn ich schon einzelne Routen berechnen lassen und anzeigen lassen kann, dann sollte doch auch eine eigene Einbettung als Routenplaner nicht so kompliziert sein. Eine Ausgabe der einzelnen Wegpunkte in HTML hilft, wenn man die Route ausdrucken und unterwegs im Auto verwenden möchte. Ist das…

This turned out to be a pretty design-centric episode.  Quince the new UX Design Pattern Explorer launched, Illustrator to XAML plug-in is ready to be tested, Alex Knight a XAML Designer is featured and Stimulant shows off their Surface skills. Stories covered in this episode…