Controls

This module describes and includes demos for the following controls: AppBar and NavBar, BackButton, Hub, ItemContainer and Repeater, WebView, and Improvements to ListView. [01:00] - Intro and Overview[22:41] - ControlsFull course outline: Mod 01: ControlsMod 02: Storage, Networking, and SecurityMod…

With the basics down, this module goes into reusable units for presentation, defined UI/Interaction patterns such as input and feedback, and consistency with OS. Get ready to crank up the speed and learning more about XAML. [00:16] - Controls [46:33] - Styles Full course outline: Mod 01:…

When you build an app, you will need to address custom and user controls. This modules covers various controls from custom layout and composition, custom implementation, reusable controls and how Windows Runtime components function. [02:33] - Custom controls[12:10] - User controls[22:00] - Windows…

Find out more about the built-in controls in Windows 8 by getting into the layouts and data binding. Jerry and Daren provide an in depth understanding on the various types of layouts and how to present dynamic data. [00:46] - Layout[27:26] - Data bindingFull course outline: Mod 01: Overview of the…

Learn more about the 5 "y"s of good UI responsiveness. This session will review how to facilitate good UI responsiveness for a fast and fluid experience, how to implement animations and transitions, and how to create custom WinJS controls while building in globalization/localization for…

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 …