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Silverlight Elements now available for preview

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We’re pleased to announce a technical preview release of our Silverlight Elements suite, a pack of controls for Microsoft’s Silverlight Rich Internet Application platform. Silverlight is becoming an increasingly popular solution for building business applications as well as graphically rich media-oriented applications, and Silverlight Elements builds on that.

The Silverlight Elements suite includes six main controls:

CoverFlow

CoverFlow provides an animated, pseudo-3D selection control in which elements “flow” across the screen around a focal selected element. It makes an attractive alternative to conventional list controls for rich media applications, allowing users to quickly browse a gallery of images or even interactive components.

ListView and MulticolumnTreeView

Silverlight doesn’t have multicolumn controls like the ListView built in, but they’re really handy for displaying tabular data in a less heavyweight form than a full-on data grid. In addition, we know a lot of people need to be able to display tabular information against hierarchical data, so we’ve also provided a MulticolumnTreeView (or “tree list view”).

Scheduler

Time-based display is a common requirement for business applications. The Scheduler control supports displaying items in a similar way to the Outlook calendar, with options for daily, weekly and monthly summary views. Use it for appointments, bookings, task management, equipment utilisation or whatever your time-based requirement is.

RichTextEditor

The Silverlight Elements RichTextEditor supports the most common HTML editing requirements and is suitable for rich text notes, forums-type software, etc.

ColorPicker

The last control in the suite is a compact selection tool for colours. Users can choose from standard colours, including an attractive Office-style palette or a custom palette, or mix their own. There’s also a PaletteColorPicker for when you want to keep users to a specific set of “theme” colours.

Where can I get it?

Silverlight Elements is currently available in preview form to all customers. The components are currently of beta quality so please let us know when you run into bugs or if you have ideas about how things could be made easier or more convenient. The preview is free to all existing customers, so jump into the store and give it a spin!

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Posted by Ivan Towlson on 28 February 2010

5 Responses to “Silverlight Elements now available for preview”

1. Would love to try out but following the link doesn’t give me a download option – am I missing something?

   Tokes Mar 11th, 2010

2. Hi Tokes, thanks for the comment. You need to be an existing customer to be able to download Silverlight Elements Beta.

   John-Daniel Trask Mar 14th, 2010

3. Any plans for a RichtextEditor for WPF Elements?

   David Mar 23rd, 2010

4. David, we don’t have any immediate plans for a RichTextEditor for WPF Elements because WPF already has the RichTextBox built in — though it’s true that doesn’t support HTML export. Let us know what scenarios you have that aren’t supported by the WPF RichTextEditor and we’ll take a look!

   Ivan Towlson Mar 29th, 2010

5. Ivan, the main things I am looking for in a WPF RichTextEditor is the toolbar! The RichTextEditor does handle all that I need, however there is no provision for the toolbar to interact with the text. I understand that I can write this functionality but if there were a component that I could just plug in that provided the rich editing features it would allow me to concentrate on the actual application I’m trying to write. Essentially I guess that I’m looking for the ability to embed WordPad type editing in my application. I have now found an open source project that does pretty much what I want but it does not seem to be active (http://wpfricheditorlibrary.codeplex.com)

   David Mar 30th, 2010

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