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Released: Mindscape Silverlight Elements!

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We have now released our very first Silverlight product: Silverlight Elements, a suite of controls to add a richer user experience to your silverlight applications. Along with the controls we have included 5 themes based on the look of Microsoft Office and Expression Blend for the Elements controls so that your users have a familiar look and feel while also saving you time in delivering a fantastic user experience.

Click here to download a free trial

Scheduler Control

Similar to the scheduler seen in Microsoft Outlook, the scheduler control stores appointment information and displays them nicely across 3 different viewing modes. Buttons make navigating between day, week and month view very easy. Adding appointments to the scheduler can be done in multiple ways such as double clicking on the appointment surface, or making a selection across time slots and hitting the Add Appointment button. Appointments can even be set up to follow a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly recurrence pattern. Recurring appointments can stop by a specific date, a certain number of occurence, or just keep going forever. An appointment dialog is provided to allow the user to easily create appointments by setting its title, start/end times and apply a recurrence pattern if desired.

Read more about the Scheduler control here.

HTML Editor

This control can generate HTML based on rich text entered by the user. The HTML Editor supports all the following text formatting:

• Bold, Italic and Underlined
• Font and font size
• Foreground and background text color
• Left, right and centre alignment
• Ordered and unordered lists
• Hyperlinks can be easily created, edited or removed

A default tool bar is provided for formatting selected text and adding or removing lists. Ordered lists can be numbered in different ways including numbers, letters and roman numerals. Round, square and disc bullets are also available for unordered lists.

Other features include basic copy/paste and easy caret manipulation using the mouse and various keys as in all text editors.

Read more about the Silverlight HTML Editor here

Multicolumn controls

The ListView control is useful for displaying tabular data in a simple and easy to read manner. Tabular information that needs to be displayed against hierarchical data is also possible using the MulticolumnTreeView. Both controls allow the user to resize and reorder the columns to view the data however they feel. Various properties make it easy to apply a different template to the cells based on the data they contain.

Read more about the multicolumn controls here

CoverFlow

CoverFlow presents your application data in style! CoverFlow provides a fluid, animated user interface for selecting from lists, especially suited to rich media applications such as graphics or video. You can use it to rapidly create attractive, polished selection user interfaces.

Read more about the CoverFlow control here

ColorPicker

The ColorPicker control gives users multiple ways of selecting colors. Colors can be picked from a list of standard named colors, selected from a configurable color palette, or customized using the color sliders. A seperate control called the PaletteColorPicker only displays the palette of colors in its drop down.

Read more about the ColorPicker controls here

Time Pickers

The TimePicker control allows selection of a time containing an hour and a minute part. A configurable list of suggestion times can be given to the control which appear in a dropdown box. The selected time can also be directly edited by the user. A similar control is the TimeSpanPicker for selecting a TimeSpan object. This control displays time spans nicely as a number of minutes, hours, days or weeks as appropriate.

Read more about the Time Picker controls here

To try out these controls you can download a trial install here, or play with the live demo (requires Silverlight 3.0)

So…. how much?

Mindscape Silverlight Elements is priced at $199 USD per developer and includes 12 months worth of updates (there will be more controls to come). There is source code is available for $499 USD (for all developers on that account). You can purchase Mindscape Silverlight Elements in our online store now.

Of course, if you’re a Mindscape Mega Pack customer, you just had Silverlight Elements added to your subscription free of charge and can download it immediately from our online store :-)

If there are any features that you would like to see in these controls, or if you have ideas for more controls that your looking for then let us know in our forum.

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Posted by Jason on 29 March 2010

3 Responses to “Released: Mindscape Silverlight Elements!”

1. Do you plan on the htmleditor control having an image gallery.

   Regards

   Scott Brady

   Scott Brady May 1st, 2010

2. Hi Scott,

   Thanks for your feedback. The plan currently is to release Silverlight Elements 1.1 in the next couple of weeks. We’ll then be working on the next version that will only target SL4+. One of the massive challenges in SL3 with the HTML Editor is the flow layouts which made supporting images nigh on impossible. SL4 adds better support so we’ll be tacking images in that version. I’ve added image gallery support to our backlog as that would be handy but I can’t make any promises that it would be included in the first drop of the HTML Editor that supports images.

   I hope that helps.

   John-Daniel Trask May 2nd, 2010

3. Ok,

   Thanks for that.

   Regards

   Scott

   Scott Brady May 3rd, 2010

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