February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Content preview from Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
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14.20. Summary
One of the greatest aspects of Silverlight is its flexibility. If an existing control doesn't provide the functionality you require, then you can customize it to do so (although the Silverlight toolkit is definitely worth a look first: www.codeplex.com/Silverlight). All Silverlight controls can be broken down into primitive shapes such as rectangles and ellipses that can then be modified.
Think about the functionality that the control provides more than what it looks like. At a presentation I attended at VBug (a UK user group), EMC/Conchango suggested adapting radio buttons to create a tab control. The tab control is perfect for this situation because only one can be selected at a time.
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