Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 5

Controls

Controls are the fundamental building blocks of user interfaces in XAML. Silverlight comes with an extensive set of core controls, quite similar what's available in Windows Forms (and WPF). Where controls are missing, such as the TreeView control, you may find that these additional controls are available in the Silverlight Toolkit project (created and maintained by Microsoft) on the CodePlex web site.

In this section, we'll specifically look at a subset of these core controls used to lay out controls on the user interface surface, which we'll call layout controls. We'll also look at some of the naming differences between control properties in Windows Forms and Silverlight. Then, we'll take a look at specifying event handlers that can ...