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ComponentOne Controls for Silverlight 1.1

Pete Brown - 14 August 2007

ComponentOne "Sapphire" is a set of UI controls for Silverlight 1.1. The animations on some (especially the hyperpanel) still need work, but overall, this is a really nice and complete set of controls. They even include a number of the missing panel controls. I would expect a number of these controls will be redundent when the final SL 1.1 release comes out, but choice is usually a good thing.

I wish I had it when we built the Carbon Calculator back in May [:)]. One of the more time-consuming tasks on that project was creating the drop-down listbox from scratch

I haven't yet looked at the implementation, but I'll be curious to see how they did styling. That is one area of Silverlight that is likely to change quite a bit between now and release, and I'd hate to lock in to a proprietary styling mechanism if templates and styles will be coming (and no one has agreed that they definitely are) in the final 1.1 release.

 
posted by Pete Brown on Tuesday, August 14, 2007
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