Free Silverlight Controls and Components

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This site is dedicated to bringing high quality Silverlight controls and components to Silverlight developers for free. There are over 20 controls and these can be downloaded for free along with example source code and tutorials, all that is required is the completion of a simple registration form.

New Super Shoot 'Em Up Game

Added to the games section is the new Super Shoot 'Em Up game.  Take control of a tank with your aim being to blow up your opposing tanks and collect all the powerups.  Go for the top score, all hiscores are saved for all to see!

Super Shoot 'Em Up Game

You can play the game here.

Feb 04, 2010 - read more...

Silverlight 3 Controls V5.2.6 Released

This release includes some minor fixes for several forum posts.  The Color Selector has 2 new properties for controlling the custom color button, there are also several changes for the RichTextBox and TreeView.  Please see the notes on the download page for full details on what has changed.

Feb 04, 2010 - read more...

Chaos Tournament Game

Launched today is the new Games section which contains the new Silverlight only Chaos Tournament game.  This game is a remake of the classic 1985 ZX Spectrum game Chaos where you take control of a wizard and cast spells with the aim to banish the other wizards from the game.

Jan 24, 2010 - read more...

Silverlight 4 Local File Browser Demo

Just added today to the Demos page is the new Silverlight 4 Local File Browser Demo which, as its name suggests provides a visual way to navigate the local file system.  Making use of the Liquid Menus, Popup Dialog and the new Silverlight 4 functionality this demo gives a small glimpse of what is possible in Silverlight.

The New Local File System Browser Demo

If you are a registered member all the source code can be downloaded from the demo page.

Nov 25, 2009 - read more...

New Silverlight 4 Html RichTextArea Control

To help Silverlight 4 developers getting to grips with the RichTextArea control we have created an enhanced version that allows basic HTML to be loaded and saved.

HtmlRichTextArea Control

You can download the example shown above and also the source code for the control itself here.

Nov 24, 2009 - read more...

Latest Forum Posts

Here are latest posts from around the forums, if you have a question about any of the Liquid controls you can get your answers in the Forum.

maarkkushere posted on Icons with main menu items

Is there any way to display an icon with a MainMenuItem?  I can do it just fine with MenuItems.  They both have an icon property, but it doesn't seem to work with the MainMenuItem.


Thanks for any help you can provide.

dan posted on Chaos Tournament - Seems to be broken

Hi,


Thanks for letting us know.  The problem has been fixed and a newer version uploaded.


Enjoy!

drVeljko posted on How to insert formatted text in run

Hello Dan, thanks for great control!

Is there a way to insert formated text in the run?

I have some saved html source code(simple paragraph) that I want to insert in the position of the carret in richtextbox.


Thanks!

Veljko

afontan posted on Scroller as a Stock ticker

Hi


I would like to use the scroller as a continuous stock ticker, as if the content is a loop  (without the blank between each scroll). Is it possible


Regards,


Andrés

dan posted on Manage control box buttons visibility

Hi,


You can achive this by using a custom style.  The default style for the Dialogs from:


http://www.vectorlight.net/controls/popup_dialog/visual_customizations.aspx


There is a StackPanel named ElementTopButtons, simply set this to Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed


Thanks!

dan posted on Error with nodes name.

Hi,


Thanks for this post.  I'm unable to reproduce the error you describe, can you provide a sample project showing this error?


A couple of points from looking at your code, instead of T.Nodes.Clear() use T.Clear().  The setting of the Name property in Silverlight has certain restrictions, please see the MSDN about these properties.


Thanks!

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Silverlight News

  • Mixing it up! Using the InkPresenter with 3D Projection
    Feb 06, 2010

    "Two great tools in Silverlight are the Projection properties and the InkPresenter, so what happens if you put the two together? Well, maybe something like below. Use the mouse to draw within the Silverlight area."


  • Custom Preloader - Silverlight TV 006
    Feb 06, 2010

    "The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9! In episode 6 John Stockton (Silverlight MVP) discusses how a custom preloader can spice up your application . He shows how to implement a basic custom preloader (aka splash Screen) and then goes further to show how you can add animations and other effects."


  • Silverlight DataGrid quick styling tip
    Feb 06, 2010

    "The scenario is the classic master-details scenario where perhaps you have a grid of data and when a user selects the row, the details are enabled in a form (or perhaps the child of the element) for editing."


  • Flash Skills Applied to Silverlight session at MIX10
    Feb 04, 2010

    "If you know how to design and develop Flash applications, you are more than half the way there to creating Silverlight applications. Similar languages, graphic and animation features and skinnable controls, ease the training between the two technologies. Listen and learn how to add a new skill to your skillset and expand your opportunities"


  • Silverlight 4 & MEF – Switching on functionality
    Feb 04, 2010

    "In my head, I see Silverlight 4 applications as either running; In Browser, Out of Browser, Out of Browser and Trusted, Out of Browser and Trusted and in the presence of COM interop ( i.e. on Windows ) and you might write functionality that only works in certain of those contexts"


  • VS2010, profiling, Silverlight 4
    Jan 30, 2010

    "At PDC, I announced that Silverlight 4 came with the new CoreCLR capability of being profile-able by the VS2010 profilers: this means that for the first time, we give you the power to profile the managed and native code (user or platform) used by a Silverlight application. woohoo. kudos to the CLR team."


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Archived News

  • New Silverlight 4 Tutorials
    Nov 19, 2009

    Whilst looking at the new Silverlight 4 features we thought we would share some of the information we found. Here are some simple code examples

  • Silverlight 4 BETA
    Nov 18, 2009

    After 4 versions Microsoft have finally provided Silverlight developers with a means to process Rich Text content as standard. What does this mean for the vectorlight RichTextBox?

  • Silverlight 3 Controls V5.2.5 Released
    Oct 25, 2009

    This interim release fixes several bugs raised in the forums.

  • Silverlight 3 Controls V5.2.4 Released
    Oct 15, 2009

    With this release we have included support for IME languages such as Chinese, Japanese etc in the RichTextBox (a big thanks to Hanson for this).

  • Two New Support Articles
    Oct 15, 2009

    For those who need to do image resizing in the RichTextBox we have put together a new support article showing how to use the Popup Dilaog to provide image resizing functionality.

  • Site Update
    Sep 14, 2009

    We have just completed the transfer to a new CMS to allow easier content editing and publishing. One of the new features is the new Forums page.

  • Silverlight 3 Controls V5.2.3 Released
    Aug 31, 2009

    This updated version of the controls library contains many fixes for the Rich TextBox mainly bugs reported on the comments page...

  • Media Courtyard Silverlight CMS BETA Testing
    Jul 26, 2009

    Recently launched is the Media Courtyard Silverlight CMS which sees the vectorlight CMS demo taken from its initial demo...