Silverlight Controls

Hi Yu,

We don't have a forum component, the basics for building one are here such as the RichTextBox and TreeView and we have no plans to build one in the near future but that may change. Again, your query regarding a Blog component, the RichTextBox is a good starting point and I think we will be doing something like this in the future, however for the moment we are concentrating on the core controls library and getting it ready for the final release of Silverlight 2. Thanks!

Hi,

I meant to include in the previous post that we are looking for a "Blog Control/Component" as well.

Thanks
Yu

Hi Dan,

Our company are looking to include a Silverlight "Forum Control/Component" in the Silverlight-centric project that we are currently working on.
Does your custom Silverlight control set include a "Forum Control/Component"? If not, are you maybe planning on building one soon?

Or, does anyone else out there know of a "Forum Control/Component" available that's free or for sale?

Thanks
Yu

Hi Rob,

Thanks for letting us know, we've fixed it now!

greetings,

tutorial.aspx is throwing a parser error.

Thanks

Rob

Hi,

You need Visual Studio 2008 and Silverlight 2 BETA 2 to develop Silverlight applications. See www.silverlight.net for information about installation etc.

I am using vs2005 and .net framework 2.0
that program its run? (.net fw2.0 and vs2005)

Hi Ed,

This feature is not available in the current version but is on the list of improvements for the next version along with connector lines for the treeview control.

I'm evaluating the controls for my company and one of the features we're interested in is a TreeView with a Three-State Checkbox (i.e. parent node checkbox is shaded if a subset of its children have been selected). Is this feature available? If not, are there any plans to introduce this feature in the near future?

Many thanks in advance for your response.

Ed

Hello,

Using these controls is easy in your own project, there is an example of each control that you can select from the list in the upper-left menu, also there is the form controls demo which when you are logged in can be downloaded and demonstrates most the controls in use.

Hello,
Could you tell me where to find the documentation for using liquid controls? I'm new here.
Thank you.

Hello,

The controls are being updated to Silverlight 2 BETA 2 and will be available very soon, thanks for your patience!

Hi,

What about Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2, when will the controls function with the new version?

Hello,

XAML Databinding is not possible at the moment in the DropDownList, we are looking at implementing this soon!

Hi,

Does anyone know how to bind a DropDownList within the XAML code? Thanks.

Hello,

Yes we've identified a bug in the demo code, this has been fixed and will be on show soon! The bug is nothing to do with the DropDownList control but rather the function in the demo that populates it.

Hello,

Thanks for reporting this, we're looking at the problem now.

I have downloaded your latest version and tried it locally (and online). When selecting the country I cannot select any that come below Pakistan for some reason!?

Any idea why this is?

Hello,

We will have the next version with this problem fixed on the 7th April. Thanks for your patience.

Hello,
What about the problem with the XAML designer (Windows.Markup.XamlParseException)?
I need to know when do you think you will fix the problem...
Thanx!

Hello,

Yes there is a problem with the XAML designer and 4.1, thanks for letting us know, we are looking into this at the moment.

I downloaded the 4.1 release, and when I try to work with the included demo project in Visual Studio 2008 I get this error:

Error 1 System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException: Cannot find a Resource with that Name/Key [Line: 7 Position: 77]
at MS.Internal.XcpImports.Control_InitializeFromXaml(Control control, String xamlString, Boolean createNamescope)
at System.Windows.Controls.Control.InitializeFromXaml(String xaml)
at Liquid.Core.Controls.LiquidControl..ctor()
at Liquid.Core.Controls.Label..ctor() [Line: 0 Position: 0] C:\Users\Michael\Desktop\Liquid_4_1\Liquid Controls 4.1\Examples\Forms Demo\ControlsTest\Page.xaml 1 1 ControlsTest

The XAML designer won't load.

Same happens on my own projects when I try to use Liquid. I copied the styles into the app.xaml.

Hello,

Yes we are currently updating the controls library as we speak and hope to release it very soon.

Silverlight Beta 2 is out, will you update? It appears that agclr.dll is no longer part of the SDK.

Hello,

The skinning currently implemented is fairly low level. Each control implements a SetSkin() method which requires a dictionary of skin keys and XAML, there is an example of skinning in use on login form demo.

Hello,

Is it possible to make skins for the controls?

Hello,

Ideed it doesn't seem to stick to a provided height. The Width is the sum of all the column widths and is thus not directly controllable as a whole. This has been added to the fix list.

The datagrid does not seem to honor the height and width properties.

Hello,

This is a strange one, the Liquid.dll is built against the Silverlight runtime. I assume this is when you browse to the dll and click ok? What version of Visual Studio are you using? Have you tried loading one of the example projects that come with the dll download zip?

I tried adding a reference to the Liquid.dll to my Silverlight project. But it gave me an error saying that the dll cannot be added as it was not built against the Silverlight runtime.

Can you please help me out in figuring why this does not work?

This works fine now. Thanks for the help :-)

Hello,

This indeed should be possible, when you add items to the DropDown List Items collection you pass it an InputOption object. This object has an ID and Label properties, the ID should be a unique identifier and the Label should be the text you want to display for the option.

When you call the SetSelected() method you pass is a value parameter this should be the ID of the Item you want to select. Let me know if you're still having problems with this, in particular how you are populating your DropDown List Items collection.

Dan,
I was trying to set the Text of the Selected Item of the drop down list. However, I am unable to do so manually. E.g. this.ddlbSalesRegion.SetSelected(strInnerNodeContent);
where ddlbSalesRegion is the ListBox. if this is possible can you let me know how to do it?

Apologies, just noticed the Scrolling Area Control page is a duplicate of the ListBox Control, this is now fixed...

Hello,

Thanks for that, we're trying to make these controls as adaptable as possible and the feedback from everyone is really helpful.

With regards to your questions, the Scrolling Area control is a virtual canvas with scroll bars. You set the size and add other controls to the Scrolling Area control, the example on the Scrolling Area page gives an example of how to use it.

By TextArea I take it you mean a multi-line text box, one of these is in development at the moment and will hopefully be available soon. Thanks for your patience and comments.

Thanks for the help Dan. You guys are doing a great job.
ZIndex and the problem with the textbox is now sorted out. In case of the TextBox control, the event handler was registered twice. Is the Scrolling Area control the same as the list box control? I was hoping it was more like a TextArea control.

FYI; there is no effect of setting the totalheight of the The TextBox control. If this worked, I could replicate the effect of the TextArea control here. Any help would be appreciated.

The dropdown list uses a ListBox to display the dropdown list items, this ListBox is a separate control from the dropdown and can be ordered however you like in your XAML in order to avoid the problem you've been having. There is lots of documentation around, particually from Microsoft that explains how z-indexing works in Silverlight. We will try to get some basic Silverlight articles together soon.

There are some button controls and indeed a base button class that you can inherit from in your own code to make your own buttons, articles will follow shortly. The Scrolling Area control is also present in the dll, there is an example of its usage in the left side of the menu.

The problem you are having with the TextBox control is strange, it sounds like the event handler has been register twice. Have you followed the example provided? If you still can't suss it out perhaps you could email the code to: dan@vectorlight.net and I'll take a look.

v2.1 and above mentions buttom, scrolling area controls, but they are not available in the liquid.dll. Can you post a sample code for the same?
Also, I noticed that when I type any character it apears 2 times in the text box. E.g. HHeelloo wwoorrlldd. Is it a bug? the demo contols however do not show this behavior

The dropdown list when expanded appears behind the other controls, is there any way I can change the z-index of the ddl?

Hi,

I tested your first controls, there are cool. I would like to know when your scrollarea, treeview and downdroplist will be available.
Thank you in advance.

Regards.

Hi,
We are the 14, I am waiting for your super controls. I hope I will able to use it today.
Thank you for your job.

Hopefully by the 14th Nov the CheckBox, Calendar and a single line TextBox will be available. A ListBox and DropDown box will follow shortly after. As for what other controls I'm working on, most of my time is spent on a Tree control, a demo is available on the Online Demo link on the top bar.

Hi,
Your controls are catchy. I am currently developing an application and I want to know when your controls will be available ? and which other controls are you working on ?

I'm currently making them available for download within the next Two weeks, the sourcecode will also be available at that time. I'm working on new controls all the time and will keep the site updated as soon as they're done.

Like the look of the controls, are there any more and where can I download them from?