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Silverlight ComboBox/Dropdown List Control

With the Silverlight ComboBox you can implement single item selection that is both simple to setup but powerful to use and expand.


How to Use the Dropdown List Control

To use it on your Silverlight page:

<UserControl x:Class="DropDownList.Page"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/client/2007"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    Width="400" Height="300">
    <Canvas>
        <ComboBox x:Name="testDropDown" Width="200" Height="30" Canvas.Top="10" Canvas.Left="10" SelectionChanged="DropDown_ItemSelected">
            <ComboBoxItem Content="Australia" />
            <ComboBoxItem Content="Canada" />
            <ComboBoxItem Content="China" />
            <ComboBoxItem Content="France" />
            <ComboBoxItem Content="Germany" />
            <ComboBoxItem Content="India" />
            <ComboBoxItem Content="Italy" />
            <ComboBoxItem Content="Japan" />
            <ComboBoxItem Content="Pakistan" />
            <ComboBoxItem Content="Portugal" />
            <ComboBoxItem Content="Republic of Ireland" />
            <ComboBoxItem Content="Russia" />
            <ComboBoxItem Content="Saudi Arabia" />
            <ComboBoxItem Content="Spain" />
            <ComboBoxItem Content="Sweden" />
            <ComboBoxItem Content="United Kingdom" />
            <ComboBoxItem Content="USA" />
        </ComboBox>
            </Canvas>
</UserControl>


In your Silverlight C# code behind file you can refer to your dropdown list using countryDropDown.  The DropDown has a SelectedItem property which allow you to read the currently selected item.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Animation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;

using Liquid;

namespace DropDownList
{
    public partial class Page : UserControl
    {
        private Brush _selectedBrush = new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromArgb(255, 255, 0, 0));
        private Brush _normalBrush = new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromArgb(255, 0, 0, 0));

        public Page()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            testDropDown.SelectedIndex = 2;
        }

        private void DropDown_ItemSelected(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            // Process selected index change here
        }
    }
}

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