Archived News

  • Chaos Tournament Game
    Jan 24, 2010

    Launched today is the new Games section which contains the new Silverlight only Chaos Tournament game. This game is a remake of a classic 1985 ZX Spectrum game Chaos.

  • Silverlight 4 Local File Browser Demo
    Nov 25, 2009

    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.

  • New Silverlight 4 Html RichTextArea Control
    Nov 24, 2009

    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.

  • 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.

Free Silverlight Games, Controls and Components

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This site is dedicated to bringing high quality Silverlight games, controls and components to gamers and 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.

Super Tower Defense - with Tanks

New to the games section is the new Super Tower Defense game.  Defend your base from the ever advancing army of tanks, buggies, bikes, rocket launchers and much more.  Choose from 5 different maps and login to have your highscores saved.

Super Tower Defence

Mar 10, 2010 - read more...

New Rich Text Editor User Control

By popular request, here we present a re-usable User Control containing the Liquid RichTextBox along with the most common formatting functions included.  Can be easily customized, toolbar controls can be added or removed as necessary.

Rich Text Editor User Control

Feb 19, 2010 - read more...

Silverlight 3 Controls V5.2.7 Released

This release includes several fixes for issues raised in the forum.  The main improvement is to the RichTextBox which now provides access and methods to the document elements allowing developers to perform low-level operations on RichText document elements without reloading the whole document.

New Article Demonstrating RichTextBox Low Level Access

We have put together a new tutorial to show how to manipulate the visual elements that make up a RichText document.

Low Level RichTextBox Tutorial

Feb 19, 2010 - read more...

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...

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.

magicrat posted on How to get a Yes No Message Box

Hello, brand new here...


I am just working with teh Message Box and want ot show more than one button for a yes no type of message box.  How do I do this in code?  I need this message box to change depending on the reson it is shown so I have to change the buttons before I show it.  Also how do I hide the X close button?


Thanks in advance!

dan posted on disable user input

Hi,


You can use the following to ensure content is read-only:


richTextBox.SelectMode = SelectMode.ReadOnly;


Thanks!

dan posted on RichTextBox.SelectionStyle.Family

Hi Adrian,


The RichTextBox.SelectionStyle reflects the current selection style at the cursor.  I have tested this and the font family is updated correctly, both here and in the online demo.  Can you provide the code you are using when you reference this property?  Are you using the SelectionChanged event?


Thanks!

dan posted on UK dictionary functionality in Rich Text Box

Hi,


The spell checker uses standard .dic files, you can find some here:


http://www.codeproject.com/KB/string/netspell.aspx


Thanks!

dan posted on Borders on div, p, etc

Hi Paul,


As you have found only a small amount of CSS is supported in the RichTextBox, there is a short list of what CSS is supported at:


http://www.vectorlight.net/controls/rich_textbox/importing_exporting_html.aspx


Thanks!

dan posted on Programmatically closing all spell checker popups

Hi Radi,


Its not possible to programatically close the popup in this version, we will add a new method named HideSuggestionsPopup() to the next version that will enable you to close it.


Thanks!

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Silverlight News

  • An exclusive interview with Tim Heuer and Mike Taulty
    Mar 11, 2010

    "Earlier today I had a chance to have an exclusive interview with both Tim Heuer and Mike Taulty! The focus was obviously Silverlight, but I had a good mixed bag of questions so hopefully there is something for everyone to find a little interesting!"


  • Silverlight 4, MEF and the DeploymentCatalog
    Mar 11, 2010

    "The Silverlight 4 beta came with a version of MEF that had 3 catalogs – namely AssemblyCatalog, TypeCatalog and AggregateCatalog. They’re pretty easy to understand and I made a screencast on the topic here."


  • Avoiding Uninstall/Reinstall when Debugging
    Feb 19, 2010

    "Every few weeks I muck around with an out-of-browser application with the Silverlight 4 Beta.

    Every few weeks I have to look up what I need to do to avoid uninstalling and reinstalling my out-of-browser application every time I debug.  Since I’m one of those people that remembers things once I write them down, I thought I would blog about it. The steps are simple."


  • Silverlight Deployment Troubleshooting Guide
    Feb 18, 2010

    "After helping a few customers with Silverlight install issues, I think it may be helpful to publish a Silverlight deployment troubleshooting guide and keep it up-to-date, so here you go."


  • Why do I keep getting prompted to install Silverlight?
    Feb 18, 2010

    "A few people get prompted repeatedly to install Silverlight while visiting web sites like nbcolympics.com"


  • XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio
    Feb 15, 2010

    "XAML Power Toys is a Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Add-In or a Visual Studio 2010 Add-In that empowers WPF & Silverlight developers while working in the XAML editor.  Its Line of Business form generation tools, Grid tools,  DataForm, DataGrid and ListView generation really shorten the XAML form layout time."


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