Tool-Tips, Data Binding and Non-Standard Fonts [February 15th, 2008]

Upcoming improvements to the controls library are slight but effective changes such as tool-tips, these by default are disable but most Liquid controls can have tool-tips assigned to them, controls such as the TextBox, TextArea, DropDownList, Buttons and the Calendar all feature tool-tips.

On the data binding front, the ListBox and DropDownList both now support data binding, the methods implemented here are similar to ASP.NET controls. Data Binding is something that will be expanded upon in future releases.

The issue of using non-standard fonts has been mostly addressed and is nearly finished, the TextBox and TextArea controls will be 'opened up' a little to allow developers to control key presses and the resulting character passed to the control, this will be enough to implement non-English keyboard support.

The Silverlight Controls demo with Tool-Tips is available to test now!