Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch gives you a simpler and faster way to create professional-quality Silverlight business applications for the desktop, the Web, and the cloud.
It offers little customization, but has a good template to create and modify SQL data.
<UserControl xmlns:controls=”clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls”
x:Class=”SilverlightApplication18.MainPage”
xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation“
xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml“
xmlns:toolkit=”clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Layout.Toolkit”
Width=”400″ Height=”300″>
<Grid x:Name=”LayoutRoot” Background=”White”>
<controls:TabControl Margin=”10″ TabStripPlacement=”Left”>
<controls:TabItem >
<controls:TabItem.Header>
<toolkit:LayoutTransformer >
<TextBlock Text=”Tab1″/>
<toolkit:LayoutTransformer.LayoutTransform>
<RotateTransform Angle=”-90″></RotateTransform>
</toolkit:LayoutTransformer.LayoutTransform>
</toolkit:LayoutTransformer>
</controls:TabItem.Header>
<TextBlock Margin=”10″ Text=”some content in Tab1″/>
</controls:TabItem>
<controls:TabItem >
<controls:TabItem.Header>
<toolkit:LayoutTransformer >
<TextBlock Text=”Tab2″/>
<toolkit:LayoutTransformer.LayoutTransform>
<RotateTransform Angle=”-90″></RotateTransform>
</toolkit:LayoutTransformer.LayoutTransform>
</toolkit:LayoutTransformer>
</controls:TabItem.Header>
<TextBlock Margin=”10″ Text=”some content in Tab2″/>
</controls:TabItem>
</controls:TabControl>
</Grid>
</UserControl>
This is a super cool addon for silverlight that does a lot of cool animations.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Data;
using System.Windows.Input;
namespace Ravi.UI.Silverlight
{
///
/// Custom combobox because databinding doesn’t work correctly
///
public class ComboBox : System.Windows.Controls.ComboBox
{
#region Constructor
///
/// Constructor
///
public ComboBox()
{
this.Loaded += new RoutedEventHandler(ComboBox_Loaded);
this.SelectionChanged += new SelectionChangedEventHandler(ComboBox_SelectionChanged);
}
#endregion
#region Events
///
/// Loaded Event
///
///
///
void ComboBox_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
SetSelectionFromValue();
}
private object _selection;
void ComboBox_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
if (e.AddedItems.Count > 0)
{
_selection = e.AddedItems[0];
SelectedValue = GetMemberValue(_selection);
}
else
{
_selection = null;
SelectedValue = null;
}
}
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Controls.Primitives;
namespace Ravi.UI.Silverlight
{
///
/// Custom date picker control to override standard
/// date picker behavior
///
public class DatePicker : System.Windows.Controls.DatePicker
{
///
/// set the text to null if it is invalid
///
///
protected override void OnDateValidationError(DatePickerDateValidationErrorEventArgs e)
{
this.Text = this.SelectedDate == null ? null : this.SelectedDate.ToString();
base.OnDateValidationError(e);
}
///
/// Setting the DataPicker TextBox to 10 Characters only.
///
public override void OnApplyTemplate()
{
base.OnApplyTemplate();
DatePickerTextBox datePickerTextBox = base.GetTemplateChild(“TextBox”) as DatePickerTextBox;
if (datePickerTextBox != null)
datePickerTextBox.MaxLength = 10;
}
}
}
