Part of my personal daily rounds is catching up on all the gaming news which means hitting up Engadget and Joystiq. I was reading a recent tidbit about how new XBox 360’s are starting to show up with both the Jasper motherboard and 512MB of internal memory, something some of you may or may not be as excited about as I am.
Now that title is a mouth-full. I’ve seen a few questions in the Silverlight.net forums asking how to get the Silverlight Toolkit controls into the toolbox/asset library of Visual Studio 2008 and/or Expression Blend 2. There are a bunch of great posts scattered among the tubes on how to do this but I wanted to explain both Visual Studio 2008 and Blend 2 in one post.
One of the great controls released with the Silverlight Toolkit is the NumericUpDown. Sure it may seem like just a basic textbox that allows user input with the added glory of a spinner that makes it easy to nudge values up or down with a click, which in and of itself is a great benefit, but there is also some lesser known plumbing that allows users to easily extend this control to provide some great user experiences.
A common question in the forums has been how to get dynamic icons in the Silverlight Toolkit TreeView and luckily there are quite a few options.
The Icon Before you can make the icon dynamic you need a place to put it. The basic idea is to create a HierarchicalDataTemplate and make room for an image:
Ever since joining Microsoft back in August 2008 this blog has been pretty quiet and not just because I’ve been rolling around in the autumn leaves on campus but because of this gem, the Silverlight Toolkit.
At its highest level the Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of great controls and utilities that are continually being improved and polished until they are of the highest and most useful caliber.