Silverlight Toolkit

The Silverlight Toolkit was desigend to be a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle.   It adds new functionality quickly for designers and developers, and provides the community an efficient way to help shape product development by contributing ideas and bug reports. This first release includes full source code, unit tests, samples and documentation for 12 new controls covering charting, styling, layout, and user input.

The Silverlight Toolkit defines four Quality Bands that describe the stability and finish-level of each component. Below is a summary of where the components currently in the Silverlight Toolkit fall within the quality bands.

Components in the Preview Quality Band - AutoCompleteBox - NumericUpDown - Viewbox - Expander - ImplicitStyleManager - Charting

Components in the Stable Quality Band - TreeView - DockPanel - WrapPanel - Label - HeaderedContentControl - HeaderedItemsControl

Themes In addition to great controls, the Toolkit also includes a beautiful assortment of professional themes to make your applications stand out and improve the overall look-and-feel of your Silverlight UI.

- Expression Dark - Expression Light - Rainier Purple - Rainier Orange - Shiny Blue - Shiny Red