What's new in Silverlight Toolkit April 2010
May 4, 2011
- Charting:
- New Stacked series added for Bar, Column, Line, and Area series
- New 100% stacking also added where stacked values are represented as percentages of the total stacked value
- New Samples for stacked series charts
- Performance improvements for stacked series vs their non-stacked counterparts
- Context Menu:
- New Single-level Context Menu control which is a proper subset of the WPF ContextMenu control
- New ContextMenuService that allows for easy usage of ContextMenus throughout an application
- Theme Updates:
- New ApplicationThemeUri property that allows for dynamic theme switching at runtime without the need to re-parent contents
- New SystemColors theme added that picks up the system's colors for accessibility scenarios
- New SystemColors theme sample
- Bug fixes to Themes:
- Xmlns Definition Update
- All toolkit controls can be found under a single common “toolkit” prefix when added from the Toolbox
- DragDrop Targets:
- New PanelDragDropTarget added to allow drag and drop between two panels
- TreeView:
- New TreeView samples that provide templates with connecting lines, full row selection, and checkboxes
- Silverlight Unit Test Framework Improvements:
- Rewritten to be completely Silverlight based for interactive results analysis
- Supports Silverlight 4 Out of Browser testing
- Copy to clipboard function exposed for test results
- Easy tag expression support added at startup for test selection
- Other Updates:
- Reactive Extensions Framework
- Bug Fix: Bundled Reactive Extensions removed to allow usage of the latest Rx bits alongside the Toolkit
- Visual Studio 2008
- Removed design-time support for Visual Studio 2008
- Silverlight 3
- Removed support for Silverlight 3. If you are still using Silverlight 3 download the November 2009 release
New in Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 (Oct 21, 2009)
- Visual Studio 2010 Support:
- All controls updated to provide a great design time experience in Visual Studio 2010
- Charting:
- All classes now unsealed
- ISeries interface introduced as base interface for all Series
- Breaking change: StylePalette renamed Palette and type changed to IEnumerable from IEnumerable
- LegendItemStyle introduced to provide easier customization of LegendItem
- For more information, see David Anson's Blog.
- Drag & Drop:
- Drag & drop support added for common items controls such as ListBox, TreeView, DataGrid, and charting controls.
- System.Windows.Controls.Data.Toolkit assembly added.
- The System.Reactive assembly is now installed alongside other Silverlight Toolkit binaries.
- Other Updates:
- Accordion - Themes updated to add support for this control
- ChildWindow - Themes updated to add support for this control
- DataForm - Themes updated to add support for this control
- DataPager - Themes updated to add support for this control
- DomainUpDown - Mouse wheel support added to change value
- GlobalCalendar - Mouse wheel support added to navigate between months in year mode and years in decade mode
- GridSplitter - Themes updated to add support for this control
- TimePicker / TimeUpDown - Mouse wheel support added
- TreeMap - VB Sample added
New in Silverlight Toolkit December 2008 (Dec 16, 2008)
- More than 100 new features and bug fixes all based on your feedback!
- Read the complete list of changes at the Silverlight Toolkit December 2008 change list.
- AutoCompleteBox and NumericUpDown have been moved into the Stable Quality Band.
- Three new themes have been added: Bureau Black, Bureau Blue and Whistler Blue.
- The sample application has been given a make-over and is now more polished and easier to navigate.
- We've added more code coverage unit tests. That means - more sample code for you!
- Improved the DesignerUX in both Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend. We've included new controls icons for the Toolbox, property tooltips and better property organization in the property editor.
- UI Accessability support added for AutoCompleteBox, Expander and NumericUpDown (as well as UpDownBase).
- Many new charting improvements!
New in Silverlight Toolkit November 2008 (Nov 18, 2008)
- The November 2008 release of the Silverlight Toolkit includes the following:
- Components in the Stable Quality Band
- TreeView
- DockPanel
- WrapPanel
- Label
- HeaderedContentControl
- HeaderedItemsControl
- Components in the Preview Quality Band
- AutoCompleteBox
- ButtonSpinner
- Charting
- Expander
- ImplicitStyleManager
- NumericUpDown
- Spinner
- UpdownBase
- Viewbox
- Several professional Themes for use in your applications.
- Sample application projects
- View the samples live: Controls and ChartingIntegrated code and XAML source viewer