Silverlight 1.1 controls from ComponentOne
ComponentOne Labs features a suite of over 30 UI controls and components for Silverlight 1.1. This is an impressive list covering the gamut with buttons, text controls, lists, date pickers and layout containers. Apparently charting controls and grid are in the works. You can play with these controls on their slick gallery. I'm very impressed.
My team shipped a set of sample UI controls with the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha SDK building on the platform's basic foundations for control extensibility. I've been pleasantly surprised by the the sorts of things the community has done with what can only be kindly referred to as rudimentary support in the platform. As Silverlight 1.1 evolves, you will see the platform provide a lot of the building blocks such as robust keyboard/input support, a layout system, basic UI controls and more. The possibilities are endless. Of course, there's still a lot to get done. If you've read this far, you probably care. Please tell us about your experiences building RIAs using Silverlight and what you'd like to see in the platform and the framework.
My team shipped a set of sample UI controls with the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha SDK building on the platform's basic foundations for control extensibility. I've been pleasantly surprised by the the sorts of things the community has done with what can only be kindly referred to as rudimentary support in the platform. As Silverlight 1.1 evolves, you will see the platform provide a lot of the building blocks such as robust keyboard/input support, a layout system, basic UI controls and more. The possibilities are endless. Of course, there's still a lot to get done. If you've read this far, you probably care. Please tell us about your experiences building RIAs using Silverlight and what you'd like to see in the platform and the framework.
Labels: ComponentOne, Controls, Silverlight
5 Comments:
Looks good for a starting point, but I wouldn't pay money for those controls yet.
There seems to be a feature on that Amazon demo. If you press backspace while typing in the search box, Firefox thinks you want to go back in the page history. That is, it doesn't realise you are typing in a textbox.
I am generally very excited about the possibilities of Silverlight, but so far it is not quite there. I know, I know, it is still in Alpha, but Microsoft must think it is worth looking at or they wouldn't have released it yet.
Most of all, I want Silverlight to be a delivery platform for web applications, so that I can design some business application and know it will work identically across platforms and browsers. This is just too hard in HTML and I don't want to use Flash, etc.
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Anonymous, at August 12, 2007 at 2:11 AM
I would like to echo jaysoft's comments about needing to be able to deliver business apps across platforms and browsers. The opportunity for Microsoft in that area is huge and I hope the understandable focus on consumer aspects of SL (great multimedia etc) don't leave basic UI as the poor relation.
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Anonymous, at August 12, 2007 at 2:23 AM
Looks like internet explorer is taking 90%+ time of the cpu when I go to the page. Controls looks look slick, but I think silverlight is is in very early stage to buy anything.
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Sri, at August 12, 2007 at 9:51 AM
Get real ... SL1.1 it's an ALPHA
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Anonymous, at August 12, 2007 at 12:29 PM
To SL Team:
Please set Linq support and data binding on the top of the list. Without support for database programming, it's just a toy...
Thanks
!Ben
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Anonymous, at August 12, 2007 at 8:10 PM
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