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Introduction

The RepeatButton is a Silverlight control which does an action repeatedly from the time a user presses it till the time it is released.

See also: 
Button Controls Article
Button Article
HyperlinkButton Article
ToggleButton Article

Overview

To demonstrate the common use of the RepeatButton I’ll give an example:

When we press the RepeatButton the TextBlock starts showing the current time.

XAML:

Introduction

The ToggleButton is a Silverlight control which allows the user to change its state. It is the base class for CheckBox and RadioButton controls but it can also be used as a standalone control.

See also:
Button Controls Article
Button Article
HyperlinkButton Article
RepeatButton Article

Overview

To demonstrate the use of the ToggleButton I’ll give an example:

XAML:

Introduction

The HyperlinkButton is a Silverlight control which acts as a hyperlink.

See also:
Button Controls Article
Button Article
ToggleButton Article
RepeatButton Article

Overview

Here is a little example showing how to use the HyperlinkButton:

XAML:

Introduction

The Button is a Silverlight control which responds when the user clicks on it.

See also:
Button Controls Article
HyperlinkButton Article
ToggleButton Article
RepeatButton Article

Overview

Since the Button derives directly from the ButtonBase class and there isn’t an additional functionality, I’ll use the examples from the Button Controls Article.

The most important event of the Button, inherited from ButtonBase class is the Click event. It occurs when a user clicks on the button. For example:

XAML:

Introduction

Button controls are Silverlight controls which in the common scenario respond in some way to the user who is clicking on them. There are a lot of button controls: Button, HyperlinkButton, RepeatButton, ToggleButton, CheckBox, RadioButton.

See also:
Button Article
HyperlinkButton Article
ToggleButton Article
RepeatButton Article

Overview

Four button controls derive from the base ButtonBase class: Button, HyperlinkButton, RepeatButton, and ToggleButton. The ToggleButton is a base class for the CheckBox and RadioButton controls but it can also be used as a standalone control. There are two descendants of the Button class named CalendarButton and CalendarDayButton.

The most important member of the ButtonBase class is the Click event. It occurs when a user clicks on the button control. For example:

XAML:

As its name says the Border is a Silverlight control that acts as a border. You can put ONE other control in it and it will act as border of the child control.

See also:
Silverlight Layout controls
Canvas Article
StackPanel Article
Grid Article

Overview

The following examples demonstrate Border’s key properties:

We want to have the following frame:

Here is the XAML code:

Introduction

The Grid is a layout control used as a container for other Silverlight controls. It acts like a table in HTML but there are many differences in the markup representation.

See also:
Silverlight Layout controls
Canvas Article
StackPanel Article
GridSplitter Article

Overview

The following example demonstrates how to use a Grid and how to create rows and columns:

We want to have the following table structure:

The most important thing about the Grid is how to define its RowDefinitions and ColumnDefinitions collections and how to specify to which row and column every control in the Grid belongs.

Here is the XAML code:

Introduction

To use the GridSplitter you should be familiar with the Grid control. It is a control that allows the user to resize dynamically the width or height of the Grid cells.

See also:
Grid Article

Overview

The following example demonstrates how to use the GridSplitter:

We want to have two cells whose width can be redistributed. The blue line can be moved left or right when clicking on it, holding the mouse button and dragging. Thus the neighbor cells can be resized.

The XAML code:

In response to Joe’s comment on the Canvas article about how the Canvas control deals with the Measure/Arrange process when it is laid out by a parent Panel:

It seems that during Measure/Arrange process the child Canvas will take zero width and height provided these properties are not set, even if it contains some controls. Here is a little example:

XAML:

We don’t see the Blue background of the inner Canvas because its size is zero.