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Phil Middlemiss has designed a Scalable Glassy Orb Radio Button Style.

It scales well from small sizes to large so can be used on a toolbar or as a large feature. The button has an attractive glassy style complete with "reflections" and a smooth curved look. Completely vector - no PNGs used for effects.

Depending on how you code the XAML for a RadioButton in Silverlight, you may not be able to get it to center. If you have simple RadioButton text, this issue is not noticeable. But if you include controls like a NumericUpDown as part of the RadioButton, it is very noticeable. I would assume that this is a bug in the RadioButton control.

If you want to create a list of checkable items, this tutorial written by Matthias Shapiro will let you do it without any code.

First, you should know right off the bat that this tutorial is for Silverlight 3 only. It uses a data binding functionality called RelativeSource binding that isn’t available in earlier versions of Silverlight.

There is a great screencast posted on the Expression Blend website which covers creating styles and templates in Expression Blend in just under six minutes.

Learn how to create reusable visual themes for radio button controls using styles and templates in Expression Blend.

To illustrate the mechanics of Attached Behaviors, Karim Hernandez decided to implement a working RadioButtonGroup.

I was recently asked by a customer, “Why doesn’t RadioButton.GroupName work when a single RadioButton is put in a DataTemplate within an ItemsControl?” I had no answer. When I tried it out myself, lo and behold, two checked RadioButtons were staring back at me. A quick search told me that others have encountered this issue, and none had found a solution based in markup.

Introduction

Silverlight 2 has a couple of useful controls, which you can use when building your own applications. This collection of controls is extended by Silverlight Toolkit. It contains really great controls like Expander, AutoCompleteBox, TreeView, etc. You can download the Silverlight Toolkit from its site or you can see the online demo.

Imagine that you want to create a questionnaire. A questionnaire consists of questions and a list of possible answers for each question. In most occasions you are supposed to select just an answer.

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: