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As an amateur photographer, I have always kept my eyes open for new tools to help me search, sort, filter, and view my own photos. Microsoft Pivot (a cool new technology that lets you easily view, search, and filter data using deep zoom) seemed like a natural and obvious fit for the task.

Therefore, using Microsoft Pivot and the Pauthor open source libraries, I created a tool that helps users create a pivot collection from the photos on their hard drive and supports filtering by all the nifty meta data embedded in those files such as shutter speed, aperture, film speed, and focal length.

In his blogpost Karl Shifflett continues his Extensibility Series, explaining how to locate and load metadata for controls you did not author.

I have received several requests for information on loading metadata for WPF & Silverlight controls shipped by Microsoft.  For example, a developer wanted to add a design time context menu to a Button control but couldn’t figure out how to add the required metadata.

In my previous post I covered the locating and loading of metadata for custom controls that you authored. 

In this post I’ll cover how to locate and load metadata for controls that you were not the author for.

It is official – Telerik RadControls for Silverlight3 are here with the latest 2009 Q2 SP1 release. We did our best to take advantage of all new and exciting features from the latest version of the platform. RadControls now offer a new theming mechanism and you can clearly see the difference when you open our demo examples in Blend. We also added support for .NET RIA Services for all data-bound Telerik Silverlight 3 controls. Check the codeless binding of RadgridView to DomainDataSource to see how it works. The next exciting additions are validation for all input controls and out of browser support so now you can run all Telerik RadControls for Silverlight right on your desktop.

Of course the Service Pack ships a lot of bug fixes and enhancements but stay tuned for 2009 Q3 release  – there is much more to come.

One important announcement is that with the introduction of Silverlight 3 we will discontinue the future support for our Silverlight 2 controls. With Q2 2009 SP1 we are shipping only DLLs for Silverlight 2.

Telerik Silverlight Scheduler combines the comprehensive nature of an Outlook-style scheduler with the data input best-practices introduced by Google Calendar. The control provides intuitive drag-and-drop functionality, inline or pop-up Edit Forms. See a demo here.

Newton, MA, June 1, 2009 – Telerik, a leading vendor of development tools and components for the Microsoft .NET platform announced the newest addition it the Silverlight suite, RadScheduler for Silverlight Beta. Following best practices from both the Web and desktop worlds, RadScheduler delivers rich Outlook-style scheduling functionality combined with the usability innovations introduced by Google Calendar.  

 “We are dedicated to involving the community early in the development process of this control, so we want to hear your feedback as we move towards our Q2 release in July, when the control will officially become part of RadControls for Silverlight,” said Nikolay Atanassov, Silverlight Teams Unit Manager at Telerik.

The control supports Day, Week and Month views for flexible display of appointments and tasks, which can be further customized via the rich API. RadScheduler for Silverlight Beta allows you to create, resize, reorder, edit and delete appointments directly through the front-end using the provided customizable Edit Forms. The control supports recurrence rules and recurrence exceptions for ultimate flexibility. On top of that, the RadScheduler for Silverlight Beta exposes an advanced localization mechanism to let you adjust the control to any culture.

For more information please visit http://www.telerik.com/products/silverlight/scheduler.aspx

Tim Heuer has posted a comprehensive list to Silverlight Controls for developers.

Ning Zhang has a post in which he describes controls in Silverlight 2, Silverlight 2 SDK, and Silverlight Toolkit December 2008 Release, and their designer support.

Ning:

Based on their shipping vehicles, there are three types of Silverlight controls from Microsoft: runtime controls, SDK controls, and Toolkit controls. Designer support for runtime and SDK controls are spread over Visual Studio, Blend, and Silverlight SDK; while designer support for Toolkit controls are fully implemented by design assemblies in the Toolkit, using designers’ extensibility framework.

In this “How to” Visual WebGui tutorial we are going to create WatermarkTextBox  control for a Visual WebGui Silverlight application.

This topic assumes that you have some basic knowledge of Visual WebGui and Its also recommended that you read the “How to create a Visual WebGui Application” artical.

The WatermarkTextBox is a plain TextBox control, with one added feature of showing a default text when no content was entered or when the content was deleted.

The first thing we’ll need to do is open visual studio and create a new Visual WebGui Silverlight Application.