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Update: The source codes and the information in this article are compatible with Silverlight 2 RTW.

Introduction

In this tutorial we will provide brief introduction in the usage of the image control. It’s not very complicated, but there are a few interesting things we can find out about it.

Overview

For our examples we will use the turtle from the Sample Images in Windows. Here is the first example:

In it we use the Source property of the Image control.

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:

In this article we are going to take a look at one of the layout controls in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 – the Stack Panel. The name is not a coincidence. This panel behaves like a Stack. The controls are ordered one after another. The default order direction is vertical, but it can be changed to horizontal too.  Though this is just a panel after all and we will use it for placing and ordering our controls in the Silverlight player.

 Let’s fill it with some controls.

Introduction

Layout controls are Silverlight controls which act as containers of other controls. Their main purpose is the positioning and arranging of their child controls. There are several layout controls: Canvas, StackPanel and Grid and TabPanel.

See also:
Canvas Article
StackPanel Article
Grid Article

Overview

All layout controls derive from the basic abstract class Panel.

There are also four more descendants of the Panel Class: DataGridCellsPresenter, DataGridColumnHeadersPresenter, DataGridDetailsPresenter, DataGridRowsPresenter. Their purpose is the positioning of elements in a DataGrid template. They are not standalone controls.

Layout controls inherit the Children collection of type UIElementCollection. Since all elements in this collection are UIElement objects and the Panel itself derives from UIElement layout controls can be nested in one another without limitation.

The following example demonstrates the nesting:

Note: to understand this example you should be familiar with all layout controls: Canvas, StackPanel and Grid

We want to have the following meaningless result (I don’t like giving real world examples, I just want to show you how nesting of layout controls works.):

Introduction

The Canvas is the simplest layout control used as a container for other Silverlight controls. The inner controls are positioned absolutely towards its left and top sides.

See also:
Silverlight Layout controls
Grid Article
StackPanel Article

Overview

The following example demonstrates the use of the Canvas:

We want to have a rectangle positioned 100 pixels from the left side and 50 pixels from the top side:

The child controls of the Canvas are positioned absolutely towards its left and top sides by their “Canvas.Left” and “Canvas.Top” attached properties.

Here is the XAML code: