Awesome Controls in Silverlight 2

Jeff Wilcox says “Awesome controls are coming for the Silverlight platform“. To summarize, following are a few new and useful controls in Silverlight 2:

• Better built in controls like progress bar and password box. Better styling and WPF like feel.

Silverlight 2 Built-in controls

• Better performing and more accessible DataGrid with improved API and the template column facility. Scott Morrison in his post – Silverlight 2 DataGrid is Released — talks about each of the Data Grid’s features. A must read!

Better Accessibility in the Silverlight 2 Data Grid

 

• Silverlight Toolkit is coming. Read Shawn Burke’s “Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way“.

• The new silverlight also includes controls like the Watermark TextBox control. Read Tim Heuer’s “Silverlight 2 Watermarked TextBox Control” for details.

• Finally there are a host of fascinating controls from the Silverlight Contrib project. Watch a demo of the available Silverlight Contrib controls.