Overview
This section covers information on the Essential Tools for Silverlight, its key features, and prerequisites to use the control, its compatibility with various operating systems and browsers and finally the documentation details complimentary with the product. It comprises the following sub-sections:
Introduction to Essential Tools Silverlight
Essential Tools for Silverlight is a set of new user interface components for the Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation framework. In some cases, they extend the functionality provided by the standard framework controls. It is intended for those users who look for additional functionalities such as auto-completion and new components such as group bar in addition to the existing Silverlight framework. The package consists of a comprehensive set of components that are required for building modern windows applications including Docking, Ribbon, Tabs, TreeView, Editors and much more.
The following are some examples of the Silverlight tools:
AutoComplete Control
IntegerTextBox Control
GroupBar Control
Real World Scenarios
Some real time applications of Silverlight tools are as follows:
- File upload control can be used in the HR applications for uploading employees’ images and resumes
- Integer TextBox can used in online ticket booking applications to restrict the users from entering double values
Key Features
The following are some of the key features of Silverlight tools:
- AutoComplete control provides live drop-down hints to users as they type in the keywords. It guides the user to select an entry from the list instead of entering the whole text. The following are some of the feature of this control:
- Allows enabling or disabling the appending of text from history, depending on the entered text
- Allows to specify the visibility of the drop-down button
- Allows to get or set the maximum height for the drop down
- IntegerTextBox is a text box control which allows to enter only integer type values. The following are some of the feature of this control:
- Allows to specify the minimum and maximum values to give as input
- Uses different foreground colors to differentiate positive and negative numbers
- Allows to specify the visual style for the control
- GroupBar is an experimental enhancement of the traditional Microsoft Windows taskbar. It provides a vertical bar to add buttons (tiles) to programs. The following are some of the feature of this control:
- Allows to specify the orientation of the group bar.
- Allows to set the horizontal alignment for the header text of the GroupBar control
- Allows to specify the expansion mode of the control
User Guide Organization
The product comes with numerous samples as well as an extensive documentation to guide you. This User Guide provides detailed information on the features and functionalities of the Essential Tools for Silverlight. It is organized into the following sections:
- Overview-This section gives a brief introduction to the product and its key features.
- Installation and Deployment-This section elaborates on the install location of the samples, license etc.
- What’s New-This section lists the new features implemented for every release.
- Getting Started-This section guides you on getting started with Silverlight application, controls etc.
- Concepts and Features-The features of individual controls are illustrated with use case scenarios, code examples and screen shots under this section.
Document Conventions
The conventions below will help you to quickly identify the important sections of information, while using the content:
| Convention | Icon | Description |
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Represents important information. |
| Example | Example: | Represents an example. |
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Represents useful hints, that will help you in using the controls and features. |
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Represents additional information on the corresponding topic. |
Prerequisites and Compatibility
This section covers the requirements mandatory for installing Essential Tools for Silverlight. It also lists operating systems, web servers and browsers compatible with the product.
Prerequisites
The prerequisites details are listed below:
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Compatibility
The compatibility details are listed below
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Documentation
Syncfusion provides the following documentation segments to provide all the necessary information pertaining to Essential Tools for Silverlight.
| Type of documentation | Location |
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| Readme | [drive:]\Program Files\Syncfusion\Essential Studio\7.x.x.x\Infrastructure\Data\Silverlight Release Notes\readme.htm |
| Release Notes | [drive:]\Program Files\Syncfusion\Essential Studio\7.x.x.x\Infrastructure\Data\Silverlight Release Notes\Release Notes.htm |
| User Guide (this document) |
Online http://help.syncfusion.com/silverlight/overview
Installed DocumentationDashboard -> Documentation -> Installed Documentation. |
| Class Reference |
Online http://help.syncfusion.com/cr/silverlight(Navigate to the Silverlight User Guide. Select Tools in the second text box, and then click the Class Reference link found in the upper right section of the page.) Installed DocumentationDashboard -> Documentation -> Installed Documentation. |
