As previously announced by Shawn Burke on his blog, the Silverlight Toolkit has just been released! Much like the AJAX Control Toolkit for ASP.NET, the Silverlight Control Toolkit Team will be introducing new controls and features which may eventually make it into the Silverlight platform. I like to think of it as an incubator for new controls in Silverlight. This is really cool because it gives the community the chance to use the controls much earlier and provide valuable feedback to help influence the product direction. Another added benefit to this is that the source code is hosted on CodePlex so you can look at the code (along with the Unit Tests) and get a better understanding of what is going on! It doesn't appear that the team will be accepting community contributions, but hey, that's what Silverlight Contrib is for!
Here is a list of the features for the first drop of the Silverlight Toolkit:
Preview Quality Band
- AutoCompleteBox
- NumericUpDown
- ViewBox
- Expander
- ImplicitStyleManager
- Charting
Stable Quality Band
- TreeView
- DockPanel
- WrapPanel
- Label
- HeaderedContentControl
- HeaderedItemsControl
Themes
- Expression Dark
- Expression Light
- Rainier Purple
- Rainier Orange
- Shiny Blue
- Shiny Red
Enjoy!