What is a Silverlight control? A .NET Silverlight control is a Silverlight software component that is utilized in the user interface of a Silverlight based application to allow the end-user to enter data, display data, or interact with the app in some way to control the way the Silverlight app behaves. A Silverlight control is visible and can be seen and interacted with at run-time on their screen, example being a Silverlight list box or combo box that allow users to select items from a drop down list to input data into the Silverlight program.
What is a Silverlight component? A Silverlight component is a special type of Silverlight object in that it may not have a visible interface that the user can see, but runs hidden in the background. For example you can download a Silverlight file upload component from our Silverlight product gallery that allows you to upload files over the Internet using HTTP, you cannot see the interface to this Silverlight component, as it is non-visual.
Silverlight itself is part of the Microsoft .NET Framework and is the latest user interface app platform from Microsoft aimed at Internet developers to use to create dynamic Web sites and corporate Intranets. It can be viewed as a step on from ASP.NET, in as much as it supports multi-media, video, sounds, graphics and animation better than previous Microsoft technologies and thus offers a cross-platform and cross-browser alternative to Flash from Adobe. You can use Silverlight to create Silverlight apps that run on Windows PCs, Macs, Windows Phone 7 devices and some other Symbian based mobile phones.
Silverlight has gone through several developer iterations already: Silverlight 1.0, Silverlight 2.0 & Silverlight 3.0 with Silverlight 4.0 being the latest version released in April, 2010. The latest Silverlight 4 release added support for new Web browsers like Google Chrome and support for local Microsoft Component Object Model objects (also known as COM objects or COM components). There is also an implementation of Silverlight that runs on Linux as a plug-in from Novell, another ComponentSource partner, and this is known as Moonlight, but at present is several versions behind Microsoft and only supports Silverlight 1.0 compatibility.
In this filtered view of our full product catalog, you will find both .NET Silverlight controls and .NET Silverlight components, as well as some Silverlight utilities to help you create your Silverlight app faster. The Silverlight component products listed here are created as third party Silverlight components by software companies specializing in the creation of Silverlight software component products. As such by using a Silverlight library, you are re-using the knowledge and expertise of another Silverlight developer inside your app. For example, by downloading a Silverlight charting control from our Silverlight product gallery, you are able to implement lots of different chart types and graph layouts for your users rapidly, without the support burden falling on you or your team. Or if you need to add a good text editor to your Silverlight app, you will find several Silverlight Rich Text editors to compare, download and review from our Web site.
The selection of Silverlight controls available is growing very fast, so the width and depth of Silverlight products listed here is expanding all the time. To help you keep up to date with this fast moving area, there is a Silverlight News RSS feed for you to subscribe to, with all the latest Silverlight News on product releases.
Achieve rich, advanced data visualization that leverages the sophisticated capabilities of Silverlight. Infragistics NetAdvantage for Silverlight lets you create stylable user interface controls for geospatial mapping, interactive gauges, graphical timelines and animated charting. With Infragistics NetAdvantage for Silverlight you can build rich dashboards, visualize business data and empower decision-makers with a toolset for simplifying the presentation of your business intelligence.
Advanced dockable and floating window management for your Web-based applications. SandDock is an award-winning window management software that enables dockable floating windows, tabbed documents and other advanced window management functionality in applications that use it. Divelements have ported this technology to the Silverlight platform to bring web developers flexible window management features for their online software. The product is designed to offer the power and flexibility of the Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend windowing systems.
Publisher: Syncfusion Primary Category: User Interface Product Type: Component / ASP.NET WebForms / ASP.NET AJAX (ATLAS) / ASP.NET MVC / .NET WinForms / .NET WPF / Silverlight / 100% Managed Code
Add ribbons, docking, editors, menus, MDI, and much more to your WPF applications. Syncfusion Essential Tools for WPF is a collection user interface components for the WPF framework, including docking managers, ribbons, tree views, editors, tab controls, group bars, wizards, skin managers, and much more. You can easily create robust and user-friendly application interfaces that emulate Visual Studio .NET and Microsoft Office. Syncfusion Essential Tools for WPF also extends full support to XAML and offers extensive customization options for templates.
Publisher: Syncfusion Primary Category: User Interface Product Type: Component / ASP.NET WebForms / ASP.NET AJAX (ATLAS) / ASP.NET MVC / .NET WinForms / .NET WPF / Silverlight / 100% Managed Code
A rich set of UI controls to let you create rich interactive Windows Forms applications with the latest look and feel like Office, Visual Studio .Net, Outlook etc. Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms is an extensive collection of nearly 80 user-interface components. You can easily create robust and usable application interfaces such as those emulating Visual Studio.NET and Microsoft Office. All the editor controls have been architected to provide a simple and feature-rich means for capturing data input, validating, and displaying appropriate formatting. Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms allows users to add Visual Studio.NET type controls that can be docked to applications. Any control can be set as a docking window. Docking layouts can be hosted within forms, user controls, or any derivative of the container-control type. An advanced designer allows users to harness full WYSIWYG configuration of a docked layout.
Publisher: Syncfusion Primary Category: User Interface Product Type: Component / ASP.NET WebForms / ASP.NET AJAX (ATLAS) / ASP.NET MVC / .NET WinForms / .NET WPF / Silverlight / 100% Managed Code
Ribbons, editors, file upload controls, and more for Silverlight applications. Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight lets you create stunning line-of-business Silverlight applications with a wide range of components, including a ribbon, docking manager, tabs, editors, check lists, a group bar, date/time editor, range slider, panels, skin manager, brush selector, treeview, taskbar, file upload, calendar editor, heat map, menus, HTML host and color picker.
Publisher: Syncfusion Primary Category: User Interface Product Type: Component / ASP.NET WebForms / ASP.NET AJAX (ATLAS) / ASP.NET MVC / .NET WinForms / .NET WPF / Silverlight / 100% Managed Code
AJAX-Enabled accordion, editor, rich text and tree view components for ASP.NET MVC applications. Syncfusion Essential Tools for ASP.NET MVC is a collection of light-weight, AJAX-enabled, user interface components built especially to suit the programming model of the ASP.NET MVC framework. It includes tree views, tabs, rich text editors, accordion, sliders, masked-edit text boxes, numeric text boxes, AutoComplete text boxes, generic drop-downs, menus and date pickers. The components are based on the jQuery JavaScript framework. This approach ensures that the components are extremely stable and rich in features. The controls have also been enhanced to enable easy integration into ASP.NET MVC applications. The enhancements also include several built-in skins in addition to ones provided by the jQuery framework. Also, AJAX is extensively used to reduce traffic between the client and the server; this minimizes data transfer and response time.
Publisher: Syncfusion Primary Category: User Interface Product Type: Component / ASP.NET WebForms / ASP.NET AJAX (ATLAS) / ASP.NET MVC / .NET WinForms / .NET WPF / Silverlight / 100% Managed Code / JavaScript / AJAX
AJAX enabled menus, rich text editor, toolbars, treeview and more. Syncfusion Essential Tools for ASP.NET is a collection of professional user interface components to create interactive ASP.NET applications. Syncfusion Essential Tools for ASP.NET can be used to create robust Web application interfaces using the Menu, Tree View and Editor Package (which includes a Date Picker, Masked-Edit Text Box, Percent Text Box, and others).
Publisher: Syncfusion Primary Category: User Interface Product Type: Component / ASP.NET WebForms / ASP.NET AJAX (ATLAS) / ASP.NET MVC / .NET WinForms / .NET WPF / Silverlight / 100% Managed Code
A rich set of UI controls to let you create rich, interactive applications. Syncfusion Essential Tools is an extensive collection of nearly 80 user-interface components. You can easily create robust and usable application interfaces such as those emulating Visual Studio.NET and Microsoft Office. All the editor controls have been architected to provide a simple and feature-rich means for capturing data input, validating, and displaying appropriate formatting. Syncfusion Essential Tools includes components for Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC technologies.
A highly interactive control for date range selections. ComponentArt TimeNavigator for Silverlight was designed to enable quick & intuitive date range selections. Developers can specify the allowed date range as well as any number of date/time drill levels: decades, years, quarters, months, weeks, days, hours, minute, seconds or milliseconds. The user navigates through time and makes date selections by clicking, dragging, zooming, scrolling, using the mouse wheel or using SHIFT and CTRL keys. All operations are quick, easy and intuitive. ComponentArt TimeNavigator for Silverlight has been optimized to quickly handle many thousands of time nodes: scrolling, zooming and drilling is extremely responsive, even with very large time spans.
Add a tag cloud to your Silverlight applications. xamTagCloud lets you choose key words or phrases ("tags") and you can weight them by their frequency of occurrence, importance, or any other scoring algorithm you devise and the tag cloud control will display them. With xamTagCloud tags deemed most important stand out with a heavyweight font size greater than their peers, while little-used tags appear diminutive in size. With xamTagCloud users will have no trouble identifying what the most prevalent tags are when you're using xamTagCloud to show them.