Creating User Interfaces

Abstract

Now that you’ve seen what XAML is all about, let’s look at the basic user interface controls that Silverlight provides. Silverlight supplies standard controls such as text boxes for display and for user input, list boxes, check boxes, radio buttons, and others. While a standard set of controls is important for building user interfaces, even more important is how these controls are placed on a user interface. This is handled by Silverlight’s layout controls: one that enables absolute positioning and others that allow more intelligent layouts of controls. This chapter will conclude with an exploration of the new navigation framework that was introduced in Silverlight 3.