DevComponents Knowledge Base

The WPF DataTemplate has a DataType property. What this enables is a matching of Clr object Type to a specific DataTemplate to be applied when that object type is used as content for a ContentControl or ItemsControl. This is very handy especially in MVVM scenarios. In DotNetBar for Silverlight we have implemented a feature which [...]

With version 4.0 certain Silverlight controls have a Command property that is of type ICommand. There is, however, still a huge gap between the Silverlight and WPF commanding infrastructure. DotNetBar for Silverlight attempts to close that gap at least a little with the CommandManager and the RelayCommand. DevComponents.Silverlight.Controls.CommandManager is essentially a scaled down version of [...]

DotNetBar for Silverlight come pre-loaded with a collection of color themes. A color theme is essentially a collection of brush resources. Any brush used by any element in any given DotNetBar for Silverlight control, if it is to be part of the color theme, is a resource defined by the color theme, having a pre-determined [...]

One of the very useful constructs that is found in Wpf but not in Silverlight is the DynamicResource. In Wpf, when you want a resource such as a brush to be dynamically updatable at runtime, you use DynamicResource where otherwise you would use StaticResource. We have created a way to simulate the functionality of Wpf’s [...]

Although Silverlight has support internally for routed events it does not provide a means for developers to create their own. To fill this gap DevComponents has implemented a light weight version of the routed event which is modeled on the Silverlight/Wpf versions and behaves the same. Routed events are implemented in the DevComponents.Silverlight.Controls.Eventing namespace defined [...]