Pro Silverlight 5 in VB

The Last Word

In this chapter, you saw all the fundamental Silverlight elements. You considered several categories:

• The TextBlock, which allows you to display richly formatted text using built-in and custom fonts
• The Image, which allows you to show JPEG and PNG images
• Content controls that can contain nested elements, including various types of buttons and the ToolTip
• List controls that contain a collection of items, such as the ListBox, ComboBox, and TabControl
• Text controls, including the standard TextBox, the PasswordBox, and the AutoCompleteBox
• Range-based controls that take a numeric value from a range, such as the Slider
• The date controls, which allow the user to select one or more dates from a calendar display

Although you haven't had ...