Working with the Silverlight control toolkit
The Silverlight Control Toolkit is a collection of controls and utilities that is not part of the default installation of Silverlight. It's hosted on CodePlex (Microsoft's open source hosting website: http://www.codeplex.com) as a project owned by Microsoft itself and managed by the Silverlight product team. It has an out-of-band release cycle (meaning that releases of the toolkit are not necessarily synchronized with releases of Silverlight). Being hosted on CodePlex also means that you get all the source code for the controls, including many unit tests.
To download the toolkit, go to http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight where you can find the latest release. After installation, the new controls are ...
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