We’ll use lots of controls when creating Silverlight applications. These controls make development more funnier. After a fair familarity of Silverlight, this article will teach you to apply Button control to a simple Silverlight application. The effect can be displayed in the demo(FireFox only).

Of course we need to have already installed Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Web Developer 2008 and deployed Silverlight 3 development environment, as the passage How to deploy the development environment for Silverlight3 says. In this sample I adopt Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition. Are you ready to start? Follow me, go!

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Combo Box is a combination text box and list box. It normally displays as a single line item, but can be opened into a list by clicking its arrow. Does it cover all the features of Combo Box using Ajax technology? Combo Box can also list items combining with the form of Treeview, Gridbox, Checkbox, etc. After you have read this collection, you would get something new.

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You may have used various calendars(datapickers), they are really useful when you want to decide dateline. If you are interested in how the plugins work and how you can provide your visitors with the same convenience,  this collection can answer to your expectation.

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When we surf in internet, we are often asked to filled in a form. The most important aspects of building and processing a form is how the form validates data, helps the visitor with tips, how to make it easy to understand what’s required and optional and how it performs after hitting the submit button. If form validation does not work well, most of the us will leave the site.

Below collected examples will be useful stuff in helping you learn how to create a form that will process and validate inputs using AJAX.

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An Accordion is stacked list of items (eg. labels or thumbnails). that allows you to expand or stretch to display the content at a time.  The term stems from the musical accordion in which sections of the bellows can be expanded by pulling outward. A common example of a GUI accordion is the Show/Hide operation of a box region, but extended to have multiple sections in a list. I went through a google search and found some useful Accordion stuff as below, hope you guys also like it.

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Facebook is a social networking website, whose users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.  There are more than 250 million active users. We are interested in Facebook style, so try to find some Facebook like autosuggestion examples and share with you.

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