A bunch of AutoCompleteBox posts
January 5, 2009
Here's a collection of key posts about the AutoCompleteBox control that can be found in the Silverlight Toolkit. A lot of people were out on vacation last month and may have missed these posts during their new years' newsreader purge.
If there's something missing, or a post you'd like to see, please leave me a comment!
The all-important guide
Simple improvements
- SelectedItem design change, with source code (12/17/08)
This is a design change, available today, that will be shipped officially in the next release of the toolkit. - Adding page up and page down support (12/15/08)
- Removing cyclic navigation from the control (12/14/08)
- What's new in the December release (12/11/08)
A text searching ListBox
A common ask is for the ListBox in Silverlight to support "text searching" like the WPF ListBox and the Silverlight AutoCompleteBox control provide.
- A proof-of-concept post on such an extended control is here (12/17/08).
Cool ideas
- Build a highlighting auto complete (11/18/08)
- Using styles to create an editable combo box in Silverlight (11/05/08, by Tim Heuer)
- Writing a new text filter in VB (1/5/09)
Introductions
- Jesse Liberty's Silverlight Toolkit videos, both featuring the AutoCompleteBox (11-12/08)
- Introducing the control (10/30/08)
- A video introduction (10/30/08)
Download the December 2008 release of the Silverlight Toolkit
