Microsoft releases its 5th version of MS Silverlight Toolkit developed specially for Silverlight 3. All Toolkits’ controls were updated to be compatible with Visual Studio 2010. There also was some changes in charting. Now with 5th Silverlight Toolkit all classes of charting are available; Palette’s type was changed from “IEnumerable Style” to “IEnumerableResourceDictionary”. The new feature LegendItemStyle was introduced to make customization of LegendItem more convenient. The Drag and Drop feature was updated to support common items controls such as LightBox, TreeView, DataGrid,etc. Alongside other Silverlight Toolkit binaries, Microsoft implemented the new System.Reactive assembly.
The great news for web-designers is that default Palette Brushes were simplified by removing ScaleTransform and TranslateTransform and replacing them with RadialBrush.
We also would like to mention some of other small changes and updates. Among them are:
Accordion – themes updated to add support for this control
ChildWindow – Themes updated to add support for this control
DataForm -Themes updated to add support for this control
DataPager -Themes updated to add support for this control
DomainUpDown -Mouse wheel support added to change value
GlobalCalendar – Mouse wheel support added to navigate between months in year mode and years in decade mode
GridSplitter -Themes updated to add support for this control
TimePicker / TimeUpDown -Mouse wheel support added
And lots of other great features were added to make the process of development more comfortable with Silverlight 3. To get some additional information, please, visit MS Silverlight official website.