Silverlight Toolkit July 2009: New controls

The newest Silverlight Toolkit includes some new controls and extensions. Please read this post for more information.

There are three new controls: GlobalCalendar, Rating and TreeMap.

GlobalCalendar

A GlobalCalendar control provides an easy way to style individual days and define custom Gregorian calendars. It can be used on its own, or as a drop-down part of a DatePicker control.

Rating

It can be used to display or allow users to interactively select a rating value. Ratings can be whole or partial stars. By default the control displays stars but can be easily styled.

TreeMap

It can display hierarchical data as a set of nested rectangles. Each item in the hierarchy is laid out in a rectangular area of a size proportional to the value associated with the item.

• http://blogs.msdn.com/marlat/archive/2009/07/10/treemap-control-comes-to-silverlight-toolkit.aspx
• http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2009/07/10/silverlight-charting-gets-an-update-and-a-treemap-silverlight-toolkit-july-2009-release-now-available.aspx
• http://blogs.msdn.com/marlat/archive/2009/08/06/treemap-in-silverlight-toolkit-how-to-write-your-own-interpolator.aspx

The data for my samples is Silverlight course topic list. The metrics are quantity and importance.

ItemDefinition (topics by quantity)

ItemDefinitionSelector [levels] (topics by quantity)

ItemDefinition & Interpolators (topics by quantity and importance)

ItemDefinitionSelector [regions] & Interpolators (topics by quantity and importance)

July release provides useful extensions: ItemsControlExtensions, ScrollViewerExtensions and TreeViewExtensions. For more information look here.