I've finally gotten the Silverlight Control tutorial sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2. There have been some non-trivial changes to how controls are written between Beta 1 and Beta 2. My goals were to do more than a straight port. I wanted to take advantage of some of these changes as an example of how to use the new functionality, and I wanted to address some feedback I've gotten from the original post. Some of the ways I chose to do things in the original post were overly complicated, and I took this opportunity to streamline things a bit. The result is the same functionality with a lot less code. The major change centers around the Visual State Manager. When my team and I first started working with Silverlight, we found the...(read more) ...
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