Silverlight Controls and Silverlight Toolkit

Re: Re: WatermarkedTextbox in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Kathykam — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:50:31 GMT

Hello,

I have posted the source code & unit test for SL 2 Beta 2 of WatermarkedTextBox that was shipped in Beta 1.

http://blogs.msdn.com/kathykam/archive/2008/06/23/watermarkedtextbox-for-silverlight-2-beta-2.aspx

Thanks,
Kathy Kam (Program Manager, Silverlight Controls, Microsoft)

Re: Re: WatermarkedTextbox in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

CraigN — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:19:22 GMT

By popular demand, please find my upgrade to the WatermarkedTextBox control on my blog over here (http://craign.net/2008/06/10/watermarkedtextbox-control-for-silverlight-2-beta-2/).

Re: Re: WatermarkedTextbox in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

CleverCoder — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:00:39 GMT

Can we get another beta soon? Something that has fewer bugs and quirks than it's predecessor... or, is "RTM" the next release..? I hope not. If it is, whats the time frame?

Re: Re: WatermarkedTextbox in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

CleverCoder — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:59:19 GMT

Post a patch. :)

Re: WatermarkedTextbox in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Magikos — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:34:43 GMT

So... Post the code already! ;-)

Re: WatermarkedTextbox in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

mhaggag — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:36:45 GMT

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Re: WatermarkedTextbox in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

mhaggag — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:36:42 GMT

noluckmurphy:

I could sure use it. I never really understood why it was a separate control in the first place...why not just have a Watermark property on a regular text box?

That's why it was removed --it doesn't make sense to have it as a separate control. I'll look into whether we'll be shipping one in RTM or not and get back to you.

You can use the one from beta 1--we provided the source so people can use it.

Re: WatermarkedTextbox in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

noluckmurphy — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:03:14 GMT

I could sure use it. I never really understood why it was a separate control in the first place...why not just have a Watermark property on a regular text box?

Re: WatermarkedTextbox in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

VanSlater — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:49:43 GMT

What does the EULA say :). I don't think that there would be an issue, but I think a Microsoft Employee should weigh in.

Re: WatermarkedTextbox in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

CraigN — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:38:16 GMT

Before I post the code, are they any legal people around that know if I'm allowed to post the modified code?

Re: WatermarkedTextbox in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Eric_delahaye@hotmail.com — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:29:41 GMT

Yes, I am concerned

Re: WatermarkedTextbox in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

CraigN — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:36:39 GMT

Ok I've managed to get the WatermarkedTextBox to work under Silverlight 2 beta 2. Anyone else interested in it?

Re: Re: Re: WatermarkedTextbox in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

CleverCoder — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:28:59 GMT

That link is nice, and I've modified the code to fix the popup not appearing over other items (for the popup list box)... but.. now it's broken again and that code doesn't seem to be updated for Beta 2. Deepak, are you planning on updating the project any for Beta 2 or to fix some of the found issues?? (Mainly the Z-order issue of the popup list)

At this point, STextBox is more of a tease than something useful (for those of us who are too busy to take the code apart)

Cheers~!

Re: WatermarkedTextbox in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

CraigN — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:15:10 GMT

I'm trying to see if I can get the beta 1 source code for the WatermarkedTextBox to compile under Silverlight 2 beta 2. So far I can get it to compile with minor changes but its failing under Expression Blend when I try use it. Will dig deeper though.

Re: Re: WatermarkedTextbox in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Deepak Verma — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:59:39 GMT

Try out using http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/STextBox.aspx