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  1. Focus and tab behavior like in WPF

    - Logical Focus
    - Keyboard Focus
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    30 votes
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      6 votes
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      • 1 vote
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        • 1 vote
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          • Selectable text in controls

            Users should be able to highlight any text in a Silverlight application, copy and paste it, or do whatever is appropriate in a given context. For example, TextBlock doesn't allow text selection. Currently, I can add TextBox objects and set their isReadOnly to true, but this is just a workaround. Silverlight should support text selection by default like HTML does.

            40 votes
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            • 34 votes
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              • Support underline for font in TextBox control

                I cannot believe that the font for a TextBox control cannot be set to underline. Must be the way fonts are done.

                3 votes
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                • add official support for Maxthon browser.

                  Silverlight works on most pages in the Maxthon 3 browser, but not so good on Microsoft's own pages. Now, I must use a temporary solution, change the User Agent string to IE9 and everything works perfectly. Please make it possible to use Silverlight with Maxthon3 on Hotmail, Photosynth etc without the need for changing the UA string.

                  9 votes
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                  • Bug with zoom and DropShadow effect

                    There is a huge bug in Silverlight, where the wrong button is selected when you click.

                    Steps to reproduce:
                    - Create a border with DropShadowEffect and Right HorizontalAlignment
                    - put 6 Buttons in the Border
                    - set unique ToolTips to Buttons
                    - run the application in IE with zoom set to, let's say 150%
                    - go with mouse over the rightmost Button and do not move it after ToolTip is displayed
                    - Click without moving the mouse

                    You can notice that instead of the Button you wanted to click, one of the Buttons to the left will be clicked.

                    3 votes
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                    • System.Data.Services.Providers available for client apps

                      This namespace can used to build a tool to map some data received by a client to entities of the client application.

                      For example, System.Data.Services.Providers namespace is not available for Silverlight applications today.

                      3 votes
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                      • Better clipboard support

                        Allow SL application to set multiple clipboard formats instead of just CF_UNICODETEXT to support pasting grid as fixed width or tab seperated depending on paste target

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                        • 24 votes
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                          • Support implicit conversion in twoway bindings

                            Currently twoway binding simply fails if the types are not the same.

                            7 votes
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                            • integrate native extensions for silverlight into silverlight 5

                              Bring all the features of NESL (http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/nesl) into Silverlight 5 without extensions, especially video encoding (local and streaming:)

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                              • 31 votes
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                                • Silverlight for andriod

                                  Why can't we have silverlight for Android which is very close to becoming biggest mobile platform ?

                                  63 votes
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                                  • Please add ConstructorArgumentAttribute to the SL BCL

                                    Hello!

                                    I've been trying out SL5 now, and I was very pleased to see the IMarkupExtension<T> interface.
                                    The joy is double: 1) it finally arrived to Silverlight 2) it's an interface (Now can be combined with DependencyObject etc.
                                    Now I would like to ask for one more favor Silverlight lacks from WPF, and that is the ConstructorArgumentAttribute. this allows short syntax in the XAML markup extension:
                                    Text="{Binding MyPath}" instead of Text="{Binding Path=MyPath}"
                                    prism...RegionName="{c:MyExtension MyConstructorArgument}".

                                    Checkout this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.markup.constructorargumentattribute.aspx
                                    And this: http://stackoverflow.com/q/5956242/75500

                                    68 votes
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                                    • 3 votes
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                                      • Standalone xap file like swf

                                        Can we have standalone xap file like swf file which we can embed into word or excel or pdf.

                                        3 votes
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                                        • Calculation Support in Xaml (simple math)

                                          For example.. Height=“{TemplateBinding Property=ActualHeight} / 3“
                                          just simple calculations

                                          4 votes
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