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    • Event and Data Triggers

      I swiched from WPF to Silverlight, i heard that WPF & SL are same, but some of the key changes or can say missing parts such as Event and Data Triggers, class hierarchy are really some time annoying to understand. It will be great if we have Silverlight totally web based WPF. Hope Microsoft silverlight team is progressing in the same direction for standardizing this thing.

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      • custom routed events

        support for defining custom routed events like WPF

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        • i feeling the flow document etc will maybe very importent at the future,so i hope it to be improved

          because the flow doc can able to insteed
          part of many controls is functions on the user interface,so the section need to be improvement.

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          • Blending

            Support to Blending Modes, MUltiply, Overlay, Lighten etc

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            • Better support for images inRichtextbox

              In SL4 it is hard to find the location of an image in the text (between which words). If images and text would be more equal citizens of a RichtTextBox, manipulations would be easier.

              Builtin support for clipboard use by images would also be nice, though a workaround is not that hard.

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              • 1 vote
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                • 1 vote
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                  • backgroundcolor for TextPointer in richTextBox problem

                    I am able to set the foregroundproperty for those TextPointer in the richTextBox but I cant find any property for the backgroundcolor.
                    How is it possible to set the background for this selected area in the richTextBox?

                    TextPointer currentpointer = richTextBox1.Selection.Start; TextPointer tmp1 = currentpointer, tmp2 = currentpointer; tmp1 = tmp1.GetNextInsertionPosition(LogicalDirection.Backward); tmp1 = tmp1.GetNextInsertionPosition(LogicalDirection.Backward); richTextBox1.Selection.Select(tmp1, tmp2); richTextBox1.Selection.ApplyPropertyValue(Run.ForegroundProperty, Colors.Red);

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                    • XNA Silverlight Control

                      Similar to the WinFormsHost control in WPF, please make a XnaHost control for Silverlight. This would allow for EASY integration of XNA within Silverlight. The key idea is to be able to use Silverlight for the 2D user interface development.

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                      • WCAG and Section 508

                        Add support in Silverlight for compliance with WCAG and Section 508 standards. Specifically for text entry, checkboxes, and standard data entry forms built using Silverlight.

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                        • Implement MidpointRounding in Math.Round

                          Currently only Bankers rounding is supported in Silverlight. Both MidpointRounding models of rounding (in core CLR) are desirable so that when calculations which are displayed (along w/ supporting data) are reproducible w/ Excel etc.

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                          • Change TextBox Foreground in ControlTemplate

                            Make it possible to change TextBox Foreground value in ControlTemplate's elements like DisabledVisualElement or ReadOnlyVisualElement. It is not possible because " VisualState inside Template can only set element property defined inside Template".

                            Or will Silverlight 5 and RelativeSource binding's FindAncestor mode make this possible?

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                            • Larger install base

                              Get Silverlight on more machines. Not exactly a feature but something MS could improve if they devoted more resources to it.

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                              • Relative margins based on FontSize

                                Consider a control that looks like a yardstick or ruler. There's a bunch of tick marks with numbers underneath, and the ticks are centered to the tick mark. The control's bounds need to include the text, which means you need a margin on the tick marks themselves that changes size depending on the FontSize. There are multiple other controls I've built where such "relative margins" are very necessary.

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                                • Allow user to grant native code access

                                  There is need to access local hardware controlled by a native software layer (e.g. cardreader, pin pad, some futher special electronics).

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                                  • packaged installer tools that include WCF RIA Services back-end for easy desktop deployment

                                    packaged installer of Silverlight + WCF RIA Services (maybe even include a small DB) for out-of-browser desktop usage

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                                    • Implement DataGrid.SetDetailsVisibilityForItem (same as in WPF)

                                      Implement DataGrid.SetDetailsVisibilityForItem (same as in WPF)

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                                      • TextBlock needs a TextChanged event

                                        TextBlock needs a TextChanged event. The Text is using binding and when NotifyPropertyChanged occurs, I need to have a UI event.

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                                        • xap share

                                          More xap packet share a objects sharing its real-time status

                                          For example, there are several different HTML page, each with different xap bag, and these xap without quoted relationship between packets
                                          How to make these xap packages can be based on a Shared object between each other through the objects communicate?

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