Comments on: The BIG Problem with Silverlight's Control Templating Model

By: Tom McKearney

Tom McKearney — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:40:12 +0000

I absolutely agree with you on this. My colleagues who have only done Silverlight stuff don’t understand what the problem is. I went from WPF to Silverlight and it’s been agonizing!

By: Ryan Brown

Ryan Brown — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:51:46 +0000

Agreed, Silverlight desperately needs feature parity with WPF on the important things.

Keeping the size down is important, but not THAT important.

By: Rob Burke

Rob Burke — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:41:04 +0000

YES! PLEASE! Cast my vote for property, data and event triggers.
/me too
/really

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:15:19 +0000

After playing with the beta for a few weeks, developing a control in Silverlight is like walking through mud. I hope these following things get looked at: Inherited Styles, Property Triggers, Event Triggers(more than just Loaded), Routed Events, ICommand, Element binding. Coming from WPF I’m not sure why the change in the model? I’m still scratching my head over it. Silverlight is still lacking parity with its big brother, and its painful.

By: Marlon Grech

Marlon Grech — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:21:04 +0000

I am with you here…. Silverlight needs (MUST) to have the same Model as WPF…. The way I see it, WPF is a tried and tested approach that WORKS! It makes the Developer + Designer workflow a beauty… Why are we going to change it in Silverlight and re invent something else… It does not make any sense…

By: Josh Smith

Josh Smith — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:23:14 +0000

I have been yelling for triggers in SL2 for a while, too. But the problems around templating are an unacceptable ramification of not having triggers.

BTW – your comments about my Podder skin bwoke my wittle heart!

-Josh

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:09:22 +0000

I totally agree, we need triggers in Silverlight! In fact, I’m holding out until Beta 2 to do any development in Silverlight in the hope that they are added in. After using them alot in WPF, I don’t want to have to re-work some of that code to get it going in Silverlight.

By: Denis Vuyka

Denis Vuyka — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:31:42 +0000

I think we all will be happy enough if there won’t be any difference between Silverlight and WPF except renderers So my voice is not only for triggers but for eliminating the phrase “subset of WPF” for Silverlight at all. Guess this is what Silverlight team is working on at least from public point of view.

By: Dr. WPF

Dr. WPF — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:05:16 +0000

Thanks, Jer! You just reminded me... There's a new episode of John Adams on tonight. Nice!

By: Rob Eisenberg

Rob Eisenberg — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:48:23 +0000

Preach it…