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- Jan 28 2009 - Silverlight controls ...
Silverlight 2 may not have the control set that Flex developers are used to seeing out of the box but there are a significant number of control vendors who are stepping up to the plate to fill the void. It seems as though Microsoft’s strategy has been to get the Silverlight 2 runtime out as quickly as possible (and as lean as possible) always knowing that this type of extension to the framework would exist.
I do still hope to see Microsoft push a little further in controls that are downloaded once and only once with the framework itself thereby making our applications leaner - but it’s a pretty serious tradeoff until the runtime has the kind of penetration that Flash enjoys.
Anyway, here’s a nice post from Tim Heuer that does a good round up of where to find those missing controls.
http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/01/28/comprehensive-list-of-silverlight-controls.aspx - Dec 17 2008 - FlexBuilder 3 Controls ...
Controls included with FlexBuilder 3 out of the box below… check out some third party components here .
Notes will be updated as I actually get a chance to put some of these to use.FlexBuilder 3 Controls Control Name Notes AdvancedDataGrid Professional version only
+ multi column sorting
+ grouping
+ tree view
+ printing support
– Still no paging support out of the boxAlertControl not sure how this gets grouped with these other controls as it is not an explicit control but a static method “show()” which can be used from where ever. Button check out the FlexLib CanvasButton for a more flexible option CheckBox ColorPicker ComboBox DataGrid See this article for some hints on implementing paging DateChooser DateField HSlider HorizontalList Image Label List very fast and flexible, lots of issues with scrolling but workable LinkButton NumericStepper 
OLAPDataGrid Professional version only PopUpButton PopUpMenuButton ProgressBar RadioButton RadioButtonGroup Repeater SLOOOW when binding to many objects, look at List based controls instead RichTextEditor Limited html formatting, seems to work ok SWFLoader Text TextArea TextInput TileList see list, very fast control but takes a bit more work for smooth work Tree VSlider VideoDisplay FLV based video player with simple cue and playback control FlexBuilder 3 Chart Controls AreaChart BarChart BubbleChart CandleStickChart ColumnChart HLOCChart Legend LineChart PieChart PlotChart FlexBuilder 3 Navigation Controls Accordion Great control, but needed to go custom almost immediately ( see FlexLib for custom header) ButtonBar LinkBar Menu MenuBar TabBar TabNavigator ToggleButtonBar ViewStack FlexBuilder 3 Layout Controls ApplicationControlBar Canvas ControlBar Form FormHeading Grid HBox HDividedBox HRule ModuleLoader not really a layout control? ModuleLoader allows you to load components of the application on demand, lowering initial download size and improving encapsulation Panel Scrollbar Spacer Tile TitleWindow VBox VDividedBox VRule