{Dev Tricks}

How to make a flashlight effect with silverlight ?
 
 

 
 
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This article is my first about creating Custom Controls in Silverlight 2.
So let’s build a simple one :
You need :

• A .cs file, named with your new Custom Control name
• A directory named Themes
• A generic.xaml file in it (just delete generic.xaml.cs if it was created)

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In this “how to” i will show you how to make a StoryBoard like this:

This is not hard but you have to be famialiar with Blend.

download this video

EDIT : There’s now a real PasswordField, our tricks is no longer needed, just read :
http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/09/29/silverlight-tip-of-the-day-47-how-to-implement-a-password-box.aspx

Everybody developping in Silverlight knows that there’s no password textbox, and some of us rewrite a UserControl to replace it… yeark !!
There’s a so simple way to create a password textbox :
Use a TextBox and change the font with a home made font in which all characters are ‘*’ …
0 lines of code, do it in XAML

<TextBox FontFamily="password.ttf#Password"/>

Download this code: password.xml

FontFamily can download a file and pick a font from this file, the syntaxe is given “file.ttf#fontname” in my password.ttf the font name is “Password”, with the .ttf have to be in your ClientBin (relatives or absolute URI can be used with nothing, the root directory is checked, so put it in your ClientBin)
According to TimHeuer’s comment, after beta 2, embedding fonts will not work with this way, so watch his video Using custom fonts in silverlight to do it with the right way :)

Dont want to create a .ttf ? download mine. password.ttf