CODEWITHSUNDEEP
silverlight-3.0
user138843
user138843

Reputation:

Is the watermarkedtextbox in silverlight 3

I have an old demo project I am trying to dust off to run in Silverlight 3 and it cracks around the "Watermarkedtextbox" element. Anyone know how to get that back, or do I have to come up with another "cool" effect to get the water-mark effect?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1900

Answers (4)

Jeff Wilcox
Jeff Wilcox

Reputation: 6385

It lives and is built in still! But under a different name.

In the System.Windows.Controls assembly actually (in the Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 SDKs), in the System.Windows.Controls.Primitives namespace, is the "DatePickerTextBox" class.

This is actually the original WatermarkedTextBox, renamed, since it was only tested for primary use in the DatePicker control for now.

More information on the control is available in the DatePickerTextBox class reference on MSDN.

Upvotes: 7

Gordon Mackie JoanMiro
Gordon Mackie JoanMiro

Reputation: 3489

Tim Heuer blogged about it a while back: Silverlight 2 Watermarked TextBox Control

Upvotes: 2

Ken Smith
Ken Smith

Reputation: 20445

You can grab the source for the WatermarkedTextBox element from here. You can compile it, and then include the resulting DLL in your project, and it seems to work fine.

Upvotes: 1

Jeff Yates
Jeff Yates

Reputation: 62387

The WatermarkedTextBox was removed in Silverlight 2 Beta 2. I believe a similar effect can be achieved using the Background property and an appropriate Brush.

Upvotes: 0

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