Designing silverlight interfaces

[hamid_awais]

Hi all,
I have just moved from asp.net to silverlight and it feels like a big difference.

I have a question for you all there...i hope you will write few comments on my question and it will make my lie lot easier.


In asp.net i was used to hide and show tables. For Example i had a grid and inside the grid i have a button "Edit". upon the button click i show a form for editing the record. This form was by default set to visible false.


Now my question is that what is the most appropriate way to achieve this in silverlight world.

I know that there is not a single answer to this question but i request you to give any solution or way that comes to your mind ...may be it will be helpful to some one else.....

I use grid layout in my silverlight interfaces due to its similarity with html tables.

i have seen this article
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/pages...scenarios.aspx
and the above approach is very complex....i need some more suggestions

[Alex Knight]

first thought that comes to mind is using states... The visual state manager allows you to have multiple 'states' for your application, so when you click the edit button it would goto the edit state which would show the edit screen of the application.

States are also really good for creating cool visual experiences for the user, it will automatically create animations and things if you want it to.

[DeanMc]

States are a good idea, if you think about your grid you would have states like "editing" "viewing" "deleting". You could go with things like popup windows though but I think states are a more correct of all of the correct answers.

I wouldn't call this an all encompassing tutorial but it should get you off to a good start: http://www.silverlight.net/learn/tut...mplatesvsm-cs/