Wednesday, December 10, 2008
One of the great controls released with the Silverlight Toolkit is the NumericUpDown. Sure it may seem like just a basic textbox that allows user input with the added glory of a spinner that makes it easy to nudge values up or down with a click, which in and of itself is a great benefit, but there is also some lesser known plumbing that allows users to easily extend this control to provide some great user experiences. One of my favorite user experiences is the way the UpDowns, or spinners as some call them, work in Microsoft Word when you’re