10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 2 of 10)

added by KMillerr

10/18/2011 9:43:26 AM

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In this SilverlightShow article, Michael Crump is going to show you how to use Ancestor Relative Source Binding and Implicit Data Templates using Silverlight 5.

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vijayst

10/18/2011 12:14:13 PM

I am curious why some of the features in WPF was left out in Silverlight. Relative binding to ancestors was available in WPF but now introduced in Silverlight 5.

There is one more property in the Event arguments - Handled. This signifies that the event is handled by the event handler so that event propogation will not happen. I am curious to know why this property (available in WPF) was left out in Silverlight.

Noldorin

10/18/2011 4:49:10 PM

Originally I think the idea was to keep the Silverlight redistributable tiny and thus quick to download/install. As the devs have been optimising and compressing down the SL redist, they decide when they can afford to add in new helpful features -- this is what I gather, at least.