I had some time to play around with and learn WPF within Silverlight. It's a modest start, but I just had to blog about it...

We've started a project at my current job using Silverlight. Researching different framework options I ran across the UnitDriven project on codeplex. After downloading and checking out the silverlight testing UI...











I decided this was a place I could take a stab at learning some silverlight UI. ok... So it's getting late and it's certainly not perfect, but here's where I am now.












The only really tricky piece was... The original UI used nested ListBox controls which threw me down a path of thinking the program was broken... basically with a ListBox inside of a ListBox you have to select the first item, then the sub item, and in this application, only then, can you select the "Run" button to execute the unit test... I spent time looking through code trying to figure out if there was a bug in the testing contexts.

The solution to this was to convert the ListBox to an ItemsControl. Which allowed me to select multiple buttons without having to first select the ListBox sub item...

I then had to wrap everything inside of a ScrollViewer because the ItemsControl doesn't create one automatically like the ListBox does.
[EDIT]
Unfortunately wrapping everything in the ScrollViewer removed a feature the older version had, namely, at the top of the control is a display of the # succeeded/# Total. Wrapping everything in the ScrollViewer removed the ability to scroll through tests while that value was being updated during tests...

So I updated the main grid in the XAML, and shifted a few things around to allow this old feature to be seen in the new UI.
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after that was done, it was basically playing around with different styling elements to end up with the UI above.

It was a good simple exploratoin into some of the Silverlight's WPF capabilities.