Here's a collection of key posts about the AutoCompleteBox control that can be found in the Silverlight Toolkit. A lot of people were out on vacation last month and may have missed these posts during their new years' newsreader purge.

If there's something missing, or a post you'd like to see, please leave me a comment!

The all-important guide

• The complete "missing guide" for AutoCompleteBox (11/24/08)

Simple improvements

• SelectedItem design change, with source code (12/17/08)
  This is a design change, available today, that will be shipped officially in the next release of the toolkit.
• Adding page up and page down support (12/15/08)
• Removing cyclic navigation from the control (12/14/08)
• What's new in the December release (12/11/08)

A text searching ListBox

A common ask is for the ListBox in Silverlight to support "text searching" like the WPF ListBox and the Silverlight AutoCompleteBox control provide.

• A proof-of-concept post on such an extended control is here (12/17/08).

Cool ideas

• Build a highlighting auto complete (11/18/08)
• Using styles to create an editable combo box in Silverlight (11/05/08, by Tim Heuer)
• Writing a new text filter in VB (1/5/09)

Introductions

• Jesse Liberty's Silverlight Toolkit videos, both featuring the AutoCompleteBox (11-12/08)
• Introducing the control (10/30/08)
• A video introduction (10/30/08)

Download the December 2008 release of the Silverlight Toolkit

• Binaries, samples and documentation (10 MB)
• Binaries, samples, documentation, unit tests and complete source code (11 MB)
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