The TextBox control is popular in Silverlight but comes with a few nuances. For example, the default behavior is that the data is not bound until the control loses focus! This can be awkward when you have a form with a disabled save button. The save button won't enable until the text box contains content, but it won't ''know'' about the content ...

I've had some fun with dynamic controls lately. Wanted to share a few caveats that I found for those of you trying to spin some of your own. The premise is simple: we have XML configuration that drives the UI, so based on the values parsed from the XML, we generate the appropriate control. I implemented this by created a data container for the ...