Implementing a timeline slider using silverlight or ajax ?

Question

Howdy everyone!

I want to ask you for direction for creating a timeline slider similar to the one in Plurk.

I want to arrange my events on a timeline and make the user slide through this time line to navigate the events.

I just want to know weather I can do it using silverlight or not ? or any other feature in the .NET platform.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can definitely do one in Silverlight by styling the ListBox control. You would modify the ItemsPanel and ItemTemplate in Expression Blend to do so - you would also need to create a ValueConverter to position the timeline items. Although this article was written about WPF, you can now do all of the things in it with Silverlight. The article gives a good idea of what you would do and how you would do it.