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Form Development in Silverlight
Forms Development in Silverlight
Silverlight is a development platform that allows you to write and run applications for web, desktop, and mobile use. The Silverlight Designer provides the ability to integrate Silverlight forms in the Workflow Task List, Web Task List, and the Global Viewer in Workflow client.

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Forms and User Displays
- Forms Introduction
- Designer Panels
- Display and Group Duplication
- Form Templates
- Basic Forms and Displays
- Web-Based Forms and Displays
- Existing Assembly Options
- Form Development in Visual Studio
- Form Development in Silverlight
  - Forms Development in Silverlight
    Silverlight is a development platform that allows you to write and run applications for web, desktop, and mobile use. The Silverlight Designer provides the ability to integrate Silverlight forms in the Workflow Task List, Web Task List, and the Global Viewer in Workflow client.
    - Create a Silverlight form for web-based content
      This procedure is an example of how to create a Silverlight form for use with web-based content.
    - Add a control to a Silverlight form
    - Image Controls in Silverlight Forms
      Due to restrictions, the Source property for an image control cannot be set in the XAML. When an image control is used in the Silverlight designer, the URI for the image source must be manually entered into the image control's Source property. The designer automatically configures the Source property in code behind.
    - Calendar controls in Silverlight Forms
      The Calendar control's Selected Date property displays the current date in the control. The DisplayDate property represents the date that will be displayed. If this is not set, then the Selected Date is displayed.
    - Edit code behind
      This procedure provides an example of how to edit the code behind in a Silverlight form.
    - Silverlight Form Restrictions
      There are several restrictions in place for the design of Silverlight forms.
    - Extend the Silverlight Designer Capabilities
      The Silverlight Designer can be extended so that user-created controls or those from a third-party control vendor are available in the Silverlight Designer toolbox.

Forms Development in Silverlight

Silverlight is a development platform that allows you to write and run applications for web, desktop, and mobile use. The Silverlight Designer provides the ability to integrate Silverlight forms in the Workflow Task List, Web Task List, and the Global Viewer in Workflow client.

Important: Support for Silverlight and Silverlight forms will be discontinued with the next major release of the software.

Form Creation

A form cannot be converted from WPF to Silverlight or vice versa after the form creation process starts. During form authoring, be sure to select the correct type of form to create in the Display Editor.

Technical Limitations

As a technical limitation, .NET content can run only in thick clients (that is, the Proficy Client) where the .NET Framework is installed. It cannot run directly in a web browser or directly on a mobile device. Similarly, Silverlight content can run only in a web browser with a Silverlight plug-in installed. Silverlight content can also run on a mobile device that supports Silverlight (such as Windows 7 mobile devices or Symbian Series 60 phones); however, we do not support these devices.

Clients That Can Host the Form

The table below illustrates the form types each client can host:

Form	Proficy Client	Web Task List	Mobile-sized Task List
.NET form	Yes	No	Yes **
Silverlight form	Yes	Yes	Yes

** In general, .NET content cannot run on mobile devices. However, the Mobile-Sized Task List is designed to run on a server and display content on a mobile device using either GraphOn or Terminal Services.

A form that will be run on a mobile device should be designed with the small form factor in mind. However, that same form will work in both a thick client and a web environment.

Note: Although a Silverlight form can run in all three environments, it is not recommended.

The following topics describe the tasks necessary to build Silverlight forms.