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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.
Silverlight Form Restrictions
There are several restrictions in place for the design of Silverlight forms.

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Forms and User Displays
- Forms Introduction
- Designer Panels
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- Basic Forms and Displays
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- 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.

Silverlight Form Restrictions

There are several restrictions in place for the design of Silverlight forms.

Only one user should edit a form at a time in the Silverlight Designer. If two users edit at the same time, unexpected errors could occur. The last user who saves can overwrite the changes of the other user.
Updating a form while others are requesting the form may result in an error. Form XAP files are cached in the WebModulesCache directory. For example, if user A is downloading the old form in the Web Task List, while user B is updating the form in the Silverlight Designer, and user C is requesting the new form in the Web Task List, an error could occur.