Silverlight Contrib [3] - StarSelector

In this part of my small series about Silverlight Contrib I would like to show some trick how to work with or how to use Silverlight Contrib StarSelector in your project. Time to time you need some control for showing or setting ratings. Common solution is using line of stars (or other shape). More stars means better rating.

For this situaliton Silverlight Contrib using StarSelector control. Using this control is very simple. You just set the basic properties such as Whidth, Height, Name and than you work with event RatingChanged.

Before we start, in case you do not know how to add Silverlight Contrib libraries to your project, read my first post.

We could make small example. So I would like that TextBlock said me my rating.

XAML:



C#



Result:



Ok, that was quite easy. Let's go to do something much more funnier. I have an other example. I have a some data, for example database of cars. And one of my attributes is rating. And I wont to show my data in DataGrid and use for rating column StarSelector.

So, I have a class Car.cs:



Here is my DataGrid:



And this is some dunny data filler:



Result:

That's it. Have a fun with Silverlight Contrib StarSelector control.

In following post about Silverlight Contrib I would like to show you how to customize StarSelector.