Silverlight: GridSplitter with a collapse button – BEST

I don’t remember where I took this control from.
It is not my work so I cannot take credit for it.
I have only fixed some stuff and made some changes to the animation.
This is by far the BEST version of this control! Use this one!
All credits goes to the anonymous developer who made it.
it should go into the Toolkit.

Demo is here
source is here

Silverlight: GridSplitter with a collapse button (V2)

This is a continuation of my last post.
I have made a better version of my ExtendedGridSplitter, this one works in both horizontal and vertical placement, I have made it more reliable and easy to work with.

Plus… I have found this post about animating Grid columns & rows and implemented it in my sample application.

Demo is here
Source is here

update: go to this post and use the best version of this control

Silverlight: GridSplitter with a collapse button

(Silverlight is much more hard-to-handle then Flex)

This is my first blog about Silverlight !!

Not much to explain here, just look at the code and ask questions.
I have added a button to the GridSplitter by sub-classing it.
Then later I used templates, styles and events to give the collapse button its look and functionality.
Of course you can make everything look better by applying styles (my collapse button is a simple red rectangle).

By handling some simple events I control the collapsing and expanding.
Notice that while dragging the splitter to the far left the button will change its arrow direction.

That was a good lesson.

Demo is here
Source is here

update: i have made a better version of this, look here.
update: go to this post and use the best version of this control