by
Parvez
22. November 2010 14:03
Toolkit controls made available by Microsoft on CodePlex site is a great way of sharing controls that are still not part of the core WPF/Silverlight controls. Earlier released DataGrid, Calendar and DatePicker are now part of the Core controls in WPF.
What is Extended WPF Toolkit?
Brian Lagunas has provided Extended WPF Toolkit which includes the controls that are missing in the WPF Toolkit or that have been ported over from the Silverlight Toolkit. Initially it was released in August with a small set of controls. Now it has total 11 controls, 3 of it being released in the November.
What does the Extended Toolkit include?
This Extended Toolkit Binaries includes the following controls:

It also includes MessageBox.
BusyIndicator
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ColorPicker
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MessageBox
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MessageBox with Icons
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RichTextBox with FormatBar  |
NumericUpDown 
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Below controls are available as source only. You can download the project for these controls from here
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Magnifier
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MaskedTextBox
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DateTimeUpDown
These Extended Toolkit controls will definitely be helpful to the WPF Developers.