Silverlight 3 oob window border

Question

I was wondering if I can customise the look and feel of the OOB window of my SL app? I want it to look different than the standard windows frame (maybe at least change the visible buttons like minimise or maximise...)

thanks

Answer 1

You can only change the Window's Height, Width, and Title. You can't modify the window chrome.

• Window Settings on MSDN
• One of many blog entries pointing out that there's no windows chrome customization

This feature is showing up as a common feature request for Silverlight 4, though.

Answer 2

In Silverlight 4, you can choose to remove the window chrome for OOB applications and produce controls to trigger your own window moving/resizing/minimizing/maximizing functionality.

http://blogs.msdn.com/olivers/archive/2010/03/15/silverlight-4-out-of-browser-enhancements.aspx