One great feature that has, until now, been exclusive to WPF isthe ability to use implicit data templates. You may be familiarwith data templates, probably having used them with contentcontrols or, more likely, list boxes. Data Templates make itpossible to template (typically) a non-UI item and reuse thattemplate in one or more places. Without templates, list boxes wouldbe pretty boring, having only the ToString value or the displayvalue from an item.
Please note that this article and the attached sample code waswritten using the Silverlight 5 Beta, available at MIX11 in April2011.
Implicit templates are data templates that are associated with aspecific data type. They will be applied to any control in thescope of the template which has templatable content and which istrying to display the data type you've specified.
In more concrete terms, let's say that every time you want todisplay a twitter user, you want it to be formatted using thetwi ...
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