In watching the Silverlight training video INTRODUCING BLEND TO SILVERLIGHT DEVELOPERS the big question (unanswered up to this point) is "How do you find the Calendar control?".
Unlike the Visual Studio 2008 toolbox the following is what you'll see by default in Expression Blend:
If you click Show All you'll see the following:
The key to resolving this was to add a calendar control from Visual Studio 2008 and see how it configured it. Upon doing this I saw the following:
<UserControl xmlns:basics="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls"
x:Class="SDMS.Silverlight.Page"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Height="500" Width="500" >
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">
<basics:Calendar></basics:Calendar>
</Grid>
</UserControl>
I added a reference to System.Windows.Controls and was actually forced to exit Expression Blend and reenter before the reference was updated. Up to this point I was accustomed to being prompted by VS or Blend when the other system made an updated. Updated: I found that if you add references from Visual Studio and then rebuild the solution that when you switch back to Expression Blend it will prompt you to update your project.
Once I re-entered expression blend and loaded my project I was greeted with the following:
The calendar and many other controls (available in the Visual Studio 2008 toolbox) now appear in Expression Blend.
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silverlight,
expression blend
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Silverlight