Visualizing InputScopes
by
kirupa | 30 October 2010
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In the
Optimizing the On-Screen Keyboard tutorial, you learned how to use
Expression Blend to set the InputScope property on a
TextBox to influence what kind of key layout would
appear on your on-screen keyboard.
As you can tell, there are a lot of InputScopes that you
can select from:

[ that's a boatload of InputScopes! ]
Wouldn't it be great if you knew what kind of keyboard
layout you might get with each InputScope without having to
set each one and previewing in the emulator? Well, that is
where this article comes in. Here, you will be able to put a
face to each InputScope available to you.
Default

Chat

EmailUserName & EmailSmtpAddress

LogOnName

Number

OneChar

Password

Search

Text

Url

AddressCity

AddressCountryName

AddressCountryShortName

AddressStateOrProvince

AddressStreet

PostalAddress

PostalCode

Date

DateDayName

DateMonthName

PersonaFullName,
PersonalGivenName, PersonalMiddleName, PersonalMiddleName,
PersonalNamePrefix, PersonalNameSuffix, PersonalSurname:

NameOrPhoneNumber

TelephoneAreaCode,
TelephoneCountryCode, TelphoneLocalNumber, TelephoneNumber

FileName, FullFilePath

This tutorial
is more of a reference, and I hope you found it useful - if
anything, for trivial purposes to learn what the various
keyboard layouts look like.
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