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when you click Controls, you ’ ll see several subcategories such as ASP.NET, SharePoint, Silverlight, WPF, and so on.

➤ Tags — When components are uploaded, they are associated with a number of tags. Here you can select one from the most often visited tags to browse components uploaded with that tag.

These fi lters can be combined. For example, you can list all free WPF controls by selecting Controls, then clicking on the WPF subcategory, and choosing Free under Cost Categories. You will see a list of components according to the combination of these fi lter criteria, as shown in Figure 5 - 41.

of the list. You can change sorting at any time. Just select the appropriate item from the Sort By

combo box.

Downloading and Installing Components

Component authors and vendors can decide how you can download and install components. You can either download components directly from the Visual Studio Gallery (as indicated by the Download button in Figure 5 - 42), or you are redirected to the vendor ’ s (author ’ s) site for further instructions. In the latter case, you will fi nd a Get Now button instead of Download.

FIGURE 5 - 43: The startup screen of the Visual Studio Extension Installer utility