ms silverlight blend sketchflow - default text in combobox

Question

I'd like to get the default text in a combo box to show "Select Team...."

Like this in WPF

Setting default text for a combo box

But in sketchflow.

How can I do this?

Thanks

it is a sliverlight project. my xaml reads:

<UserControl
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d"
x:Class="SchoolsLoginScreens.Screen_2"
Width="640" Height="480">

<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">
<ComboBox Height="61.256" Width="136.569" IsEditable="True" IsReadOnly="True" Text="-- Select Team --"/>
</Grid>

It says that IsEditable does not have a setter. But this appears to work in WPF project like the examples above.

Answer 1

SketchFlow projects are WPF or SL projects (depending what you chose when you created the project) so any answers you find for WPF/SL should apply.

Answer 2

I had the same question and found this to help me. Essentially, you just have to add at least one item to the combo box (right-click, add ComboBoxItem) then look at the Common properties while the control is selected and you will see a field called "SelectIndex" that is currently set to -1. Just change this to 0 to select the first item in your list.