# Step 2 of 5: Customizing the Controls

## Content

In the last step, you created a Silverlight project in Blend with three controls – a **C1CoverFlow** control, a **StackPanel** control, and a **TextBlock** control - and a folder of images. In this step, you’ll customize the three controls you added to your project by setting a few of their properties.

Complete the following steps:

1. In the **Objects and Timeline** panel, select **[StackPanel]** and set the following properties in the Properties panel:
    * Set the **Width** property to “Auto”.
    * Set the **Height** property to “Auto”.
2. In the **Objects and Timeline** panel, select **[C1CoverFlow]** and set the following properties in the Properties panel:
    * Set the **Name** property to “C1CoverFlow1”.
    * Set the **Width** property to “470”.
    * Set the **Height** property to “250”.
3. In the **Objects and Timeline** panel, select **[TextBlock]** and set the following properties:
    * Set the **Name** property to “TextBlock1”.
    * Set the **Text** property to “Album information will display here.”
    * Set the **Foreground** property to purple by typing “Purple” into the Hex value text box and pressing ENTER.

In this step, you customized the **StackPanel**, **C1CoverFlow**, and **TextBlock** controls. In the next step, you’ll add items to the **C1CoverFlow** control.