Silverlight Cream for October 29, 2008 -- #411

In this issue: Chad Campbell, Jonas Follesø, and Bill Reiss.

This is more of the early posters about yesterday's release of the Silverlight Toolkit. These are my 'home boys' ... sites I can't get to from work, so I have to do them from home :) These are ready to post so they're going even though I have more.

In an email from a PM on the Toolkit team, I received a list of 24 links. I felt pretty good, because including this post, I'd already blogged about 14 of them and of the remaining 10, 5 are from team members whose blogs I haven't been watching (until now)... all good great stuff... and it means you know I have more coming later on today.

In case you're not familiar with them, there are a few ways to get directly to this information:

  1. SilverlightCream.com -- take the Search link on the left, and SilverlightToolkit is one of the tags
  2. WynApse.com -- I tag tons of stuff at my main site, and you can get directly to them by tag such as Silverlight Toolkit
  3. My MSDN Social Bookmarks -- I have lots of tags and one is Silverlight Toolkit



From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight 2 - Introducing the Chart Control
Chad Campbell is out of hiding now that his book is off his plate and on the shelves... so this is probably just the beginning of the goodness from him: Chad displays the chart in demos and descriptions with links out to downloads of the code behind the samples
Silverlight 2 - Getting Started with the Chart Control
In Chad's next one, he has links to download everything needed and a great tutorial on exactly what to do to get the chart working in your app.
Change the look of your Silverlight application using Themes
Jonas Follesø posted 3 articles since I looked yesterday... this first one discusses themes in SL and specifically covers the ImplicitStyleManager that is part of the Toolkit release.
New layout controls in the Silverlight Toolkit
In the second post, Jonas gives a good code and screenshot walkthrough of the DockPanel, WrapPanel, and ViewBox
Improve your user experience using the AutoCompleteBox
Rounding out the trio, Jonas not only demos the AutoCompleteBox, but he styles it into his Dive Log application.
Viewbox in the Silverlight Toolkit
Last but not least of the morning's info is Bill Reiss discussing the ViewBox ... with some great examples of when and why it's useful.

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posted @ Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:23 AM

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