Silverlight Cream for June 28, 2008 -- #312

June 28, 2008 · 1 min read

Page Brooks' Controls Builder Contest, Alex Knight on Deep Zoom, Dave Relyea on Dependency Property Snippets, and Shawn Wildermuth on 3rd Party Controls.

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I blogged separately about this, but wanted it to go out in a 'Cream post as well. Page Brooks is putting on a Silverlight Controls contest... check it out... even if you don't enter, this should be fun!

Alex Knight has been really digging into DeepZoom and in addition to finding, he elaborates on getting DZ to work with Blend...

Using VS Snippets to Add DependencyProperties and Attached DependencyProperties

Dave Relyea came up with an idea of setting up snippets in VS2008 to help with Dependency Properties... this has GOT to be one of those things that we all look at and go "hey... why didn't I think of that?"... very cool, Dave!

3rd Party Silverlight 2 Controls

Shawn Wildermuth was asking on Twitter about 3rd party controls and I was wonder why, since of all the folks I know, I think he would be on the short list of devs that could just write one himself... but he was putting the blog post together about the controls that are currently out there, so that all of us would get the benefit of his expertise!

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This article is part of the GWB Archives. Original Author: Dave Campbell

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