Using the Silverlight Toolkit? Let us know!
Are you using the Silverlight Toolkit on your site, or in an app? It’d be great if you could post a little bit about the control(s) you’re using and the URL to your app, if you’d like to share. Just comment on this post!
The Silverlight Showcase is a great way to share your work with the community at large… so consider submitting an app there as well.
However, I’d like to highlight the unique and useful applications people are using the toolkit for. And, yeah, if you just borrowed the open source and built some even cooler controls with it… that’d be nice to hear about, too.
I’ll follow up in a few weeks with coverage of what I find. Thanks!
And, if you’d like to provide suggestions, open issues and bugs, there are appropriate places for that to happen, too. Same goes for getting support.
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Jeff,
We’re using the Toolkit in various ways throughout our application colaab – a Silverlight 2 RIA for online collaboration in real time.
You can see the AutoCompleteTextBox in action at:
http://blog.stormideas.com/archive/2008/12/02/colaab-public-beta.aspx
Or sign up for a free trial to try the live version.
Thanks,
Bob
We are using Toolkit and enjoying every second of it. We are mainly using the WrapPanel now, but are soon to use more components.
We are not a site but a very nice browser addon that uses Silverlight for its core technology.
Check it out!
http://www.headup.com
We have a database access application that uses many of the toolkit function.
I do and I thank you for your great work.
The Silverlight Showcase is a great way to share your work with the community at large… so consider submitting an app there as well.
I did 3 times and I never saw my app there.
I forgot to mention my web sute
We use the wrap panel… but that is it so far. We prefer the Visifire charts over the toolkit charts.
Jeff,
I have invested the last six months converting my asp.net ajax application to silverlight and use the toolkit extensively throughout the app. It is an online fitness / social networking site. I use the autocomplete, dock panel, and charts throughout the application. The toolkit has been a lifesaver as the only alternative was to use html/asp controls and hosting them in a layer above silverlight.
I have still used some html layers that sit on top as well like for advertisements and the social networking component.
Please feel free to check it out signup is totally free, no charge for anyone who wants to use the site – besides it’s new years resolution time, a good time to start watching what you eat and tracking your workouts!
Thanks
Nick
Always forget the most important part, the link. You can click my name in this post or just go to http://www.myfitnessjournal.com. The main page is standard html as well as signup but once you login everything is Silverlight 2.0
At my day job I am working on a few silverlight apps for a new big customer site. I am using Silverlight 2.0 of cause, but I have also used the WrapPanel, which were very very easy!
I will ask our client if I can submit this new site to the Showcases on Silverlight.net, but first the site need to go live, which will take some months.
But keep up the good work, both on the Silverlight Toolkit, but also Silverlight in general.
Best regards,
Mads
We are using Silverlight (and the toolkit) as the UI for the next product in our configuration management suite (commercial shrink-wrap software).
Flash vs Silverlight: Theming and Styling
http://www.shinedraw.com/multimedia/flash-vs-silverlight-apply-theme-or-style
This is my latest sample using the silverlight toolkit
I’ve created a mortgage calculator in Silverlight and I’m using the column and pie charts from the toolkit to show the pay-off profile and the total interest/principal paid over the lifetime of the mortgage.
http://calculatoriq.com/Home/MortgageCalculator
I’m also using the number up/down control in the other converters on the site:
http://calculatoriq.com/
Interestingly I specifically excluded the use of the Toolkit when creating the BMI Calculator because I entered it into the Mix 09 Challenge and the Toolkit was excluded from that challenge.
http://calculatoriq.com/Home/BMICalculator
@Guy Ellis,
Interesting that it was excluded… hmm, I wonder, what if you took the open source controls, or files you needed, and compiled them into your application?
Disclaimer – I haven’t looked into that competition, they probably would frown on that. But it seems silly, given that WrapPanel, DockPanel, etc., go a long way towards making rich application experiences…
I am building some of the more advanced aspects of my CMS using the toolkit, one particular control that interests me is the treeview control.
I am populating it with a generic list of strongly typed objects and blend for some reason cant seem to give me a preview witha few sample nodes which is a bit annoying and the lack of drag and drop is a real minus for me.
Without the toolkit though the silvelright framework itself would be a lot harder to work with for a “quick test” or for just knocking things together so it acts as an interesting platform for getting used to the silvelright framework.
By version 4.0 of silvelright I think this could be a seriously powerful technology, at the moment there seems to bea lot of gotchas especially if you’re just getting started.
Hi, We recently posted a two part Silverlight tutorial that makes use of the December 2008 Toolkit.
http://blog.bluefire.tv/?p=49
The demo application reads an RSS feed from Feedbooks.com and shows a grid of book thumbnails using ViewBox and WrapPanel. It then allows you to download an epub version of the book.
The app is not very fancy but the Toolkit was an integral part of it. Thanks for your team’s work on it!