Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 Release
The October 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit is out, and includes easy drag and drop components and an awesome Visual Studio 2010 experience for the toolkit controls.
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Application Library Caching support for the Silverlight Toolkit
Here are the application library cache files needed to reduce the size of your Silverlight 3 application's size when using the Silverlight Toolkit.
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Creating a two dimensional barcode control for Silverlight 3
After using the Starbucks mobile card app for iPhone, I set out to create similar 2D barcodes in Silverlight 3.
Adding ToArgb() to the Silverlight Color class
If you’re using existing imaging libraries with your Silverlight applications, they often represent a Color from the System.Drawing world in the full framework as an integer. An ARGB value is a 32-bit integer with the byte-ordering of AARRGGBB. Using some simple bit shifts and an extension method, you can have this functionality in Silverlight as ...
Silverlight Toolkit in the wild – Sunday Night Football player
The awesome online Sunday Night Football experience features the Accordion control from the Silverlight Toolkit.
Custom Control Development: Simple code guidelines
Here's an initial set of guidelines for building Silverlight custom controls. The first of hopefully many more posts.
A Silverlight HighlightingTextBlock implemented in Visual Basic
Here's a Visual Basic implementation of HighlightingTextBlock for Silverlight 3.
Creating a highlighting text block for Silverlight 3, revisited
Now that Silverlight 3 has shipped, I’d like to take a moment to revisit the highlighting AutoCompleteBox control that I blogged about back in November of ‘08, and again earlier this year, thanks to tooling improvements: Expression Blend 3 is out, and the Visual Studio 2008 tools have changed as well. There are new project ...
Silverlight 3 unit test framework binaries available
Two weeks ago, I posted the July 2009 release of the Silverlight Unit Test Framework online for folks looking for updated bits. Of course, the real gem is the Silverlight 3 version. Now that Silverlight 3 has shipped, you should definitely look at moving forward to this great new version. Download the binaries I’ve updated ...
Python and Ruby, Silverlight, and testing
Here are two nice posts by Jimmy Schementi, one showing simple testing in Python, the other using IronRuby to actually test C# apps!
Three great screencasts on Silverlight unit testing
If you're looking to learn more about Silverlight unit testing, here are 3 screencasts of interest.
What’s Jeff been up to?
Just posting a general update here, hopefully this isn’t syndicated on the Silverlight site or anything . I am sorry that all has been quiet on the blog front for a while, as summer rolls around we always find a way to keep busy with a strong set of work items, feature work, and sunshine ...
Silverlight 2 unit test framework binaries updated
If you're doing Silverlight 2 development with the unit test framework, you might want to check out the latest release that includes bug fixes and a few small new features.
WPF Toolkit: Charting release
The Silverlight Toolkit's chart controls have made their way into the WPF Toolkit! More details on David's blog.
Engineering Excellence recognition for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework
I’m pleased to announce that the Silverlight Unit Test Framework received honorable mention at the Microsoft Engineering Excellence awards ceremony this evening. It’s great having the tool recognized as an important contribution to not only the success of Silverlight, but also to the success of so many development and test partners, both inside and outside ...
Is it worthwhile to keep AutoCompleteBox’s DropDownOpening and Closing events?
We're considering simplifying the AutoCompleteBox API be removing a few rarely used events, and would love to get some feedback from scenarios this might impact.
Do you have any feedback on the AutoCompleteBox API?
As we ready the next release of the AutoCompleteBox control for Silverlight, I'd love to get the community's input on API names, API experience, and any suggestions before we "lock down" the control.
Sharing Source and Skills – Source download
This post contains the sample app and control source code from Jeff Wilcox's MIX '09 talk, Sharing Skills and Code with Silverlight and WPF.
Highlighting AutoCompleteBox improvements thanks to Silverlight 3
Thanks to the Silverlight 3 Beta, the AutoCompleteBox can become a highlighting auto complete control even easier!
What’s new with the Silverlight AutoCompleteBox
The AutoCompleteBox control received some data binding improvements and can now be found in the Silverlight 3 Beta SDK.
Building Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 Beta applications on the same machine
Although the Silverlight Tools don't have a multi-targeting story, you can build Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 Beta applications on the same machine. Here's information on how we do this within the Silverlight Toolkit team.
The Silverlight Toolkit grows up a little with an install experience
The Silverlight Toolkit's March 2009 release is out, now with an installation experience that adds controls to the Visual Studio and Expression Blend toolbox, and improves the design experience.
Sharing skills and code with Silverlight and WPF: MIX ‘09 session video and deck
Check out my Sharing Skills and Code with Silverlight and WPF talk from MIX '09. Yeah, what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay there!
Gravatar control for Silverlight and WPF – source and control binaries
A control for Gravatars that works in Silverlight 2 and WPF. Download contains binaries and full open source code.
Blog update: improved community features
Hi, Just some quick administrivia… Gravatar and Identicon support in comments I’ve updated my blog’s theme this weekend to support Gravatars. These are nice, and as long as you post using your e-mail address (that isn’t shared with anyone, don’t worry), a hash algorithm is used to retrieve your central avatar from Gravatar. A simple ...
A prototype tool for designers and developers: converting XAML to ISM themes and back again
The Silverlight Toolkit contains implicit style management features that let you create a nice theme – buttons, checkboxes, you name it – and have it automatically applied to an application. Nearly half a year ago, I worked with Mehdi to create a rather simple, but functional, tool prototype for working with Xaml theme files and ...
MIX’09 – the intersection of design & technology… Silverlight Toolkit FTW!
If you're headed to MIX'09, there are some great talks available on the Silverlight Toolkit, Silverlight controls, rich Internet applications, and more...
Asynchronous test support – Silverlight unit test framework and the UI thread
A discussion about the asynchronous, on-the-UI thread test features and methods found in the Silverlight unit test framework, along with some history.
CloudFront. Cloud Files. Others?
In the interest of offloading my dedicated web server, and experimenting with the latest in distributed computing and storage, I find myself switching between different web file storage technologies quite often. The availability of distributed content delivery network (CDN)-like services for files to developers has only just started to begin. S3 was a first step; ...
Unscientific SSD build time comparison
A few days ago I mentioned that I’ve been using an SSD drive in my desktop workstation at home, with pretty great success. The Intel X25-M is where it is at – give it another half year for the prices to become reasonable and I bet you’ll see more folks adopting it. Eric Hexter was ...
The Silverlight Toolkit team is on top of your feedback
Earlier this week, Jesse Liberty posted some great tips for providing the Silverlight Toolkit team the right amount of information to help solve your issues. On the team, we’re all out there looking and responding to the feedback – so you’re often going to get a response by the actual developer or designer that created ...
SSD rocks my development environment
Visual Studio 2008 Team System installed in 3 minutes. Thank you Intel! I’ve been hearing so much about the higher-end Solid State Disks that are out there on the market. Like a virus, it is slowly infecting more and more people. This past week, I made the jump and picked up an Intel X25-M 80GB ...
Silverlight MsBuild tricks – video
Build Silverlight apps and libraries without having to install the SDK in your build lab, following this video. A re-post.
Building Silverlight code on machines without the SDK (guide & video)
A guide and walkthrough video showing how to setup a source enlistment to build Silverlight apps on machines without Silverlight or the SDK installed.
Customizing AutoCompleteBox to update SelectedItem on commit, without changing the control
This post presents a quick story about some of the process we use on the Silverlight Toolkit, plus a downloadable project that shows how to customize and extend AutoCompleteBox to only update the SelectedItem when the user commits their suggestion choice (enter key or clicking an element) instead of when the up/down arrow keys are ...
UniformGrid for Silverlight
One of the primitive layout panels in WPF is the UniformGrid. Here’s a Silverlight port of the control. I use this panel a lot in quick apps because it just works, and I admit I’m a little too code-lazy in the XAML editor to type Grid.Row a few times. So, figured I’d share. The UniformGrid ...
MergeDefaultStyles build task improves control development (w/source)
The Silverlight Toolkit team uses a custom MsBuild task called “MergeDefaultStyleTasks” to merge multiple XAML resource dictionaries into generic.xaml. Here’s the details on it, and the source.
NUnit & the Silverlight unit test framework
Did you know that you can run NUnit tests with the Silverlight unit test framework? In this short guide, I talk about updating NUnit to build for Silverlight, wiring up test projects, and a download with everything you need to get started. This isn’t a "metadata redirection" trick – but the actual NUnit assertions and ...
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 ...
A bunch of AutoCompleteBox posts
Here’s a collection of key posts about the AutoCompleteBox control that can be found in the Silverlight Toolkit. A lot of people were out on vacation last month and may have missed these posts during their new years’ newsreader purge. If there’s something missing, or a post you’d like to see, please leave me a ...
