Entries Tagged 'Silverlight' ↓

Martin Grayson has posted the latest release of Blacklight. You can read about the release on his blog or visit the showcase here. The showcase also has some basic information on how to use the controls.

What is Blacklight?
Blacklight is a UX focused code sharing project. Microsoft has released a bunch of technologies that allow designers and developers to work closely together to make beautiful software. This project is a collection of controls, samples, visual assets and ideas that has been put together by User Experience designers and developers to both show you what the technology is capable of (from a UX point of view), and give you code and samples that you can use in your own projects, completely free of charge (see the License tab above). Check out the showcase to see what is currently available…

I just happened upon Jeff Blankenburg’s blog. He’s got a nice design going with a Silverlight header and integrated Twitter feed.

His article “10 Reasons The Zune Beats The iPod. Seriously.” is a good read as well. I couldn’t agree more Jeff.

I just stumbled upon Justin Angel’s blog. He has some of the most thorough and easy to understand WPF/Silverlight/Expression tutorials I’ve seen. Nice work.

Jonas Follesø has put together a well thought out piece on Silverlight 2 and it’s place in Business applications titled “Is Silverlight 2 Ready for Business Applications?“. The article covers Offline Storage of Data, Access to Local Files, Multi Threading, Real-Time Networking, Portability, SEO and much more.

Brian Goldfarb, Lead Product Manager of the Web Platform and Tools team at Microsoft, asks you to give your input on Silverlight 2 via the Silverlight Feedback Survey.

We’ve put together a short survey to help us improve our Silverlight features and API. Spend 15 minutes and tell us what is good and bad about Silverlight so far.

According to BetaNews the public beta of Moonlight, a Silverlight runtime for Linux that is part of the Mono project, will be released within the next several days.

In the next stage of what has turned out to be a more successful project than even its creators envisioned, the public beta of Moonlight — a runtime library for Linux supporting sites that expect Silverlight — is expected within days.

ScottIsAFool @ LiveSide.net shows us how to assemble a “Quick And Dirty” Live Mesh Silverlight Application. It only applies to those who have access to the LiveFX and Mesh SDK, but it gives us a look at what development for Live Mesh Silverlight will look like.

Jason Beres gives a walkthrough of the new Timeline, Map and Zoombar Silverlight controls offered by Infragistics.

Source: Channel9

The good folks at MIX Online have relaunched with a new beautifully designed site and mission. The new site is intended to be a community for web designers and developers. Behind the scenes they’re using a custom blogging engine built by the people behind Channel9 using ASP.NET MVC.

This site was painfully designed using a combination of Photoshop, Illustrator and Expression Web. It was brought to life using a custom blogging engine built by the code monkeys behind Channel9 on the recently released ASP.NET MVC. Imagery and icons, unless mentioned otherwise, were, and continue to be created by our team of versatile ninja designers. A shout out to You The Designer, and IconArchive for giving away some cool images that we repurposed for our needs.

Thanks to Long Zheng over at ISatrtedSomething for the tip.

Check out the latest release of Silverlight Contrib (Alpha 2 - Silverlight 2 Compatible).

Silverlight Contrib is a collection of open source Silverlight Controls and API enhancements built for and by the Silverlight developer community. The goal of this project is to complement Silverlight and make the lives of Silverlight developers easier.

The set features 5 Controls;

• Color Picker
• Gauge Control
• Star Selector
• Enhanced Metafile (EMF)
• OSX Dock like Menu

And 8 Library items;

• Zip Compression
• Byte Utilities
• String Utilities
• Simple Text Parser
• Animation Tweening
• Wheel Mouse Listener
• Clipboard Helper - (IE Only)
• Data Context Extension Method Wrapper

The coolest features, for me at least, is the Tweening framework and Zip compression which is a port of the ShareZip library. Check out the full functioning demos here.