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.
Kirupa Chinnathambi had put together a nice concise tutorial on Preloading and Displaying an Image in Silverlight. It’s very well written and a great primer for novice Silverlight designers or developers.
Service pack 1 for Microsoft Expression Media 2 is available for download for Windows and Mac. In this release over 400 bugs were fixed along with the addition of a host of new features including Geo-tagging and Virtual Earth support. More details available on the Microsoft Help & Support website.
Shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and Image Composite Editor creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all your images at full resolution.
Scott Hanselman’s BabySmash is a WPF application design to keep your kid occupied at the computer. Random smacks on the keys create colored shapes, letters and numbers. The Windows Key, Ctrl-Esc and Alt-Tab keys are disabled so your baby can’t escape the application and make a mess of your system.
Apparently the application has received 20,000 downloads in less than two months
Looks like Microsoft has relaunched the Mojave Experiment website with a Silverlight front end. Initially the site was built in Flash, presumably to get as much exposure as possible when it first went live. Maybe now that the Olympics are over they feel the Silverlight plugin has enough penetration to switch to Silverlight.
The UI is nice and utilizes WPF’s DeepZoom to navigate the video windows.
Is it me or are the video playback controls a little hard to use though? If I inadvertently click in a video area the video restarts from the beginning, and the lack of a scrub bar makes this a little annoying.
