Tag Archives: Toolkit

Silverlight: Themes

When Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) and Silverlight first came out, the announcements happily proclaimed that it was even easier to have your visual design team build really nice user interfaces that we, the developers, could then enhance with code. But … Continue reading

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Activity Control –> BusyIndicator

Wow!  What a week!  PDC, the Silverlight 4 Beta, and now the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit!  There’s been a ton of great news and exciting announcements, and now I can share with you that the Activity control, … Continue reading

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Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 Release

from Jeff Wilcox The Silverlight Toolkit (October 2009) release is now live. The 5th release of the product, the toolkit contains a great set of components and features that many of our customers have asked for. Our most recent release, … Continue reading

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A basic MVVM framework

from Lester The MVVM Toolkit is a pretty barebones template for MVVM and is a good place to start with if you are new to this pattern. Over time, as i played around with this toolkit, the library grew in … Continue reading

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Silverlight Money Pyramid

from John Bruin My Silverlight Money Pyramid project was inspired by a little statistics experiment that was described in a mathematics schoolbook back in the 80′s. Again I have used Andy Beaulieu’s Physics Helper and I am also using the … Continue reading

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Custom Control Development: Simple code guidelines

from  Jeff Wilcox Great custom control development is a skill that takes more than time and experience to perfect. It’s also not a widely documented practice. When it comes to Silverlight controls, there are similarities and differences from WPF custom … Continue reading

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Installing the MVVM Light Toolkit

I just published a new version of the MVVM Light Toolkit. For more information about the toolkit in general, please refer to the Get Started page on my website. Also, more blog posts will follow soon and help you get … Continue reading

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Silverlight 3, Blend 3 and the MVVM Light Toolkit

The big news today is of course the launch of Silverlight 3. Microsoft organized a big event in San Francisco (I was invited, but could not make it to SF in time, unfortunately ) and there was a big celebration. … Continue reading

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