Using ReSharper with Silverlight

submitted by pbrooks 3 days, 9 hours ago

pagebrooks.com — If you have ever used Resharper, you may know that it has a great feature called Templates. Templates give you the ability to quickly generate code that you would generally need to write by hand. I've built 4 templates that you can use in your Silverlight endeavors. read more...

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Silverlight Unit Test Framework source code released

submitted by pbrooks 1 month ago

jeff.wilcox.name — A week ago, we gave the world the first release of the Silverlight Toolkit. Shawn Burke told you that we’re agile, and that we have a neat release model. The fun continues! Today, the source code to the Silverlight Unit Test Framework is available with the same open source license. It is checked in to the source control for the toolkit on CodePlex. read more...

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Silverlight Contrib 2008.0.0 - Alpha 2 Released!

submitted by pbrooks 1 month, 14 days ago

silverlightcontrib.org — I'm happy to announce the Alpha 2 release of Silverlight Contrib! If you have been following the project on CodePlex, you know that a lot has changed in the past few weeks. The team has grown to 6 members and we have added quite a few new features (including Silverlight 2 RTW Compatibility). Additionally, we have created a web site (SilverlightContrib.org) which contains live demonstrations of many features in Silverlight Contrib as well as an RSS feed for keeping up with announcements. read more...

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Sharing Code Between .NET and Silverlight Platforms

submitted by pbrooks 1 month, 22 days ago

pagebrooks.com — Quite often, I hear people asking if they can use .NET assemblies compiled for the full .NET runtime in Silverlight. Unfortunately, this just isn’t possible, the Silverlight runtime is a subset of the full .NET runtime and for code to run correctly under the Silverlight runtime, there are various dependencies that must be linked and verified at compile time. But (there is always a but), there is one technique that you can use that effectively allows you to write your code once and have it work in both Silverlight and regular .NET applications. read more...

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Microsoft Introduces the Silverlight/WPF Controls Team

submitted by pbrooks 2 months, 17 days ago

blogs.msdn.com — Shortly after MIX07, ScottGu brought up an idea of building a larger team focused on building controls. We kicked this idea around for while as we talked about details, timelines, and goals. In April, most of these details were worked out and we hashed out a charter and some early areas of focus and deliverables. read more...

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Reflecting the entire layout panel in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

windowsclient.net — After my post on creating reflection with Silverlight 2 Beta . I was asked several times by couple of Silverlight enthusiasts questions like this : is there any way i can reflect an entire grid?, is it possible to make a reflection of lets say a grid with multiple buttons since there is no VisualBrush in Silverlight?, is there any chance to reflect some generic Control(Framework element etc)?. So I started to think about how entire Layout Panels like Grid,Canvas,Border etc. can be reflected. In WPF I did this stuff so easily. But in Silverlight I didn't find any any way till last night. The idea behind Layout reflection is , creating a mirror effect of a Container Control, which means child controls placed inside the container will also be reflected. read more...

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CoolMenu: A Silverlight Menu Control

published 3 months, 12 days ago, submitted by pbrooks 3 months, 13 days ago

pagebrooks.com — I thought it would be cool to try building a reusable container control so I came up with CoolMenu. You really have to try this one out to get the full experience, a screen shot just doesn't do it justice. CoolMenu is a Silverlight container control that gives you a nice wave-like effect as you move your mouse over the menu items. Clicking a menu item causes the item to bounce. read more...

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Visual Studio Theme Generator

published 3 months, 27 days ago, submitted by dengar007 3 months, 27 days ago

frickinsweet.com — A fun little ASP.NET MVC Application I wrote to generate Visual Studio themes based off of 3 given colors. I have always felt that selecting every color to make a decent theme is way too repetitive. This web application automatically chooses complements / contrasts based off your initial color selections (and uses jQuery to let you preview your theme before creating). Check it out and let me know what you think. read more...

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