Michael Sync

Silverlight 2 beta1? Yes. I know Silverlight 2 beta2 is out but let me post this one as the last post of Silverlight 2 beta1.

I’ve been reading Dave’s Silverlight Cream since long time back and I have the list of links that I like the most from his blog. I don’t want to throw away those valuable links even those are no longer with with Silverlight 2 beta 2 (the latest version of SL 2 so far).

So, I create this post and I will try to port those samples to Silverlight 2 beta2 if the original developers haven’t converted them yet. You can also participate in converting those samples. I really appriciate your help and it will be more faster and more helpful for our community. So, please feel free to let me know if you know any link of latest source code or you want to participate in converting those samples.

The following links are the best link (in my opinion ) from Silverlight Cream.

Graphics

InnerGlow Effect For Silverlight 2 Beta 1

URL : http://blogs.msdn.com/timrule/…/innerglow-effect-for-silverlight-2-beta-1.aspx

Tim wrote great article about creating “Inner Grow” effect in Silverlight. You can also take a look at the demo in his blog. He also wrote a few great articles Scale 9 Image for Silverlight, Spline Based Animation Helper, Drop Shadow Effect for Silverlight 2 Beta 1,

Dynamic Image Generation in Silverlight

URL : http://blogs.msdn.com/jstegman/…image-generation-in-silverlight.aspx

Joe Stegman came up with really amazing trick that generate the image dynamically with Silverlight. His trick is totally awesome and unique within our Silverlight community. Noone has even done that kinda trick like that before.

Note: The code is updated for Silverlight 2 beta2. Here is new updated sample.

Water Ripples with Silverlight 2

URL : http://www.makingria.com/?p=165

Lars Godejord created this great demo “Water Ripples with Silverlight” based on Joe Stegman’s Dynamci Image Generation Technique, 2D Water Algorithm and Rick Barraz’s Decode BMP Algorithm.I would say this demo is really impressive. Good Job, Lars!

Controls

Rich Text Editor

URL: http://www.codeplex.com/richtextedit

SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer

URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/…erlight-2-beta-1.aspx

This control is created by David Anson for showing XPS document on Silverlight application. You can also use this control for showing Microsoft Office File after converting them as a XPS document.

HTML Text Block

URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/…..tml-display-in-silverlight-htmltextblock.aspx

This is another control created by David Anson for displaying HTML on Silverlight object. It’s pretty cool. I wanna extend some features from this control. maybe, we create HTML-to-XAML converter Library or something in future.

Glowing Glass Buttons

URL: http://advertboy.wordpress.com/…glowing-glass-button-in-the-style-of-web-20/

Windows Media Skin

URL: http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/josefajardo?entry=showing_off_the_power_of

VISIFire - Silverlight Chart Control

URL: http://www.visifire.com/

Groupbox

URL: http://leeontech.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/groupbox/

Control Skin : Ux Musing
http://blogs.msdn.com/corrinab/archive/2008/03/11/silverlight-2-control-skins.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/corrinab/archive/2008/03/11/silverlight-2-control-skins.aspx

Tutorial: Writing a Templated Silverlight 2 Control : Shawn Burke
http://blogs.msdn.com/sburke/archive/2008/03/22/tutorial-writing-a-templated-silverlight-2-control.aspx

Silverlight Control Contracts
http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/blogs/jose.fajardo/downloads/ControlContract.png

Silverlight Control Hierarchy
http://advertboy.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/silverlight-control-hierarchy/

Developing a Custom Control for Silverlight 2.0 : Attila Hajdrik
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/mediabutton.aspx

Applications

Woodgrove Bank

URL: http://www.cookingwithxaml.com/meals/financials/default.html

Note: I got those images from this link.

This site is completely written in Silverlight 2. If you have Silverlight 2 beta1 installed, you can play the live demo here. You can also download the whole source from this link. Here is the video about this application.

Silverlight Session Scheduler

URL : http://tocode.blogspot.com/2008/04/silverlight-session-scheduler-at.html

Tools and Libraries

Silverlight Spy

http://firstfloorsoftware.com/silverlightspy/download-silverlight-spy/

Silverlight Spy provides detailed XAML inspection of any Silverlight application. Use the built-in browser to navigate to a web page. Silverlight Spy will automatically pick up any Silverlight application embedded in the page and display it in the XAML Explorer. The XAML Explorer presents the UI element..

Note: This code is already updated for Silverlight 2 beta2.

agTweener

http://www.codeplex.com/agTweener

agTweener provides a toolkit for Silverlight designers and developers to achieve animation and transition effects similar to toolkits currently available for Flash/Flex developers by defining transition effects in .NET code and applying these effects to any FrameworkElement.

Note: This code is already updated for Silverlight 2 beta2.

SharpZibLib for Silverlight

http://web-snippets.blogspot.com/2008/03/unpacking-zip-files-in-silverlight-2.html

Do you want to play with zip files in Silverlight? Please take a look at the link above. I think this is the one that you are looking for. Thank you, Rob!

SilverlightDefaultStyleBrowser Tool

http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/….aspx

SilverlightDefaultStyleBrowser is a simple application that automatically extracts the default styles from an assembly’s generic.xaml, lists the available control styles, and presents them in an easy-to-browse manner with syntax highlighting, automatic formatting, and expandable/collapsible nodes. The common scenario of copying a Style or Template is made easy by two dedicated buttons that do just that!

Networking

Silverlight HTTP Networking Stack

The following is the tutorial series written by Karen Corby.

• Silverlight HTTP Networking Stack – Part 1 (Site of Origin Communication)
• Silverlight HTTP Networking Stack - Part 2 (Cross Domain Communication Overview)
• Silverlight HTTP Networking Stack - Part 3 (Configuring a Cross Domain Policy File)

Pushing Data to a Silverlight Client with Sockets

Do you want to learn about how to use Socket in Silverlight? I’d like to recommend you to take a look Dan Wahlin’s tutorial part1 and part 2. Additionally, you can also check-out Mike Taulty’s article “Silverlight 2 & Sockets” that he wrote when you was bored in his hotel room.

My Silverlight application cannot access my service! :        Tim Heuer

URL: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/04/09/silverlight-cannot-access-web-service.aspx

Testing

Unit Testing with Silverlight : Scott Guthrie

URL: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/…/unit-testing-with-silverlight.aspx

Silverlight unit testing and JavaScript : Laurent  Bugnion

URL: http://geekswithblogs.net/lbug…..rlight-unit-testing-and-javascript.aspx

Others

SilverPart

URL: http://www.codeplex.com/silverpart

Siverlight Security : Joe Stagner
http://joeon.net/post/2008/03/Some-Blog-Posts-on-Silverlight-Security.aspx

Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Path and File Resolution : Pete Brown (POKE)
http://community.irritatedvow….ilverlight-2-Beta-1-Path-and-File-Resolution.aspx

Xap! App! Pow! Packaging and Application Startup in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 - Part 1 and 2 : Pete Brown

• Part I
• Part II

Tip of the Day: Routed Events - Bubbling and not… : Jesse Liberty
http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/…routed-events-bubbling-and-not.aspx

Using HitTest Method in Silverlight 2 for Collision Detection : Andy
http://www.andybeaulieu.com/Home/tabid/67/EntryID/95/Default.aspx

Silverlight 2: Demystifying URI references for app resources : Ashish
http://nerddawg.blogspot.com/2008/03/silverlight-2-demystifying-uri.html

built-in Styling and generic.xaml : Jaime Rodriguez
http://blogs.msdn.com/jaimer/archive/2008/04/08/built-in-styling-and-generic-xaml.aspx

How does the Canvas control deal with the Measure/Arrange process : Nikolay Raychev
http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/4688.aspx

Embedding fonts in Silverlight 2 : Tim Heuer
http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/03/10/embedding-fonts-in-silverlight-2.aspx

Using and embedding fonts in Silverlight 2 : Rob Houweling.
http://web-snippets.blogspot.com/2008/03/embedding-fonts-in-silverlight.html

Silverlight cross domain policy file helpers: Tim Heuer
http://timheuer.com/../silverlight-cross-domain-policy-file-snippet-intellisense.aspx

Silverlight Dynamic Languages in Visual Studio : Laurence Moroney
http://blogs.msdn.com/../silverlight-dynamic-languages-in-visual-studio.aspx

A deepzoom primer ( explained and coded).. : Jaime Rodriguez
http://blogs.msdn.com/jaimer/archive/2008/03/31/a-deepzoom-primer-explained-and-coded.aspx

A carousel control in Silverlight 2…: Jaime Rodriguez
http://blogs.msdn.com/jaimer/archive/2008/03/17/a-carousel-control-in-silverlight-2.aspx

Awesome panoramic view : Martijn Croezen
http://web-snippets.blogspot.com/2008/04/panoramic-view-using-texture-mapping-in.html

IsolatedStorage in Siverlight 2 Beta 1
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2008/04/isolatedstorage-in-siverlight-2-beta-1.html

Layout controls in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 (Links for Canvas, StackPanel and Grid) : Nikolay Raychev
http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/4642.aspx

Defining Columns for a Silverlight DataGrid : Scott Morrison
http://blogs.msdn.com/../defining-columns-for-a-silverlight-datagrid.aspx

Using The Silverlight DataGrid : Scott Morrison
http://blogs.msdn.com/scmorris/../using-the-silverlight-datagrid.aspx

Silverlight 2 Map / DataGrid Demo (Part 1) : Jason Zander
http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2008/04/04/silverlight-2-map-datagrid-demo-part-1.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2008/04/04/silverlight-2-map-datagrid-demo-part-2.aspx

Configuring IIS for Silverlight Applications : Walter Oliver
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/262/silverlight/

Configuring a Web Server to Host Silverlight Content : Tim Sneath
http://blogs.msdn.com/../configuring-a-web-server-to-host-silverlight-content.aspx

Note: All of graphics from this post are from original article. So, All credits go to the original creator of those images.

Yes. That’s all. All of those links are from my bookmark list. If you like to share your favorite link, please let me know.