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In our demo at Mix 2010, we showed that path layout can also provide a neat stand-in for some features that are missing from the Silverlight runtime: Motion path and text on a path.

Let me show you how these are done. Also, I’m going to give you a sneak preview on some other more advanced stuff you can do with path layout that my colleague Joanna Mason is going to blog about in detail soon…

With Blend 4 Beta, these fonts are installed in your system fonts directory, and they are also included in the SketchFlow project templates. That means that these fonts are automatically embedded in any SketchFlow project you create.

The next post in this series will be a side bar with a lot of background information on how the various templates in ListBox work in Silverlight and WPF, and why you were doing what you were doing in this example. After that sidebar, I will continue with more fun things that you can do with path-based layout.

Path-based layout opens many interesting creative possibilities, way beyond just laying out things on a path. But more on that later. It is currently supported on Silverlight 4 and WPF, but not yet on Windows Phone.

In the current Blend 4 beta release, there is no special project template for prototyping of Windows Phone applications. But it is very easy to set up a Silverlight prototype to have the right aspect ratio for phone applications and use this as the base.

Christian Schormann is talking about SketchFlow Prototypes embedded in DotNetNuke.

When you create Microsoft Silverlight SketchFlow applications you will usually want to place them in a password protected place. DotNetNuke can provide the user and role management you desire. The DotNetNuke Silverlight SketchFlow Viewer can have separate instances placed in your site as many times as desired.