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If you aren’t familiar with it, it is a Silverlight framework encapsulating the best practices for media playback for Silverlight applications.  It is both a framework and, in v2, they also provided compiled simple player XAPs that you can just drop in HTML.  If you are building apps, you’ll want to take a look at the framework in more detail, but if you want a solid media player experience grab the players too.

The Windows Phone Controls project has been updated to run with the April Refresh of the Windows Phone Developer Tools. This project currently includes the Panorama and Pivot controls along with sample projects demonstrating the controls.

Windows.Toolbar is Silverlight library that implements common widgets that allows us to build a rich toolbar control in our applications, it incorporates: group panels, drop down buttons, pickers…

In my last blog post I've preannounced SLARToolkit: The open source Silverlight Augmented Reality Toolkit. Today I'm proud to announce that SLARToolkit is now available at CodePlex.

I was pretty excited to see that there’s a new drop of MEF up on CodePlex – if you’re a reader here then you’ll know that MEF will ship with Silverlight 4 and with .NET Framework 4.0 ( it’s already in the beta/RC bits in both cases ) and there are versions on CodePlex targeting Silverlight 3 and .NET Framework V3.5 Sp1.

The WriteableBitmap API is very minimalistic and there’s only the raw Pixels array for such operations. The WriteableBitmapEx library tries to compensate that with extensions methods that are easy to use like built in methods. The library extends the WriteableBitmap class with elementary and fast (2D drawing) functionality, conversion methods and functions to combine (blit) WriteableBitmaps.

A few months ago, I described a proof-of-concept project and learning exercise I'd worked on to implement some of the basics of the HTML 5 <canvas> specification using Silverlight as the underlying platform: HTML 5 <canvas> announcement, fix for other cultures. As I explain in the introductory post, I didn't set out to come up with the most efficient, most complete implementation - just to get some familiarity with the <canvas> specification and see what it would be like to implement it with Silverlight.

Most of the functionality I implemented in Matrix3DEx was originally required for another open source project I'm currently working on (hint, hint), and as you might know I also like to extend Silverlight's graphics functionality in a reusable manner. That's why I decided to extract the Matrix3D code into a separate open source project, add some more useful methods, document it and write a sample.

Mike Taulty provides several straightforward steps to get a Kaxaml for WPF 4 up and running.

I wanted to get a version of Kaxaml that understood WPF 4.0 Beta 2 and so I spotted that the source was on CodePlex and thought I’d set about downloading it and seeing if I could get something going. I should probably try and contribute to the project rather than just writing this blog-post but as far as I can tell the source on CodePlex isn’t the most recent version of Kaxaml as it doesn’t seem to have the Silverlight 2 support that the most recent version from the website looks to have. So, rather than contribute to the wrong code-base I took some simple steps that you might be able to replicate to get a Kaxaml for WPF 4 up and running. Took me about 10 mins on the train.