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In talking with the Translator team following MIX (where they announced they were working on a Silverlight class library for the API.  It was good to interact with their team to understand their direction and provide some feedback on how they were approaching it.  In the meantime, with their direction, I had started working on a simple wrapper for myself while writing the Translator for Seesmic plugin I was writing.  I’ve received a few inquiries on Translator so I thought I’d post my library here for you to see/use.

A common place to put styles in Silverlight applications is the App.xaml file. Any style declared in App.xaml is automatically picked up by any of your custom controls in your application. However, if you create a Silverlight Class Library you will notice there is no App.xaml file to put styles in.

In order to create styles in a Silverlight Class Library there are primarily two steps you can take in order for your controls to pick up on the statically declared styles.

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…

Very cool that Silverlight and XNA can share some libraries in a single application!

I was reading through the UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone 7 Series and found out that there is currently no panoramic application template or control provided as part of the standard application platform. Nothing stops us from creating our own though.

A while ago I started the WriteableBitmapEx project to make the life a bit easier when working with the WriteableBitmap. And now what would be more natural than porting it to the Windows Phone platform.

Quite simply, SilverSynth is a Silverlight library used to create awesome sounds in a web browser. It can be used as a core library for developing music-based applications or for just generating noise that annoys your co-workers. It supports synthesis of sine, saw, square and triangle wave forms, frequency modulation, amplitude modulation, panning, volume control, and dynamic envelopes.

It can be used as a core library for developing music-based applications or for just generating noise that annoys your co-workers. It supports synthesis of sine, saw, square and triangle wave forms, frequency modulation, amplitude modulation, panning, volume control, and dynamic envelopes.

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.