Pete Brown has an article on the theme “Pie Chart Styling in the Silverlight Toolkit - Cross-Slice Gradients”. He was inspired to write this post by Mehdi and Jafar Husain. Reading this will help you to apply your own pallet to your pie charts and to create some nice subtle shading effects.
The new release of ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2008 v3 is now here and it includes over 30 Silverlight controls. Illuminate your RIAs today with rich design, interactivity, and enhanced performance.
A few days ago Google announced “event tracking” for their Google Analytics platform. That’s why Tim Heuer created a little sample to see how Event (analytics) tracking might work with Silverlight.
Jobi Joy has created an interactive Silverlight greeting card. In most of the work Jobi used Microsoft Expression Blend. You may see the card in action or just download the source code for it.
Matthias Shapiro has a great example of Mac Style Button Tray in Silverlight. He apologizes that the code is a mess right now but you may still download the project files if you want.
Russell Greenspan submitted 6 of his 10 "How-To" posts for Silverlight. Here they are:
- How-To #1/10: sharing code between Silverlight and WPF applications
- How-To #4/10: enforcing an MVC-style architecture
- How-To #6/10: creating a horizontal WrapPanel that is transform-aware and exposes row and column counts
- How-To #8/10: trapping and processing mouse movement in an InkPresenter
- How-To #9/10: creating a Path object from a Stroke
- How-To #10/10: manually detecting and installing the Silverlight plug-in
Jesse Liberty announced that his tutorial on Multi-page applications is now available in both C# and VB and in both HTML and PDF format. It shows how to build an application that allows you to switch from one page to another, passing data from the first to the second.
Azret Botash has written the article “Silverlight on a Desktop” in which you can find the new Fiji project and download the preview bits.
Adam Kinney is proud to announce that Project Rosetta turns into a MIX09 workshop. The MIX workshop he is going to present is entitled “Shio o Totte: Using What You Know”. Its purpose will be to teach you how to use your skills and toolset in the world of XAML, Silverlight and WPF.
Michael Wolf has dedicated his last article to Silverlight and Encryption. According to Michael, encrypting data in isolated storage is a pretty simple procedure and makes perfect sense for storing sensitive data to the client.