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Source: Timmy Kokke's Blog

There are numerous Dependency Injection Frameworks. For this tutorial I’ve chosen Ninject. The main idea on how to implement DI in your application is pretty much the same for all frameworks. In this tutorial I hope I can give you a small introduction in using Ninject in you projects.

Ninject is an open source project which can be found at www.ninject.org. Ninject is also available through the NuGet tool in Visual Studio. Have look at my NuGet tutorial on how to get it through that.

Timmy Kokke has published the slides and code from his talk at the SDN Event in Zeist about Unit testing MVVM in Silverlight.

Source: Timmy Kokke's Blog

I talked briefly about how MVVM works in Silverlight and dove deeper into the Unit Testing Framework which is available in the Silverlight Toolkit. After going through the various attributes used in the framework I gave a demonstration on how to use StatLight, a command line tool for running tests.

In order to demonstrate how Visual States can be used to change the look of your controls, Timmy Kokke has created a cool traffic light control.

Source: Timmy Kokke's Blog

Visual States are an easy way to change the looks of your controls based on certain states. This state can be something like a mouse hover, some invalid state or any state you need in a control.

For this tutorial I chose a traffic light control that can be one of four states. Green, Orange, Red and Inconclusive (blinking orange). In the end I show you how to use behaviors on buttons to set the state of the traffic light. This makes the use of visual states perfectly suitable for use in MVVM projects. 

                                            

Timmy Kokke has posted a tutorial on how to create and use the Visual State Manager in Custom Controls in Silverlight using Visual Studio and Expression Blend.

Source: Timmy Kokke's Blog

Visual States are an easy way to change the looks of your controls based on certain states. This state can be something like a mouse hover, some invalid state or any state you need in a control.

Source: Timmy Kokke's Blog

Adobe Photoshop offers people the possibility to share gradients through .GRD files. These files can be found very easily on various sites. This extension for Expression Blend allows you to import these files and use them in your Silverlight or WPF projects.

The extension makes use of some changes to Expression Blend made in SP1. You must have Blend SP1 installed to use this extension.

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Source: Timmy Kokke's Blog

The only downside of these actions is that they aren’t fully implemented. So you’ll have to extend the PivotViewer control yourself. If you haven’t worked with the PivotViewer before, you might want to have a look at the Building your first PivotViewer application tutorial I wrote earlier first. This tutorial continues on that.

Source: Timmy Kokke's Blog

This tutorial continues on techniques from last tutorial about runtime collection creation. If you are just getting started using the PivotViewer control, you might want to have a look at the Getting Started Tutorial first. This tutorial is centered around the methods build in the last tutorial: MakeCollection and MakeItem.

When running Silverlight 4 out of the browser it could become handy to know that the application is being closed. In case of my open source demo application SilverAmp (http://SilverAmp.CodePlex.com) I wanted to notify the user the application is being closed when music is still playing.

Today I would like to explain something about customizing the window chrome in Silverlight 4 OOB. For an example of customizing the window have a look at my open source demo application SilverAmp which is available on http://SilverAmp.CodePlex.com.