In his recent post blog , Jafar Husain did a nice introduction to the Rating Control which we shipped with the July edition of the Silverlight Toolkit. Jafar and I (the PM) spend quite a bit of time on this control making sure we provide a very powerful...

In my last blogs, I went over how to customize the existing Silverlight Toolkit themes. In this post, I will talk about what it takes to create new themes that work with Implicit Style Manager. Let's start by creating a Silverlight 2 project in Blend...

I wanted to see how far I can take the styling of the Silverlight toolkit charting controls. To answer my question, I turned to Excel and picked one my favorite chart themes: The challenge was to see if I can reproduce the same look with the Silverlight...

Today, I will explore the ExpressionDark Theme and will go through the process I use to generate many great looking variations of this theme. A killer tool that helps generate colors for themes is Kuler . what's even better is the Colorful Expression...

In this blog I will be discussing the customization of the Rainier Theme. We will use the sample from the last blog and will first add the RainierOrange.xaml file from the Source\Controls.Samples\Theming\ThemeBrowser folder to our project and rename it...

We shipped the Silverlight Toolkit with the following Themes: Expression Dark Expression Light Shiny Red Shiny Blue Rainier Orange Rainier Purple In this post, I will be talking about how to customize these themes  and produce many great looking...

By now you must have already heard of the Silverlight Toolkit my team shipped today. If not, you can read all about it here . Over the next few blogs, I will be covering a range of topics all intended to help Designers and Developers create graphically...