Silverlight in Style

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...