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Friday, March 20, 2009 10:17 PM

Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 Release

This week we released an updated Silverlight Toolkit - the Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 release.   This release has some new components, but we spent a lot of time working to make sure that the Toolkit can be updated in an agile way, but still
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 7:50 PM

WPF and Silverlight Toolkit Compatibility

General Compat Thoughts The majority of the controls in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2008 (PDC) release are Silverlight versions of controls already present in WPF. These "WPF Parity" controls include: DockPanel WrapPanel ViewBox Label Expander
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Saturday, November 08, 2008 4:35 AM

A Veritable Cornucopia of Silverlight Toolkit Resources

The Silverlight Toolkit is off to a great start and lots of people have been spending time writing content about how to use it. I'm a big believer in delivering a good end-to-end experience with the software my team produces, and the Silverlight Toolkit
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:07 AM

Having problems opening the Silverlight Toolkit Help file?

Today at lunch, Jeff mentioned to me that the default security policy on Windows Vista was causing some users difficulty opening the CHM help file. Jeff has all the details on his blog . You'll get a message that says "Navigation was canceled". If that's
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Friday, October 31, 2008 4:24 AM

PDC "Silverlight Controls Roadmap" talk and materials

Just arrived back home from a great few days down at PDC in LA. What a fun show to be at - even for people inside the company it's a great opportunity to learn about some of thee great projects going on. I'm really excited about Live Mesh and am looking
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Attachment(s): PDC08.zip
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 10:00 AM

Silverlight Toolkit Now Available For Download

On the heels of Scott Guthtrie's PDC keynote this morning, I'm very pleased to announce the launch of the Silverlight Toolkit on CodePlex! The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of components dedicated to making you - the Silverlight Developer - as productive
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 6:32 PM

Silverlight 2 Released - Silverlight Toolkit on the Way

As you know, today we released Silverlight 2 .  Scott mentioned the Silverlight Toolkit in his post as well - which is exactly what my team is working on .  We're driving hard to get the first preview release of the Silverlight Toolkit at PDC
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Friday, October 03, 2008 11:57 PM

MEF 'n IoC

If you understood the title of this post, then you'll understand the question that's been in my head for a few weeks.  Recently, Microsoft released a preview of the Microsoft Extensibility Framework (MEF) up on CodePlex.  As I do with most things
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:57 PM

Unit testing with Silverlight

One of the things I was most excited about when we shipped the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 controls was the included unit testing harness, written by Jeff Wilcox .  I think it's a good thing when we can share some of our internal tooling.  It's good
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Sunday, September 28, 2008 10:14 PM

Updated ExpandoHeaderControl sample for RC0

Here is the updated control sample for RC0. Just a few changes from Beta 2 - RCO: generic.xaml needs to now be in a folder called "themes" (case sensitive) rather than in the root of your project. In VSM transition declarations "Duration" has been renamed
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:40 AM

Control Freak.

Hmmm...no blogging lately...what has Shawn been up to?  Yes, guilty.  But here's what's been going on over the past few months.  Shortly after MIX07, ScottGu brought up an idea of building a larger team focused on building controls. 
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:13 PM

Updated Silverlight Control Tutorial for Silverlight 2 Beta 2

I've finally gotten the Silverlight Control tutorial sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2. There have been some non-trivial changes to how controls are written between Beta 1 and Beta 2. My goals were to do more than a straight port. I wanted to take
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Attachment(s): HeaderB2.zip
Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:15 AM

Building a Storefront using ASP.NET MVC

If you're interested in what's going on with the new ASP.NET MVC project, Rob Conery has just launched a new series of webcasts that document the process of him building out an MVC Storefront .  He's been iterating on this idea for a few weeks and
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Saturday, March 22, 2008 7:55 PM

Tutorial: Writing a Templated Silverlight 2 Control

[UPDATE: For a Beta 2 version of this control, click here ] We're going to create this control: It's called the ExpandoHeaderControl, and it does two basic things. First, it has an area for a header, and a collapsible content area, with a ToggleButton
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:45 PM

Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Controls Available, including Source and Unit Tests

Get Silverlight 2 Beta 1 If you were watching the Keynote from MIX08, you know that Silverlight 2 Beta 1 is now available for download . The package includes three components: 1) The Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Runtime - installs the basic Silverlight runtime
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