Dan Rigby – Software Development Blog

09/15/2009 – Edit: I now have a static page dedicated to these links.

I’m just starting go through my WPF books, so I wanted to capture some useful WPF / Silverlight links that I’ve discovered over the last year.

Windows Client – Winforms and WPF Home. Information, tutorials, links.
http://windowsclient.net/default.aspx

Silverlight Home – Information, tutorials, links.
http://silverlight.net/default.aspx

Web Platform – Microsoft Web Platform Information. Web Platform Installer download.
http://www.microsoft.com/web/default.aspx

Codeplex WPF Home – Portal for accessing the WPF Toolkit and the WPF Futures releases.
http://www.codeplex.com/wpf

WPF Toolkit – Additional Controls, Themes, and Tools for WPF.
http://wpf.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=29117

Silverlight Toolkit – Additional Controls, Themes, and Tools for Silverlight.
http://silverlight.codeplex.com/

Patterns and Practicies: Composite WPF and Silverlight (Prism) – WPF /Silverlight Application Framework and Patterns.
http://compositewpf.codeplex.com/

Caliburn – WPF / Silverlight Application Framework.
http://caliburn.codeplex.com/

Visifire – Free (for GPL’d works) Silverlight and WPF Charting Controls. Has dual licensing model for closed source usage.
http://www.visifire.com/

Kaxaml – Lightweight XAML Editor.
http://www.kaxaml.com/

WebAii – Free Web Application Testing Framework for IE and Firefox. V2 Will support Silverlight.
http://www.artoftest.com/products/webaii.aspx

Ninject – Fast, Lightweight .Net Dependency Injection
http://www.ninject.org/

I came across two very cool links today that I thought I would save so I could find them later:

• Google AJAX APIs Playground - http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/
  • This page is located on the Google Code website and provides example javascript code and documentation links for what seems to be all of Google’s AJAX web services. It includes an interactive code window that allows you to modify the example code, run it, and see the results in a preview pane. Looks to be exceeding useful as a reference for experimenting with and implementing Google web services.
• Microsoft SDKs - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/dd299405.aspx
  • This page has links to all of Microsoft’s SDK downloads. Azure, Visual Studio, Office, XNA, Mobile, Silverlight, etc. You name, it’s got it.
  • You can find out more information about this new page by reading this blog post from a member of the Windows SDK team.

These links have also been added to the links collection in the right sidebar of this blog for quick access.