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/

Microsoft has posted the source code and unit tests for many of their Silverlight Controls on the Microsoft Download Center. From the download page:

 

Brief Description

This download contains the source code and unit tests for the managed Silverlight 2 controls included in System.Windows.dll, System.Windows.Controls.dll, and System.Windows.Controls.Data.dll.

 

Quick Details

File Name:	Silverlight 2 Control Sample Source Code and Apps.exe
Version:	2
Date Published:	1/7/2009
Language:	English
Download Size:	881 KB
Estimated Download Time:	2 min 56K

 

The source code for the Silverlight 2 controls includes implementations for the following controls: 

ButtonBase Button HyperlinkButton CheckBox RadioButton CheckBox

ToogleButton RepeatButton RangeBase Slider ScrollBar ProgressBar

Calendar DataGrid DatePicker GridSplitter TabControl

You will need need the “Microsoft® Silverlight™ Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1” installed to open to projects and code included in the download.

Many thanks to Greg at Greg’s Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day blog for discovering this.