Andy Weston's Blog

Silverlight 3 is now available for download  from MSDN.  It seems pretty crazy that MS was able to add so many features so quickly, the last release was less than a year ago.  I haven’t explored all the new features yet but the first thing I plan on looking at is the new Expression Blend 3 which [...]

Here’s a nice open source charting solution that I’ve been looking at for Silverlight … http://www.visifire.com .  It also works for WPF.  I like the Microsoft Chart Controls too but VisiFire gives you animated Silverlight graphs in a clean way.

A team at Infragistics has put together a great collection of visual design patterns for piecing together user interfaces called Quince.  The sample explorer itself has a really nice look to it and it shows off some of the fancy things you can do with Silverlight.

I’ve been playing around with formatting XAML for Silverlight on the server side and I decided to mash-up some XML from an Amazon web service and get it to display a list of books. Here’s a sample page …

I ran into a few limitations but overall it went pretty well. The plugin doesn’t [...]

ComponentOne is now showing off demos of it’s upcoming Sapphire Silverlight controls.  After installing the plugin, click on the Show Me Sapphire button on the carrousel.  The control gallery includes Flashy versions of buttons and listboxes and docking panels.  These are still alpha versions of the controls (a few things don’t work yet, like the Tab [...]

I’ve been playing around with creating some XAML snippets and I needed a place to post my code so I created this little framework page to display them … ./silverlight/samples
 I’d like to create a little XAML Sample Manger in ASP.NET … if only I can find the time!!!

I went to the monthly user group meeting last night and a guy by the name of Chad Campbell showed off some cool silverlight demos.  He did a great job.  A couple of things came to mind I thought were pretty cool …  1) XAML can be read by search bots - this is a [...]