Silverlight Girl has made one very useful tutorial about creating shadow effect in Expression Blend. She uses 5 Rectangle shapes in total: one to be the object and other four to form the shadow. Check what else she has made.
Steve Commisso has a post which is a combination of a few
Silverlight extenders – DragExtender, RotateScaleXtender, KeyExtender and FillContainerExtender. There are also a
running example,
source code, and a snippet from the test harness showing example usage.
David Wynne has written the article “
Silverlight and the View-View Model Pattern “
in which he demonstrates the key aspects of the pattern. He had posted source code which contains all the core components and a number of Unit Tests to play with. You just have to set the StandardViewModel.Test project as the start-up project and hit F5 to run them.
Joe Stegman has two new posts – the first one is about
Silverlight browser support. This post provides a bit of details on what it means to be an officially supported Silverlight browser and what experience you should expect from not officially supported browsers. The second one is about
Silverlight and Opera. Joe and his team did some level of Opera testing and looked at customer reported Silverlight/Opera issues.
At Lee’s Corner there is a
sample application. Lee wanted to see how easy or difficult it will be to do an app in Silverlight without using code behind. The only code behind that you will see is the default code that is generated when a xaml page is added.