A little bit late is coming the Silverlight news today, but don't worry that's for a reason - we are busy with some pretty nice demos and articles for the next week. So here are the most interesting blogs that caught our eye today:
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Contest - Michael Sync is organizing a small competition for best Silverlight 2 Beta 2 article and giving a cool prize to 5 people - Silverlight in Action book. Go, write and win ;)
HtmlTextBlock sample for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - A replacement of the TextBlock control that enables you to display simple XHTML in you Silverlight apps. Supports most commonly used elements in HTML - <A>, <P>, <B>, <I>, <U><BR> and <STRONG>. It really does sound interesting having in mind that with the current control set in Silverlight you can't even have a simple text with a link in it.
Parts and States Model with VisualStateManager (Part 1 of 4) - To help with understanding the Parts and States model, Karen Corby blogged how to
- Create a control contract using the Parts and States Model
- Wire the control logic to manipulate states and parts
- Design a control template with states and parts
Silverlight unit test framework - Jeff Wilcox have just packed-up the latest binaries for the unit test framework for Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Download Microsoft.Silverlight.Testing.zip (160kb)
Visifire Silverlight Charts - the open source charting framework has been ported to Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Here are the changes:
- Explicit typecasting of constants while setting dependency properties like TopProperty, LeftProperty etc.
- Resources are now added with a key element and resource object reference , instead of passing just the reference.
- The Target property for animations has been changed from String to PropertyPath object.
Thanks to Chirag Pinjar for letting us know about the new release.
Using Popup to create a Dialog class - Dave Relyea shows how to present a dialog to the user using the Popup class and JavaScript interop. That really could come in handy in many situations.