Silverlight Open source projects, Developer Tools and Blogs

Toolkits, open source projects to jumpstart your Silverlight development

1. Silverlight Toolkit - on CodePlex - http://www.codeplex.com/silverlight/

This toolkit contains an extensive set of controls that you can use in your Silverlight applications:

• Treeview, WrapPanel, DockPanel, etc
• Charting controls
• Themes

2. Blacklight - Silverlight and WPF controls for designers - http://www.codeplex.com/blacklight

Set of skinned controls for Silverlight and WPF.

3. Jellyfish Deep Zoom - http://www.codeplex.com/jellyfishDZ

Framework for creating Deep Zoom applications like Hard Rock Memorabilia

Developer Tools to jumpstart your Silverlight development

1. Kaxaml - http://kaxaml.com/

Kaxaml is a lightweight XAML editor that gives you a "split view" so you can see both your XAML and your rendered content, developed by Robby Ingebretsen as a hobby but really a must.

2. XAML Power Toys - http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/xaml-power-toys/

XAML Power Toys is a Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Multi-AppDomain Add-In that empowers WPF & Silverlight developers while working in the XAML editor. Its Line of Business form generation tools, Grid tools, DataGrid and ListView generation really shorten the XAML page layout time.

3. Illustrator to XAML Plug-in

Mike Swanson has updated his Illustrator to XAML export tool to support WPF and Silverlight.

Silverlight Blogs to jumpstart your Silverlight development

Silverlight Team Blog - http://team.silverlight.net/

Jesse Liberty blog - http://blogs.silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/

ScottGu’ blog - http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/tags/Silverlight/default.aspx

Jeff Prosise’s Blog - http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jprosise/archive/2009/10/14/silverlight-3-s-new-client-networking-stack.aspx

Katrien Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/katriend/pages/silverlight-tools-and-resources.aspx

ref:

Silverlight Tools and Resources - http://blogs.msdn.com/katriend/pages/silverlight-tools-and-resources.aspx