Silverlight Contrib

Silverlight Contrib is a collection of Silverlight Controls and API enhancements, and productivity tools built for and by the Silverlight developer community.

Silverlight Contrib to Merge with Silverlight Extensions

Today, we are excited to announce that the popular Silverlight Contrib and Silverlight Extensions projects will be merging into a single project! We think this move will greatly benefit the Silverlight developer community. Combining the two projects will provide a centralized location for developers looking to contribute controls to the community as well as those seeking to find controls for use in their own applications. This consolidation will help to reduce overlapping efforts in addition to promoting a more rapid release cadence.

During the consolidation phase, we still encourage feedback and issue reports on both projects. We will merge all of the project information from both projects once the name has been finalized and a centralized site has been developed.

So which name will we keep? That is your decision! From your votes, we will keep the more popular name. Please make sure you voice your opinion by voting. Votes from the community will be accepted until March 29th, 2009 at 6:00 PM EDT.

As new information is available we will post updates on both the Silverlight Contrib Blog and Silverlight Extensions Blog blog. Stay tuned!

Please vote on your favorite project name!

Getting Started with Silverlight Contrib

• Download the latest release from CodePlex
• Explore the Live Demos at SilverlightContrib.org
• Read through the included documentation
• Check out the Community Resources wiki page for community submissions

Suggestions / Feedback

• This project is driven by community feedback so please tell us what you think! You can submit questions and comments on the Discussions page.
• Please submit all issues and feature requests through the Issue Tracker.
• Keep up with Silverlight Contrib announcements by subscribing to our blog on SilverlightContrib.org

Want to Help?

• Do you have a control or useful API that you would like to see in Silverlight Contrib? We would love to hear about it.
• Want to be a part of the Silverlight Contrib team? We are looking for developers! You can email us at feedback@silverlightcontrib.org

Current Release - 2009.1.0

The current release is compatible with Silverlight 2 and consists of the following features:

Features

Controls

• Color Picker
• Gauge Control
• Star Selector
• Enhanced Metafile (EMF)
• Cool Menu
• Group Box

Library

• Zip Compression
• Animation Extension Methods
  • FindStoryboard
  • Animate
  • AnimateDouble
• Dynamic Imaging
  • Editable Image
  • BmpDecoder
  • PngDecoder
• Utilities
  • Byte Utilities
  • String Utilities
• Simple Text Parser
• Animation Tweening
• Wheel Mouse Listener
• Clipboard Helper - (Internet Explorer Only)
• Data Helpers
  • Data Context Extension Method Wrapper
  • Char Type Converter
  • Html Decoder Converter
  • String Format Converter

ReSharper File Templates

• Silverlight Control Template
• Generic.xaml Template
• ClientAccessPolicy.xml Template
• CrossDomain.xml Template
• ValueConverter Template
• Panel Template

ReSharper Live Templates

• Dependency Property Generator (with change callback)
• Dependency Property Generator (without change callback)
• Attached Dependency Property Generator
• Inline Storyboard Completed Handler
• RoutedEvent Generator
• VSM Block Generator

Visual Studio Code Snippets

• sldp - Generates a Dependency Property without a change callback
• sldpc - Generates a Dependency Property with a change callback
• sldpa - Generates an Attached Dependency Property
• slevent - Generates a RoutedEvent
• slsbc - Generates an inline Storyboard Completed handler
• slpanel - Generates a Panel
• slrss - A super basic collection class that loads an RSS feed
• slvc - Silverlight Value Converter Template