Thanks to the work of Kelly White you can now have the Silverlight Tip of the Day appear in your Vista Sidebar as a Gadget
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Kelly has graciously made the script available here. Just unzip the file and place it in your gadgets folder, all explained in detail in this article.
Once the gadget is in your dock;you can view the current tip or click on View All Tips or click the Silverlight logo to go to the Silverlight site. Finally, if you click on the story, the "fly-out" shows you more in place, and offers to take you to the full article:
You can pull the gadget out of the dock, allowing it to float free. Settings allow for a larger or smaller size when undocked.
My sincere thanks to Kelly and to whoever wrote the Visual Studio gadget
In a great blog listing today, Tim Sneath discusses Infragistics just released NetAdvantage control set for WPF. In his excellent write up, Tim links to this incredible screenshot from Infragistics of an app that they "very quickly" build with WPF and their controls
Yowza!
This is great news, but being a total Silverlight Geek, I was immediately jealous: hey, where's ours?
<slap!> One company, one team. <slap!>
Yeah, but awww....
Well, <whew> I was glad to see that Infragistics is on on the case! Turns out that they are already building some prerelease 2.0 control prototypes, including this cool gauge,
I'll try to give some exposure to other companies that are also working on control sets for Silverlight 2.0 from time to time. There are a lot of exciting things cooking.
<corny>
Could be!
Who knows?
There's something due any day;
I will know right away,
Soon as it shows...
Could it be? Yes, it could.
Something's coming, something good,
If I can wait!
Something's coming, I don't know what it is,
But it is
Gonna be great!
lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
© 1956, 1957 Amberson Holdings LLC and Stephen Sondheim. Copyright renewed.
Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company LLC, Publisher.
</corny>
Adam Kinney has worked with Dave Campbell to feed Silverlight Cream to Twitter.
You can subscribe here. In addition, Adam has created a script for placing this news into his (or your!) web log and formatting it.
You can download the script here, along and read full details on how to use it on your own site as well. Once in place, its all automagic.
More on this to come!
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