Mart Muller's Weblog

The Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 has been released on Codeplex. In my opinion, the most interesting addition is the BusyIndicator control, compatible with RIA services.

Check out the demo here.

via [Silverlight blog]:

“Today, at the PDC in Los Angeles, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 4 beta, just four months after bringing Silverlight 3 to market. With the help of several customers we showcased the new features that will enable developers to create the highest quality media and RIA applications for the Web and desktop. These powerful new features offer developers significant benefits in rapidly creating rich software experiences, and include:

· Enhancements to Silverlight out-of-browser capabilities which enable high quality application experiences on the desktop;
· Advancements in business application development, including access to other Microsoft products like SharePoint 2010, Office, and Internet Information Services (IIS);
· The most amazing HD-quality video experiences on the Web with native multicast and offline DRM support.”

Get it here!

A new toolkit release! Some cool drag and drop features:

“Other big news for this release is the introduction of comprehensive, WPF-compatible drag-and-drop support for Silverlight! Although this support doesn't extend outside the web browser (that would require changes to Silverlight itself), it enables full-fidelity drag-and-drop experiences within the browser using the same API that WPF users are already accustomed to. And if that wasn't enough, there are also a collection of drag-and-drop-friendly "wrapper controls" for common scenarios (ex: ListBox, TreeView, and DataGrid) that make it trivial to add support for drag-and-drop to an existing control. Dragging and dropping within a control (to re-order items) or between controls (to move items around) is now just a few lines of XAML away! (Note: No code changes necessary!) But wait, there's more: There's also a wrapper for Charting's DataPointSeries that enables drag-and-drop into and out of a live Chart control! This really needs to be seen to be believed, so please visit the "Drag and Drop" page of the public samples for a great example of this. Then go read Jafar's post about the new drag/drop support for all the juicy details!”

Check out the demo here: http://silverlight.net/content/samples/sl3/toolkitcontrolsamples/run/default.html

As you might know, I started working at WiZZiX at the beginning of this year. We are working on a new service oriented solution for events & activity planning and customer relationship management, based on SharePoint technology and Silverlight 3. The first release is planned by the end of this year. After that, more things to come complementing this concept. I´ll keep you posted!

A lot is going on at WiZZiX these day. Therefore, we created a corporate weblog (in Dutch), where we will expose our development as an organization and the concepts we’re building. More information about our vision, pricing model and future developments are coming soon… Check it out at http://blog.wizzix.nl

As part of the new directions we’re going to, my colleague Jord just finished our new corporate identity: a new logo and house style. Our website will follow, but we’re happy with the results so far.

Anyway, if you’re interested in what we’re doing, subscribe to our feed. You can also drop me a line for more info.

As Silverlight 3 is being rolled out at this moment you can install the RTM runtime already.

Check out the following interesting links about Silverlight 3:

• Deep Zoom Composer for SL3
• Data-Driven RIA with Silverlight 3
• Getting Started with SL 3
• SDK Samples from Silverlight 3
• VS.Net Tools for Silverlight 3