The Silverlight Toolkit provides open source controls and components for Silverlight developers
This repository was migrated from CodePlex to the MicrosoftArchive organization where it is not actively maintained. If a community were interested in adopting or taking forward key XAML-related components, that would be awesome.
Straight from Microsoft, the Silverlight Toolkit provides the developer community with new components, functionality, and an efficient way to help shape product development. Toolkit releases include open source code, samples & docs, plus design-time support for the Silverlight browser plugin.
** This was the final release of the Silverlight Toolkit in December 2011 **
This is the 9th, newest, and final release of the toolkit targeting the Silverlight 5. New to this release are some controls targeting Silverlight 5's new 3D features. For more information on these 3D extensions, please check out David Catuhe's blog entry on the topic.
If you have previously installed the Silverlight 5 September 2011 toolkit, please make sure to uninstall before installing the December 2011 toolkit.
Note: You must install XNA Studio in order to use the new Silverlight 3D templates. Otherwise the new templates will not show up.
The Silverlight Toolkit defines four Quality Bands that describe the stability and finish-level of each component. Below is a summary of where the components currently in the Silverlight Toolkit fall within the quality bands.
The Silverlight Toolkit was created in a previous era where contributions and Microsoft's Contribution License Agreement story were not yet formalized.
Historical blog posts available from developers, designers and geeks: David Anson, Dave Relyea, Jeff Wilcox, Shawn Oster, Tim Heuer, Jason R. Shaver