Free Silverlight Controls And Tools For Brighter Websites – Part 1

Silverlight, which is used in more websites everyday, has several beautiful free controls, components & tools that will help you develop websites faster & better.

They are not very easy to find as they are hidden inside the blogs of Silverlight developers or .NET products websites & there are still not so many resources where you can read about Silverlight.

WebResourcesDepot have collected these free Silverlight controls, components & tools to help making your websites brighter.

GOA WinForms

Use the standard System.Windows.Form .NET library for both Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. It allows .NET developers to write standard WinForms applications that will run on these two RIA platforms.

AgDataGrid Suite – Free Silverlight Grid Control

This free grid control has data grouping, data sorting, row editing, multi-row selection features & many more.

It is a feature-rich & very professional grid solution.

Visifire – Silverlight Charts

Visifire (see WRD post) is one of the most powerful & well-documented open source chart solution that can be found in the net.

It can be used with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails or just simple HTML. Animated 2D-3D column charts, bar charts, pie charts & more can be created with it.

SvLite Effects – Silverlight Dynamic Animations

This Silverlight effects library is currently in beta (& can be paid in the future).

It has carousel panel, slide show, advanced wipe animations, fade animations and more. Animations can be easily configured & support chaining.

Silverlight.FX – Silverlight Effects Library

Effects / transitions in this library are: resize, move, spin, fade, highlight, colorFill, shake, pulsate, crossFade, blinds, slide, and flip.

The download package can be found within the post & there are examples to show you its capabilities.

Silverlight Contrib – Free Silverlight Controls

A collection of Silverlight Controls built by the Silverlight developer community.

Current control in the package are:

• Color picker
• Menu
• Gauge
• Star selector

Controls From Vectorlight

Vectorlight presents many free Silverlight controls including:

• Calendar
• Upload
• Date picker
• Progress Bar
• Treeview & more..

Silverlight Nuggets – Free Silverlight Controls

Lots of free controls that are Silverlight 2 compatible including border, calendar, canvas, checkbox & more..

ComboBox – Free Silverlight Combobox Control

A combobox control that includes templating, data binding, and auto complete functionality.

Silverlight 2 Video Player

A re-sizeable video player with no custom controls. Some features are:

• Supports streaming media
• Ability to autostart & show a thumbnail
• Full screen playback
• TimeLine marker support

Slide.Show (With Flickr Support)

This slideshow can be embedded to any webpage & configures via JavaScript or XML easily.

It can display album and slide data provided by XML, Flickr, or JavaScript & has auto-playback with multiple transitions (e.g. fade, shape, slide, wipe, etc.) support.

Video.Show – Video Community Application

This is a beautiful Silverlight application that enables anyone to create a video community.

All video is hosted at Silverlight Streaming for free, which gives you 4GB storage and 700 Kbps bandwidth via Microsoft’s worldwide Content Delivery Network.

The application has time-based comments, broad media support & many other features that will show the features of Silverlight from the most basic to the advanced level via the downloadable source code of it.

Silverlight Slideshow

A lightweight image slideshow built with Silverlight 1.0.

It supports several transitions effects, has smart image scaling & full screen mode.

Images are defined in a XML file & here is an example of Flickr integration.

Source code is hosted at CodePlex & can be found here.

PageTurn – Silverlight Page Flip

A magazine like page flip effect that works very nice.

Images can be flipped with mouse or browsed via the thumbnails.

photoGallery – Silverlight Photo Gallery

This photo gallery displays upto 12 images & gallery can be configured easilt from an array in a JavaScript file.

agTweener – Silverlight Tweening Engine (Tweener ported)

This Silverlight tweening library is a ported version of Tweener (Flash tween library).

Although it does no have all the features of Tweener, agTweener is still very promising.

Silverglobe – Silverlight Globe Map Control

This open source Silverlight control renders a global map onto a vector based 3D globe.

The globe can be freely rotated in all directions and geographical locations can be added and selected.

Find out below the examples of Silver Light Controls and tools with source code [By Vectorform].

Free Silverlight Controls And Tools For Brighter Websites – Part 2