What is the best source of free Vista style graphics for application development? I want 32x32 and 16x16 that I can use in a Winforms application.
If you're using Visual Studio Professional or above, you've got a zip file of icons in your VS path under Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary. Some of the images use the Vista style.
Best place I've found for commercial toolbar icons etc is glyfx.com.
The Tango project has some good icons
For areas that only need 16x16, the silk icons from famfamfam are good too
Both are Creative Commons licensed
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I just found this theme http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2010/09/09/silverlight-jetpack-theme-released.aspx which you can download within this package http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14590.
But, the VSIX addon files are not compatible with VS 2012, and I have no idea how I may use the raw XAML files in my project.
Hope anybody can help out, and I can use this one in my project!
Best regards,
Simon
Unfortunately, it's not that easy to just use a Silverlight theme in LightSwitch.
I've been meaning to create some new LightSwitch themes to add to my Luminous Themes for LightSwitch extension, but I just haven't had time.
Adapting the available Silverlight themes for use in LightSwitch is on my to do list. My themes are made available to the community at no cost.
Themes similar to what you want are available as a paid product at LightSwitch Extras.
I want to pack my file in to a single executable file "setup.exe", my application is written in c# and WPF, I know that there are a lot of applications out in the store for creating a installation pack, but the point is which one would help me to build my installation pack just like Devexpress dose ?
For an UI similar to DevExpress you will need a setup authoring tool which offers an external UI and rich graphics.
Advanced Installer and InstallShield have some great UI themes which can get you started. You can also find a list of setup tools here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_installation_software
You'll probably have to roll a custom solution for this one. I expect nothing less of the Devexpress team then creating their own installer.
If you're application is not heavily bound into the registry and all kind of windows folders it should not be that hard to create an application that extracts some files into a directory and create some great UI while copying.
I need to create charts for WP Mango. Therefore I have a couple of "what/how" questions which might be interesting:
What...
...frameworks or tools use for this purpose?
...better to use, Silverlight or XNA (or mix)?
...to read, download, avoid etc.?
...pitfalls in charts creation (even not for WP)?
The same Data Visualization project that supports charting on WPF and Silverlight supports Windows Phone 7. Download the package and the data visualization demos from Delay's Blog:
Phone-y charts [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 4 and Windows Phone 7 Charting sample!]
Look at Telerik RadChart for WP7
I have found only 2 free Windows Phone chart libraries. Here are my posts with overview of these libraries:
Silverlight Toolkit
AmCharts
At the end of my posts I posted links to sample applications, so you can download and test them without writing your own samples.
I'm evaluating Silverlight for a RIA right now. A large amount of the Gui is to be designed by people without programming skills. Visually the application should be very appealing, animations, smooth transitions and so on are a big plus for us. Blend and Silverlight seem to be tailored very well to fit this requirement. However it does need the runtime which is somewhat acceptable for us but also a little disadvantage.
So, do you know an mature Ria-like alternatives (similar ease of development, all-in-one-happy-package without runtime) outside of this ecosystem? I had a look at Qt and the designer but I'm not sure what to make of it in the moment with all the buzz about it and if it is fitting to our needs.
Are there other alternatives you can recommend?
Thanks in advance.
If you're familiar with .NET technologies and looking at Silverlight from that perspective, its may be the way to go in that you will be using the same tools. Silverlight is also cross-platform on desktops.
Adobe Air as far as I can tell can be many things, one or more combininations of flash, flex, javascript, html. This is also cross platform in terms of desktop machines.
Html/jQuery/Javascript is another option, this also enables usage on mobile devices.
There are 3rd party plugins/add-ons and components for most of these technologies that help with both features and the visual aspect of the interface.
There is Adobe AIR, but I'm not familiar with it.
Just so I understand, here is what I hear you saying: you want designers to design the UI and developers to develop the code.
Your problem is that developing for Silverlight requires the Silverlight runtime? I'm not sure I get this, but here are some thoughts:
1) If your designers are running Windows you can install just Expression Studio and Blend should include all you need for them to do their work in Blend.
2) If your designers are NOT running Windows, they can't use Blend. They can still do their design work in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop because those assets can then be imported into Blend. Of course, whoever does the import will need a Windows machine with at least Blend installed: in that sort of scenario we call that person an "integrator", and there are folks out there who specialize in that sort of work.
3) If your developers are going to create Silverlight applications, they will need Windows and .NET developers tools (preferably Visual Studio). To paraphrase what AnthonyWJones said earlier: how can you develop for a platform without having the platform?
In my mind, having Visual Studio and Blend is the "all-in-one happy package", but that's just me. :)
I am creating a silver light 4 application which shows Hindi text using my custom Unicode font, its working fine when I embedded it in silver light application.
Custom font size is approximately 15 MB after compress in xap, it's too big. So is there any possible way to installed font on client machine using Silverlight.
I do not belive there is a way to actually install it, unless it is possible in a trusted SL4 Out Of browser app.
What you may want to do is package the font in a separate resource assembly and enable application library caching on the silverlight application.
You can do what was done over here to create a sub-set of your font using Blend SDK to make it much smaller: How to Create Subset Fonts in .NET?