Today’s Silverlight Firestarter in Atlanta was a remarkable event due in large part to the remarkable audience. We started off with about 110 attendees, and while some left throughout the day, just as many came in to replace them. By my session, which was the last presentation of the Firestarter, the audience was still enthusiastic and responsive – really amazing considering they’d been receiving a massive Silverlight brain-dump for the past nine hours from some of the best Silverlight developers and architects in Atlanta.
As promised, I am posting the various websites I discussed during my presentation on the Silverlight Ecosystem – the combination of corporate and community resources that make up Silverlight.
Silverlight Control Suites:
The Silverlight Toolkit: http://silverlight.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=24246
SL Extensions and Silverlight Contrib: http://www.slextensions.net
Telerik: http://www.telerik.com/products/silverlight.aspx
Component Art: http://www.componentart.com/
ComponentOne: http://www.componentone.com/
Infragistics: http://www.infragistics.com/
Cellbi: http://www.cellbi.com/default.aspx
DevExpress: http://www.devexpress.com/
Divelements: http://www.divelements.co.uk/silverlight/
FarPoint: http://lab.fpoint.com/inputsilverlight/
Netika Tech: http://www.netikatech.com/products/toolkit
Intersoft: http://www.intersoftpt.com/
Vectorlight: http://www.vectorlight.net/controls.aspx
Visifire: http://visifire.com/
Xceed: http://xceed.com/Upload_Silverlight_Demo.html
Silverlight Book Recommendations:
Pro Silverlight 3 in C# – Matthew MacDonald (Great reference work)
Silverlight 2 in Action – Campbell & Stockton (Excellent beginner’s book)
Foundation Expression Blend 3 with Silverlight - Victor Gaudioso
Foundation Silverlight 3 Animation – Jeff Paries
Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 – John Papa
Silverlight Tutorials:
Channel 9
http://silverlight.net/learn/tutorials.aspx
Silverlight Blogs:
The Silverlight Geek (Jesse Liberty)
method ~ of ~ failed (Tim Heuer)
Brad Abrams
Shawn Wildermuth
Jeff Prosise
85 Turns (Corey Schuman)
Dan Wahlin
Adam Kinney
Charles Petzold
Page Brooks
Rob Zelt
Silverlight Forums:
http://silverlight.net/forums/ (You can usually get your SL questions answered within a day, if not within minutes, at the silverlight.net forums)
http://silverlight.net/community/communitygallery.aspx (An excellent place to look for some inspiration)
Free Silverlight Code:
http://www.codeplex.com/site/search?projectSearchText=silverlight
Silverlight Contests:
http://telerikwatch.com/2009/07/telerik-silverlight-contest-win-500.html (Due September 14th)
http://www.componentart.com/community/competition2009/ (Due September 22nd)