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Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes!

With the Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio, developers get access to the Silverlight Navigation Application template.  By default the styles (which are located in the project’s Assets/Styles.xaml file) are really good and neutral for the application layout.  Now, keep in mind this is an overall application layout style and not control styles/templates.

In addition to the default look provided by the tools out of the box with Silverlight 3, we’re providing 7 additional application template themes for you to enjoy, extend, whatever.  Corrina and team had developed these for the community to consume and we’ve put them up on the Expression Community Gallery for download.  Here’s a preview with the links to each template:

Aurora (also available for RIA Services Template):

Aurora app theme

Frosted Cinnamon Toast (also available for RIA Services Template):

Frosted Cinnamon Toast app theme

Lime Shocker (also available for RIA Services Template):

Lime Shocker app theme

Pinky (also available for RIA Services Template):

Pinky app theme

Retro:

Retro app theme

Skyline:

Skyline app theme

Subdued:

Subdued app theme

There you go, we hope you enjoy them.  Download the zip file and you will see a Styles.xaml file included.  Simply put this in the applications Assets folder, replacing the default and you will automatically have the new theme in your application.

Hope this helps!


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  1. 7/10/2009 3:01 AM | # re: Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes!
    Awesome :) Thanks .. was looking for ideas on good UI themes for my silverlight app :)
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    7/10/2009 9:06 AM | # re: Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes!
    Tim, I downloaded the sl3 tools for vs2008 but in the middle of the installation it tries to pull resources from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=150219 which turns out to be blocked by my company's firewall, knowing them, it will be fixed in a 6 months time frame, is there a full install available of sl3 tools for vs2008 instead of just the bootstrap ?

    thanks, keep up with the outstanding work, I see everyone's (involved in sl) blog's with posts like 2~3am in the morning.
  3. 7/10/2009 9:16 AM | # re: Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes!
    leo -- same old issue for people behind walls like yourself. Download the tools, then download the DEVELOPER runtime and then follow these instructions: timheuer.com/.../...silverlight-2-rc0-offline.aspx
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    7/10/2009 12:50 PM | # re: Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes!
    It worked like a charm !
    Thank you
  5. 7/10/2009 3:52 PM | # re: Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes!
    Hi Tim
    After I do SL3 clean install on Visual Studio 2008 Team System SP1, everything just fine,
    and when I create the Silverlight project every is fine too, but I don't see the design view in my workspace, I can see only the source view with lines of code.
    I tried to re-istall many times, but still get the same result.
  6. 7/11/2009 3:02 AM | # re: Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes!
    Hello!!!
    How can I download and used Silverlight3?
    Thank you!!!
  7. 7/12/2009 4:28 AM | # re: Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes!
    Cool! Nice UI there.Downloading now:)
  8. 7/15/2009 11:33 AM | # re: Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes!
    The link to Subdued theme is incorrect. The correct link is

    gallery.expression.microsoft.com/slthemesubdued

  9. 7/18/2009 6:20 AM | # re: Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes!
    Hi Tim,

    Thanks for the post.
    You have 2 broken links ("theme" instead of "thme"), here are the fixed links:

    Aurora for RIA Services Template:
    gallery.expression.microsoft.com/riathmeaurora

    Pinky for RIA Services Template:
    gallery.expression.microsoft.com/riathmepinky
  10. 7/24/2009 4:54 PM | # re: Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes!
    Hi Tim,

    It is so nice.
    However some templates don't show text of datagrid.
    I create silverlight navigation project and added datagrid control in the page then applied skyline template and I cannot see any text only in the datagrid.

    Do I need change or some styles for that?
    Thanks
  11. 8/20/2009 2:38 AM | # re: Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes!
    Hi, I'm trying to create themes for navigation frame and page but I don't see any visual states for Pages, for example I want to animations when the pages are changed(when they load and they unload), there is something implemented regarding this? Thanks.
  12. 8/20/2009 5:18 AM | # re: Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes!
    Hi, me again at the following link you can see what I did with navigation http://www.xamltemplates.net/silverlight-3-theme/
  13. 8/20/2009 1:38 PM | # re: Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes!
    XAML - cool theme! Check out www.davidpoll.com/.../silverlight-3-navigation-... for adding transitions.

 
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