Oh my god, it's the big release day today. Finally the RTW version of the Silverlight Tools were released. To be honest, I can't see the big changes when looking at the feature list, but there must be something, just not that clear I think.

You can see more here at this post: http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/10/28/silverlight-tools-rtw-released.aspx

I have now been searching for some good fullscreen Silverlight 2.0 final release samples, but with out luck. Therefore I created this thread on silverlight.net to find out. I got good responses and made this little project with two ways of doing it.

You can download the project here as a zip file

The project includes two ways of doing "fullscreen" applications.

You choose between the two different ways by commenting in the one you like in the App.xaml.cs file.

Fullscreen1 - Shows how to make an application fullscreen/browser by setting "styles" on the controls to make them resize properly.
Fullscreen2 - Shows how to scale up your application by code.

It's two different ways of doing it as I see it and is used in different scenarios.
The way it's done in Fullscreen1 will typically be used for "application", meaning an application with a "static" layout.
The way it's done in Fullscreen2 is more for "games", as it scales the hole application up, which can constain lots of different dynamic controls at the time.
Well, this is just the way I see it at the moment please let me know if you think otherwise, I could be wrong.

The Silverlight Toolkit has been released at Codeplex.com. This kit is similar to the Ajax Control Toolkit for ASP.NET, as it extends existing controls and add totally new ones to the framework.

Get Silverlight Toolkit from here

See some samples of the charts here

Or here to see samples of controls

I have cleaned up the source for Bubbles a little and am now releasing it for you to enjoy. The source is released as-is, and some encryption/security code have been removed to keep my hiscore as correct as possible.

Get the source from here

This Wednesday I submitted my first Silverlight 2.0 (final release) game to Silverlight.net late at night. Already the next day it was up there, great!  

The basic concept in the game is to "pop" as many bubbles as you can in 30 seconds, pretty simple. The best thing is that it also has a hi-score, which means that you can fight to become the "Bubble Master aka #1". The game is a complete rewrite of a similar game I did in Beta 1 and Beta 2.

You can play the game directly on my site here: http://silverlight.laumania.net/bubbles/

Or you can get to it through Silverlight.net here: http://silverlight.net/community/gallerydetail.aspx?cat=sl2

I'm planing to release the source code for it, I just wanted to add some minor fixes and changes to the game before that. So you should be able to find the source on my site here, and on Silverlight.net in some time.

Enjoy!