Oh my, have we grown! Maybe I should change the name to Multiple Silverlight Giveaways. So far, my Silverlight giveaways have been such a success that I’m going to be able to give away more than one Silverlight product every month. Last month, we gave away 3 great products. 1) ComponentOne Silverlight Controls 2)  ComponentOne XAP Optimizer (with obfuscation) and 3) Silverlight Spy. This month, we will give away 4 great Silverlight products and have 4 different winners. This way the Silverlight community can grow with more than just one person winning all the prizes. This month we will be giving away:

1. DevExpress Silverlight Controls – Over 50+ Silverlight Controls
2. Syncfusion User Interface Edition - Create stunning line of business silverlight applications with a wide range of components including a high performance grid, docking manager, chart, gauge, scheduler and much more.
3. Crypto Obfuscator – Works for all .NET including Silverlight/Windows Phone 7.
4. Silverlight Spy – provides a license EVERY month for this giveaway.

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Win a FREE developer’s license of one of the products listed above!

4 winners will be announced on April 1st, 2011!

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DevExpress Silverlight Controls

Let’s take a quick look at some of the software that is provided in this giveaway. Before we get started with the Silverlight Controls, here is a couple of links to bookmark for the DevExpress Silverlight Controls:

• The Live Demos of the Silverlight Controls is located here.
• Great Video Tutorials of the Silverlight Controls are here.

One thing that I liked about the DevExpress is how easy it was to find demos of each control. After you install the controls the following Program Group appears complete with “demos” that include full-source.

 

So, the first question that you may ask is, “What is included?” Here is the official list below.

I wanted to show several of the controls that I think developers will use the most.

The Book – Very rich animation between switching pages. Very easy to add your own images and custom text.

The Menu – This is another control that just looked great. You can easily add images to the menu items with a few lines of XAML.

The Window / Dialog Box – You can use this control to make a very beautiful “Wizard” to help your users navigate between pages. This is useful in setup or installation.

Calculator – This would be useful for any type of Banking app. Also a first that I’ve seen from a 3rd party Control company.

DatePicker – This controls feels a lot smoother than the one provided by Microsoft. It also provides the ability to “Clear” the selection.

Overall the DevExpress Silverlight Controls feature a lot of quality controls that you should check out. You can go ahead and download a trial version of it right now by clicking here. If you win the contest you can simply enter your registration key and continue using the product without reinstalling.

Syncfusion User Interface Edition

Before we get started with the Syncfusion User Interface Edition, here is a couple of links to bookmark.

• The Live Demos can be found here.
• You can download a demo of it now at http://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/evalstart.

After you install the Syncfusion, you can view the dashboard to run locally installed samples. You may also download the documentation to your local machine if needed.

Since the name of the package is “User Interface Edition”, I decided to share several samples that struck me as “awesome”.

Dashboard Gauges – I was very impressed with the various gauges they have included. The digital clock also looks very impressive.

Diagram – The diagrams are also very easy to build. In the sample project below you can drag/drop the shapes onto the content pane.

More complex lines like the Bezier lines are also easy to create using Syncfusion.

Scheduling – Another strong component was the Scheduling with built-in support for Themes.

Tools – If all of that wasn’t enough, it also comes with a nice pack of essential tools.

Syncfusion has a nice variety of Silverlight Controls that you should check out. You can go ahead and download a trial version of it right now by clicking here.

Crypto Obfuscator

The following feature set is what is important to me in an Obfuscator since I am a Silverlight/WP7 Developer:

And thankfully this is what you get in Crypto Obfuscator.

You can download a trial version right now if you want to go ahead and play with it. Let’s spend a few moments taking a look at the application.

After you have installed Crypto Obfuscator you will see the following screen:

After you click on Assemblies you have the option to add your .XAP file in:

I went ahead and loaded my .xap file from a Silverlight Application. At this point, you can simply save your project and hit “Obfuscate” and your done. You don’t have to mess with any of the other settings if you don’t want too. Of course, you can change the settings and add obfuscation rules, watermarks and signing if you wish. 

After Obfuscation, it looks like this in .NET Reflector:

I was trying to browse through methods and it actually crashed Reflector. This confirms the level of protection the obfuscator is providing. If this were a commercial application that my team built, I would have a huge smile on my face right now.

Crypto Obfuscator is a great product and I hope you will spend the time learning more about it.

Silverlight Spy

Silverlight Spy is a runtime inspector tool that will tell you pretty much everything that is going on with the application. Basically, you give it a URL that contains a Silverlight application and you can explore the element tree, events, xaml and so much more.

This has already been reviewed on MichaelCrump.net.

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