Cellbi recently updated their new Silverlight Controls to version 4 and to support Visual Studio 2010. I played with a couple of demos on their site and had to take a look. I headed over to their website and downloaded the controls. The first thing that I noticed was all of the special text effects and animations included. I emailed them asking if I could give away their controls in my January 2011 giveaway and they said yes. They also volunteered to give away 5 total license so the changes for you to win would increase.  I am very thankful they were willing to help the Silverlight community with this giveaway. So some quick rules below:

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Win a FREE developer’s license of Cellbi Silverlight Controls! (5 License to give away)

Random winner will be announced on February 1st, 2011!

To be entered into the contest do the following things:

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3. Retweet the following : I just entered to win free #Silverlight controls from @mbcrump and @cellbi http://mcrump.me/cscfree !
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Don’t forget to visit Cellbi because they made this possible.

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Before we get started with the Silverlight Controls, here is a couple of links to bookmark:

• The What's new in this release page is here.
• You can also check out the live demos here.

Don’t worry about the Samples/Help Documentation. That is installed to your local HDD during the installation process.

Begin by downloading the trial version and running the program. After everything is installed then you will see the following screen:

After it is installed, you may want to take a look at your Toolbox in Visual Studio 2010. After you add the controls from the “Choose Items” in Silverlight and you will see that you now have access to all of these controls.

At this point, to use the controls it’s as simple as drag/drop onto your Silverlight container. It will create the proper Namespaces for you. It’s hard to show with a static screenshot just how powerful the controls actually are so I will refer you to the demo page to learn more about them. Since all of these are animations/effects it just doesn’t work with a static screenshot.

It is worth noting that the Sfx pack really focuses on the following core effects:

I will show you the best route to get started building a new project with them below.

The best page to start is the sample browser which you can access by going to SvFx Launcher.

In my case, I want to build a new Carousel. I simple navigate to the Carousel that I want to build and hit the “Cs” code at the top. This launches Visual Studio 2010 and now I can copy/paste the XAML into my project.

That is all there is to it. Hopefully this post was helpful and don’t forget to leave a comment below in order to win a set of the controls!

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