Designer Silverlight

These are my links for May 6th:

• AutoScroller For Silverlight 2 ScrollViewer – Working on my own scrolling issues… there seem to be alot of them, but the more I dig into the control, the more I understand why.
• How to set the row height of a Grid in the code – Valuable if you're creating grids on the fly… which you shouldn't have to do, but sometimes the UserControls aren't working the way you want and the client deadline is approaching and you're beginning to panic and a some solution is better than no solution…
• Simple Perspective 3D in Silverlight 3 | Corey Schuman – Corey Shuman at 85turns.com has a really basic perspective 3D sample for Silverlight 3… nothing fancy, but it has code
• Silverlight Toolkit Control – TimePicker – Jesse Liberty – Jesse Liberty walks through the Silverlight TimePicker from the Toolkit… this is also a good tutorial on just getting the Toolkit working on one's machine
• Notes On Video: Implementing Model-View-ViewModel in Silverlight – Edward Tanguay's notes on Tim Heuer's talk on MVVM in Silverlight

UPDATE: I’ve made the source code available for download here.

Yeah, yeah… I know it’s long past the time when anyone want to revisit the wonders of the 2008 presidential campaign, but the stars aligned for me to build this thing.

Star #1: I’m been meaning to learn JSON forever because everyone is talking about it.

Star #2: I’ve been meaning to get into pulling data from a publicly available API using a Silverlight application.

Star #3: I’ve been meaning to do something with information visualization in Silverlight ever since I got Ben Fry’s terrific book on Visualizing Data.

Star #4: Tim Heuer challenged his readers to create a Silverlight infoviz application with a time constraint of six days.

And so, due to several late nights and the infinite patience of my wonderful wife, I’ve finished my first data driven Silverlight information visualization. An explanation follows below the app.