Silverlight Toolkit is on a rapid pace from July to October and now again a release in November there are various improvements and other nice features which you will like. You can download the Silverlight 3 Toolkit November 2009 from http://silverlight.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=36060#DownloadId=93512 And also the Silverlight 4 beta Toolkit November 2009 from http://silverlight.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=36060#DownloadId=93513

Stated below are the changelist from the October version of the toolkit.

RTL

• All Toolkit/SDK control visuals and input handling to exhibit the correct behavior for right-to-left languages and cultures in Silverlight 4.

Mouse Wheel Support

• Controls that support scrolling can now be scrolled using the mouse wheel in Silverlight 4

Support for Validation in Themes

• All Toolkit controls now show validation UI out of the box when there are data input errors.

BusyIndicator

• New BusyIndicator control in the Silverlight Toolkit to easily toggle UI to a busy state.
• Based on David Poll’s ActivityControl which is used in the RIA Services project template and samples.

DataForm

• Added Content property that allows the form UI to be set directly, without having to specify data templates to improve experience in the designer.

Charting

• Supports more flexible subclassing scenarios of core classes
• Provides more helpful exception messages in limited scenarios
• Updated default Chart template to respect Padding
• Type of Chart.LegendItems collection items changed to object for flexibility
• Converted Legend to a HeaderedItemsControl for consistency.

ISM

• Removed ImplicitStyleManager from Silverlight 4 to phase it out now that implicit styles are supported in the platform.
• Updated Themes (TwilightBlue, ShinyRed, etc.) to work with implicit styles.

System.ComponentModel.Composition.Packaging.Toolkit.dll

• Adds PackageCatalog and a Package class which enables support for downloading secondary XAP’s and loading them into a MEF catalog.

Silverlight Unit Test Framework

• The Silverlight Unit Test Framework (Microsoft.Silverlight.Testing.dll) and the Visual Studio unit test metadata for Silverlight are now installed alongside the Silverlight Toolkit binaries
• Source ships inside the Infrastructure Zip installed with the MSI

Silverlight Development Infrastructure and Tools

• Visual Studio project and item templates for Silverlight Test Applications
• Silverlight 3 version supports Visual Studio 2008, Visual Web Developer 2008, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, and Visual Web Developer 2010 Express
• Silverlight 4 verison supports Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Visual Web Developer 2010 Express
• Experimental Silverlight Code Coverage support: collect block-level coverage data when using the Silverlight Unit Test Framework on a machine with Visual Studio 2010 and Static Analysis Tools
• Silverlight test automation support through Microsoft Build: easily include unit test execution inside the build process. Support for simple automation of Windows Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome automation.
• DefaultStyleTask for large control library projects

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