Silverlight 2 File Uploader: Final!

As I'm sure you've already heard, Silverlight 2 has released (Tim Heuer has a great post here where DEVs can find everything they need to get started). And it's good news. Privately, I was a little dissapointed with the Beta 2 release, finding it very buggy and obstructive to work with. Fortunately, the Silverlight team have pulled out all the stops to make this a solid release and have even added some nice extras since Beta 2 for good measure.

To put the RTW version through its paces I set about converting my beta 2 based file upload control - and refactored to how I would have liked it to be structured in the first place but couldn't because I had to work around the bugs in Beta 2.

The two biggest changes are:

• Implementation of a ViewModel pattern to get the most out of SL2's databinding
• Use of the new ProgressBar

And here it is (this is the dummy version that doesn't actually upload files, just pretends to as a demonstration).

As mentioned above, this time I used the new ProgressBar control to show, er, progress! However, I liked the look and feel of the Beta 2 version I created so I used the re-templating functionality to make the ProgressBar look how I wanted it to.

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