How about a Silverlight control which shows the time line of a project? Check out the blog post to know more.

The other day I wanted to have a timeline control in Sharepoint so that I could easily know where each project is in its lifecycle. Yeah, you could easily use Visio or some other diagramming tool but it does take effort. So a timeline control would be nice. In Sharepoint 2010, you can host a Silverlight webpart – so there you go…