In this Issue: Michael Wolf, Colin Blair, John Papa, Ning Zhang, Andy Beaulieu, and Tomasz Janczuk. Shoutouts: In case you missed it in the rush the other day, Robby Ingebretsen announced the release of Seesmic for Windows ... that's going on my laptop this weekend! The Microsoft Expression Blog has a great tutorial upon the use of Panels in Expression Web. Don't forget, I have all Silverlight 4B articles tagged at WynApse.com, along with lots (>7600 posts) of other stuff :) From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Rob Houweling, Michael Washington, Colin Eberhardt, Laurent Bugnion, Tomasz Janczuk, Jeremy Likness, and Andy Beaulieu. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 4 – Using the webcam Rob Houweling has a tutorial up on using the webcam in Silverlight 4 Beta ... all good stuff, and hmm... I'm not following their new site, so that brings the total up to 397 :) Silverlight Bridge - A Silverlight 4 File Manager Access your local file system and drag-and-drop, and OOB in Silverlight? --- wow,...
Silverlight 4 Overview Postings Every time there's a beta or a release I try a different way to get all the good stuff out. I waited until today, and am scooping up all the overview blog posts, and posting them first in this post. I've got a few submissions I'll get out later today and then I'll start catching up with everyone as the days go on... I've tagged 63 posts so far! -- oh, and I added a "4 Beta" tag on Silverlight Cream, so that's ready to roll For now, here is the (SL4ß Overview) end-result...
Silverlight 4 Beta is out! Yes boys and girls, you heard that right!! This morning at PDC, Scott Guthrie announced the news. And I was so interested in posting this, I had a bad link for Shawn's site -- that's now fixed -- sorry Shawn!! Go to Silverlight 4 Beta Information to get all the information, and download the bits. All the usual suspects have posts up alread as well: Tim Heuer has a great long post up about it on his site: Silverlight 4 Beta – A guide to the new features Shawn Wildermuth...
In this Issue: Andrej Tozon, Deborah Kurata, Avi Pilosof, Andrea Boschin, Andy Beaulieu, Damian Schenkelman, smartyP, Kirupa, Alexey Zakharov, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutout: Yikes... if you haven't seen this yet... GO THERE NOW: My Christmas Catalog For all you 3D enthusiasts, Einar Ingebretsen has announced an Upcoming Balder release From SilverlightCream.com: Exploring Silverlight behaviors: look Ma, no code! Andrej Tozon built a Halloween sound player using Expression Blend and Behaviors ... then...
In this Issue: Avi Pilosof, Bill Reiss, Jeff Handley, Bea Stollnitz, Peter Bromberg, Deborah Kurata, Jesse Liberty, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutouts: Interview with Bob Muglia and Steve Gillmor: Bob Muglia on Azure, Silverlight, and Realtime From the Microsoft Expression Blog: Modify the SketchFlow project settings Christian Schormann gives a list of SketchFlow and Blend at PDC ‘09 Iwan van Ee sent a link to me to his Application to view photos posted on panoramio.com. This is pretty cool, and he's...
In this Issue: AfricanGeek, Brian Genisio, Loek van den Ouweland, Victor Gaudioso, Jeremy Likness, CrocusGirl, Walt Ritscher, Rob Eisenberg, Andrea Boschin, Alan Mendelevich, and nmarun. Shoutout: The Microsoft Expression blog has a quick tip up: Paste or move a keyframe Adam Kinney gives us a Silverlight Developers Guide to PDC09 See the post below about Walt Ritscher's new ShaderGallery Add-in for Expression Blend, but he's also Seeking WPF pixel shader effects samples for ShaderGallery From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Alex Golesh, Rick Barraza, AfricanGeek, Laurent Duveau, Scott Marlowe, Mason Brown, Rishi, Radenko Zec, Alex van Beek, and Anoop. Shoutout: Here's the announcement from the Bing Community site: Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 Released Laurence Moroney has a good article up on Web 2.0 – What’s it all about? Tim Heuer reports on Two Silverlight SDKs released – Bing and Facebook Tim Greenfield posts about his winning Component Art Silverlight Contest entry PuzzleTouch wins the ComponentArt...
In this Issue: Jim Lynn(2), Vikram Pendse, CrocusGirl, and Kevin Dockx. From SilverlightCream.com: Ordnance Survey maps in Bing Maps Silverlight control Jim Lynn has a post up about using Ordnance Survey maps in the Bing Maps Silverlight Control. This involved some digging and code from a previous project, but it's all here and works great!Binding to a Silverlight Chart Series gives a null reference exception Jim Lynn also has a quick post up to help keep you from losing hair (by pulling it out)...
In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Expression Blend and Deisgn Blog, Alan Mendelevich, Gergely Orosz, Jeff Handley, Chris Klug, Rishi, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutouts: First off, on this Veteran's Day. If you served or are serving in the military, thank you for your service! ComponentArt has posted their contest results and Tim Greenfield won! Congratulations Tim! And the Winner is.. If you want to find all of Victor Gaudioso's video tutorials, you can either search at SilverlightCream.com, or check out...
In this Issue: Bart Czernicki, Jesse Bishop, XAMLNinja, Andrea Boschin, Jeff Prosise, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutouts: Michael Washington's reported that the Open Light Group's DotNetNuke SketchFlow Viewer featured on Channel 9 Mark Tucker has been doing the Casual game series on Shazaml! Mark presented on the topic at Desert Code Camp last weekend, and is sharing the video: Video: Creating a Silverlight 3 Casual Game using Blend 3 and Triggers, Actions, and Behaviors To prove that he really still...
In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, Jit Ghosh, Jeff Prosise, Jesse Liberty, Victor Gaudioso, and René Schulte Shoutouts: If you can get to Twitter during the day (lucky you), check out Jesse Liberty's Subscribe to 62 Silverlight Twitter’ers.... there's a stellar list of devs on there! Adding to the burgeoning list of sites to check every day, Brad Abrams announced http://silverlight.net/riaservices/ is Live! Timmy Kokke has gathered together links to all the current Silverlight and Expression Tools...
In this Issue: XamlNinja, Zoltan Arvai, Alan Mendelevich, Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios, Chris Klug, Pete Brown, Fons Sonnemans, Tim Heuer, Jeff Prosise, and Mark Miller Shoutouts: Corey Miller posted a User Experience Review post that's a good read. Jeff Wilcox announced The Silverlight Toolkit - now in the Microsoft Web Platform Installer Andrew Duthie blogged about the Freescale Sensor Badge - Fun Gadget! ... get yours! Laurent Bugnion announced another early release of his MVVM Light Toolkit V3...
StarterKits for Silverlight and the Expression Tools Lately I’ve seen some tweets passing by with links to various StarterKits. I’ve decided to "Bing” around a little and find out what these people were talking about. There are quite a few StarterKits available on various topics. I’ve listed a few below, old and new ones, that I find relevant to my fields of interest: Silverlight and the Expression Blend, Design and Web. Building a Zune Website with Expression Blend 3 StarterKit In this lab you will...
In this Issue: Michael Palermo, Rishi, Microsoft Expression Blog, Jeremy Likness, David Burela, and Ward Bell. Shoutout: Adam Kinney has a Photosynth linked that you won't believe: A Photosynth of Neil Gaiman’s Library From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight and Internet Download Manager Michael Palermo has a solution to the use of the Internet Download Manager dorking up your Silverlight app. I Command MVVM On March 9, 2009, Rishi Posted I Command Silverlight, now he's posted I Command MVVM. With...
In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, Jonathan van de Veen, Stephen Forte, Laurent Duveau(2), Alan Mendelevich, and nmarun. From SilverlightCream.com: Why Silverlight 3 Navigation cannot be fully leveraged when loading modules remotely with Prism 2 Damian Schenkelman goes into the future [November 5 :) ] to discuss why there are issues with Silverlight Navigation in Prism. He references articles that contain workarounds as well. Connecting to the SqlMembership model through Silverlight and WCF Jonathan...
In this Issue: Mark Miller, SmartyP(2), Goncalo Chaves(2), and David Anson. Shoutouts: Walt Ritscher announced October 2009 version of Composite WPF(Prism) released and has some highlights from the release Damian Schenkelman posted a similar announcement: Prism 2.1 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight 3) just released (updated version for Silverlight 3) From SilverlightCream.com: MVVM with Prism 101 – Part 5b: ServiceLocator vs Dependency Injection Mark Miller continues with...
In this Issue: Bob Thomson/Storm Ideas, Danijel Stulic , René Schulte, Jesse Liberty, Windows Client.NET, Sergey Barskity, Jeff Prosise, Vikram Pendse, Frank La Vigne, and Tim Greenfield. Shoutout: Damian Schenkelman posted that Prism 2.1 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight 3) just released (updated version for Silverlight 3) When you think User Group you think of a bunch of geeks sitting around, but holy crap... check out this stellar crew: Launch of the Dutch Silverlight and...
In this Issue: Rob Bagby, Paul Sheriff, Mike Taulty, Sergey Barskiy, and Gavin Wignall. Shoutout: Here's a quick one from the Expression blog: Export to Microsoft Word From SilverlightCream.com: Patterns-Based Silverlight Development – Part IV – Service Layer Rob Bagby has Part 4 of his excellent Patterns-Based Silverlight Development series up. He's addig the WCF service this time. Create a Login Screen in Silverlight 3 Paul Sheriff had a post up of a login screen in WPF that I archived in my Tag...
In this Issue: Mark Miller, Sergey Barskiy, Gavin Wignall, Josh Holmes, Bryant Likes, and Jeff Prosise. Shoutouts: András Velvárt sent me this yesterday and I was blown away by all the Silverlight goodness: Response Karl Shifflett did a re-release of his latest XAML Power Toys: Updated Code: XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Cider Designer Karl Shifflett also updated the templates for VS2010: Updated Code: Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates David Anson has a page up...
In this Issue: Visual Web Developer Team Blog, Laurent Duveau, Gavin Wignall, Victor Gaudioso, and Karl Shifflett. Shoutouts: Karl Shifflett has a post up on New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects My DE Rob Bagby reported some news on his blog: The Bagbys Are Moving to London... congratulations, my friend! Charles Sterling announced this just in time for tomorrow, Thursday October 29th: A Tour of Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight: focusing on getting started...
In this Issue: Mark Tucker, Pete Brown, The Silverlight Blog, Katrien De Graeve, Gavin Wignall, Rob Bagby, Nigel Sampson, Gergely Orosz, and The Microsoft Expression Blog. Shoutouts: Check out Walt Ritscher's Shazzam 1.1 – Topic List jfo has a quick post up Beta2 is out -- What's new in Cider Brad Abrams has an index page up for his .NET RIA Services series: Index for Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update. Or you could use the Search page at SilverlightCream.com...
In this Issue: Alex Knight, Michael Washington, Gavin Wignall, Tim Heuer, Shawn Wildermuth, Karl Shifflett(2), Mark Miller, The Silverlight Blog, René Schulte Shoutouts: In addition to the XAML Power Toys release noted below, Karl Shifflett also announced XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2008 v5.0.0.1 Released Rob Eisenberg has announced Caliburn v1 RTW for WPF, Silverlight 2.0 and 3.0! Shawn Wildermuth shares his material with us from his Second Week of European Conference Tour... like being there...
In this Issue: Rishi, Andrea Boschin, Tiago Andrade e Silva, Jeff Wilcox, Vijay Rajagopalan, Gavin Wignall, Damon Payne, Tim Heuer, Hannes Preishuber, Jafar Husain Shoutouts: Watch a webcast by Tim Heuer in the Architect Innovation Cafe – Webcast Series: An Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3 Andrew Duthie announced Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit – October Preview Rob Bagby had this announcement up: Watch the Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Virtually From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Stefan Olson, Ning Zhang, Gavin Wignall, Jeremy Likness, Jeremiah Morrill, David Kelley, Sergey Barskiy, Jeff Wilcox, and Rob Bagby(2). Shoutout: Get the info direct from Tim Heuer: Silverlight Live Streaming service update From SilverlightCream.com: Selecting an obfuscator for Silverlight If you're looking at obfuscating your Silverlight, read Stefan Olson's post carefully... he dug deep into a range of obfuscators and has reported his findings.Silverlight Design Time: Toolkit October...
In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, David Anson, Chris Klug, Walt Ritscher, Rob Bagby, Gavin Wignall, Vikram Pendse, Jeremy Likness, David Kelley, and Jafar Husain. Shoutouts: Tim Heuer has posted A plea to my developer brethren about designer/designers ... good information if you're working with or want to work with a true Designer. If you're in Ireland or Northern Ireland, Martha Rotter has an absolutely great program going: Introducing the Silverlight Jumpstart Program ... I want to do that in...
In this Issue: Alex Golesh, Expression Blend and Design, Rob Bagby(2), Jeff Wilcox, Tim Heuer, David Anson, Mark Miller, Timmy Kokke, and Jeremy Likness. Shoutouts: Lee poses the question Same XAML Silverlight and WPF – different result ... see if you can comment! The Thirsty Developer chats with Chad Campbell: Thirsty Developer 75 - Sparking a Business into Divot Dog Shawn Wildermuth had a chance to do a short podcast while in Bulgaria producing: Five Minutes with Me Laurent Bugnion announced MVVM...
In this Issue: Mark Miller, Kirupa, Sergey Barskiy, Timmy Kokke, Laurent Bugnion, Jeff Prosise, Ronnie Saurenmann, Expression Blog, The Silverlight Blog, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutouts: Check out .NET Rocks Show 489 because Shawn Wildermuth announced I am on .NET Rocks Talking about Declarative UI's Jon Galloway has a post up on The Designer/Developer Workflow Crisis (That Everyone’s Ignoring) that's definitely something to check out. Unless you've been sleeping behind the door, you already know...
In this Issue: Davide Zordan, SmartyP, Corey Schuman, Gavin Wignall(2), Jeff Paries, Vikram Pendse, Victor Gaudioso, Jeremy Likness, and Jonathan van de Veen. Shoutouts: Tomasz Janczuk has updated his research from July:Adoption of Silverlight serialization and communication technologies in web applications – October 2009 Check out Alexey Zakharov's Issues of Silverlight style system and join in the discussion. DanDan sent me a link to his Binaural Beats Generator... I'll let you be the judge From...
In this Issue: Jeff Handley, Jeremy Likness, Gavin Wignall(2, 3, 4, 5), Mark Miller, Nigel Sampson, and Microsoft Expression Product Site. Shoutout While not a complete solution, Koen Zwikstra had done an OOB solution for Silverlight a while back and now he's giving up the source: Hosting Silverlight outside the browser (sourcecode). Forget all those weight-loss gimmicks! I worked Monday the 12th, took off the 13th and felt worse all day, was at the Dr with flu symptoms on the 14th... ended up with...
For a long time I’ve been wondering how to create a smoke effect like used in the Silverlight Logo for example. There are some techniques to render smoke by using 3D modeling software. But creating this effect in a tool like Expression Design is easier than it looks. Below is an example of what the end result might look like. After opening expression Design start by creating a new document.The size of the document isn’t very important as long as you have a bit of space to play with some paths, so...
I’d like to provide you with a SilverBullet™, a small snippet of Silverlight, a class or namespace hidden in the silverlight .NET framework, to help you out in times of need. It’s not to learn, but something to keep in your pocket. Just remember it’s there and you’re safe. This time I would like a little helper class to your attention. When working in a web environment ever so often you need to encode/decode a Url or a piece of Html. In Silverlight you need to look for the System.Windows.Browser.HttpUtility...
In this Issue: SilverlightToys, SilverlightTips, Rishi, and Fons Sonnemans. Shoutout: Walt Ritscher blogged What’s New in Shazzam 1.1 – Better Silverlight Support ... take a look at it now! From SilverlightCream.com: Element Data Binding SilverlightToys has a post up on Element Dat Binding with a bunch of examples to demonstrate it... buncha good code! Silverlight QueryString Validating ID, GUID, and Timestamp SilverlightTips rolled up 3 of their posts into one project that is discussed and posted...
In this Issue: Lee, Lester, Ian T. Lackey, Silverlight Tips, Gavin Wignall, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutouts: Koen Zwikstra reports he has an update: Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.4 released... if you haven't downloaded this, stop now and go do so... I'll wait :) Andy Beaulieu had a presentation at the CNY .NET Developer Group, and has posted all his materials: Creating Behaviors in Silverlight 3 Congratulations go out to Jonathan van de Veen for Developers 42 online for one year!... and thanks for the Shoutout!...
I was trying to regenerate a Silverlight proxy, but I kept getting this error: Turns out, Win 7 sometimes adds an <extendedProtectionPolicy policyEnforcement="Never" /> element to your Web.config. Here’s the workaround according to the Silverlight Web Services team: On Windows 7, when you use the Silverlight-enabled WCF Service item template, an <extendedProtectionPolicy /> element may be generated in Web.config. This element is not supported by Silverlight. Simply remove the element...
In this Issue: Mark Monster, Gavin Wignall, Fernando Cerqueira, Silverlight Tips, Mark Tucker, Mike Taulty, Robbe Morris, Brad Abrams, Christopher Bennage, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutouts: The Silverlight Blog reports Silverlight Spikes AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Matches Live to Your Computer From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 3 – Local Messaging Explained + Enhancement Mark Monster has a great detailed post up on Local Messaging, and adds in an enhancement of his own.Using Images and Video in Blend...
In this Issue: Gavin Wignall(2), UXPassion, Andrea Boschin, Shawn Wildermuth, Mark Tucker, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutouts: If you're DeepZooming, A Deep Zoom Blog has a very cool post up on clearing up text on maps: "Exact" Map rendering Tim Heuer has been busy updating his tutorials for beginners [and nobody's gonna notice if YOU check them out :) ] : Updated Silverlight getting started for beginners Have you seen Wordle? John Bruin did it in Silverlight: Silverlight Wordle The Silverlight SDK announced...
In this Issue: Jared Bienz, Tim Heuer, Sergey Barskiy, Alex Knight, Gavin Wignall, Damon Payne, Peter Bromberg, Shawn Wildermuth, and Mark Tucker. Shoutouts: Robbe Morris at EggHead Cafe has put up EggHeadCafe in Silverlight Release Candidate Now Available. Would be cool to see a series of articles detailing this :) John Bruin has a demo of of Silverlight Money Pyramid. This is pretty cool... I don't see a link for source though :( From SilverlightCream.com: Skins for WPF and Silverlight By way of...
In This Issue: Laurent Bugnion, Chad Campbell, Mark Miller, Jacek Ciereszko, Laurent Duveau, Kirupa, Ning Zhang, Timmy Kokke, Expression Blend and Design Blog, and Mark Tucker. Shoutouts: Since the demise of the MSDN Social Bookmarks, I've wanted to move my tag page to it's own page on WynApse.com, and I finally did that last night. There's a left-border link to Tagged Posts that contains a tag cloud of, at this moment, 7268 articles tagged 10259 different ways using 421 unique tags, on all sorts...
Today I would like to show you how to create lines like above in Expression Design. After opening Expression Design, start by creating a new .design document. Now, zoom in a bit to the upper left corner of the document. Draw a small rectangle and give it some easy numbers. Move the rectangle to 10, 10 and change it width and height to 10 too. Change the stroke of the rectangle to none, and change the fill color to black. Copy the black rectangle and move it to position 10,20. Change its color to...
In this Issue: Gavin Wignall, Manish Dalal, Jeff Wilcox, Terence Tsang, and Mark Tucker . Shoutouts: Rishi, the author of nRoute had to move his site. Last night I transitioned all his links in the database to point to the new site, so feel free to re-acquaint youself with his posts. András Velvárt has another thought and comment-provoking post up Silverlight is slowly becoming the real WPF/Everywhere ... check it out and join in the discussion! Particularly if you have a touch system, check out...
First I'd like to congratulate all the returning MVPs, and all the new ones... fun awaits and I hope to see you all at the Summit! I'd particularly like to call out people I know that have just become Silverlight MVPS. Tim Heuer did a great post with links to everyone, so I won't repeat that. Bryant Likes -- wow... it's been a well-earned award all the way back to rolling that gear, Bryant :) Jeff Paries ... if you're not familiar with Jeff, you should be... Jeff is the animation master of Silverlight!...
In this Issue: Damon Payne, Rishi, Nigel Sampson, Chris Klug, Andrea Boschin, Bryant Likes, Timmy Kokke, Shawn Wildermuth, Terence Tsang, and Mark Tucker. Shoutouts: As referenced below, Shawn Wildermuth is beginning a validation project: Introducing Project Niagara Laurent Bugnion has announced MVVM Light Toolkit Messenger V2 beta, and has some good discussion comments. Koen Zwikstra also has an update: Document Toolkit 1.1.0.3 Tim Heuer announced Silverlight Firestarter Seattle videos online......
In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Boyan Mihaylov, Silverlight SDK, Christopher Bennage, Stephen Forte, Jacek Ciereszko, Jesse Liberty, and Mark Tucker. I'm still at least 2 days behind, but the crunch is over, so now I can maybe catch up. From SilverlightCream.com: Helpful extension methods for Show / Hide animations in Silverlight Colin Eberhardt is sharing some of the code he uses regularly by way of Extension Methods to Show/Hide animations, and boy that demo works great... thanks Colin!Creating...
I’d like to provide you with a SilverBullet™, a small snippet of Silverlight, a class or namespace hidden in the silverlight .NET framework, to help you out in times of need. It’s not to learn, but something to keep in your pocket. Just remember it’s there and you’re safe. Occasionally it’s required to use an Rss or an Atom feed in your projects. Just to show some news, or the latest update on the stock exchange. Working with these, often large, chucks of xml directly can be a pain. In Silverlight...
Unlike WPF, Silverlight doesn't contain a DataTemplateSelector. A DataTemplateSelector is used to select a data template based on the data-bound element and the data object. But, it isn't hard to build your own. Start by adding a class to the solution and call it something like “DataTemplateSelector”. Inherit this class from System.Windows.Controls.ContentControl. The ContentControl class has a property for a data template and a property for content, which you can use to data-bind to. Next, create...
In this Issue: Jesse Liberty, Jonathan van de Veen, Alex Golesh, Chris Cavanagh, Michael Washington, Danijel Stulic, Bob Bartholomay, Mark Tucker, Chris Klug, and Lee. Shoutouts: Jeff Handley has another poll that he'd like you to take a shot at: Should DomainDataSource.AutoLoad be True or False by default? Walt Ritscher has announced that Shazzam development is moving again... check it out if you haven't already and stay tuned for enhancements! Steve Commisso has been hard at work and has reported...
In this Issue: Mark Tucker, Silverlight Toys, Matthias Shapiro, qixing, Chris Klug From SilverlightCream.com: Hidden Object: Episode 4 – Adding Particles with a Behavior With a nod to Robby Ingebretsen, Mark Tucker adds shooting particles when an item is selected... and you thought it was just going to select, huh?Pixel Shaders Silverlight Toys has a great tutorial up not only on using PixelShaders but building your own... I know we've done this before, but hey, two sources can't be bad :)Color Image...
In this Issue: Mark Tucker, Fredrik Normén, Silverlight Toys, Nikhil Kothari, David Poll, Terence Tsang, and Bea Stollnitz. Shoutouts: If you had trouble with the SilverlightSpy site, it's back up now, so go get a copy to try! From SilverlightCream.com: Hidden Object: Episode 3 – Marking Items off the List In this espisode of his game development series, Mark Tucker creates hotspots for selecting items and marking them off on the game board. Create an automatic scrollable image slider in Silverlight...
In this Issue: Mark Tucker, Bart Czernicki, Bob Bartholomay, Silverlight Toys, Sergey Barskiy, Andy Beaulieu Shoutouts: Falling into the category of the next MVP->Microsoft category, a big Congratulations goes out to Pete Brown!! Now with more forehead! (or, a happy shade of blue) As promised, Karl Shifflett announced XAML Power Toys v5 Published ... with tons of support material... thanks Karl! Brad Abrams chats: HanselMinutes Interview on RIA Services From SilverlightCream.com: Hidden Object:...