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Update to Silverlight Cream #743

2009-11-25T01:54:05-12:00:00

Please note a link change for AfricanGeek in my last SC post.

For some reason that I'll have to figure out later, my code didn't form the link correctly because I Ileft off "http://"

But it's correct now, so check it out... Silverlight 4 video tutorials!

I'm going to be dark for a couple days celebrating Thanksgiving, I hope everyone does the same and has a great Thanksgiving... even if you aren't in the U.S. :)

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Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2009 - 2 -- #743 - updated

2009-11-24T17:45:18-12:00:00

In this Issue: African Geek, Alan Mendelevich, Jeff Wilcox, CorrinaB, Tim Heuer, Jeff Handley, Timmy Kokke, Cameron Albert, Antoni Dol, and Fredrik Normén.

Shoutouts:

Check out the WCF RIA Services Code Gallery on MSDN ... lots of good resources there!

The Silverlight Team Blog posted a new Silverlight Podcast: Expression Encoder 3

Timmy Kokke has his code and slides up from Dutch Code Camp 2009

Michael Wolf has a Tim Sneath Interview on Silverlight 4 and WPF up on his blog.

Check out Joe Stegman's Channel 9 video: Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 - Out of Browser Evolves

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight 4 Video Tutorials: So much for quality control, I had African Geeks' link messed up last night, but it's correct now. Yes I know this is the same link for all of African Geek's postings, but they're in his scrolling video menu... he's got two new ones in there (on the left) that are the first two of a 4-parter on Silverlight 4. Both using the right-click menu and printing... cool!
Writing WPF/Silverlight compatible code. Part 4: Geometries: Alan Mendelevich continues with part 4 of a series on writing code that's compatible to WPF and Silverlight. This time out he's talking about geometry... and there are differences... check out his post for the details.
Walkthrough: The power of the November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit testing tools: Jeff Wilcox blogs about the new features in the Toolkit drop and gives a walkthrough of installing the toolkit and Creating a Silverlight class library with unit testing.
Windows System Color Theme for Silverlight: CorrinaB hits a homerun again with a mapping to Windows System colors ... check out the project to download... and provide feedback! ... this is great stuff...
Fixing Visual Studio 2010 and Blend Preview for .NET 4 integration: Tim Heuer comes to our rescue as usual with a solution to the problem of not being able to 'open in Expression Blend' in VS2010... be sure to read Tim's warning as well!
(Not) Doing Back Flips with DomainDataSource [SubmitChanges sends user to first page]: Jeff Handley reports on a change that was made to resolve a (possible) problem with paging after SubmitChanges() that actually ended up being pretty 'heavy handed' (their words)... read about it and the bug they've turned in on it, and how to make it NOT do what the change is trying to do.
SilverBullet #13 - System.Threading.SynchronizationContext: Timmy Kokke has his Silver Bullet #13 up on the site, discussing System.Threading.SynchronizationContext with sample code to demonstrate.
Silverlight Tile Map using WriteableBitmap: Cameron Albert took some WriteableBitmap code that Bill Reiss produced and turned it into a tiled map creator for his game... check it out... it's too cool!
Silverlight Style: GlassBorderStyle: Antoni Dol has an awesome glass button up on their new Silverlight & Expression Insiders site ... real quick drop-in :)
WCF RIA Services and DTO with association: Fredrik Normén has a post up about WCF RIA Services and DTO... specifically addressing sending an object graph that includes an association to other objects.

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Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2009 -- #742

2009-11-24T04:38:55-12:00:00

In this Issue: Rene Schulte, Jason Harper, Brad Abrams, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, Jeff Wilcox, Fredrik Normén, Tim Heuer, Shawn Wildermuth, and Andrej Tozon.

Shoutouts:

Ward Bell has a PDF up of PDC 2009 Session Links -- thanks Ward!

Tim Heuer also has posted a Microsoft PDC09 and Silverlight Round-up... I'm adding this to the Silverlight Links in the WynApse.com outlookbar.

Don't forget that Loek van den Ouweland and Fons Sonnemans have SilverlightXP up and running full of resources... They'd like submissions and suggestions!

Joe Stegman posted his TrustedApp Sample from PDC 2009

From SilverlightCream.com:

EdgeCam Shots - Saving Silverlight 4 Webcam Snapshots to JPEG: Rene Schulte extended his Silverlight 4 webcam and edge detection shader sample to save webcam snapshots as JPEG files and discusses some limitations of Silverlight's built-in CaptureSource.AsyncCaptureImage snapshot method. Furthermore he gives some ideas on how to build a Silverlight 4 video chat / conference application on top of the JPEG capturing and encoding code.
Ria Services under the hood Part 1 – Service Operations: Michael Washington pointed me at Jason Harper, and he's got a good series going on RIA Services. I decided to start with his part 1 and work my way out. This is a bit of a different slant because he's going 'under the hood'... thanks for the link, Michael!
RIA Services: A DomainService IS A WCF Service – Add Service Reference: Brad Abrams has a link to his PDC09 talk, then goes on to explain his statement that a DomainService is a WCF Service. He then shows how to consume a DomainService from a WinForms app ... I know, don't hate me for that, but it's WCF goodness, ok??
10 Steps to Debug Silverlight Out-of-Browser Applications without Attaching: Trying to debug a Silverlight 4B OOB app and having problems figuring out how to do it? John Papa has a 10-step solution for you that doesn't involve attaching, and don't worry, it won't interfere with your 12-step program :)
Getting Silverlight Applications Ready for the Real World: Jeremy Likness has a great post up for anyone building a Real-World application. He's discussing things from his experience that we should all address.
Taking the Silverlight Control Browser sample Out-of-Browser … plus a tutorial: Jeff Wilcox posts about the new OOB Control browser sample in the Toolkit, then goes on with a tutorial on how to do a first-class OOB experience for your own app.
How to create a Module based Silverlight application (Part 1): Fredrik Normén is doing a bunch of blogging lately, but don't skip his post on modularizing your Silverlight. This is the first of a series and he says the next one is going to be using MEF so stay tuned to his blog!
Silverlight 4 NotificationWindow and Queuing multiple notifications: Tim Heuer has a post up about 'toast' ... no not *that* kind of toast! ... the NotificationWindow kind :) Good article, a link to a video about it on Silverlight.net and all the source.
Taking a WebCam Photo with Silverlight: Shawn Wildermuth's latest is an app demonstrating capturing images from a webcam using Silverlight 4B... with source! I guess my only comment would be to use it only for good :)
Detecting duplicate instances of a running Silverlight application: If you've got a Silverlight app that you want to limit to one instance running what do you do? Well... go read Andrej Tozon's post and see how to get the job done... that's what I'd do :)

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Silverlight Cream for November 23, 2009 -- #741

2009-11-23T04:02:18-12:00:00

In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, Andrej Tozon, Lee, Adam Kinney, Karl Shifflett, Andy Beaulieu, and Rob Houweling.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Revisiting Lorem Ipsum in Silverlight 4 with RichTextArea and Printing: Jeremy Likness revisits some previous work on inline hyperlinks now in Silverlight 4B where the task becomes much simpler. He includes samples and code.
MVVM with WPF, Silverlight, and… Windows Forms: It appears that Andrej Tozon's blog slipped off my list... sorry Adrej, but point being, if you don't see your work here, send me a note! Catching back up with Andrej is his latest post on MVVM, Silverlight, and WPF... oh, and also WinForms, and codesharing... all the code is there and a good write-up as well.
SL4: DataGrid and contextmenu: Lee has a quick Silverlight 4 Beta post up on adding a context menu to the DataGrid... pretty cool! ... oh yeah, there's code included :)
CompositeTransform simplifies transforms in Silverlight 4 Beta: Adam Kinney shows off the new CompositeTransform class that makes coding up transforms much simpler. Read his note about Blend for .NET 4 Preview at the bottom.
Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part I: Karl Shifflett is beginning a new series on Silverlight and WPF Design-time code sharing, and it's targetting Silverlight 3 and 4... so there's not excuse not to read it!
Sharing Blend Workspace Settings: Andy Beaulieu has a post up about Blend 3 and Workspaces, specifically on sharing them... not something native to Blend, but do-able nevertheless.
Silverlight 4 - Using the webcam: Rob Houweling has a post up on using the webcam in Silverlight 4B... great walk-thru of what you need to do to get started, including all the source!

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Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 - 3 -- #740

2009-11-22T17:43:28-12:00:00

In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, Jesse Bishop, Deborah Kurata, Mark Tucker, Fredrik Normén, Corey Schuman(2), Laurent Duveau, Jeff Wilcox, and Erik Mork.

Shoutout:

Joe Stegman posted his BrowserFlow sample from PDC 2009

From SilverlightCream.com:

Rich Data Forms in Silverlight 4 Beta: Jeremy Likness' latest is on some of the new features in Silverlight 4B such as IDataErrorInfo, Data Annotations, Implicit Styles, and a lot more all with links out to descriptive posts... great overview posting!
Implementing a ContextMenu in Silverlight 4 Beta: Jesse Bishop shows off the new Silverlight 4B context menu in his latest posting.
Silverlight: No More Boxy UIs: Deborah Kurata has some great UI ideas for presentation. Not a lot of work but wow the result is very cool... check it out for yourself!
Hidden Object: Episode 13 – Give me a Hint: Mark Tucker has episode 13 of his Hidden Object game in Silverlight up. This one is involved with the hint system, as in "Ok I can't figure it out, gimme a hint" :) ... of course this involves animations to provide the hint.
Silverlight 4 Commanding enables ViewModels: Fredrik Normén discusses Commanding in Silverlight 4B in terms of MVVM... with code to explain his text.
Check if running in Out of Browser - Silverlight: Corey Schuman has a really fast post up about checking for OOB, with code :)
NotificationWindow – Silverlight 4: Corey Schuman posted an article about the new NotificationWindow in Silverlight 4B, including code and some Q/A.
Silverlight 4 Implicity Styling: Laurent Duveau has a quick post up walking through Explicit Styling in SL4B ... with some external links of his own.
BusyIndicator: David Poll’s ActivityControl is now in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 Release: Jeff Wilcox blogs about the addition of David Poll's ActivityControl in the Silverlight Toolkit
Silverlight 4 Podcast Pack with Tim Heuer: Erik Mork at Sparkling Client has an 8-pack of Silverlight 4 Podcasts for our listening pleasure.

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Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 - 2 -- #739

2009-11-22T10:11:38-12:00:00

In this Issue: Chris Klug, Gavin Wignall, Jeff Handley, Brad Abrams(2), Mike Flasko, Karl Shifflett, Jeff Wilcox, Nikhil Kothari, and Colin Blair.

Shoutouts:

John Papa posted the material from his PDC Session: MVVM and Prism Demo for PDC09 Silverlight Session, and while you're at it, here's the video: Video of my Prism and MVVM at PDC

Jeff Weber posted that a New Silverlight 3 Book Uses Farseer Physics

Joe Stegman posted the slide deck for his PDC 2009 Out Of Browser Session

András Velvárt announced My Teched Online talk: “Why Take User Experience Seriously?” is online

Christian Schormann posted his Sample Project from PDC09 Talk - and Many Links on Behaviors and then he posted an Updated PDC Demo Project

Alan Mendelevich announced amCharts Stock Chart for Silverlight Released

From SilverlightCream.com:

Getting started with multi-touch development in Silverlight 3, using Windows 7 and an iPod: Gather together Windows 7, your iPod Touch, and Silverlight 3, and Chris Klug will get you going on Multi-touch.
Optimizing Silverlight with Enable Redraw Regions: Gavin Wignall breaks silence after his long October sequence with a post on Animation and how to optimize your animations.
Building ContosoSales - The RIA Services Keynote Demo: Jeff Handley starts with what you need on your machine and where to get it to build the Ria Service Keynote application: Contoso Sales... oh yeah, and then walks completely through it!
Welcome to WCF RIA Services Beta!: Brad Abrams has a good intro to WCF Ria Services beta on his site... good info about what's included, links to get it, and a call to action.
Simplifying our n-tier development platform: making 3 things 1 thing: Mike Flasko of the ADO.NET Data Services Team Blog posts about the WCF RIA Services and has some Q/A from folks.
Silverlight 3 & 4 Library Sharing with .NET 4.0 Library or WPF: As Karl Shifflett said, if you need any more convincing to go with VS2010 B2 ... you can share your SL3 and 4 library assemblies with .NET 4.0 apps... no really!
Application Library Caching – November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit: Jeff Wilcox explains Application Library caching backed into the latest toolkit... read that as Silverlight 3, and also in the 4B!
RIA Services: Jumpstarting RIA Development: Nikhil Kothari posted a great Silverlight 4B RIA Services run-up... lots of links and good information.
PDC09 Talk: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010: Missed Brad Abrams's PDC presentation on VS2010, RIA Services, and VS2010? He's got all the info up on this blog... walkthru, code, slides... I printed this to PDF to read at work, and it's 33 pages..woohoo!
Undocumented DomainService Wizard change in WCF RIA Services: Colin Blair reports on a DomainService wizard issue that wasn't in the early documentation, but apparently is going to be in the Breaking Changes list soon.

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Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 -- #738

2009-11-22T05:05:44-12:00:00

In this All Submittal Issue: Andrew Veresov, ITLackey, Damian Schenkelman, René Schulte, Michael Wolf(2), Shawn Wildermuth

Shoutout:

Check out Shawn Wildermuth's schedule and see if you're anywhere near one of his classes because Silverlight Tour Now Includes Silverlight 4!

If you're into games and haven't yet checked out the Silver Games Project, now might be a good time.

Sorry I'm running behind, but B.B.King was in Phoenix last night, and I can't miss him!

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight 3 Validation Workaround: Andrew Veresov provides a SL3 workaround to validation throwing an error during databinding... and another blog to watch. That's what... number 398?
Using RIA Services with the ASP.Net Web Site Project (WSP) template: ITLackey has a great tutorial up for anyone wanting to jump all the way from a WSP Template produced website into .NET RIA Services... yikes!
Prism 2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight) migrated to Silverlight 4 Beta: Damian Schenkelman's been working with Prism and Silverlight, and hasn't wasted any time moving into SL4B... read his migration issues post.
EdgeCam - Silverlight 4 Webcam & Edge Detection Shader: René Schulte didn't waste any time after SL4B hit to be working up another great post ... this one is a real-time webcam effect!
Silverlight 4 Drag from desktop: Michael Wolf discusses drag and drop in Silverlight 4B, and not just that, but dragging from the desktop... too cool!
Silverlight 4 dials in skype: Michael Wolf also has a post up about Silverlight 4B and Skype... something he worked on while on the plane back from PDC ... can it be as easy as he says? ... give it a shot :)
Data Binding Changes in Silverlight 4: Shawn Wildermuth has a post up on the DataBinding changes to Silverlight 4 ... I'm sure we're all interested in those!

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Silverlight Cream for November 20, 2009 -- #737

2009-11-20T03:26:03-12:00:00

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:

Silverlight 4 beta and web cam support: WebCam support ... well... now that SL4B has it, wonder what everyone will be screaming for :) .. Michael Wolf has a post up describing it's use. He has a video on the post that's actually pretty cool showing the user experience.
A guide to new features of WCF RIA Services: Colin Blair has a post up showing the differences you should know in the transition from .NET RIA Services to WCF RIA Services in Silverlight 4.
Enabling Validation in Silverlight 4 with IDataErrorInfo: John Papa has a short article and code up explaining the use of IDataErrorInfo in Silverlight 4.
Silverlight Clipboard API: Find out what Clipboard support in Silverlight 4 really means. Ning Zhang explains what we've got and how to use it. Yikes... lots of moving parts to worry about!
Silverlight 4 Beta, RIA Services... and Beer!: Ready for a long Friday morning Silverlight 4 RIA application tutorial? Andy Beaulieu has a great one up... lots of details and hints... required reading!
Pub/sub sample with WCF net.tcp protocol in Silverlight 4: Tomasz Janczuk continues with discussion of net.tcp and describes the conversion of a previous sample from HTTP Polling Duplex to the new WCF net.tcp protocol.

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Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 - 2 -- #736

2009-11-19T17:28:15-12:00:00

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, check out the work Michael Washington's been up to!
Silverlight 4 beta released leaving Flex behind: Colin Eberhardt goes so far as to say Silverlight has now left Flex behind... check it out and see if you agree... don't ask me, I drank the Kool-Aid :) -- and thanks for the shoutout, Colin!
Silverlight 4 beta released at #PDC09: I held back Laurent Bugnion's post about Silverlight 4 this morning because he discusses what's on many people's mind, and that's "what does this mean for WPF?"
WCF net.tcp protocol in Silverlight 4: Tomasz Janczuk discusses the new WCF service capability in Silverlight 4 Beta using net.tcp
Dynamic Module Loading with Silverlight Navigation using Prism: Jeremy Likness has a post up on Prism and Silverlight, Dynamic Modules, and Navigation. This is a farily involved tutorial, so give yourself time to read.
Silverlight 4 Beta: Implicit Styles: Andy Beaulieu has a post up talking about the new Implicit Styles in Silverlight 4 Beta with code examples and Blend examples.

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Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 -- #735

2009-11-19T05:26:49-12:00:00

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 of looking at 396 blogs at varying times since 5:30 this morning:

Andy Beaulieu has a post up: Silverlight 4 Beta Summary with links out to his and other posts

Adam Kinney reports a Rundown of Silverlight 4 Beta Features and 6 Hands on Labs with lots of goodies

David Anson discusses SL4: Silverlight 4 Beta is out - and the Toolkit has it covered! [Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 release now available for Silverlight 3 and 4!]

Stefan Olson already has a list up of Bugs fixed (or not) in Silverlight 4 Beta

Ning Zhang reports and demonstrates that Silverlight 4 Adds Arabic Support

John Papa has some good information and links: Silverlight 4 Beta Announced at PDC09: Great Learning Material Too!

Chris Anderson posted this one from watching the keynote: PDC09 News

Nikhil Kothari has a great overview of and links to the PDC demos: Silverlight 4 Debuts with Killer Demos at PDC09

Shawn Wildermuth's post I mentioned yesterday in my mad dash to post: Silverlight 4 Beta Announced!

Koen Zwikstra is nothing if not efficient... he's got a Silverlight 4 Beta version of SilverlightSpy up already: Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.5

And if you thought the Expression Blend and Design folks were napping: Download Expression Blend Preview for .NET 4

Tim Heuer's great post of yesterday referenced by *everyone*: Silverlight 4 Beta – A guide to the new features

Andrea Boschin has a post and some sample code up: Silverlight 4.0 beta released

András Velvárt has a good list of what's new: Discovering Silverlight 4 – What is new?

The Silverlight SDK has a couple good posts up. First the obligatorey Silverlight 4 Beta Released! with a ton of links, then Silverlight 4 Beta Bugs

Katrien De Graeve has a good post up with links: Silverlight 4 Beta – Overview of the new features

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Silverlight 4 Beta is Out!

2009-11-18T06:43:26-12:00:00

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 as one: Silverlight 4 Beta Announced!

Have fun, watch for lots more posts and

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Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2009 -- #734

2009-11-17T16:53:49-12:00:00

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 wrote a tutorial on it over at SilverlightShow... fun stuff!
Silverlight, RIA Services, and Your Business Objects: I'm going back in time and picking up Deborah Kurata's posts. This is a great tutorial on lashing up your business objects, Silverlight, and .NET RIA Services.
Real-time list filtering with Silverlight, MVVM, and PagedCollectionView: I'm also going back in time and picking up Avi Pilosof's posts. This one is on MVVM and Silverlight and the PagedCollectionView.
A ChildWindow management service for MVVM applications: Andrea Boschin is blogging for SilverlightShow with a great article on decoupling child windows from the ViewModel in MVVM. Great demo and all code included.
ANDY’S TOP 10 LIST WHY SILVERLIGHT IS GREAT FOR GAMES: Andy Beaulieu gave a presentation at the Montreal International Game Summit and is sharing his top 10 reasons why Silverlight is great for Games with us.
Learning Prism (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight) MVVM Fundamentals: Damian Schenkelman digs into MVVM in his latest discussion of Prism/WPF/Silverlight. Looks like a good intro with some external links as well.
Silverlight Tips Grab Bag for November: smartyP digs into his list of things that would be useful to know based on his experience in developing Silverlight apps and shares those with all of us.
Working with Layout when DataContexts are Involved: Have you ever had problems rearranging things in Blend and have your DataContexts go nuts? Kirupa explains that and helps to define an orderly way to avoid it.
Shader effects kill performance of Silverlight popup control.: Alexey Zakharov notes a dip in performance when using shader effects on a popup control. He has a demo page and sample project to download and try it out.
New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to use the FarseerPhysics.dll to create a Ragdoll with Simulated Physics: Victor Gaudioso's latest video tutorial is on using the Jeff Weber's Farseer Physics module to animate a RagDoll

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Silverlight Cream for November 16, 2009 -- #733

2009-11-16T16:55:54-12:00:00

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 looking for suggestions for more functionality.

From SilverlightCream.com:

MVVM – This might hurt a little…: Avi Pilosof blogs about MVVM and from the standpoint of what the pain points might be depending upon your expectation level... almost required reading if you haven't begun to immerse yourself in MVVM!
Blitting and Blending with Silverlight's WriteableBitmap: Bill Reiss gives a nod to René Schulte and then takes off on the WriteableBitmap to produce some cool effects, all with code.
DomainDataSourceView API (DomainDataSource.DataView): If you provided input to Jeff Handley when he requested it a while back on the DataView property, you might see your suggestion in the PDC drop of RIA Services... read Jeff's post!
Silverlight’s CollectionViewSource: Bea Stollnitz has been posting some WPF lately, but this time out she is discussing CollectionViewSource in Silverlight and comparing it to the same in WPF (her last post).
How to Get Your Silverlight Pages Indexed By Search Engines: If you want your Silverlight pages to be found by the search engines, check out Peter Bromberg's blog post. You have to rely upon the old trusty Title, Meta Keywords, and Meta Description. Ok... and Peter demonstrates how.
XAML: Gradients: Deborah Kurata discusses gradients in great detail for helping understand how to use them to the best advantage in your Silverlight.
The Silverlight HVP Spec: Jesse Liberty rolls out the soapbox to discuss Silverlight HVP in advance of using it in his up-coming videos. Great quote from Jesse: "The Silverlight HyperVideo Player (HVP) will do for Silverlight How Do I Videos what Hypertext did for the Internet: it will provide simple, fast, and easy to use links to additional, supplementary or related information."
New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to make a Timer Using the DispatcherTimer Class: Victor Gaudioso's latest video tutorial is all about using the DispatchTime class and a real example of where you'd use one.

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Silverlight Cream for November 15, 2009 -- #732

2009-11-15T14:55:19-12:00:00

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:

Silverlight 3 Video Tutorial 7: AfricanGeek has another video up on his video page demonstrating adding a ListBox using the selected item of the existing ListBox.
Adventures in MVVM -- Dependant Properties with INotifyPropertyChanged: It looks like Brian Genisio took some time away from his Rails investigation to blog about Dependant Properties and INotifyPropertyChanged.
Motion, a free silverlight 3 video player: Loek van den Ouweland posted a cool Silverlight Video Player that you can just drop into your web pages. Check out the instructions and features.
New SIlvelright Video Tutorial: How to Create a Reusable Functioning Login UserControl: Victor Gaudioso has another video up.. this one is on creating a reusable Login Control... links to the video and the project on the blog post
Inline Hyperlinks in Silverlight 3 (Equivalent of A HREF): Jeremy Likness digs into the Run and Wrap Panel to produce a hyperlink for Silverlight that looks and works great... want to roll your own ... here's how!
Silverlight Grid in Matrix Disguise: CrocusGirl has an interesting demo up where she combined a bunch of Silverlight effects to create a very colorful animation, and yes on the second round those small rectangles *are* flipping :)
ShaderGallery – Free effects add-in for Expression Blend: Walt Ritscher announced that he will be releasing his new ShaderGallery add-in for Expression Blend just in time for PDC... very cool, Walt!
MVVM Study Part 4: Naked WPF: Rob Eisenberg is up to part 4 of his MVVM study and is demonstrating MVVM on plain old WPF, and gives tips about doing the same for Silverlight.
My Model-View-ViewModel exercise: Andrea Boschin is digging into MVVM and Prism. He started with a Time Tracker application that he's got for download and is going to be discussing in future posts.
Writing WPF/Silverlight compatible code. Part 3: Brushes, Strokes and Dashes: Alan Mendelevich is continuing with his self-imposed task of writing compatible WPF/Silverlight code, he is focusing on Brushes, strokes, and dashes this time.
Prism - MVVM - Silverlight gotcha's: nmarun has a post up based on his latest go-around with MVVM, Prism, and Silverlight... he's sharing some gotcha's with us.

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Silverlight Cream for November 13, 2009 -- #731

2009-11-13T03:32:17-12:00:00

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 Silverlight Coding Contest

Jeremy Alles has a great comparison up for a whole bunch of MVVM frameworks: A quick tour of existing MVVM frameworks

If you haven't seen it yet, check out Jesse Liberty's post On Our Cross Plat Commitment

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight Tip: Enumerating embedded resources: This is pretty cool... I saw the discussion progress on the Insider's forum, and booya, here Alex Golesh has it posted... when you post something that's stumped Bill Reiss, everyone should read it!
The Secret Behind the Page Flip Technique: If you want your page flips to really stand out from the rest, check out Rick Barraza's article... print it out, make it into a PDF, paste it up on the wall next to your monitor... you're going to be reading it a few times, but wow... what a tutorial! ... oh yeah, code too :) Thanks Rick!
Silverlight 3 videos: AfricanGeek put up a very nice video tutorial site... eating his own dog-food and has some very cool features in addition to the videos... like leaving comments ... check it out!, and thanks for the link!
Blend SketchFlow project: from prototype to real screens?: Read Laurent Duveau's post about what to do with your SketchFlow prototype after everyone has agreed it's good to ... to do what?
Writing a (Completely Useless) Windows 7 Gadget using Silverlight: Want to get started doing Windows 7 gadgets? How about in Silverlight? Check out Scott Marlowe's latest post on that exact subject for a good discussion and framework to expand on.
Creating a Custom Accordion Menu in Blend: Alex Knight turns over the reigns of SilverZine to Mason Brown for a great tutorial creating an accordian control in Blend... with all source. You might want to check out Mason' site... I've put him in my watch list :)
Pseudo Multi-Binding in Silverlight using Relays: Rishi demonstrates multi-binding in nRoute using Value Converter Relays. Even if you're not using nRoute, it is a good read.
Skinning and Styling Silverlight Controls: Radenko Zec walks us through re-styling a tab control and gets an awesome look. Lots of considerations and discussion from experience in this post, with code!
Silverlight 3: Loading Merged Resource Dictionaries runtime: Alex van Beek has a good post up about Loading Merged Resource Dictionaries, with code and a sample app to get you off and running.
Silverdraw: A collaboration board using SIlverlight + WCF - Source Code & Intro Article: Anoop had discussed his Silverlight Collaborative Whiteboard app in another post, but reiterates that information, has a link to a CodePlex project for it and an article on Codeproject...this is pretty cool stuff, and I'm watching his blog now.