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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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.

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Silverlight 3 and F# Support in Visual Studio 2010

If you're a luddite like me, you might be asking "Why F#?"... Bart Czernicki approaches that and other good topics in this post about Silverlight, F#, and VS2010... and finishes up with a bunch of "Getting started" links ... so jump in there and find out why!

Multi-touch Gesture Recognition in Silverlight 3

I found this by way of Davide Zordan... Jesse Bishop has a great post up on receiving and dealing with Multi-Touch and Gestures... and code. This is Jesse's first post, and I have him on my Silverlight Watch List :)

Using contextual design time data with SketchFlow

XAMLNinja has a nice long tutorial up on using Design Time data with Sketchflow.

How to configure an AuthenticationDomainService using Ria Services Class Library

Andrea Boschin has a new post up on getting around a problem using the RIA Services Class Library in the July 2009 CTP. He explains the way in and the way out, and has code.

Silverlight 3's New Application Extension Services

Jeff Prosise is digging out the stuff people aren't writing about... this time it's Application Services... then goes on to build an application service to load your extraneous assemblies in the background... how cool... oh, and with source!

New Video Tutorial: How to Create Custom RoutedEvents in Silverlight

I'm apparently playing catch-up with Victor Gaudioso because this post is from Saturday. It's a video tutorial on routed Events, and yes Victor knows they are not natively available in Silverlight :)

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Prism 2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight) migrated to Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Damian Schenkelman is continuing investigating Prism, and this time out he's investigating Prism and VS2010 ... check out how that worked for him.

Windows Media Metadata in Managed Code (and by extension - Silverlight)

Jit Ghosh explains how to get Windows Media metadata into Silverlight. All his code is available except the piece to extract SMPTE Timecode ranges, and he says he will have that up this week.

Silverlight 3's New {RelativeSource} Markup Extension

Are you familiar with Silverlight 3's RelativeSource markup extensions? No? ... well, let Jeff Prosise explain them to you in this post.

Designer v Xaml v Code

Jesse Liberty has Part 2 of his new series up and is discussing (gasp) XAML ... well ok, just a little :) ... he's placing controls in grids and lots of code and explanation... keep reading folks, this is good stuff!

New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to use the Silverlight Toolkit’s WrapPanel to Create a Three Column ListBox

Victor Gaudioso has a few cool things up since I last checked the BlogSpot blogs... this first one is on using the Toolkit's WrapPanel to create a ListBox with 3 columns... good video tutorial, and code!

Drawing Shapes - Silverlight WriteableBitmap Extensions III

René Schulte is back at it again with the WriteableBitmap and this time he's drawing ellipses... this is very cool stuff, René!

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