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

Dave Campbell — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:11:38 GMT

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.

Stay in the 'Light!

Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 -- #738

Dave Campbell — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:05:44 GMT

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!

Stay in the 'Light!

Silverlight Cream for November 20, 2009 -- #737

Dave Campbell — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:26:03 GMT

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.

Stay in the 'Light!

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

Dave Campbell — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:28:15 GMT

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.

Stay in the 'Light!

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Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 -- #735

Dave Campbell — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:26:49 GMT

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

Stay in the 'Light!

Silverlight 4 Beta is Out!

Dave Campbell — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:43:26 GMT

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

Stay in the 'Light!

Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2009 -- #734

Dave Campbell — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:53:49 GMT

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

Stay in the 'Light!

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Silverlight Cream for November 16, 2009 -- #733

Dave Campbell — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:55:54 GMT

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.

Stay in the 'Light!

Silverlight Cream for November 15, 2009 -- #732

Dave Campbell — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:55:19 GMT

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.

Stay in the 'Light!

Silverlight Cream for November 13, 2009 -- #731

Dave Campbell — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:32:17 GMT

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.

Silverlight Cream for November 12, 2009 -- #730

Dave Campbell — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:26:06 GMT

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) if you're trying to bind to a Silverlight Chart Series and getting a System.NullReferenceException.
Bing Maps Silverlight Control .. Wait for Map Control is over !: Vikram Pendse blogs about the new Bing Maps Silverlight Control, and takes you from where to get it, to having it running inside your app... great tutorial.
Hypnotizing Silverlight Splash Screen: CrocusGirl took a PSD file of a cartoon girl blinking into Silverlight, then turned it into a splash screen... it works very nice, and she includes a few tips and tricks she learned along the way.
Silverlight custom control & collection properties: Kevin Dockx discusses a problem that plagued him for a year and he finally resolved having to do with collection properties being shared with all instances of your controls.

Stay in the 'Light!

Silverlight Cream for November 11, 2009 -- #729

Dave Campbell — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:41:12 GMT

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 Victor's post: All of My Video Tutorials in One Place (revisited)

November 24, 11AM PST, Tim Heuer will be presenting Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3

Dan Wahlin has posted his DevConnections Conference Code and Slides

The Silverlight Team Blog announced Announcing the Bing Maps Silverlight Control

From SilverlightCream.com:

Skeleton for a Silverlight business application based on Ria Services and the Ria Services Class Library: Max Paulousky has a very nice RIA tutorial up on CodePlex. He's starting right at the beginning, so would be another good one to put in your box of tricks to pull out.
Simple Cartoon Animation using Visual States: Steve at the Expression Blend and Deisgn Blog built a simple cartoon animation using Expression Blend. Check out the animation and then get the project source.
Weekend Project: Open Source Silverlight Tic-Tac-Toe: Alan Mendelevich accepted a challenge from his daughter and build a Silverlight game last weekend: Tic-Tac-Toe, and he's made it Open Source... get the code on his blog.
Silverlight bug when drawing large paths: Gergely Orosz has a bug report he is going to turn in on drawing paths above a certain size. Read his post and check out the code.. see if you can reproduce it.
DomainDataSource – Single Record Results: Jeff Handley demonstrates a twist on the DomainDataService where he's using it to bind to a single record result. Slick short solution.
A couple of naming issues when working with Silverlight in Visual Studio 2008: Chris Klug started with a namespace issue then ended up with AG_E_UNKNOWN_ERROR, but he battled through it and shares his interesting result.
Virtual Input Keyboard & Behaviours for Silverlight: We all know about the keyboard limitation in FullScreen, but whoa... check out what Rishi did about it using the keyboard from Expression Gallery... I'm thinking this set of behaviors and code is going to get some use!
New Codeplex Silvelright Project! Silverlight StoryboardHelper: Victor Gaudioso's latest post is a new CodePlex project he originated: StoryboardHelper. He's really wanting community input, so check it out!

Silverlight Cream for November 10, 2009 -- #728

Dave Campbell — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:34:23 GMT

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 is alive, Shawn Wildermuth posted that he was on .NET Rocks again! .NET Rocks Panel Live from Sofia!

From SilverlightCream.com:

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 :)

Stay in the 'Light!

Silverlight Cream for November 09, 2009 -- #727

Dave Campbell — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:22:34 GMT

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 starter kits: StarterKits for Silverlight and the Expression Tools

From SilverlightCream.com:

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!

Stay in the 'Light!

Silverlight Cream for November 07, 2009 -- #726

Dave Campbell — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:40:10 GMT

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 Alpha 2: EventToCommand behavior, and has a bunch of information about it on the post.

Found via Mike Taulty, Here is Arturo Toledo's Top 20 Resources to Get Started with Silverlight and Blend

This would have been a good announcement on the day, but I've been jammed up: The XXI Olympic Winter Games on NBCOlympics.com: Brought to you in Full HD With Silverlight and Smooth Streaming

From SilverlightCream.com:

MVVM, design time data, and Blendability: Rich is pushing his new XamlNinja brand, so that's how I'm posting this. I *really* like the look of the site!.. this first post out there is on MVVM, Silverlight and WPF and using design-time data. Did I say I like the way the site looks :)
Building N-Tier business applications with .NET RIA Services – Part I: Zoltan Arvai has an article up at SilverlightShow on N-Tier bussiness apps in Silverlight with .NET RIA Services ... ok, say that 5 times real fast! ... this is part 1, so climb on and follow him as he continues... this first lives up to the quality I see from the folks at SilverlightShow.
Writing WPF/Silverlight compatible code. Part 2: Dependency Properties: Alan Mendelevich has another part of his WPF/Silverlight series up and is discussing dependency properties this time... and a lot about what Silverlight doesn't have.
Building a twitter client with Silverlight, Microsoft Hellas DevDays09: Silverlight 3: Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios gave a presentation at DevDays09 in Greece and produced a Twitter client... check out his presentation and code on the post.
Styling a ListBox aka Autopsy of a ListBox: Chris Klug lifts the hood on the ListBox and shows you how to make it your own... style that is :)
Creating Custom Easing Functions in WPF 4 (and Silverlight): Pete Brown's been spending a lot of time blogging WPF (all tagged here) and Windows 7 (all tagged here), but this time out he included some Silverlight and is showing how to create your own easing function... and this is not in Blend :)
Silverlight Flip Clock: Fons Sonnemans didn't have much to say about the 'Flip Clock' he built, but he's provided us the code, and I really like the way it looks, thanks Fons!
Grouping data in a Silverlight DataGrid: Tim Heuer demonstrates grouping Data in a DataGrid even without the declarative model of adding GroupDescriptors in Silverlight 3... and it works very nicely! ... code included of course!
Implementing CoverFlow in Silverlight 3: Jeff Prosise leverages a CoverFlow control by Darick on Codeplex into a cool demo with gestures... all with source.
MVVM with Prism 101 – Part 6: Commands: Mark Miller is up to Episode 6 on his MVVM and Prism excurstion, talking about Commands, threads, IAsynchResults... long post with lots of code goodness.

Stay in the 'Light!