Silverlight Cream for May 2, 2008 -- #264

Joel Neubeck with an IPhone-style flip animation, Peter Himschoot on DataBinding, Tim Heuer Skinning an embeddable SL2 media player, Mike Taulty on WCF and MaxMessageReceivedSize, Lee with a SL2 Rating control, Pete Brown on Part 1 of his Chat Demo, and Tamir Khason on a multi-platform stand-alone SL2 app.

From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight 3D flip animation
Joel Neubeck is a perfect example of me not finding someone. Until Tim Heuer posted his Skinning example, below, and credited Joel, I hadn't seen his blog. Joel has some great stuff I'll catch up with. I don't know for 100% certainty, but I believe he's one of the Terralever folks that do the very cool SL games, which probably means I sat next to him at Desert Code Camp last fall after my presentation and watched Dan Wahlin do his ... you know how it goes with old folks and memory for names :) .. oh yeah... this has to be one of THE COOLEST controls I've seen yet in Silverlight... and I've seen a bunch. I've already thought of about 5 ways I want to use this code... go look at it, I'll still be here when you get back... <pause />... cool, huh?
Silverlight how-to: Video Player
Joel's Video Player that he did by just using controls modified by styles and templates... very creative use of SL2 capabilities.
Skinning an embeddable Silverlight 2 media player
This is the post by Tim that exposed me to Joel. Tim expanded on the Media Player by Joel, above, and explains/carries it along with more explanation, plus makes it pretty :)
Silverlight 2.0 DataBinding Explained (a bit) :)
Peter Himschoot takes a very nice swing at explaining SL2 databinding... bunch of code, and examples to execute.
Silverlight 2 - WCF and MaxMessageReceivedSize
Mike Taulty asks and answers a question about the use of the Config File in SL2 but demonstrates using MaxMessageReceivedSize.
Ratings control
Lee has a very nice Ratings control up this time... I ran his sample and it works very nice... I've been talking about putting rating on SC... this might push me to it :)
Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Chat Demo Application Part 1 of 2 - Design and Animation
Due to requests, Pete Brown has decided to do some forensics on his Chat app that he built, and explain it in detail. This first part is the Design and Animation part.
Stand alone multiplatform Silverlight application
I posted about Tamir having an 'Air'-like SL2 app the other day, and now he's taking that into multiple platforms... definitely something to pay attention to!

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Keeping Up With Silverlight -- Update on Bloggers

Ok this is only mildly embarrasing, but I remembered I needed to add 1 person to the database with a blog.

When I did so, I thought hmm... how about THIS one? ... so that started a search, and yikes... so far today I've added 25 bloggers to the database. All these names already have entries, but they weren't previously tagged as bloggers. I don't like ALSO tagging posts as blogs because then when you search by the blog tag you find a bunch of stuff by the same person and yes I know I have a few of those to fix.

And there's at least one that is no longer alive: SilverSpud. If you find more that have dropped off, let me know of those and I'll remove them from the database.

If you go to SC now the front page will show you all the names I added, don't feel bad if your name is on there, so is Scott Guthrie's and a bunch of MS folks  ... and the thought just crossed my mind to see if I was on there, and I'm not... lol

So... there are still a few folks I check early in the morning, like all the ones on blogspot that I can't get to from the office (my 'Home Boys'). I'll make sure they're on there later, but if you want to be added and don't find yourself, send me a link...

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Keeping Up with Silverlight

Most of the people reading this will already know this invormation, I hope. For ones recently being converted to Silverlight, I'm thinking I may push out a post like this irregularly.

There are lots of ways to stay connected with the world of Silverlight. The most obvious is Silverlight.net -- this is the source for the control, the SDK, etc. plus how-to videos and tons of resources. The forums there are unbelievabley busy with folks asking and answering questions. I'm not sure when some of those guys either work or sleep because they seem to ALWAYS be there :)

It seems like every day I find, or am shown, another blogger doing Silverlight... so it's a daunting effort if you want to go it alone to try to find everyone. I've thought about producing a list of the ones I follow, but it moves around and changes, so it's always out of date.

I take my best shot at aggregating what I find into my SilverlightCream posts. Everything I blog about is also inserted into the database at SilverlightCream.com, and can then be ratted out later by searching there. Just a note about this search capability.... there is a 'blog' tag I use, so searching the SC database for 'blogs' will give you a big list of bloggers you can check out. If you're not there, I probably spaced it, so ping me!

When I insert something into SilverlightCream, it also gets posted on the SilverlightNews Twitter feed. Since I do database updates and SC posts at different times, if you follow SilverlightNews on Twitter, you'll get the info sooner. Another note about SilverlightNews... it's owned by Adam Kinney, so although I don't believe he's posted there, it's possible. So just picking up SilverlighCream might not be enough!

Adam also has SilverlightEvents at Twitter that lists coming events such as User Group meetings, Code Camps, etc.

If you want your event to go out on SilverlightEvents, the best way to get it there is to log into Upcoming at Yahoo, and subscribe to the Silverlight group, and then post your event. That way Adam will see it without having to dig it out of his email.

I'm sure there are Silverlight groups, communities, and lists that I'm not aware of, but I have some things listed in the footer on all my messages that may be of interest to you.

Bottom-line, there's a lot going on, you just need to find out where you want to plug into the information stream. If there's something important I missed, send me an email, and if you've blogged something I haven't seen, get my attention by submitting it at SilverlightCream.com... usually if I get a submission from someone, I'll start tracking their blog.

Most of all....

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