Silverlight Cream for July 09, 2008 -- #321

Rich Griffin on Control Skinning, Michael Washington with 3 posts about Silverlight Desktop, Joel Newbeck Talking between to SL objects, and Alex Knight on a workaround for VSM breaking XAML.

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From SilverlightCream.com:
Skinning Controls in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Introducing the TabControl, TabPanel and TabItem
Rich Griffin has a nice article and code available for skinning controls and he picks the TabControl, TabPanel, and TabItem to start... and ends up with some very cool tabs!
A new version of SilverlightDesktop.net has been released (01.20.00)
Michael Washington has been busy, and has released a new Silverlght Desktop that includes some of the features he blogged about recently. He also has a post about Creating A "Hello World!" module, and finally A good article on other "Online Desktop's" ... all great info!
Communicating between two Silverlight objects on a single page
Joel Neubeck describes how he came across the idea for this, and I'm guessing we haven't seen the end of it, but he demonstrates talking between two SL objects on the same page ... you know you want to do that!
VSM breaking the XAML - Silverlight 2 issue and workaround.
Alex Knight came across a problem using VSM giving his XAML fits, and he describes the problem and a workaround...

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