Silverlight Cream for September 27, 2008 -- #380

Jeff Handley on Binding to Nullable Values, Matthias Shapiro Styling ScrollViewer, Andy Beaulieu with SL2 RC0 Crash, Shawn Wildermuth on WebClient vs. WebRequest, Bill Reiss on Fonts in RC0, and Terence Tsang with Dancing Polygons.

Shawn Wildermuth has an RC0 post up that is worth a read: Silverlight 2 Tools Release Candidate Now Available.

Michael S. Scherotter has been porting to RC0 and has a blog post up also: First Silverlight 2 Beta 2 to RC0 Porting Success.


From SilverlightCream.com:
Binding to Nullable Values in XAML
An Older one from Jeff Handley on Binding to nullable values .. this is the sort of thing I usually hit about 11pm and end up pulling out my hair about... so definitely something to keep handy!
Styling a Silverlight ScrollViewer (to Look Like a Mac ScrollViewer)
An Older one from Matthias Shapiro on Styling the ScrollViewer ... dang... this is good stuff!
Silverlight 2 RC0 Crash without Error
Andy Beaulieu had to dig deep into Styles to find a SL2 RC0 crash with no error message.
WebClient vs. WebRequest in Silverlight 2
Shawn Wildermuth compares WebClient vs WebRequest and talks about the differences we should be aware of when deciding.
Breaking change to font embedding for Silverlight 2 RC0
Bill Reiss discusses Font embedding in SL2 RC0 with example code.
Flash vs Silverlight: Dancing Polygon
And older entry from Terence Tsang is this animated polygon demonstration (and code)

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posted @ Saturday, September 27, 2008 11:26 AM

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