Silverlight Cream for October 17, 2008 -- #398

October 17, 2008 · 2 min read

In this issue: Tim Heuer, Pete Brown, Mike Taulty, NikhilKothari, Dan Wahlin, Laurence Moroney, Arturo Toledo, Mike Snow, Terence Tsang and Corey Schuman.

In addition to the posts below, I found some other hints and posts from devs that have been busy updating previously blogged material...

The Silverlight SDK site has an article on Silverlight Tools versioning, and one on help titled Where is the Silverlight content?.

John Papa has exposed his book TOC in... this should be a great book!

Manish Dalal has his material updated to Silverlight 2 according to.

Bill Reiss reports that Games on Blue Rose Games now on Silverlight 2 RTW.

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Tim Heuer takes on the subject of culture and UI settings with regard to Silverlight.

Pete Brown kicks of the first of a 2-part series on SL2 and Facebook, and then finishes it up before I had a chance to blog about it:) --

Mike Taulty investigates SL2 and the DOM with a bunch of examples and code.

Nikhil Kothari reports that Silverlight FX is now in sync with SL2 and there are some additions... check this out... very cool stuff!

We'll just ignore the whole "I went to Hawaii to speak on Silverlight" thing, and just say that Dan Wahlin has some pesentation materials upon his site:)

Mac Install or Detection Failures – Question of the Day

Laurence Moroney tackles a question I'm sure some of us are having to deal with... install and detection on a Mac install.

At least at the time I collected these links I had not seen this announced by anyone but Arturo, but he mentions both And Beaulieu and Bill Reiss in the blog post, so that's some pretty good credentials there!

Silverlight Tip of the Day #61 – How to Create a Tooltip

Mike Snow shows us how to create a tooltip and then continuing with the how-to business, he has Silverlight Tip of the Day #62 – How to Create a Hyperlink

First Silverlight 2 Application: Color Picker

Terence Tsang, in his first outing since SL2 has a great-looking colorpicker app.

Corey Schuman attacks the Client access policy issue from the standpoint of Why?... and goes on to tell us.

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