Silverlight Cream for October 24, 2008 -- #405

In this issue: Cote, Ivan Dragoev, Hannah Watkins, Fons Sonnemans, Bart Czernicki, Jeff Prosise, Dave Burke, Adam Kinney, Manish Dalal, Mike Snow, Jeff Wilcox, Karl Shifflett, Terence Tsang, and Imran Shaik

Laurence Moroney announces <3 your web, Vegas style, it’s MIX time again – MIX09 now open for registration….

Jeff Prosise announced his Deep Zoom Demo Updated for RTW .

Matt Casto Announced Cleveland Silverlight Firestarter


From SilverlightCream.com:
RIA Weekly #27 - Silverlight 2.0 with Brad Becker
Cote has his RIA Weekly podcast number 27 up... this time on Silverlight and an interview with Brad Becker.
Silverlight - ready for business applications?
Ivan Dragoev of SilverlightShow discusses his opinion of why or why not SL is ready for LOB apps.
Developers guide to writing a simple Silverlight game
Hannah Watkins is back with a follow-up to her great designer post on the game artwork, this time with a Developer's point of view.
Silverlight 2.0 Minesweeper
Fons Sonnemans sent me this Minesweeper game ... it works very nicely! ... would be fun to see the source or some discusion as well... hint, hint :)
Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC vs Web Forms (Very High Level)
Bart Czernicki compares Siilverlight and MVC with WebForms and has a list of pros and cons up for discussion.
Cool Silverlight Trick #4
Jeff Prosise has his 4th trick up, and this one is on Threading... dang I bet I learned all my threading tricks in Win32 from something Jeff wrote as well... here we go again :)
Silverlight 2.0 Immersivity: Datagrid Two-Way Data Binding
Dave Burke returns from his first Silverlight Immersion and jumps straight into DataBinding. The cool part about Dave's writing is that he's not reading anything else prior to this, so it's fresh eyes on the product.
QuakeLight, the Silverlight port of Quake, is coming...
Adam Kinney has blogged about QuakeLight before, but this time, he interviews the author... and this is a spare-time project!
Cascading ComboBox
Manish Dalal takes off in a big way on cascading comboboxes. Great article, great pictures, good code explanation.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #65 – Adding a Mouse Wheel Event Listener to your Controls
Mike Snow shows how to add Mouse Wheel events to controls with an IMouseWheelObserver interface... very cool!
Awesome controls are coming for the Silverlight platform
Jeff Wilcox gives us an idea of what we might be getting in terms of controls in the near future... and points us at some resources you've read about here :)
WPF & Silverlight LOB Form Layout - Searching for a Better Solution
Karl Shifflett has a high-level article on Line-of-Business concepts and form layouts.
Flash vs Silverlight: Loading External Image
Terence Tsang demonstrates loading an external image, including the progress bar. He also posted an example of the integration of Silverlight and the browser: Flash vs Silverlight: JavaScript Sample 1... it works very nice!
Working with Opacity Masks
Last time, Imran did gradients, this time it's opacity masks ... cool stuff, Imran!

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posted @ Friday, October 24, 2008 6:21 AM

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