Silverlight Cream for November 09, 2008 -- #423

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Silverlight Cream for November 09, 2008 -- #423

In this issue: Joseph Ghassan, Boyan Nikolov, James Bacom, David Justice, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth, and Michael Sync.

Tim Heuer has an update you should pay attention to: Flickr4Writer Service Pack update.

Joel Neubeck updated his RatingControl with Theme support>... it was cool seeing that in action Wednesday night, so great to see him update it so fast... thanks Joel!

A couple loyal subjects, Scott Hanselman and Scott Stanfield put together a DeepZoom of Obama Headlines... it seems to want to lock up this machine though :(

Pete Brown reports on the Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0 and Starter Kit Released , and is going to update his MSDN EastCoast News Silverlight Page accordingly, so stand by :)

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight 2.0 Isolated Storage: Joseph Ghassan has a great Isolated Storage tutorial up... since I just went through some of this last week, I can't see anything he didn't cover... a great reference article, Joseph!
ProportionalPanel - custom control for Silverlight 2: Boyan Nikolov has a "Proportional Panel" control for us to examine and play with ... dang... lots of controls coming out lately... thanks Boyan!
Silverlight framework for creating managed code splash screens, pre loaders and loader projects: James Bacon has a Framework up on CodePlex for creating splash screens, Pre-loaders, and other projects. As an example, he has a link to Silverlight Girl's game Bumble Beegger where she has a custom splash screen... very cool.
Silver Lining for Windows Azure -- Silverlight 2 Sample Hosted in Azure: David Justice has an Azure/Silverlight app up, but you're going to have to have the Azure SDK to run it...
Using Blend with Visual Studio: Jesse Liberty discusses Expression Blend and does some timed comparisons on building between using Blend and using XAML only.
SQL Data Services is Cool...but It Won't Work in Silverlight 2: Shawn Wildermuth has posted a few things that I apparently missed :( I moved your blog to a different list, Shawn... hopefully that won't happen again! This is his article about the Azure SQL Data Services and why they won't work with SL ... when do you sleep, my friend?
Controlling Service References in Silverlight 2: In this post, Shawn answers a question he gets quite often about Service References in Silverlight and how to control them... interesting sample code and he shows how to add an endpoint for testing... cool!
New Silverlight 2 ADO.NET Data Service Example: In this last one for today from Shawn, he discusses having updated his ADO.NET Data Services example to SL2.
Silverlight Glass Button: A big thanks to Michael Sync ... it's about time someone ported that great button over to Silverlight2... very cool!