Silverlight Cream for December 01, 2008 -- #443

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Silverlight Cream for December 01, 2008 -- #443

In this issue: Alex Golesh, Silverlight SDK, John Stockton, Page Brooks(2), Mike Snow(2), Terence Tsang(2), Adam Kinney, Shawn Wildermuth, Jesse Liberty, and Jonathan van de Veen.

Shoutouts:

Adam Kinney has some good comments about a much-viewed Surface video: Extending the Surface experience in the BMW app.

Jesse Liberty waxes poetical about divElements, and it looks like with good reason :) SandDock for Silverlight – Commercial floating windows

Corey Schuman is going to be on GeekSpeak on the 10th: geekSpeak,

From SilverlightCream.com:

Control Reflection, Control Properties Data Binding, Window Title and Status Bar text: Alex Golesh submitted this ont to me that is a collection of some very nice Silverlight tips... cool examples and pictures too, thanks Alex!
Silverlight Offline documentation as up to date as the web?: The Silverlight SDK announced the release of a new Silverlight chm file.
Silverlight Trick: Inline Silverlight Apps: John Stockton has a post up explaining the Inline Silverlight he did a while back ... and thanks for the shout out on your blog, John!
Using ReSharper with Silverlight: Page Brooks has two articles up... this first is about using resharper with Silverlight... including a video to tweak the imagination :) ... the second is on tweaking also, but this is tweaking the OnApplyTemplate Event timing, with regard to custom controls: Tweaking OnApplyTemplate Event Timing in Silverlight 2
Silverlight Tip of the Day #76 - Animating objects with DoubleAnimation.: Mike Snow got two up on me, this first is a good discussion of double animation, and the second is on a random generator class he built and is sharing: Silverlight Tip of the Day #77 - Creating an Efficient Random Generator
Silverlight vs Flash: Local Storage: Terence Tsang also had two posts up before I got to them... this first is on Isolated Storage and the second is a cool little intro to games: Flash vs Silverlight: Simple Game System
DeepEarth - Maps served using Deep Zoom in Silverlight: Adam Kinney has a post up about DeepEarth... this is pretty darned cool.
Using Content in ControlTemplates: Shawn Wildermuth gives a good detailed example of the ContentPresenter in ControlTemplates... making sense of the tricky stuff.
Simple Expander – Silverlight Toolkit: Jesse Liberty gives us a neat intro to the expander... code and all, and it's all xaml!
Silverlight 2 Datagrids RowDetailsTemplate and databinding radiobuttons: Jonathan van de Veen has a good informative post up on the DataGrid and RowDetailsTemplate, oh, and also databinding radio buttons :)