Thursday, January 22, 2009 #

Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 - 4 -- #495

In this issue: Russell Greenspan, Andrej Tozon, Patrick Keating, Timmy Kokke, csharpsean, John Stockton, Mike Snow, Terence Tsang, Ning Zhang, and Lee.

From SilverlightCream.com:
Microphone access in Silverlight via Flash and JavaScript
Russell Greenspan shows us how to get past the no microphone in Silverlight thing by going through Flash or Java along the way.... great idea and since I've never coded Flash, good info... thanks Russell!
Silverlight TreeView: MVVM and editing [1]
Andrej Tozon was all over WPF at last year's summit, but whoa... look who's all over Silverlight! This is part 1 of a series on the Silverlight TreeView and MVVM.
Silverlight Feedbooks RSS Browser - Part 1
Patrick Keating is a new name... he has started a series on Silverlight aggregating Feedbook's RSS feed and then allowing manipulation of the data... nicely done.
Shrinking code for the Mix09 10k challenge
Timmy Kokke hasn't posted his MIX 10K challenge code yet, but he has a post up with 12 tips for shrinking your code if you're planning on it.
Silverlight 2: Silverlight Slide Show 2 Preview – Flickr User Photos Provider
I found this via Koen Zwikstra because csharpsean has a tutorial up for using Koen's Silverlight Slideshow.
CodeMash Wrapup
John Stockton spoke at CodeMash and has a post up about it and links out to other folks plus slides and code for his presentation.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #84 – How to Dynamically Load a Control from a DLL
Mike Snow shows us how to package up a control in a DLL, instantiate one of them from the DLL and get it into our app... very cool!
Kit 3D vs Paper Vision 3D: Image Rotating Cube
Terence Tsang's latest post is comparing Kit3D vs PaperVision while rotating a cube... and that thing is awesome! He says it took 45 minutes ... would take me 45 minutes to figure out where to get all the pieces :)
How to Add an Toolbox Icon for Your Silverlight Control
Ning Zhang has a detailed post up on adding a toolbox icon for the Silverlight controls ... default or Toolkit.
Creating DataGridDateColumn for DataGrid
Lee has a post up showing how to inherit from DataGridBoundColumn and saving a lot of code duplication.

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Posted On Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:18 PM | Feedback (0)

Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 - 3 -- #494

In this issue: Pete Brown, Anna Wrochna, James Bacon, Ken Cox, Tiago Andrade e Silva, John Bruin, Dean Chalk, Tim Heuer, Joel Neubeck, and Gerard Leblanc.

Shoutouts:

Falling into the WPF category is this outstanding post by Jaime Rodriguez: Styling Microsoft’s WPF datagrid

Karsten has this one, which is also WPF: Getting WPF Expander and Listbox Alignment Happy

Koen Zwikstra announed a follow-on to his XPS posting: Silverlight XPS: Source code

Adam Kinney has posted a second edition of TCS Weekly: TCS Weekly – Episode 2 is live

From SilverlightCream.com:
Expression Newsletter - Silverlight Toolkit Charting Article
Pete Brown's article hit the Expression Newsletter. Very nice, Pete... awesome tutorial! If you're not subscribed to this, you should... notice below that there's another article in this issue that I'm mentioning... good stuff!
Making Silverlight do the work for me: fake software boxes
Anna Wrochna [AKA Math Geek Rock Chick] posted this clever page. It's one of those slap yourself on the forehead moments. I haven't had a need to do this, but I'll bet you I'd have built the graphics for each separately! ... thanks for the tip, MGRC :)
Mashooo announces a Silverlight game developer ad revenue sharing program
James Bacon Announced a revenue sharing program on Mashooo. I know we have lots of Game developers, and I know James and SilverlightGirl have a great site out there, so why not jump on this??
Silverlight 2 Data Form - Episode 3: Master/Details and ObservableCollection
Ken Cox has the 3rd video up in his sequence he's working on ... geez, just realized there are 3 posts in this message that are on part 3 :)
Dynamic Loading Expression Media Player Template and passing parameters by code
Tiago Andrade e Silva follows up his previous article by dynamically loading the Expression Media Player template... very cool, Tiago!
Silverlight, Deep Zoom, and ScatterView
Josh Santangelo had asked me a while back about a scatterview, and while he didn't end up using it, he did post back to me on this. Wow... not only a very cool app, but it is for MSN! ... great job on this, Josh! ... keep posting and ping me if I forget to post something.
Silverlight fastfood
John Bruin has a cool demo up of calculating the calories in various McDonalds combinations. I kept hitting the fish sandwich, but finally I 'won' with 3 of the iced drinks. Now if you make it so that the first column is a sandwich, the second a side and the third a drink, then a button to call in the order.... :)
ObservableCollection Base Class With Expression Blend Designer Support – An Example Project
Dean Chalk has a great tutorial up completely detailing out a full-up example of the work laid out in his previous post.
Silverlight Docking and Ribbon controls
Tim Heuer highlights the ribbon control from SanDock. Not only does he have some good info, but comments from others are very good too.
Developing a Casual Game with Siverlight 2 – Part III
Joel Neubeck has his third installment up on the Expression site developing a Casual Game with Silverlight ... you ARE coding along, aren't you??
Master pages in Silverlight, Part III : Dynamically loading content pages
Gerard Leblanc is also on his third installment ... this one is of Master Pages in Silverlight exercise up ... this one is reading page 3 from it's own XAP ...

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Posted On Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:52 PM | Feedback (0)

Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 - 2 -- #493

This is very goofy, but Jeff at GWB debugged around enough to figure out that the following entry is what was killing my 'Cream post for the last two days :(

I'm going to try to put this out as a single and see if it flies.

Walt Ritscher reports on Sothink Quicker for Silverlight -- an animation editor. Seems this was mentioned in the last week somewhere, but I couldn't find it real quick. This definitely looks like something worth checking into though!

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Posted On Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:04 PM | Feedback (3)

Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 -- #492

In this issue: Tiago Andrade e Silva, John Bruin, Tim Greenfield, Jeff Wilcox, Michael S. Scherotter, and Terence Tsang.

Shoutouts:

Michael S. Scherotter reports: Deep Discounts on Microsoft Expression until January 31, and shows off some of his great Silverlight.

Tim Heuer blogged about Scott Cate's new venture: Visual Studio tricks in video form... looks great, Scott!

This was supposed to go out on the 20th, but I had some problems posting to GWB. Consequently, the APress eBook deal of the day for Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008 is over. Hopefully anyone that wanted it saw me post it to SilverlightNews on Twitter. You should definitely keep an eye on their page: What is the eBook Deal Of The Day?

From SilverlightCream.com:
Using Expression Encoder 2 MediaPlayer Templates in your application
Tiago Andrade e Silva has been exchanging email with me about this... good article with code, and all about the Expresion Encoder templates... good job Tiago!
My entry for the 10K Smart Coding Challenge
I don't remember where I came across John Bruin, but he listed his next one which I'll post tomorrow because I wanted to list his MIX 10K game entry :)... and yes it's addicting too... and looks like lots of you have seen it already... someone should have told me :)
Silverlight BrowserInfo and ASP.NET ServerVariables Viewer
Tim Greenfield sent me this link to a very cool tool that cracks into the Silverlight BrowserInfo and other items you might like to know about. He also has it hosted in Azure so you can take a peek at that... cool stuff, Tim, Thanks!
Customizing AutoCompleteBox to update SelectedItem on commit, without changing the control
Jeff Wilcox discusses some of the processes used in the Toolkit development, and also includes sample code extending the AutoComplete box.
Using Silverlight Toolkit WrapPanel in your Listbox
Michael S. Scherotter set out to do something seemingly complex and found out it was pretty simple to stuff a WrapPanel into a ListBox... check it out!
Silverlight VS Flash: Snake Snacks Game
Terence Tsang posts his 2nd game of his series. This one the famous, or is it infamous, Snake Snacks game. He has all the code here as usual, and the game is fairly amusing to play because I kept thinking I can do better :)

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Posted On Thursday, January 22, 2009 3:55 PM | Feedback (0)
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