Silverlight Cream for March 05, 2009 -- #533

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Silverlight Cream for March 05, 2009 -- #533

In this issue: Al Pascual, Jobi Joy, Alexei Prokudin, Michael Washington, Mike Snow, Terence Tsang, Jason Cooke, Lee, and David Anson.

Shoutouts:

James Bacon has announced a "It is an open "no holds barred" style competition, meaning that people from around the world are free to participate and there are no theme limitations" game competition at Mashooo: Mashooo S Prize - Silverlight game competition , and along with that, Silverlight Girl announced that Mashooo accepts OpenID and layout improvement - it had to be done .

Shawn Wildermuth has his 2nd of 3 parts up on DSLS: Textual DSLs for Developers Part 2 is Live!

Matthias Shapiro reports that the Source Code For Presidential Candidate Tracker Visualization is now up and available.

Brad Abrams reports on Some Great New Mix09 Sessions Posted -- check out the links... good stuff!

Jeff Paries suggests if you're interested in Deep Zoom you should check out the app done for TechFest: TechFest DeepZoom.

From SilverlightCream.com, and this is only about half of what I've got in the pipe... missing a couple days to #mvp09 got me somewhat behind, but I'll catch up:

Silverlight 101: Make a GET request and a POST request.: Al Pascual details out HTTP GET and POST requests in Silverlight ... if you're not totally down on this, it might make a good bookmark ... thanks Al!
Sunny Orange - WPF Theme 1: Jobi Joy is going to be posting some themes for WPF and Silverlight. This "Sunny Orange" is the first. It is labeled WPF, but it's XAML, and I can't get to it from here, so you'll have to tell me if you got it going in Silverlight, if you get to it before me :)
Silverlight 2.0 Syntax Highlighting Textbox: Alexei Prokudin has a cool article up on CodeProject where he has added Syntax Highlighting to a Textbox. There's a lot of code involved, so woohoo... go grab it and have a ball :)
High on Coding Podcast interview about SilverlightDesktop: Michael Washington took gave up some time one evening at #mvp09 to be interviewed for "High on Coding" ... it's available on the site, and he's talking about his SilverlightDesktop ... give it a listen.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #97 – Creating Sprites from 3D Models - EnvyGames: Mike Snow's latest is up ... can you believe he's only got 3 more to hit 100? -- this one is showcasing a tool to generate Sprites. So for all you gamers that are reading the many game blogs, or wanting to enter a competition or two, here's how to do your sprites!
Flash vs Silverlight: Orbiting Text around an object: Terence Tsang is showing a great one today ... text orbiting around a stationary object ... you see the back of the text and then it disappears (of course -- it's behind) when it goes behind the object ... dang ... now to figure out where to use that :)
How to "template" the Silverlight Calendar to behave like the Vista system calendar: Kathy Kam turns her blog over to Jason Cooke for a moment so he can demonstrate how to template the Calendar control ... as if it didn't do enough already!
Interacting with Charts: Lee demonstrates some magic with the Chart control ... mark out a congested area, the chart redraws with that area spread out so you can see what's going on, and then put it back ... wow... cool stuff!
A rose by any other name... [LayoutTransformControl on track to ship in the Silverlight Toolkit under the name LayoutTransformer!]: For those of you that's been following David Anson's development of the LayoutTransformControl, you'll be happy to read this post! ... it is tentatively on track to be inserted into the Toolkit ... way to go, David, and good for all of us :)