Saturday, March 07, 2009 #

Silverlight Cream for March 07, 2009 -- #534

In this issue: Nikhil Kothari, Alex Knight(2), Lutz Gerhard, Nigel Sampson, Ofir Shemesh, Tim Heuer, Koen Zwikstra, Jeff Wilcox, Tess Fernandez(6), and Corey Miller.

Shoutouts:

Corey Schuman has a big list-o-Silverlight 2 books on his site: The State of Silverlight 2 books .. thanks for the shoutout, Corey!

Martin Grayson announced that Blacklight v3.0 (Mar09) released! ... check out his post for all the goodness involved in this!

From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight.FX and Silverlight Store Sample App
If you've been trying to get your head around Nikhil Kothari's Silverlight.FX, he has a small set of example apps one of which is Silverlight Store and holy crap is that cool! ... 'nuff said... check it out!
Shadow Breaker effect in XAML - Expression Design Tutorial
Alex Knight has a great short tutorial for building breaklines for web pages that have half shadows... check the page and you'll know what I'm talking about... very cool.
Tutorial: Simple Parent/Child Navigation in Silverlight
Alex Knight also has an awesome tutorial up using Blend and VS to build what looks a lot like my Outlook Bar only cooler... and apparently with a lot less effort too... I'm going to have to dig deep into this one, thanks Alex!
Panning across large maps with Deep Zoom and custom animations
Lutz Gerhard has a very cool DeepZoom and I guess Virtual Earth hookup where you can click buttons that transport the map area you're viewing to another place on the globe... he lists the white paper some of this was taken from plus the source... good stuff!
Gotcha when databinding a ComboBox in Silverlight
Nigel Sampson takes off on an error he received during databinding on a ComboBox. He does offer up a solution that is working for him. So if you're getting hit by this, check it out.
Silverlight: attach a double click to any object
Ofir Shemesh provides code and an example of using it for attaching a double-click event to any UIElement object ... grab this for your local bag-o-goodies.
Using Silverlight for workflow creation
Tim Heuer reports on a company that is using Silverlight for their workflow displays ... wow... cool displays... someone is having fun :)
Hosting Silverlight outside the browser
Koen Zwikstra, while ratting around inside the Silverlight docs, came across a way to Host Silverlight outside the browser. He's throwing this out as a discussion point, so check it out!
Asynchronous test support - Silverlight unit test framework and the UI thread
Jeff Wilcox has a great article up on the Unit Test framework in Silverlight. This post came out of a discussion he's had with many people describing the use of the UI thread for this.
Silverlight 2.0 Walkthrough – Creating a “Traffic Jam” game
Tess Ferrandez took a break from her normal blogging to create a tutorial for a Silverlight 2 game ... very cool. This first one is the overview, Part 1 is next: Silverlight Game – Part 1 – Creating the main layout, followed by Part 2: Silverlight Game – Part 2 – Creating a Car UserControl, Part 3:Silverlight Game – Part 3 - Using Linq to XML to read and generate the levels, Part 4:Silverlight Game – Part 4 - Adding drag and drop functionality to move the cars around, and Part 5:Silverlight Game – Part 5 – Storing Highscores in Isolated Storage
Silverlight 2 Custom Control Gotchas
Corey Miller pulls from his experience writing Silverlight 2 Custom controls and shares the Gotchas you can avoid along the way courtesy of Corey!

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