Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2009 - 2 -- #537

In this issue: Martin Duffy, Nihkil Kothari, Rishi, Nigel Sampson, Bryant Likes, Ofir Shemesh, Jeff Wilcox, Swiss MSDN Team Blog, Yasser Makram, Lee, and David Anson.

Shoutouts:

Mike Snow has made his book public: Silverlight Tip of the Day #98 – Silverlight 3 Game Programming Book ... very cool, Mike... I look forward to that!

John Papa the Silverlight data/webservice guru is learning guitar and has combined that experience with Silverlight: Silverlight Chord Finder. Since I paid for a lot of my education playing a guitar, I'm interested in seeing this, John!


From SilverlightCream.com and wow I just did a big list yesterday... can't imagine what it's going to be like after MIX!
Silverlight USA States Visualisation
Martin Duffy answered up to Tim Heuer's challenge for a Silverlight visualization application and took on something similar to the WPF USA map of a few weeks ago... I really like the effects he has here and it just works great... awesome job, Martin!
TemplatePanel (aka MasterPage) for Silverlight
Nikhil Kothari discusses the TemplatePanel from his Silverlight.FX package and how it neatly handles the MasterPage functionality we all know and love.
Silverlight Routing a la MVC Routing
Rishi provides us a parallel between Silverlight Routing and MVC Routing along the way providing lots of information and a good source for MVC routing in a final link.
A client for duplex services in Silverlight
Nigel Sampson tackles a reasonably complex problem of duplex services. He gives links out to sources he starte with and then provides his neatly encaspulated code!
Debugging a Remotely Hosted Silverlight App
Bryant Likes explains how to set yourself up to remotely debug a xap file... a couple caveats apply, but hey, it works! ... and you can also perform the magic to code running on a Mac.
Silverlight: double click a ListBox item
Ofir Shemesh follows up his double-click any Silverlight object post with one on how to double-click a ListBox item ... just a little tricky since there's no object you can depend upon... check out his solution.
Gravatar control for Silverlight and WPF - source and control binaries
I missed this yesterday, but Jeff Wilcox shows us a GravatarControl package that you can throw onto your blog... Silverlight and WPF ... looks pretty straightforward to use, too.
Another Silverlight 2 Hands-on Lab
The Swiss MSDN Team Blog has a post up about a new Hands-on lab that exactly produces a PhotoBrowser application previously done in a session by Ronnie Saurenmann at TechDays in Basel.
Adding RTL Support to Silverlight Using SilverlightRTL Library – Part 1
Yasser Makram uses the OpenSource SilverlightRTL library inside VisualStudio and Blend even!
Using PreparingCellForEdit event in datagrid
Lee demonstrates using PreparingCellsForEdit to qualify the action available to users on editing cells in a DataGrid.
Controls are like diapers: you don't want a leaky one [Implementing the WeakEvent pattern on Silverlight with the WeakEventListener class]
David Anson discusses how it's possible to create a hidden reference, how WPF deals with it, and then offers us all a solution in Silverlight2 ... how cool is that?

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Community-Credit February 2009 Grand Prize Winner

If you take the link that image is referencing, you'll find yourself at David "The Original" Silverlight's Community-Credit website.

I have to admit, the first time I looked at it, I wondered why I'd bother, but since GeeksWithBlogs is rolling all my blogging up there, I thought what the heck, I'll go ahead and list other stuff too. The fact that Karl Shifflett was the one that pointed me at it was also no small impetus :) If you're doing very much in the community, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at all the points you can rack up in a month.

The points accrue toward a set of prizes that David gives away. The "Remote-controlled Hovering Space Surfer" shown above is my latest Grand Prize win from February, 2009 --- THANKS DAVID! I have previously won, in May 2008, a Grand Prize of a complete PodCast kit: Microphone, Headset, Mixer, Software, the whole deal, and in August of 2008 I came in somewhere down the list.

Just in case you're thinking that heavy bloggers or community group leaders can scoop up all the good stuff, they have a method arranged so that when you do win something your next few months is 'curved' so that you only receive a percentage of the actual points toward prizes. This works great and is well thought out!

This gives you a reference sheet too of everything you've been up to in case you need it such as for the yearly "What the heck have you been doing all year" chats.

Going along with the recent additions and changes at SilverlightCream, I'm going to work with David to automatically get some credit at Community-Credit for the blogger when a post is entered into my database.

I've found that the points I have to add myself are minimal. The majority of the points I accrue come in automatically from GWB, and it's just a fun thing to see monthly.

Go to the site, sign yourself up and see what kinds of prizes you can come up with! Check out the rest of the site as well... there's a LOT going on there, and auxiliary sites to rat around in as well.

Thanks for all the work, David!

Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2009 -- #536

In this all-submittal issue: Ian Blackburn, Colin Eberhardt(2), Chris Cavanagh(2), and Boyan Mihaylov.


From SilverlightCream.com:
Implementing Validation Logic in Silverlight 2
Ian Blackburn has a bunch of posts up that I haven't seen, so I'm going to try to catch up. I cherry-picked this one first on Validation in Silverlight2. He makes a good case for using this even though everyone believes validation will be available in a week, but beta... thanks for the links Ian!
ElementName binding in Silverlight via Attached Behaviours
Colin Eberhardt has a post up about ElementName binding avoiding a relay class in favor of an Attached Behaviour pattern ... good stuff, Colin!
Enabling RelativeSource binding in Silverlight
Colin Eberhardt continues from his ElementName binding post above and adds RelativeSource binding capability ... gotta love these guys that come over from WPF and bring all this goodness along :)
Silverlight relay base class
Chris Cavanagh explains how to use a relay class to bind to UI Elements, including code and a reference link... thanks Chris!
Parameterized DLR Invoker
Chris Cavanagh helps us out with the Dynamic Language Runtime if you're working with arbitrary parameterized expressions without the use of ScriptCode.
Interaction between Silverlight and the Browser
Boyan Mihaylov has a follow-on article to his previous one on Silverlight and the DOM. In this one, he discusses bookmarks, cookies, Query strings, and Browser info... tons of goodness!

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