Silverlight Cream for March 16, 2009 -- #543

In this issue: Bob Thomson(2), Colin M, Expression Blend and Design Blog, Alex Knight, Gavin Wignall, Chris Cavanagh(2), Rishi, and Tess Fernandez.

Shoutout:

Jeff Weber announed Introducing Krashlander (A Silverlight Game) ... this looks like it will be a fun game.


From SilverlightCream.com:
colaab – View large images instantly with DeepZoom integration
Bob Thomson at colaab has been having way too much fun with DeepZoom and Silverlight. You can still get a free account... check out what they've got going! and before you quit, he has another related site up as well: New storm ideas site goes live – Silverlight 2 goodness
Chord Finder update
Colin M reponded to my post about John Papa's Guitar Chord page in Silverlight. Colin has a very extensive page up. The Silverlight works great, and looks cool.
"Page Cannot Be Found" Issue when Previewing via Expression Blend
The Expression Blend and Design Blog has a post up that should be of interest because of an issue that we all may have gotten in an update on the 9th... even if you're not having problems, check this out.
Tutorial: ScollViewer skinning to make a picture viewer
Alex Knight has another tutorial up... this time he's using the ScrollViewer to make a picture viewer, and comes up with a very cool viewer!
Using Easing to apply acceleration or inertia to an animation in Silverlight
Gavin Wignall eases into "easing" ... great explanation of how to set it up in Blend and great demonstration of it's use, too!
Silverlight Asynchronous Loader Helper
Chris Cavanagh built an AsynchLoader class to wrap WebClient.OpenReadAsync and simplify the calling.
Silverlight DependencyProperty Relay
Chris Cavanagh also revisited the Relay code from last week and built it this time around DependencyProperties which gives you an event notification when the DependencyProperty changes.
Thou shall here forth be known as "nRoute"
Rishi is expanding his MVC routing framework I blogged about last week, and is naming it "nRoute". He has info describing his intentions on this post.
Silverlight/WPF FlipImage Animation
Tess Ferrandez demonstrates and details a very cool flip-over control for Silverlight and WPF. This looks and works very nice!

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MIX09 Minus 1

MIX09 Minus 1


MIX07 was the first national conference I ever attended, and I felt like that kid from the sticks in NYC looking up at the buildings.

MIX08 was just as cool and having some fore-knowledge, I was able to navigate my way around a bit better rather than spend all my time staring up at the buildings :)

Now here I am on the outer edge of MIX09 beginning, and I'm as excited about this as I was about MIX07. I can play dumb really well when asked direct questions, but if you're involved with Silverlight (and why are you reading this if you're not?), then stay tuned for MIX09!

I'll be heading down the highway tomorrow about 10:00 and if it wasn't that someone put Hoover Dam right in the middle of the road, I'd be there about 2:00pm. With the obstacle, it'll be 3:00 or later, but I'll be checking in tomorrow, and roaming around a bit to see who I can find :)

There's stuff going on all day every day, and double... even triple-bookings in the evenings. I'll be wearing TShirts with my web addresses on the back, so get my attention if we haven't met! I'll be blogging #MIX09 with everyone else, and email always works.

I'm supposed to have wireless at my 'no-tell motel', and if I do, I'll try to keep up the blog while I'm gone. An alternative will be the Blogger LoungeTM but since I'm not staying at the Venetian, I'll need someone to walk me in.

I finally installed IE8 this weekend on both machines and love it. I find my desktop machine has become less of a development station and more of a test box... definitely looking forward to a drop of Windows 7 that I feel comfortable throwing on there!

One really cool thing this weekend was a blog post by Karl Shifflett that appears to have solved my Visual Studio crashing problem. That also went on both machines... very timely Karl, thanks!

Unfortunately, the road from Phoenix to 'Vegas has a lot of cell dead zones, so I won't have much phone contact until I get close. I do have my Zune80 with cartruck adapter, so it'll be me, Herb Ellis, Joe Pass, Howard Roberts, Kenny Burrell, and Jimmy Smith jamming out all the way.

See you all in 'Vegas!

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