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Silverlight Cream for March 23, 2009 - 3 -- #548

In this MIX09, WebServices, PixelShaders, OOB, and ISM Issue: Mark Monster, Silverlight Web Services Team, Shawn Wildermuth, Mike Taulty, Laurent Bugnion, Pete Brown, Mike Harsh, Joe Stegman, Brad Abrams, Andy Beaulieu, Chris Hay(2), Michael Wolf, and Jafar Husain.

From SilverlightCream.com, and picks up some I missed earlier today:
Silverlight 3 – WebClient, WebRequest and WCF calls using Credentials?
Mark Monster has posted about credentials use with WebRequest, WebClient, or WCF call in SL3B.
What's new with web services in Silverlight 3 Beta
Silverlight Web Services Team details the new Web Service features with SL3B
My Mini-Session at MIX09 (Eclipse and Silverlight)
Shawn Wildermuth's presentation for Silverlight and Eclipse is up and ready.
A quick look at Silverlight 3: MIX 08 WPF Demo Copy in Silverlight 3
Mike Taulty took a WPF demo into Silverlight independent of the Keynote app and whoa... they look very similar ... check out the source code :)
My #MIX09 session is available in video
Laurent Bugnion's presentation at MIX09 is up and ready to watch. You should definitely take a look!
My MIX09 Silverlight 3 ShowOff Video – Commodore 64 Emulator
Pete Brown built a Commodore-64 emulator in SL3B and then submitted a video of it for the ShowOff competition. He has a partial video here to watch.
Silverlight 3 Beta Sample - Slidentity - Presentation Creation App
Mike Harsh built an awesome SL3B app that he then used to give his presentation... if that's confusing... check out his blog. If it's not confusing, check it out anyway... he's got the source up there :)
Mix09 Presentation and Deck
Joe Stegman's session was great detailing lots of the new SL3B features, and his deck and video are up and ready!
Mix09: Silverlight for Business Apps and .NET RIA Services talks posted
Brad Abrams reports that the MIX09 folks have some LOB and RIA apps up for our viewing.
Silverlight 3: Pixel Shaders and Effects
Andy Beaulieu has a great post on PixelShaders up. I wanted to post it today but couldn't get to his site. He also has detailed instructions on building a new Shader effect... very cool.
Silverlight: Web Pixel Shader Compiler
Chris Hay has a PixelShader compiler ... no, really! ... check this out if you're doing any of this at all!.. great job, Chris!
breaking the sandbox in silverlight 3
Michael Wolf takes a detailed look at the OOB experience and you may be surprised where he all ends up!
Silverlight: SLLauncher
Chris Hay explains what SLLauncher is and how to use it to debug OOB apps.
Bug: Explicit Styles Replaced by ISM in Silverlight3 Version of Toolkit
Jafar Husain explains a bug in the SL3 version of the ISM... but comes to the rescue with a slick solution!

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Posted On Monday, March 23, 2009 9:38 PM | Feedback (0)

Silverlight Cream for March 23, 2009 - 2 -- #547

In this Styles, PixelShaders, Easing, and Blend issue: Emil Stoychev(2), Paulio, Mike Taulty(2), Pete Brown(2), Rui Marinho, Alex Golesh, Shawn Wildermuth, Christian Schormann(2), and Expression Blend and Design Blog.

From SilverlightCream.com:
Tip: Cascading Styles in Silverlight 3
Emil Stoychev demonstrates something we were wanting a while back ... cascading styles ... woo hoo!
Merged Resource Dictionaries in Silverlight 3
Emil Stoychev demonstrates freely splitting style definitions and other resources into manageable pieces.
Styling the Listbox Control with Blend
Paulio submitted this nice article that I missed back in January for Styling the Listbox in Blend. This is Silverlight 2, and Blend 2, but hey... what's good is good!
A quick look at Silverlight 3: Derived Styles
Mike Taulty has a second example of the style cascading... so there's two :)
Silverlight 3 – BasedOn Styles
Pete Brown gives us another great example of the cascading styles ... so now there's three!
Pixel Shaders Animation in Silverlight 3.0 beta
Rui Marinho has a video up on PixelShaders animation... I can't get to it from here, so I'm not sure if it's in English or Portuguese... the text is in both :)
Silverlight 3 – Drop Shadows and Glows with Pixel Shaders
Pete Brown discusses PixelShaders and particularly discusses drop-shadows and glows ... if you want to be convinced, check out the final graphic from his Synthesiser project!
A quick look at Silverlight 3: Easing Animations
Mike Taulty demonstrates using the built-in easing functions with animations... cool stuff.
Silverlight 3 Quick Tip #3: Creating custom easing for Silverlight animations
Alex Golesh has already created a custom easing and show us how easy (sorry -- just too easy) it was to do :)
Blend 3 Improvements
Shawn Wildermuth takes a quick swipe at the new Blend 3 features with links out to other resources.
SketchFlow – Sketching and Prototyping in Expression Blend
Christian Schormann teases us with all the goodness of SketchFlow ... boy I for one can hardly wait for all that! ... if you haven't watched the MIX videos on that... go do so.
Blend 3 – An Overview
Christian Schormann lays out the 6 'pillars' of additional functionality in Blend 3. One of which is Sketchflow, and not available, but the others are.
An Introduction to Behaviors, Triggers, and Actions
Expression Blend and Design Blog has a good post up describing the new Behaviors, Triggers, and Actions available in the new version of Expression Blend... this is an overview, a more detailed approach is forthcoming.

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Posted On Monday, March 23, 2009 4:59 PM | Feedback (0)

Silverlight Cream for March 23, 2009 -- #546

In this OOB Issue: Nikolay Raychev, Shawn Wildermuth, Tim Heuer, Chris Hay(3), Mike Taulty, Mark Monster, Pete Brown, Chris Koenig, Alex Golesh, and Alex Knight

From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight 3 as a Desktop Application (Out-of-Browser Applications)
Nikolay Raychev details out what all you need to get your app to have an OOB experience.
Enabling Out-of-Browser Support in Silverlight 3
Shawn Wildermuth demonstrates the user experience of OOB then shows the code changes to get it and a detach working.
Silverlight 3 Out-of-browser Update Model
Tim Heuer takes a completely different stance than others with his OOB post and discusses the network data going on with detailed info about the situation, then compares it to Adobe AIR.
Silverlight: Out of Browser, uninstalling doesn't update execution state
Chris Hay reports an issue with the execution state during an OOB experience.
Silverlight: Out of Browser Videos
Chris Hay has a couple videos up (already!) on taking an app OOB.
Silverlight: OOB: Detach, user cancelling and exceptions
Chris Hay gives us a nice list of 'gotchas' he has found working with the OOB code. Not problems, just good to know stuff!
A quick look at Silverlight 3: Running Outside the Browser
Mike Taulty has a complete end-to-end post on setting an app up for OOB including icons, a detach button, and pushing an update to the detached experience.
Silverlight 3 – Out of browser support
Mark Monster has a very complete post from the code to get the OOB effect running, all the way to checking if the app is off or online, auto-updating the OOB app, and handling init parameters, which David Yack defined more clearly in a comment.
Silverlight 3 – Taking Silverlight Out of the Browser
Pete Brown used his Commodore 64 emulator as a complete example of taking an app out of browser, lots of screenshots, all the code, and icons.
Silverlight 3 Out-of-Browser Support
Chris Koenig starts with a complete set of download links then built an app in Blend to take OOB, and shows all the settings to get it running outside the browser, including wiring up a button inside the app to do the Detach.
Silverlight 3 Quick Tip #2: How to prepare your Silverlight 3 application offline
Alex Golesh not only details the developer experience to take an app OOB, but also details using custom icons.
Silverlight on the desktop
Alex Knight posted a short example of the end-user experience of taking an application out of the browser, with screen shots.

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Posted On Monday, March 23, 2009 11:49 AM | Feedback (0)
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