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Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2009 - 2 -- #556

In this issue: Jesse Liberty, Gerard Leblanc, Seema Ramchandani, Kurt Brockett, Jeff Prosise(2), Public Sector DPE Team, Giovanni Montrone, and Jonathan van de Veen.

This finishes the #MIX09 flood! Todays post has some old links and some very new links and the last of the ones that I attribute to #MIX09. With the links here, I've added 182 posts to the database since #MIX09. There are some interesting collaborations coming up that will make the 3179 database entries more accessible to you... so keep watching :)

From SilverlightCream.com:
Toolkit Control – TimePicker
Jesse Liberty has a great tutorial up on the TimePicker ... this is in the March Toolkit, but you can get to it from Silverlight 2 if you like. Lots of code and screenshots... a very complete run-through!
Master pages, part VI. Progressive download with web service, datagrid, etc. : declaratively specifying downloadable modules
Gerard Leblanc has part VI of his Master Pages journey up as of today... this one is declaratively specifying all modules to reduce wait time for the user... and dang... that code just *works*... :)
Video of "Deep Dive into SL Graphics" is posted
Seema Ramchandani's sessions at #MIX09 were jammed so much that they wouldn't even let you sit on the floor, but here's the code the deck, and you can watch the video in your chair!
New Tile Turn Sample for 3D Mix
Kurt Brockett of blendables reports on a CoverFlow-like sample with the Silverlight 3B Perspective 3D code in it... very nice looking as you'd expect... and you have the code :)
Silverlight 3's New Element Data Binding
Jeff Prosise describes Element to Element binding, shows the xaml and then has a great working example... all wrapped up very nicely.
Silverlight 3's New Local Connections
Jeff Prosise then does the same with local connections showing an app with two Silverlight 3B instances talking to each other.
A MUST READ: Silverlight Deployment Guide
The Public Sector DPE Team posted a Silverlight Deployment Guide by David Tesar. I'm going to add that to my sidebar links for reference.
Securing Silverlight with Custom Forms Authentication
Giovanni Montrone posted this back in January, but submitted it to me this morning :) ... he worked out a way to pass login information back to the hosting asp.net page for authentication. Good external references as well.
Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #10
Jonathan van de Veen has part 10 of his Enterprise Application series up and deals with a problem of nested Dictionaries in his DataContract.

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Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2009 -- #555

In this issue: Jeff Wilcox(2), Chris Hay(2), Lutz Gerhard, Ed Maia(2), Peter Bromberg, Jaime Rodriguez, Swiss MSDN Team, Lee, Amy Dullard, Mike Snow, Jeff Prosise, Brad Abrams, András Velvárt, Christian Schormann, and Ruurd Boeke.

Shoutout:

Pete Brown was busy at MIX ... not only the Hanselminutes I blogged yesterday, but also Some of the Shows I did at or around MIX – Hanselminutes, Continuum

From SilverlightCream.com:
What’s new with the Silverlight AutoCompleteBox
Jeff Wilcox blogs about the AutoCompleteBox in the new version of the Toolkit ... and hmmm... oh it's not THERE... it's in Visual Studio and Blend as being Stable... cool :)
Highlighting AutoCompleteBox improvements thanks to Silverlight 3
Jeff Wilcox highlights a couple of the enhancements to the autocomplete box which allows some code to be removed from examples... all with source of course :)
Silverlight: GPU Acceleration Screencast
Chris Hay is digging into GPU acceleration and posted a video of his findings... when to use, etc...
Silverlight: GPU reverts to CPU Screencast
Chris Hay then produced a second video showing how the GPU acceleration will revert back to CPU under some conditions... this is good to know info!
Deep Zoom collections explained Part 2 - the storage and network optimization, dynamic collections
Lutz Gerhard's part 2 of his Deep Zoom series is up ... this one discusses the collections and wow... details... all good stuff if you wanna be DZ'ing :)
Animating objects' Visibility in Silverlight
Ed Maia has an example of animating Visibility in SL2 using ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames ... no demo but a good code snippet.
Animating Mandelbrot fractals with Silverlight 3 WriteableBitmap
Peter Bromberg has an awesome Mandelbrot fractals post up (with code) in ... you guessed already! ... SL3B with the WriteableBitmap ... very nice Peter...
Animating Custom Attached Properties in SL2
Ed Maia has a SL2 post about animating Custom Attached Properties. Quick and to the point :)
WPF effects Library running in Silverlight 3
Are you familiar with the WPF Effects Library? Well Jaime Rodriguez reports that Charles Bissonette on the Blend team ported it to Silverlight... holy crap... check out the demo then go grab it at CodePlex!
What's new on the DataGrid control in Silverlight 3 Beta
The Swiss MSDN Team has a post up about the new features for the DataGrid in SL3B ... check out that Cell and Row Validation!!
Styling slider control
Lee has a very nice example of putting the slider value on the thumb and has it rounded to avoid seeing decimals as well... I like this a lot, thanks!
Silverlight Tools Installation Error Codes
Amy Dullard gives some relief to anyone that's installing on multiple machines in the way of listing out what the error codes really mean, and how to resolve the problem that caused them.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #102 – Use Integers for Layout Calculations
Mike Snow discusses the problems associated with using floating point values for positioning objects and why you should use Integers instead, then convinces us with a couple screenshots from a game.
Silverlight 3's New Animation Easing
Jeff Prosise has an non-Blend example of easing on his site. This is a classic bouncing ball, but as he says... duplicate THAT in SL2 :)
Silverlight 3 and SEO
Brad Abrams talks a bit about SEO and Silverlight and .NET RIA Services then has links out to his MIX session and some other resources that are good material to get your arms around for this subject.
Discovering Silverlight 3 – Poor Man’s Visualbrush Behavior
András Velvárt talks about the fact that we're missing a VisualBrush in Silverlight, and comes up with a possible solution. He admits it's a resource hog, but it's food for thought!
Blend 3 Behaviors: Interactivity Without Code
Christian Schormann has a good no-code, no-demo discussion up on Behaviours in Blend 3. He starts with what you could do in previous versions and moves on. Definitely a good read.
Accordion, part 2
Ruurd Boeke has part 2 of his Accordion series up, and is a very nice tutorial on getting soe of the other details setup. He is asking for feedback, so go for it!

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