Thursday, April 02, 2009 #

Silverlight Cream for April 02, 2009 -- #561

In this Issue: Nikolay Raychev(2), Martin Mihaylov, Andrea Boschin, Giovanni Montrone, Alex Golesh, Mike Taulty, Timmy Kokke, Shawn Wildermuth(2), Jeff Handley, Mike Snow, and Jeff Paries.

Shoutouts:

Just before leaving on a well-needed vacation, Adam Kinney reported: Silverlight Advertising Creation Kit is now available.

Gavin Wignall has a wonderful demo up of the app his company is working on: Metia launch Silverlight eMagazine platform... maybe I'm a sucker, but I love changing the car color :)

Shawn Wildermuth tells me that Erik Mork also got Silverlight MVP yesterday so that is very cool, Congrats Erik! and Frank LaVigne as well for being re-awarded, and anyone else I haven't heard of :)

From SilverlightCream.com, and the biggest list since the MIX09 push!:
Using Blur and DropShadow effects in Silverlight 3
Nikolay Raychev has two posts up ... the first one is on Blur and Dropshadow... code snippets with examples...
Enable multiple selection in Silverlight ListBox
Nikolay Raychev's second post of the day is on how to enable Multiple Selection on a Silverlight ListBox and what the other choices are also.
Creating applications with .NET RIA Services Part 4 - Adding a DomainDataSource
Martin Mihaylov sent this to me yesterday and is Part 4 of his investigation of the RIA Services. This tutorial focuses on the DomainDataSource. I'd suggest you read the first 3 parts first!
A proxy class to tunnel Socket channels
Andrea Boschin has a service that he's created, is explaining, and is giving up to all of us that allows him to let some services move their port to ones allowed by Silverlight ... looks pretty complex to me :)
Invalid member projection specification - RIA Domain Services
Giovanni Montrone is working with the .NET RIA Services and came up against an issue that he has a workaround for that you may need as well.
Silverlight 3 Quick Tip #6: Navigation Framework and Uri Routing
Alex Golesh is up to Quick Tip 6 now and this one is a pretty detailed look at the Navigation Framework and URI Routing.
Slides for Today’s Silverlight 2 Talk
Mike Taulty gave a Silverlight 2 talk on the 1st and has all his slides and materials posted, plus an intro to Silverlight 3 Beta.
Creating, Binding and Styling a Bubble Chart
The bubble chart is available in the toolkit for Silverlight 2 or Silverlight 3 Beta. In his post, Timmy Kokke is using Silverlight 3 Beta and Blend 3 to not only show in detail how to get the chart up, and bind data to it, but also how to style it... a great post, Timmy!
Preparing for a Side-by-Side Silverlight Machine
Shawn Wildermuth talks about how he is handling the Silverlight 2/Silverlight 3 Beta side-by-side development problem.
Listen to Me on Herding Code!
Shawn Wildermuth also reported that he was interviewed for a Herding Code Podcast... there's one to download!
Validation Exceptions in Silverlight
Jeff Handley responds to forum posts about Visual Studio breaking on an exception and explains why this is correct and how he works around it for a better developer experience.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #104 – How to Enable GPU Acceleration
Mike Snow has a quick post up on enabling GPU Acceleration... seems like we were just doing this last night at the User Group... and Tim didn't let us forget any of the pieces :)
Silverlight 3 Photo Gallery Wall Application
Jeff Paries revisits his Photo Gallery Wall in Silverlight 3 Beta... very nice job, Jeff... and the source is there for the taking viewing :)

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