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Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2009 - 2 -- #579

In this Issue: Al Pascual, Eric Mork, Martin Duffy, Boyan Mihaylov, Andrew Marshall, Tim Greenfield, James Bacon, Page Brooks, Jesse Liberty, and Rob Houweling.

Shoutouts:

Shawn Wildermuth has had some good articles up on DSL and Oslo. If this is in your area of interest, check out Part 3 of My DSL for Developers Article is Live!

Chad Campbell lists his essential Twitter accounts: Silverlight - 7 Twitter Accounts I Follow (and have found valuable) -- thanks for the shoutout, Chad!

Bob Thomson at StormIdeas has been busy doing visualizations. He has three new ones up that are cool to view: Silverlight visualisation of Scottish Health data using Descry code, Silverlight DeepEarth maps Guided Navigation and Search, and Silverlight DeepZoom collections, Guided Navigation and Search. These guys do great work... and if you like what they do, stay tuned :)

From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight Image event ImageFailed not being called
Al Pascual has a quick post up discussing an error he came across where ImageFailed is not called... all good information.
How to create a simple Behavior for Blend 3
Eric Mork has a great tutorial up for creating Behaviors in Blend ... very nice, Erik!
British MP’s Expenses Data Visualisation via Virtual Earth CTP
Martin Duffy has a visualization up using the Virtual Earth CTP of the British MP's Expenses... he does include some of the code used!
Creating Rich Data Forms in Silverlight 3 - Introduction
Boyan Mihaylov has a great tutorial up on Rich Data Forms including validation. He discusses the multiple types of binding as well.
Reaction-Diffusion Models
Andrew Marshall has some math in his post that I haven't seen the likes of since graduate school! Then he used Silverlight 2 to simulate it all ... cool pictures :)
Optimizing sending xml to a service
Tim Greenfield discusses the downside to sending xml to a WCF web service as a string ... hmm.. wonder if that's the slowdown on mine ... seems I might have an immediate use for this!
How to programmatically detect Silverlight version
James Bacon takes on the challenge of figuring out the Silverlight version... it's not as straightforward as it sounds.
A Cool Trick for Passing Data to a Silverlight Application
Page Brooks provides an example of one way of parsing a query string to get data passed in to your Silverlight app.
Easing is… Easier
Jesse Liberty blogged about Easing and wow... what a post it is... very informative and complete ... and Jesse... glad to see you blog, I was about ready to send out the dogs :)
Open in Expression Blend - switch between 2 and 3
Rob Houweling created two registry files to go along with Amy Dullard's (or Shawn Wildermuth's) bat files to complete the thought out to Experession Blend ... very nice, Rob!

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Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2009 -- #578

In this Issue: Ashish Shetty, SilverLemma, Vladimir Bodurov, Alex Knight, Ofir Shemesh, Cameron Albert, Corey Schuman, Ning Zhang, and Jose Fajardo.

Shoutouts:

Brunce Abernethy has his material up from his Silverlight 101 Presentation: Silverlight 101 Presentation and Files from .NET University West Michigan 2009

David Anson updated his link of posts about charting: My new home page, extended [Updated collection of great Silverlight and WPF Charting resources!]

From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Network Awareness
Ashish Shetty has part 3 of his series on OOB up.. and this one is on detecting network connectivity.
Web Services and Silverlight
SilverLemma has a tutorial up for Web Services and Silverlight ... worth a read even if you know how to do it, and if you don't, this is for you!
Vector Visualizer - a simple Silverlight 3D tool for viewing vectors in three dimensions
Vladimir Bodurov has not only an online version of this tool up, but also a download version and all the code... a serious Visualization tool.
Clever gradients in Blend
Alex Knight has a tutorial up on some awesome gradients... I love the lines across it and wondered how that was done... thanks Alex :)
Silverlight: DragSelect component
Ofir Shemesh has some code up you're going to want... showing is better than telling, so take a look at his demo of the DragSelect code... sweet!
Silverlight Window Control
Cameron Albert gives us another snack from his Perenthia toolkit ... this one is a Window control.
Visual Studio Tip: Open XAML in code only mode
Corey Schuman shows us how to load up XAML in code-only mode in Visual Studio ... how useful is THAT??
Add Rich Intellisense for Your Silverlight Controls
Ning Zhang explains the intellisense for the Toolkit files; Visual Studio and Blend plus how they're implemented and even localized.
"Follow the Cursor" Animation - lets do it with behaviors :)
Jose Fajardo has found time to be blogging again, to all our benefit! ... check out his launch animations using behaviours yet ... too cool!

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