Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2009 -- #578

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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!