Silverlight Cream for May 01, 2009 -- #584

In this Issue: Simon Guest(2), Al Pascual, Jeff Prosise, Andrew Duthie, Nikhil Kothari, Alex Golesh, Ning Zhang, Jesse Liberty, and SilverLemma.

Shoutouts:

Jeff Wilcox is asking Is it worthwhile to keep AutoCompleteBox’s DropDownOpening and Closing events?

Cameron Albert has a blog post up about his Perenthia World Builder in Silverlight

Pete Brown posted his Silverlight 3 Links from the Reston DevDinner


From SilverlightCream.com:
Using SketchFlow to Create Better Prototypes
Simon Guest sent me a couple links yesterday. This first one is an awesome run-down on SketchFlow. This is a really complete article... very nice, Simon!
Displaying XPS Documents in Silverlight
Simon Guest's second post is on XPS Documents and Silverlight. He began with David Anson's material and gives us his results of a weekend of debug work.. good stuff and good links!
Silverlight real time Swine Flu Viewer
Al Pascual has a cool Swine Flu visualization up... how timely is THAT??
More on Silverlight 3's Navigation Framework
Jeff Prosise revisits the WriteableBitmap sample he had posted and uses the Navigation Framework to allow forward and backward browsing to work.
Silverlight Animation Tip
Andrew Duthie explains how easy it is to cause yourself a problem cutting and pasting XAML from Blend... what caused his problems and what to do (or not).
Locate Me and Virtual Earth Sample for Silverlight
Nikhil Kothari uses the HostIP.Info interface to and then ties it into the Virual Earth CTP to have a very cool Silverlight App. Tim Heuer also contributed a Google Ajax API sample.
Silverlight Tip: Object Creation via Silverlight.js – IE8 & FireFox tweak
Alex Golesh explains why your Silverlight app might not be rendering in FireFox and how to fix that problem!
Register Silverlight Controls with Visual Studio and Blend
Ning Zhang explains the registration of controls with Visual Studio and Expression Blend not only so you understand what the Toolkit is doing but so that we can register our own controls... sweet :)
Animated Visual State Transitions with the Transitioning Content Control
Jesse Liberty has a great detailed tutorial and video up on the Transitioning Content control. Great demos to explain the concepts too!
Switching Pages and Passing Parameters in Silverlight
SilverLemma is investigating page switching in Silverlight and passing parameters to them.

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