Silverlight Cream for May 19, 2009 -- #596

In this Issue: Marek Latuskiewicz, Cristian Merighi, Kevin Dockx, Jayaram Krishnaswamy, Gavin Wignall, Stefan Olson(2), and Jason Cooke.

Shoutouts:

Jeff Weber tells us that there is a New Place To Upload Your Silverlight Games: Game Jolt

Tim Heuer gave us a heads-up about .NET RIA Services Update with new Silverlight project template


From SilverlightCream.com:
Animate anything anywhere with behaviors in Silverlight 3 (and 2!) (Animations part II)
Marek Latuskiewicz has part 2 of his animate anything with Behaviors post up. Check out his "PerElementAnimationBehavior"!
Silverlight 3 Beta TrackballBehavior
Cristian Merighi has a nice Perspective 3D post up. He does the whole thing with a "Trackball" Behavior he wrote and is providing... sweet!
Designing an editable Silverlight combobox (or listbox)
Kevin Dockx took on the challenge of making a Silverlight ComboBox (or ListBox) editable, and it ended up being not as difficult as I would have thought.
DoubleAnimation Basics with Silverlight Application
Jayaram Krishnaswamy has an article up on aspAlliance covering double Animation. By itself, the post could have been Silverlight 2 or 3B, but he also includes OOB in the discussion pushing it into 3B.
Zoom in and out using the Mouse wheel in Silverlight
Gavin Wignall demonstrates using the Mouse Wheel for zooming a Silverlight app. This works very nicely. I also really like the way he pans over to where the mouse is located...
Login with e-mail address using .net RIA services
Stefan Olson had two posts up today... the first is providing a method of using the email address as a user name in the .NET RIA Services login ... very cool. Stefan's second takes from Bea Stolnitz' posts and culls out just what he needs to start a tree control completely expanded... small and useful: Auto expanding tree view for Silverlight
How to customize holiday appearance in the Silverlight Calendar
Jason Cooke is guest-hosting on Kathy Kam's blog today and has a very cool addition to the Calendar control... I'm going to challenge you... figure out how you'd do this before you look at the article... see if you come up with Jason's method :)

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Get Free Typemock licenses – ASP.NET bundle launch

You read it correctly...TypeMock is giving out free licenses... well not to everyone, but hey... you can try.

I'm posting this in hopes I get some licenses that I can hand out to readers... and that would be all of you :)

I'll let you know how it goes :)

Unit Testing ASP.NET? ASP.NET unit testing has never been this easy.

Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle - and for the launch will be giving out FREE licenses to bloggers and their readers.

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Typemock Isolator is a leading .NET unit testing tool (C# and VB.NET) for many ‘hard to test’ technologies such as SharePoint, ASP.NET, MVC, WCF, WPF, Silverlight and more. Note that for unit testing Silverlight there is an open source Isolator add-on called SilverUnit.

The first 60 bloggers who will blog this text in their blog and tell us about it, will get a Free Isolator ASP.NET Bundle license (Typemock Isolator + Ivonna). If you post this in an ASP.NET dedicated blog, you'll get a license automatically (even if more than 60 submit) during the first week of this announcement.

Also 8 bloggers will get an additional 2 licenses (each) to give away to their readers / friends.

Go ahead, click the following link for more information on how to get your free license.
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Phx Best of MIX FTW and Big Thanks!

If you missed yesterday's event at the Wells Fargo Center in downtown Phoenix, you missed a great event. I know those events cost money and the soft drinks and swag isn't free either, so a big Thank You from me to all involved... that includes the time volunteered by the presenters in addition to the funding by Microsoft and Interface Technical Training who gave away discount coupons to everyone and one lucky winner got a free class!

Tim Heuer gave a great Silverlight 3 presentation highlighting some of the fun new things and demonstrating the new Navigation framework and then quickly popped some data into a grid and added paging, showing how that was all working using Fiddler, and then demonstrated the Details panel and validation. Along the way he discussed lots of other fun things like a logon control that's coming. I don't see a specific download on Tim's site for this, but he just blogged about an update to .NET RIA Services, and the samples there will probably come close. I'd also highly suggest Corrina Black's MIX presentation, where she builds out a business app using the Navigation template and has a ton of good info.

Next Rob Bagby gave an awesome intro to Azure and what all that means for us in terms of scalability, redundancy, and all the server stuffola that you don't have to know to keep your site humming through a heavy load period. Rob has all his material up on his blog and he has provided a great tutorial for getting up to speed on Azure.

Dan Wahlin then stepped up and gave a cool MVC presentation... not so much an overview as a "why would I want to" and "what does it involve" sort of presentation. Very nice for someone that has no experience with MVC. Dan already had all his material on his site yesterday morning, so it's there now :)

Once again thanks to everyone, and I was glad to see the turnout. Hopefully that tells the sponsors that people want to see this sort of event!

I sure hope everyone has signed up for the Scott Guthrie event next Tuesday... oh yeah... it's that close!  I'll see you there!
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