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Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2009 - 2 -- #643

In this Issue: Pete Blois, Lee, Andrej Tozon(2), Jeff Blankenburg(2), Expression Blend and Design Blog, Terence Tsang, SmartyP, Colin Eberhardt, Timmy Kokke, and Tim Greenfield.

Shoutout:

I believe I hit all these, but just in case, Tess Fernandez has Design tips for Developers

Walt Ritscher has a good post and links up about Hatching Effect Shader - WPF or Silverlight

From SilverlightCream.com:
house of mirrors: Explode!
Pete BloisPete Blois ... I don't think I'll be using that her in this factory application, but boy is it cool :)
Silverlight and Prism sample
Looks like Lee is working with Prism. He's got an app up, screenshots on the blog and a link to the app.
Countdown to Silverlight 3 #14: Selector.IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem
Andrej Tozon has a short discussion of IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem up and a demo using it in his deck... works great, Andrej!
Countdown to Silverlight 3 #15: UI Virtualization
I finally caught up with Andrej Tozon... his latest is on UI Virtualization and he's got a side-by-side demo running in his deck ... very cool!
Day #12: Jumping from XAML to XAML in Silverlight
Jeff Blankenburg continues from Day 2 on Page transitions. He's also making the jump to at least SL3B. I'm trying to hit 2 a day and if I can keep this up, I'll catch up tomorrow :)
Day #13: Binding Elements in Silverlight 3
Going fully to Silverlight 3, Jeff Blankenburg demonstrates the new binding in SL3 by binding a slider to an image opacity, and very easily too.
A Look at Some Advanced Behaviors Features
e Jeff Kelly's name on them. They're in the database, but they're listed right now as Expression Blend and Design. All 3 parts good stuff...
Silverlight Helper (With out of browser capability)
Terence Tsang had just planned on demo'ing the OOB features, but ended up writing a "SilverlightHelper" app that we can all use... for generating Dependency Properties, Attached Properties, Creating a C# Storyboard, or and ASCII table... check it out.
Rendering Text to a WriteableBitmap with Silverlight 3's Bitmap API
This seems to be a day for WriteableBitmap and text. SmartyP hits both with this one, writing some textboxes to bitmaps.
Silverlight v3 ClearType Font Rendering – A comparison
Colin Eberhardt compares the text rendering in WPF, Silverlight 3, and WinForms. He shows X4 images to compare what's being down with Clear Type off and on in WPF and WinForms during the comparison.
9 little new things in Expression Blend 3
Timmy Kokke gives pictorial examples of his 9 favorite things in Blend 3.
Cropping an image in Silverlight 3
Tim Greenfield shows cropping an image using WriteableBitmap and has a couple hints and suggestions along the way.

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Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2009 -- #642

In this Issue: Pete Brown(2, 3), SmartyP, Expression Blend and Design Blog, Corey Schuman, Andrej Tozon(2), and Jeff Blankenburg(2).

Shoutout:

Christian Schormann reports that there is a First Book on SketchFlow: A Chapter Available for Download. And the blog he points to looks good as well.

Corey Schuman announced his First InsideRIA post!!... very cool Corey, congratulations!

From SilverlightCream.com:
Sharing Entities between WCF and Silverlight
Pete Brown has a detailed post up on sharing entity classes if you're not using .NET RIA Services and 'rolling it yourself'. Lots of comments and responses too.
Creating a Silverlight WCF Binary Encoding Client in Code
If you're having trouble with WCF Binary encoding or haven't looked at it yet, Pete Brown has a quick post up with code commented with helpful hints for the rest of us.
Restricting Access to your WCF Service to a known Silverlight Client
Pete Brown proposes a way to keep everyone from hitting your WCF service... looks like I've got some coding to do this weekend :) ... thanks Pete!
Get and Put Pixel in Silverlight 3 with WriteableBitmap
SmartyP has a great Silverlight 3 example up that uses the WriteableBitmap. On this dual quad-core machine it works great... wonder what it will do on my old XP box :)
Overview of New Features in Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow: Part III
A final overview of Sketchflow post by Kirupa at Expression Blend and Design Blog, and once again a bunch of external links to use.
Testing Silverlight from Windows Live Writer
With some external references, Corey Schuman shows success in posting some Silverlight content to his blog using Windows Live Writer.
Countdown to Silverlight 3 #10: Animation easing
Andrej Tozon has some great examples of the easing functions up on his 'deck'.
Countdown to Silverlight 3 #11: Writeable Bitmap
In this post from Andrej Tozon he gives a few good examples of the use of the WriteableBitmap feature of Silverlight 3.
Day #8: Custom Fonts in Silverlight
No matter how many fonts are included in the core Silverlight delivery, you're always going to want something else. Jeff Blankenburg shows how to accomplish that in this post.
Day #9: Using Keystrokes in Silverlight
Want to get beyond the basics and know what keys your user's are pressing? This post by Jeff Blankenburg shows exactly how to do that.

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