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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posted @ Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:44 PM

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