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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posted @ Thursday, July 16, 2009 7:05 PM

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