Silverlight Cream for July 19, 2009 -- #646

In this Issue: Sergey Barskiy, Michael Washington, Katrien De Graeve, Brad Abrams, Chris Klug, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Tim Heuer, Koen Zwikstra, John Papa, David Anson, and Jeff Blankenburg(2).

Shoutout:

Chris Bernard and Sara Summers have announced Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend ... this should be good!

In this Issue:

From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight Isolated Storage Database
Sergey Barskiy has an Isolated Storage Database for Silverlight 3 out on CodePlex. It is Object Oriented, supports encryption, compression, and lazy loading. He also has a chm file for documentation!
Creating a simple Silverlight 3 Behavior
Michael Washington started with a Behavior post and decided he had to figure out how to write one. This tutorial walks you through those steps.
Silverlight 3: Out-of-Browser Applications
Katrien De Graeve gives a complete OOB experience detailing the new Visual Studio hookup for the settings.
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 2: Rich Data Query
Brad Abrams has been going great guns with this LOB series. I'm behind but I'll catch up :) This is part 2 and is all about Data Queries and binding, filtering, validation... love the tutorial and the graphics.
Silverlight 3 issue with transparency and effects
Chris Klug walks us through the process of finding an unwanted interaction between transparency and effects such as drop shadow.
Improved Collection Support in Deep Zoom Composer
Kirupa Chinnathambi has a post up talking about the latest Deep Zoom Composer and the enhancements to it in the area of large collections. This looks like a great tutorial on the composer.
Silverlight 3: Cached Assemblies and you can to!
Tim Heuer explains in detail the ins and outs of Cached Assemblies... how and why to do it and also some things to look out for.
Animated page navigation in SL3
Koen Zwikstra shows us how to do page transitions. I'm not a big fan of the PPT style transititions, but I like what Koen has in his sample... and of course he has all the code available :)
Updated SilverTwit Code for Silverlight 3
John Papa has updated the code for his MSDN Magazine article and has a list of the changes on his post. The updates all are in the OOB changes in Silverlight 3.
Bringing the Silverlight Toolkit's TreeMap to WPF [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 0]
David Anson announes a new project of his called Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development. At this point, there's nothing new for Silverlight, but he brings WPF into alignment with the latest Silverlight release with this. You want to run both platforms... this sounds like a good project to watch.
Day # 18: Silverlight Effects
Jeff Blankenburg turned the reigns over to Rick Kierner for this post about Effects (Blur and DropShadow).
Day #19: Silverlight Pixel Shader Effects
Jeff Blankenburg gave Matt Casto the nod on this post and Matt discusses Pixel Shader Effects. He also demonstrates adding your own shader.

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