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Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2009 - 2 -- #650

In this Issue: Ryan Shelby, Silverlight SDK, David Poll, Jesse Liberty(2), Scott Marlowe, Brad Abrams(2), and Katrien De Graeve(2).

Shoutouts:

Hannes Preishuber shows how to find the Silverlight 2 Design surface in VS2008: Silverlight 3 Visual Studio 2008 Designer Preview .

Josh Santangelo was involved in Project Tuva and he has a bunch of good info up: Project Tuva Post-Mortem.

On July 30th, Brad Abrams is going to give a Virtual talk at the Linked .NET User's Group on all the goodness he's been blogging: LIDNUG: Silverlight Ready for Business and .NET RIA Services Presentation.

Remember Scott Guthrie's awesome 'gratuitous' demo at MIX? Well, Tim Heuer has it for us! Silverlight 3 Bouncing plane gratuitous demo

From SilverlightCream.com:
Printer Friendly Silverlight Datagrid Control
Ryan Shelby has worked out a way to get Silverlight 2 Print-friendly DataGrids up. When I first saw the title, I was expecting SL3 and WriteableBitmap... so I was surprised :)
F1 for Silverlight in Visual Studio is still targeting the Beta1 content: Here's a workaround
If you've hit F1 expecting to find SL3 help, you're disappointed, but Wolf Schmidt at Silverlight SDK has come to the rescue with a workaround
On-demand loading of assemblies with Silverlight Navigation
David Poll continues his investigation and demonstration into breaking an app up into multiple assemblies and loading them on-demand...
What’s New In Silverlight 3 - Validation
Jesse Liberty has some great diagrams up explaining the validation process in Silverlight 3... looks like a good reference!
What’s New In Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2009 -- #649Silverlight 3? Easier Easing
If you're trying to ease into Easing (sorry Jesse) ... Jesse Liberty has another diagram-filled post that describes what the fuss is all about.
The different ways to host a WCF Service Application in a Web App
Scott Marlowe gives a good walkthrough of the steps involving all 3 ways he's described of hosting a WCF Service app.
Simple Example of Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in Silverlight
If you've been waiting to look at MEF because, well, you know... you're doing Silverlight... Brad Abrams has a great example up of using MEF in Silverlight, so now there are no excuses :)
3’ on Blend 3 - #7: SketchFlow Composition Screens and Navigation
Katrien De Graeve is still on Composition screens in SketchFlow, but now is discussing Navigation between them.
3’ on Blend 3 - #8: SketchFlow States
Katrien De Graeve discusses SketchFlow States this time, which give more interaction to the prototype, and the reviewers get this goodness with very little effort on your part.
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 7: ADO.NET Data Services Based Data Store
Here's the missing Part 7 of Brad Abrams' series, and is on using an ADO.NET Data Service rather than EF or LINQ to SQL.

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Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2009 -- #649

In this Issue: Shawn Wildermuth, Qixing Zheng, Amy Dullard, Andrea Boschin, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Stefan Olson, Katrien De Graeve(2), and Brad Abrams.
From SilverlightCream.com:
Prism's Plugin Architecture
Shawn Wildermuth used the IModuleManager interface in Prism to ultimately implement his own downloader to intercept the XAP file. And as usual, he's got all the code out there. um.. is it just me or does Shawn's new picture on his blog seem to follow you :)
Plenty of Color Resource for Expression
Qixing Zheng introduces us to another color website (colourlovers.com) ... don't be afraid of the spelling... it's right :) You need to register but then get access to lots of color resources and palettes that you can just suck into Expression Blend or Design.
Silverlight 3 Tools Prerequisite: Visual Web Developer
Amy Dullard shows how to get the Visual Web Developer installed in Visual Studio by using the maintenance mode of VS through the control panel.
Use CollectionViewSource effectively in MVVM applications
Read how Andrea Boschin explains how to use CollectionViewSource with the MVVP pattern by by exposing it as the type of the bindable property.
Extensible Templates in Deep Zoom Composer
Kirupa Chinnathambi discusses various ways you may like to display your images in Deep Zoom that the default template doesn't handle, then goes on to show how to extend that template to do what you want.
Improvements to Silverlight Multi-binding support
Stefan Olson started with a post by Colin Eberhardt and enhanced the code to allow multiple bindings per element.
3’ on Blend 3 - #5: SketchFlow – Getting feedback into Blend
Katrien De Graeve shows how feedback from your customers is incorporated into SketchFlow, and how you get notified of that.
3’ on Blend 3 - #6: SketchFlow Composition Screens
In this video, Katrien De Graeve introduces us to Composition screens in SketchFlow and how they are used.
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 8: WCF Based Data Source
Brad Abrams is now refactoring the demo to hide the data behind a WCF web service, and goes through all the steps involved. Note Part 7 was skipped by Brad not me :)

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Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2009 - 2 -- #648

In this Issue: Gavin Wignall, Alex Knight, Pete Brown, Tim Heuer, Katrien De Graeve(2), Brad Abrams(2), René Schulte, SilverLemma, Jonathan van de Veen, and Jobi Joy.
From SilverlightCream.com:
Accessing the WPF pixel shaders in Silverlight 3
Wow... check this out... Gavin Wignall brought a bunch of pixel shaders into Silverlight from WPF... very cool demo and Gavin... your email is full :)... and I added a Pixel Shaders tag!
Make Controls From Scratch - Toggle Button
Another awesome tutorial from Alex Knight ... starting with an idea, producing a control.
Silverlight Synthesizer Source Code – MediaStreamSource Raw Sound
Pete Brown posted the source for his Synthesizer. He's open to suggestions on a few things, so read the post.
Building Silverlight 2 and 3 applications with Visual Studio 2008
For those of you that are still supporting Silverlight 2 apps and moving toward Silverlight 3, Tim Heuer has detailed instructions for doing so with Visual Studio 2008.
3’ on Blend 3 - #3: SketchFlow Adding content
This is Katrien De Graeve's 2nd part of the series on SketchFlow. This time adding content, and she's got lots of useful external links.
3’ on Blend 3 - #4: SketchFlow Player
In this video, Katrien De Graeve demonsrates the SketchFlow player that your customer would see to review the design... too cool!
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 5: Astoria, Add Service Reference and WinForms
Brad Abrams is going great guns with this demo... now he's adding an ADO.NET Data Service onto it. He calls out Shawn Wildermuth on one part and there's lots of good comments and discussion as well (since I'm late to this party).
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 6: Data Transfer Objects (DTOs)
Brad Abrams addresses reader's concerns about returning DAL types back to the client. To address those concerns he details the conversion to returning DTOs.
WriteableBitmap Extension Methods
René Schulte took Bill Reiss' material from last week and turned it into an extension method for the WriteableBitmap including some goodness of his own... and you now have the source :)
DomainUpDown Controls with Silverlight 3
SilverLemma goes through all the steps of creating, populating, and using a DomainUpDown control and includes some good external links in the process.
Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #16
Jonathan van de Veen decided not to look at Silverlight 3 until it was released, and details his steps in approaching the conversion and testing. Including his overwhelming pleasure in the migration.
An easy way to update all the UI Property Bindings of an Instance at once! – Silverlight and WPF
Jobi Joy shows how to get the binding infrastructure to (simply) re-evaluate all the bindings associated with the UI.

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