Friday, July 24, 2009 #

Silverlight Cream for July 24, 2009 -- #654

In this Issue: Danijel Stulic, Corey Schuman, Erik Mork, Evgeny, Brad Abrams, René Schulte, Kevin Dockx, and Alexey Zakharov.

Shoutouts:

Steve Strong details a positive experience: Learning RIA Services: It's Great to be a Silverlight Developer

Nikhil Kothari gives a 'Twitter Pitch' for .NET RIA Services: .NET RIA Services Twitter Pitch

Shawn Wildermuth is on DNR TV with Carl Franklin: See Carl and I Talk about Behaviors on DNR-TV!

Walt Ritscher has a good article up at Dev 102: Changing Brush Brightness in WPF/Silverlight

From SilverlightCream.com:
The joy of Silverlight 3 migration - no code required
Danijel Stulic expands on his previous migration to Silverlight 3 post only this time he's talking about things that are no code.
Convert string to Color
Not much to say about this from Corey Schuman ... just a quick little piece of code to drop into your toolbox for converting Hex strings to a color in Silverlight
Silverlight MEF - Extensible Applications
Erik Mork has his latest Development Guide up and this one is on Silverlight and MEF. If you want a quick-start on MEF, this is probably it as Erik talks with Glenn Block.
Bindings, the glue that connects the view to the viewmodel part 1
Chris Klug waxes poetic about MVVM and then discusses data bindings because of their obvious importance in MVVM. Stay tuned for more in his MVVM discussion.
Expression Blend 3 – secrets of working with data.
Evgeny tackles some of the less-obvious parts of serving up data with Blend. I don't know how many parts he plans on doing, but he's calling this one on drag-and-drop Part 1 ... good reading.
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 11: The Client-Only World
Brad Abrams changes this time and uses in-memory data so you don't really need .NET RIA Services this time around.
Silverlight 3 WriteableBitmap Performance
René Schulte has been doing some great image work with Silverlight and decided to compare speeds between WriteableBitmap and the contenders in the PNG generation genre.
Working with RIA Services #3: changes for SL3/July 2009 RIA drop
Kevin Dockx had to modify his demo code to bring it up to use the latest .NET RIA Services and Silverlight 3. He's detailing the changes he had to make.
ADO.NET Data Services Advanced Topics: SubSonic Data Context
Alexey Zakharov uses SubSonic ORM to lash up with POCO objects and I can guarantee that's the first time I've seen that :) Along the way he gives a good intro to SubSonic.

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