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Silverlight Cream for July 28, 2009 -- #657

In this Issue: Mark Monster, Charlie Robbins, Julien Frelat, Lee, Jonathan van de Veen, Faisal, Karim, Brad Abrams, David Anson, and Hanu Kommalapati.

Shoutout:

Shawn Wildermuth has a post up that he's looking for input on: RIA Services - Still Not Baked Yet

From SilverlightCream.com:
Quake in Silverlight 3.0 available with full GPL source code!
If this is the same post from the other day, I thought it was just a demo but Julien Frelat has all the code up for QuakeLight... yowzer... and the demo looks really good!
OpenID User Control in Silverlight – Part 1 UI Design
Wow... this is going to get legs... Mark Monster has begun a 3-parter on building an OpenID user control in Silerlight... very nice!
Robust Reusable Drag Drop Behavior in Silverlight 3
Charlie Robbins has provided a Drag and Drop Behavior for us using the System.Interactivity library in Silverlight 3. He ends with some discussion points and a link to the code.
Working with DataForm
Lee updated his dataform sample from 3/18 to Silverlight 3 including a workaround that allows him to display the proper text when a value is chosen in the AutoCompleteBox.
Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #17
Jonathan van de Veen not only has part 17 of his application up, but this is number 42 on a blog named 'developers 42' ... pretty cool, Jonathan... oh and this post is about binding to Combobox.SelectedItem through a custom dependency property.... and thanks for the shoutout too :)
RIA Services With Silverlight 3 - Part 1
Faisal has a good Part 1 for a series on .NET RIA Services... beginning with what the heck is it... that's a good start :) He goes on from there to build a new project and add views.
drafting behaviors
Karim goes well beyond Hellow World with this Custom Behavior sharing the visual state of controls bound to the same data object... just look at his demo :)
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 13: The New Class Library Project
Brad Abrams keeps on going with his Business Apps example and this time he uses the Class Library project to refactor the web project.
Simple column labels you can create at home! [Re-Templating the Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization ColumnDataPoint to add annotations]
David Anson shows us how to add annotations to a Chart column by getting into the template... this might be a good one to stuff in your pocket, and also the sample data method too :)
Silverlight Version Compatibility
Falling in the "Picture worth a thousand words" category, Hanu Kommalapati has a great diagram up of the Silverlight 2/Silverlight 3 scenario.

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Silverlight Cream for July 27, 2009 -- #656

In this Issue: Rui Marinho, Danijel Stulic, Jesse Liberty, Bill Reiss, Evgeny, Chris Klug, Brad Abrams, and Page Brooks.

Shoutout:

Mike Harsh reports Slidentity Updated for Silverlight 3 RTW ... if you haven't seen this, now is a good time... very cool!

Terence Tsang is getting overrun with XAML snippets [no wonder :) ] and is working on an idea for an app to help him organize his resources: Silverlight Resources Directory. He's also looking for input for you!

From SilverlightCream.com:
Data Visualization in Silverlight 3
Rui Marinho does a Visualization demo with SL3 and Bing Maps the post is in English and Portuguese but the screencast is in Portuguese... English text over the images make it easy to follow and is a very cool visualization example.
Deep Dive Into WCF Part 1: TDD
Alexey Zakharov digs into WCF in TDD environments and shows how to get that all accomplished.
Assembly Caching in Silverlight 3 - practical example
Danijel Stulic gives a great full-up example of assembly caching in SL3, including external references to posts by Tim Heuer and Alex Golesh.
What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Navigation
Jesse Liberty continues with his investigation and demonstration of SL3 features with the Navigation framework this time... good intro material for this subject!
Game development on the Microsoft stack
Bill Reiss has a post up detailing the various methods of developing Silverlight Games including Silverlight and XNA, and don't forget Bill's SilverSprite library... it's FREE!
Expression Blend 3 – secrets of working with data 2
Evgeny has Part 2 of his series as well. This one is more for control designers or developers doing their own controls and being proactive on extensibility by making them easier to use at Design time.
Bindings, the glue that connects the view to the viewmodel part 2 (and apparently a bunch of data validation information)
Chris Klug continues with Part 2 of his series concentrating on data binding and validation.
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 12: DataSet
In this latest episode, Brad Abrams removes the Entity Framework model and uses DataSets to access the data.
ItemContainerGenerator in Silverlight 3
If you're building controls you probably already know this, but Page Brooks explains that the ItemContainerGenerator is part of Silverlight 3 now and the TreeView control even uses it.

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