Silverlight Cream for August 22, 2009 -- #671

In this catching-up Issue: Brad Abrams, Matthias Shapiro, Jesse Liberty, Walt Ritscher, Erik Mork, Gavin Wignall, Tim Heuer, Rob Zelt, Jeff Prosise, and Dan Wahlin.

Shoutouts:

The Expression Blend and Design blog reports All Expression Blend Samples Posted to the Expression Gallery!

Rob Zelt reminds us to Remember the Silverlight Toolkit!

In case you missed this one, it's huge: Sunday Night Football - Powered by Silverlight congrats to all involved with that one!!


From SilverlightCream.com:
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 23: Azure
Brad Abrams went into the clouds on this one... he's got the web-tier hosted in Azure and SQL Azure hosting the data ... If you want to get into Azure, this has to be a good post to look at!
How To Wrap Text in a Silverlight 3 ComboBox
Hmmm... wrapping text in a combo box ... never seen that done, but hey ... Matthias Shapiro figured out a way to do it in Expression Blend :)
Linq For Silverlight Developers
If you're new to LINQ or just want to get a level-set, check out this LINQ post by Jesse Liberty
Easy Way to Create ImageBrush in Expression Blend 3
File this under WPF, but Walt Ritscher demonstrates creating an ImageBrush in Blend 3.
Easing in Silverlight Animations
In this episode, Erik Mork and Jesse Liberty get together to discuss Animation Easing ... what it is, how to use it.
Additional physics based behaviors for Blend and Silverlight
Gavin Wignall put an application up that he created in 'minutes' once he had the Farseer Physics files installed from CodePlex ... if you want some cool interactions between objects, this looks like the way to go!
An out-of-browser install pattern for Silverlight
Tim Heuer takes a shot at producing a possible pattern for forcing an OOB experience for a Silverlight Application... I can see this developing into a defacto standard.
Silverlight 3 DataForm Part 1
Rob Zelt goes over the DataForm including some customization of fields and adding validation. This is part 1 of at least 2 so if this was review, be sure to hang around.
Custom Behaviors in Silverlight 3 and Blend 3
Jeff Prosise discusses Behaviors in general and then details one of his that he calls BubblingMouseOver ... not only a very cool Behavior for your collection but good description of how to do them!
So What’s a Silverlight Value Converter Anyway?
Dan Wahlin walks through explaining value converters then gives out some of his 'standards'... also useful are the comments on this post


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posted @ Saturday, August 22, 2009 11:45 AM

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