Silverlight Cream for September 14, 2009 -- #691

In this Issue: Allan Muller, Mark Monster, Kirupa, Shawn Wildermuth, Nikhil Kothari, John Papa, Expression Blend and Design Blog, Terence Tsang, Microsoft Expresson Product Site, and Matthias Shapiro.

Shoutout:

Randi Relander posted another new game on his SilverGames site:

I mentioned Silverlight.XP from Fons Sonnemans and Loek van den Ouweland when it first went live, but I thought I'd mention it again since it's starting to get some traction:


This is a little late, because I had problems posting on Friday and was gone all weekend.

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In this outing from Allan Muller on Silverlight Tutorials, he's showing how to detect a network change.

Mark Monster finally found time to do Part 2 of his OpenID/Silverlight article, and in this one he shows how to integrate this into your app.

Kirupa has a great 4-page Epression Blend tutorial on putting custom states into a control.

Shawn Wildermuth hit the limit on message size in WCF with Silverlight, and dug down deep enough to find it, then shared that knowledge with all of us... don't skip it, it's not obvious!

Nikhil Kothari has released a new version of Silverlight.FX, and he has a link in this post. The post concentrates on how to deal with Dialogs using the ViewModel pattern. This discussion is based on Silverlight.FX but all good concepts even if you aren't using it.

Check out John Papa's latest "Data Points" article in MSDN Magazine online... talking about performance, and exception handling... lots of info, like a chapter of a book!

I was going to do this Expression Blend and Design Blog post as a shoutout because at first I thought it was links to articles already pushed, but this looks like 11 new posts... all sorts of goodness... except for the first one, I couldn't get that one to open:(

Terence Tsang's latest outing is a customizable Digital Clock... I like the 'odometer' style display!

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Crank up the Designer inside, Microsoft Expresson Product Site has a post up on Slices in Expression Design... if you want to do any complex image work, this sort of stuff is a must-know, and check out the other tips they have!

Matthias Shapiro shares knowledge about animating a property in a Custom Control and includes some good external links.

Stay in the 'Light!


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