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The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Phoenix Silverlight User Group will be Wednesday October 7 at 6pm at Interface Technical Training in downtown Phoenix (Central and Thomas, NW corner). The graphic above is a link to a map.

This month we are going to do something a bit different. If this works, then I won't be so stressed when I have trouble arranging a speaker.

We're going to have a round-table discussion (or two). Come prepared to ask your questions and to answer others. We've got at least one of each flavor setup already, so join in and help make this a repeater.

Put the first Wednesday of November and December on your lists, you will NOT want to miss those.. more info later!

Using RelayCommands in Silverlight and WPF

I missed this with family in town last weekend, but Laurent Bugnion has a great post up on Commanding and RelayCommand in Silverlight and WPF... if you missed this last weekend, go read it now!

Silverlight – Drill Down Charts Walkthrough

Chad Campbell [no, he's not my son :) ] has a video up on creating drill-down charts using the Toolkit. The code created for the video is available also.

MVVM with Prism 101 – Part 1: The Bootstrapper

Mark Miller is starting a series on MVVM and Prism... if you haven't dipped your toe into that water yet, this looks like a nice safe place to try.

[Behaviors] Mouse Over ComboBox Open (Behavior)

Jacek Ciereszko has a cool behavior up for a Combobox in that it drops the list when you mouse over it... just a tad surprising when it happens, but a cool surprise... I like it!

Silverlight 3 Activity Control

Laurent Duveau posts a nice article on an 'activity control' ... you know... the "hang on, I'm working here!" sort of thing :)

Trigonometric Animations

Just the other day someone asked me about mapping functions with Silverlight, and here is Kirupa doing a *wow* job on Trigonometric functions... cool stuff!

Silverlight Design Time: Toolkit July 2009 Release Update

Many of us are using at least parts of the Toolkit, but Ning Zhang gives us some good information that you may not be aware of about releases and walks through the installation process to get all the goodness in your Visual Studio Toolbox.

Retro-lines in Expression Design

If you'd like a nice tutorial in Expression Design, Timmy Kokke has one up on his site. I don't see more on Blend than Design, so this was a nice change.

Visual State Manager tips for design and authoring

Steve at Expression Blend and Design Blog has a good post up on the Visual State Manager... explaining the various aspects and how you should do things depending upon your role... he also has a link out to a Button Styling Video to see a walkthrough of all this.

Hidden Object: Episode 8 – Loop Game Music with a Behavior

In Mark Tucker's 8th episode of his game creation, he's adding music in a loop, and also gives up a good royalty-free music site for games. He also packages the game loop into a behavior... I'm sure we can all find a use for that!

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