Silverlight Cream for October 05, 2009 -- #705

In this Issue:
Jared Bienz, Tim Heuer, Sergey Barskiy, Alex Knight, Gavin Wignall, Damon Payne, Peter Bromberg, Shawn Wildermuth, and Mark Tucker.

Shoutouts:

Robbe Morris at EggHead Cafe has put up EggHeadCafe in Silverlight Release Candidate Now Available. Would be cool to see a series of articles detailing this :)

John Bruin has a demo of of Silverlight Money Pyramid. This is pretty cool... I don't see a link for source though :(


From SilverlightCream.com:
Skins for WPF and Silverlight
By way of Frank La Vigne, here's a Channel 9 video by Jared Bienz on creating custom skins for Silverlight and WPF. Sample project used in the video is included.
Changing DatePicker in Silverlight to show current date
Tim Heuer demonstrates changing the '15' in the date picker, and gets some good comments going as well.
Silverlight 3.0 – Perspective 3D
Sergey Barskiy is continuing his Silverlight 3 features series and is exploring Perspective 3D this time... with code
Behaviours in Blend 3
Alex Knight gives a good introduction to Behaviors in Blend, and very quickly describes how to use three of the built-in ones.
Importing Artwork from other tools into Blend
This is episode 3 of Gavin Wignall's walk through October, and today he's talking about importing artwork into Blend from other tools such as Expression Design, Adobe Photoshop, or Adobe Illustrator.
Argentum Tela Design Surface [21] – Name Provider
Damon Payne is cranking up on AGT now... building in a container and name provider. He lashed this up with his design surface and demonstrates its functionality.
Silverlight 3 WCF-Enabled CodeSnippet app with Amazon SimpleDb
If you've wanted to take a whack at Amazon's SimpleDb, Peter Bromberg explains how to get signed up, then demonstrates using it in a WCF-enabled app retrieving code snippets ... a real-world use ... thanks Peter :)
My Favorite Silverlight Extensions APIs - Part 1
Shawn Wildermuth has a post up declaring his favorite Silverlight Extensions, and first up is the Bootstrapper functionality that generated some good discussion between Shawn and John Papa.
Hidden Object: Episode 9 – Add the Splash, Menu & Options Screens
In Episode 9 of his game series, Mark Tucker is creating some auxiliary screens... music volume, splash, and menu.

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