Silverlight Cream for October 07, 2009 -- #706

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Silverlight Cream for October 07, 2009 -- #706

In this Issue:
Gavin Wignall(2), UXPassion, Andrea Boschin, Shawn Wildermuth, Mark Tucker, and Victor Gaudioso.

Shoutouts:

If you're DeepZooming, A Deep Zoom Blog has a very cool post up on clearing up text on maps: "Exact" Map rendering

Tim Heuer has been busy updating his tutorials for beginners [and nobody's gonna notice if YOU check them out :) ] : Updated Silverlight getting started for beginners

Have you seen Wordle? John Bruin did it in Silverlight: Silverlight Wordle

The Silverlight SDK announced Silverlight 3 online and offline Docs updated

From SilverlightCream.com:

Drawing tools in Blend: Gavin Wignall's 4th episode in his episode in his "Learn Blend in a Month" is about the Drawing tools available in Expression Blend.
Using gradients in Blend: Gavin Wignall's 5th episode in his "Learn Blend in a Month" series is about Simon Allardice's favorite: Gradients :) -- sorry Simon, I couldn't pass that up.
Expression Blend tutorial: Brushes, gradients, fills and strokes (webcast): UXPassion has a cool video tutorial up on creating Brushes, Gradients, Fills, and Strokes in Expression Blend.
How to avoid flooding a PollingDuplex server: Andrea Boschin never seems to tackle an easy subject... his latest is demonstrating how he avoided flooding in his Polling Duplex Service
What Do We Want in Silverlight Validation?: Shawn Wildermuth is using his niagara project to discuss Validation in Silverlight in this post, but more importantly is discussing what he thinks validation should really be, and is asking opinions of all of us.
Hidden Object: Episode 10 – Counting Items Found with Counter Triggers, Actions & a Behavior: This is Episode 10 of Mark Tucker's game production sequence. In this one, Mark is wiring up the Win canvas, but also discussing a Global Counter to be used throughout for many game items.
Video Tutorial: Creating a Custom Silverlight Button: Victor Gaudioso has a very nice video tutorial up on creating a blue Glassy Button in Blend and then wiring it up in VS. And the project source is included.