Silverlight Cream for October 18, 2009 -- #710

In this Issue: Jeff Handley, Jeremy Likness, Gavin Wignall(2, 3, 4, 5), Mark Miller, Nigel Sampson, and Microsoft Expression Product Site.

Shoutout

While not a complete solution, Koen Zwikstra had done an OOB solution for Silverlight a while back and now he's giving up the source: Hosting Silverlight outside the browser (sourcecode).


Forget all those weight-loss gimmicks! I worked Monday the 12th, took off the 13th and felt worse all day, was at the Dr with flu symptoms on the 14th... ended up with Bronchitis and borderline pneumonia. By the 15th, I'd lost 14 pounds... wow!

So bear with me as I catch up.... From SilverlightCream.com:
Validating Objects and Properties with Validator
Jeff Handley has a cool post up with history about Silverlight validation then great information and detail about how to use it.
Decoupled ChildWindow Dialogs with Prism in Silverlight 3
In a code-intensive post, Jeremy Likness demonstrates building a decoupled "MessageBox" type of popup using Prism.
Animating with Storyboards in Blend
In the 8th part of his series on "Learn Blend in a Month", Gavin Wignall posts about Animating Storyboards in Blend or just follow the bouncing ball :)
Adding easing and inertia to your animations in Blend
Part 9 has Gavin Wignall adding easing and inertia to his bouncing ball animation in Blend.
Using the 3D tools to animate in Blend
In Part 10, Gavin Wignall is demonstrating the 3D tools to do some perspective translations. He gives a couple backgrounder posts that would be good to understand before continuing.
Using the Canvas element in Blend
In Part 11, Gavin Wignall discusses the Canvas in Blend and how it's used to it's best intent.
Using the Grid element in Blend
Beginning the 2nd half of his 22-post "Learn Blend in a Month" series, Gavin Wignall digs into the Grid in Blend and shows how much easier it is to use there than in VS.
MVVM with Prism 101 – Part 2: The Shell
Mark Miller has part 2 of his MVVM with Prism series up. In this post he's covering 'The Shell'... the piece that defines the overall layout and style of your app.
Blendable MVVM: Dependency Injection and Unit Testing
Nigel Sampson discusses Unit Testing, Dependency Injection, and Blendable MVVM all rolled up together. If you're looking into MVVM and Unit Testing this would be a good article to read.
Create content on the artboard
Microsoft Expression Product Site has a good introductory layout up on creating all sorts of content on the artboard. If you're getting started with SketchFlow this is a good read.


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posted @ Sunday, October 18, 2009 10:15 AM

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