Silverlight Cream for October 21, 2009 -- #713

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Silverlight Cream for October 21, 2009 -- #713

In this Issue:
Alex Golesh, Expression Blend and Design, Rob Bagby(2), Jeff Wilcox, Tim Heuer, David Anson, Mark Miller, Timmy Kokke, and Jeremy Likness.

Shoutouts:

Lee poses the question Same XAML Silverlight and WPF – different result ... see if you can comment!

The Thirsty Developer chats with Chad Campbell: Thirsty Developer 75 - Sparking a Business into Divot Dog

Shawn Wildermuth had a chance to do a short podcast while in Bulgaria producing: Five Minutes with Me

Laurent Bugnion announced MVVM Light Toolkit on Codeplex

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight Quick Tip: How to get localized resources from RESX file in code behind: Alex Golesh has a quick tip up on retrieving localized resources from your resx files.
Storyboards, Visual States and SketchFlow Animations: Expression Blend and Design has a good detailed post about Storyboards, Visual States, and SketchFlow animations... what they are, how they're different, when/why to use them.
Patterns-Based Silverlight Development – Part I – Getting Started: Phoenix' own Rob Bagby, fresh with a new blog, is detailing a series surrounding the presentation he gave at the latest MSDN events: Patterns-Based Silverlight Development ... this is part 1, a good time to jump on it!
deCast - Patterns-Based Silverlight - Part I - Getting Started: Rob Bagby also has a video tutorial up on Channel 9 that follows the first part of this series
Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 Release: Jeff Wilcox has a quick post up on the new release of the Silverlight Toolkit... where to get it, and some of the highlights.
Silverlight Toolkit adds DragDrop targets!: Tim Heuer blogged about the Toolkit release as well, and more particularly about the Drop Targets added to many of the controls, with code samples.
Silverlight (and WPF) Data Visualization classes unsealed [Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 release now available!]: David Anson also discusses the Toolkit release and goes into some lower-level detail about some of the controls such as unsealing and breaking changes
MVVM with Prism 101 – Part 3b: View Injection and the Controller Pattern: Mark Miller continues investigating MVVM and Prism with this post on View Injection and the Controller Pattern
Twirling smoke effect in Expression Design: Timmy Kokke took a shot at reproducing the 'twirling smoke' Silverlight Logo in Expression Design, and details it out for our fun and enjoyment.
Silverlight Behaviors and Triggers: Making a True Behavior: Jeremy Likness takes the TextBox behavior from his last post and turns it into a 'true behavior', inheriting it from Behavior.