Silverlight Cream for October 22, 2009 - 2 -- #715

October 22, 2009 · 1 min read

In this Issue: Stefan Olson, Ning Zhang, Gavin Wignall, Jeremy Likness, Jeremiah Morrill, David Kelley, Sergey Barskiy, Jeff Wilcox, and Rob Bagby(2).

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If you're looking at obfuscating your Silverlight, read Stefan Olson's post carefully... he dug deep into a range of obfuscators and has reported his findings.

In a different spin on the Toolkit release, Ning Zhang has a walkthrough of the design-time experience for the toolkit in the new VS2010 drop... read his install info and then walk along... cool stuff.

Number 16 in Gavin Wignall's "Learn Blend in a Month" series is on changing the mouse icon in Blend.

Do you know what a Weak Reference is? Do you care? Let Jeremy Likness explain it to you in this short post, then you'll know too!

I found this post by way of David Kelley... Jeremiah Morrill has an intro to MVVM that's not Silverlight, but definitely interesting and is spawning commentary.

David Kelley references a politically-incorrect but cool post by Jeremiah Morrill and convinces him to post his MVVM implementation on CodePlex... definitely worth a look.

Sergey Barskiy takes a break from his Behaviors series to discuss the initialization parameters for Silverlight and setting them at PageLoad time... clever code, Sergey:)

I'm surprised I haven't seen more buzz about this... Jeff Wilcox released the extmaps for the Silverlight Toolkit to allow library caching in the interim before it is natively available!

Rob Bagby has a Channel 9 webcast up for Part II of his Patterns-Based Silverlight development series. In this one Rob sets up the Repository Pattern and server-side Validation.

Rob Bagby also has Part III of his tutorial up... this time implementing the Pipeline Pattern, building a fake Repository and lashing up to it.

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