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Silverlight Cream for October 27, 2009 - 2 -- #718

In this Issue: Mark Tucker, Pete Brown, The Silverlight Blog, Katrien De Graeve, Gavin Wignall, Rob Bagby, Nigel Sampson, Gergely Orosz, and The Microsoft Expression Blog.

Shoutouts:

Check out Walt Ritscher's Shazzam 1.1 – Topic List

jfo has a quick post up Beta2 is out -- What's new in Cider

Brad Abrams has an index page up for his .NET RIA Services series: Index for Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update. Or you could use the Search page at SilverlightCream.com and choose 'RIA' and 'Abrams' in the author block :)

Mike Taulty has a link list of Prism and Silverlight Screencasts on Channel 9

From SilverlightCream.com:
Hidden Object: Episode 12 – Custom Mouse Cursor Behavior
Mark Tucker is up to Episode 12 now on his Hidden Object Game. This episode adds in a behavior for setting the mouse cursor shape to any image or path.
Easing Functions in WPF 4 (and Silverlight)
Pete Brown is moving into more WPF, but his latest post is on Easing in WPF and Silverlight ... great easing article, Pete!
Inserting a Silverlight Navigation and Slideshow into Your Web Page
The Silverlight Blog has a post up on inserting content from Expression Blend into a website using Expression Web.
Sistr – Free open source rich typography tool for Silverlight
I had gone past this post by Katrien De Graeve yesterday, but took a second look today. This is a great open source rich typography tool for Silverlight... check it out!
Using Resources to share styling in Blend
Gavin Wignall's 19th episode in his "Learn Blend in a Month" series is up. This post is about sharing control styles between controls.
deCast - Patterns-Based Silverlight - Part III - The Pipeline Pattern
The Channel 9 video for Rob Bagby's 3rd episode of his Patterns-Based Silverlight series is up. This third episode is implementing the Pipeline Pattern and a fake repository for testing.
Blendable MVVM: WCF and Asynch Data Sources
Nigel Sampson continues his exploration and explanation of MVVM with WCF and Asynchronous Data Sources.
File Upload in Silverlight - a Simple Solution
Gergely Orosz needed a file upload in Silverlight and thought all the examples he could find were too complex so he cranked up a WebClient class to do his upload, and he uses PHP on the server side.
Add interactivity
The Microsoft Expression Blog has a post up modeling interactivity between the user and your program using SketchFlow

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Silverlight Cream for October 27, 2009 -- #717

In this Issue: Alex Knight, Michael Washington, Gavin Wignall, Tim Heuer, Shawn Wildermuth, Karl Shifflett(2), Mark Miller, The Silverlight Blog, René Schulte

Shoutouts:

In addition to the XAML Power Toys release noted below, Karl Shifflett also announced XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2008 v5.0.0.1 Released

Rob Eisenberg has announced Caliburn v1 RTW for WPF, Silverlight 2.0 and 3.0!

Shawn Wildermuth shares his material with us from his Second Week of European Conference Tour... like being there only not :)

From SilverlightCream.com:
Getting in-depth with SketchFlow
Alex Knight's latest tutorial is on SketchFlow, and he has a good intro going. He also has the project running on another page so you can directly play with it.
A Silverlight Upgrade Advisor
Michael Washington has a proof of concept up for an update advisor for his ADefHelpDesk that is written in Silverlight... pretty cool.
Using Behaviors to get things moving in Blend
For Number 18 in his "Learn Blend in a Month" Series, Gavin Wignall is discussing Behaviors and follows up with external links to other sites for Behaviors.
Silverlight Audio Player for WordPress
If you're using WordPress, Tim Heuer adapted Mark Heath's Silverlight Audio Player as a WordPress plugin.
Fun with CollectionViews
Shawn Wildermuth has a cool post up about the use of the PagedCollectionView class. Great example demonstrating grouping in a DataGrid.
XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2
Karl Shifflett wastes no time in updating his tools. He has XAML Power Toys updated for VS2010 B2 already.
XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Cider Designer
Karl Shifflett also has a post up about writing a "WPF and Silverlight platform neutral control designer". Great stuff, Karl!!
MVVM with Prism 101 – Part 4: Modules
Mark Miller has part 4 of his MVVM with Prism series up, and this one is on Modules or more definitively, how to implement IModule.
10 shortcuts worth discovering in Expression Blend 3
The Silverlight Blog has a set of 10 keyboard shortcuts up for Blend that will make you say "huh.. I didn't know that!"
Read Between The Pixels - HLSL Kill Pixel Shader
René Schulte is at it again with another Pixel Shader. For this one he turned to the Shazzam tool and produced a winner.

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