Silverlight Cream for November 03, 2009 - 2 -- #724

In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, Jonathan van de Veen, Stephen Forte, Laurent Duveau(2), Alan Mendelevich, and nmarun.


From SilverlightCream.com:
Why Silverlight 3 Navigation cannot be fully leveraged when loading modules remotely with Prism 2
Damian Schenkelman goes into the future [November 5 :) ] to discuss why there are issues with Silverlight Navigation in Prism. He references articles that contain workarounds as well.
Connecting to the SqlMembership model through Silverlight and WCF
Jonathan van de Veen has a tutorial up on SilverlightShow discussing connecting to the SQLMembership model with WCF and Silverlight. Really good detail and lots of code.
LINQ shortcut when using Silverlight and ADO .NET Data Services
Stephen Forte gives the code for his AsyncLINQManager, and demonstrates using it. Don't skip the link at the bottom for his session demos, too!
Update Out Of Browser (OOB) Silverlight apps
If you're deploying an OOB app, Laurent Duveau shows you how to code it so that it will pick up updates when you make them.
Debug Out Of Browser (OOB) Silverlight Apps
Laurent Duveau demonstrates the technique necessary to debug OOB applications.
Writing WPF/Silverlight compatible code. Part 1: The Big Picture
Alan Mendelevich takes a good shot at sharing code between Silverlight and WPF and has a great write-up on what all he found.
Programming Silverlight with MVVM pattern using Prism
nmarun is taking a shot at MVVM and Silverlight and Prism... just the highlights though... is that possible? :)

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Silverlight Cream for November 03, 2009 -- #723

In this Issue: Mark Miller, SmartyP(2), Goncalo Chaves(2), and David Anson.

Shoutouts:

Walt Ritscher announced October 2009 version of Composite WPF(Prism) released and has some highlights from the release

Damian Schenkelman posted a similar announcement: Prism 2.1 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight 3) just released (updated version for Silverlight 3)


From SilverlightCream.com:
MVVM with Prism 101 – Part 5b: ServiceLocator vs Dependency Injection
Mark Miller continues with his MVVM and Prism series with episode 5b where he's discussing IOC and ServiceLocator vs Dependency Injection
Tracking Events in Silverlight with Google Analytics
SmartyP demonstrates tracking Google Analytics with Silverlight using the Silverlight Analytics package on CodePlex.
Thinking Outside the Box - Using Programatic Animations in Silverlight
SmartyP also has a cool post up on adding animation to moving items between ListBoxes... I think it looks pretty cool :)
Silverlight: Creating Silverlight animations with code
Goncalo Chaves posts about creating an animation dynamically in code. I wouldn't want to do something really large this way, but it works, and he's got a good external reference too.
Silverlight: Colors in Hexadecimal values
Have you chafed at having a hex color value and didn't know how to stuff that into a brush? Goncalo Chaves has a quick solution for that for you...
As the platform evolves, so do the workarounds [Better SetterValueBindingHelper makes Silverlight Setters better-er!]
Here's a pro-active one... David Anson who gave us SetterValueBindingHelper is making changes because of future Silverlight changes that would break what he had given us before!

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