Silverlight Cream for November 07, 2009 -- #726

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Silverlight Cream for November 07, 2009 -- #726

In this Issue: XamlNinja, Zoltan Arvai, Alan Mendelevich, Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios, Chris Klug, Pete Brown, Fons Sonnemans, Tim Heuer, Jeff Prosise, and Mark Miller

Shoutouts:

Corey Miller posted a User Experience Review post that's a good read.

Jeff Wilcox announced The Silverlight Toolkit - now in the Microsoft Web Platform Installer

Andrew Duthie blogged about the Freescale Sensor Badge - Fun Gadget! ... get yours!

Laurent Bugnion announced another early release of his MVVM Light Toolkit V3 Alpha 2: EventToCommand behavior, and has a bunch of information about it on the post.

Found via Mike Taulty, Here is Arturo Toledo's Top 20 Resources to Get Started with Silverlight and Blend

This would have been a good announcement on the day, but I've been jammed up: The XXI Olympic Winter Games on NBCOlympics.com: Brought to you in Full HD With Silverlight and Smooth Streaming

From SilverlightCream.com:

MVVM, design time data, and Blendability: Rich is pushing his new XamlNinja brand, so that's how I'm posting this. I *really* like the look of the site!.. this first post out there is on MVVM, Silverlight and WPF and using design-time data. Did I say I like the way the site looks :)
Building N-Tier business applications with .NET RIA Services – Part I: Zoltan Arvai has an article up at SilverlightShow on N-Tier bussiness apps in Silverlight with .NET RIA Services ... ok, say that 5 times real fast! ... this is part 1, so climb on and follow him as he continues... this first lives up to the quality I see from the folks at SilverlightShow.
Writing WPF/Silverlight compatible code. Part 2: Dependency Properties: Alan Mendelevich has another part of his WPF/Silverlight series up and is discussing dependency properties this time... and a lot about what Silverlight doesn't have.
Building a twitter client with Silverlight, Microsoft Hellas DevDays09: Silverlight 3: Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios gave a presentation at DevDays09 in Greece and produced a Twitter client... check out his presentation and code on the post.
Styling a ListBox aka Autopsy of a ListBox: Chris Klug lifts the hood on the ListBox and shows you how to make it your own... style that is :)
Creating Custom Easing Functions in WPF 4 (and Silverlight): Pete Brown's been spending a lot of time blogging WPF (all tagged here) and Windows 7 (all tagged here), but this time out he included some Silverlight and is showing how to create your own easing function... and this is not in Blend :)
Silverlight Flip Clock: Fons Sonnemans didn't have much to say about the 'Flip Clock' he built, but he's provided us the code, and I really like the way it looks, thanks Fons!
Grouping data in a Silverlight DataGrid: Tim Heuer demonstrates grouping Data in a DataGrid even without the declarative model of adding GroupDescriptors in Silverlight 3... and it works very nicely! ... code included of course!
Implementing CoverFlow in Silverlight 3: Jeff Prosise leverages a CoverFlow control by Darick on Codeplex into a cool demo with gestures... all with source.
MVVM with Prism 101 – Part 6: Commands: Mark Miller is up to Episode 6 on his MVVM and Prism excurstion, talking about Commands, threads, IAsynchResults... long post with lots of code goodness.