Silverlight Cream for November 11, 2009 -- #729

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Silverlight Cream for November 11, 2009 -- #729

In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Expression Blend and Deisgn Blog, Alan Mendelevich, Gergely Orosz, Jeff Handley, Chris Klug, Rishi, and Victor Gaudioso.

Shoutouts:

First off, on this Veteran's Day. If you served or are serving in the military, thank you for your service!

ComponentArt has posted their contest results and Tim Greenfield won! Congratulations Tim! And the Winner is..

If you want to find all of Victor Gaudioso's video tutorials, you can either search at SilverlightCream.com, or check out Victor's post: All of My Video Tutorials in One Place (revisited)

November 24, 11AM PST, Tim Heuer will be presenting Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3

Dan Wahlin has posted his DevConnections Conference Code and Slides

The Silverlight Team Blog announced Announcing the Bing Maps Silverlight Control

From SilverlightCream.com:

Skeleton for a Silverlight business application based on Ria Services and the Ria Services Class Library: Max Paulousky has a very nice RIA tutorial up on CodePlex. He's starting right at the beginning, so would be another good one to put in your box of tricks to pull out.
Simple Cartoon Animation using Visual States: Steve at the Expression Blend and Deisgn Blog built a simple cartoon animation using Expression Blend. Check out the animation and then get the project source.
Weekend Project: Open Source Silverlight Tic-Tac-Toe: Alan Mendelevich accepted a challenge from his daughter and build a Silverlight game last weekend: Tic-Tac-Toe, and he's made it Open Source... get the code on his blog.
Silverlight bug when drawing large paths: Gergely Orosz has a bug report he is going to turn in on drawing paths above a certain size. Read his post and check out the code.. see if you can reproduce it.
DomainDataSource – Single Record Results: Jeff Handley demonstrates a twist on the DomainDataService where he's using it to bind to a single record result. Slick short solution.
A couple of naming issues when working with Silverlight in Visual Studio 2008: Chris Klug started with a namespace issue then ended up with AG_E_UNKNOWN_ERROR, but he battled through it and shares his interesting result.
Virtual Input Keyboard & Behaviours for Silverlight: We all know about the keyboard limitation in FullScreen, but whoa... check out what Rishi did about it using the keyboard from Expression Gallery... I'm thinking this set of behaviors and code is going to get some use!
New Codeplex Silvelright Project! Silverlight StoryboardHelper: Victor Gaudioso's latest post is a new CodePlex project he originated: StoryboardHelper. He's really wanting community input, so check it out!