Silverlight Cream for November 13, 2009 -- #731

In this Issue: Alex Golesh, Rick Barraza, AfricanGeek, Laurent Duveau, Scott Marlowe, Mason Brown, Rishi, Radenko Zec, Alex van Beek, and Anoop.

Shoutout:

Here's the announcement from the Bing Community site: Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 Released

Laurence Moroney has a good article up on Web 2.0 – What’s it all about?

Tim Heuer reports on Two Silverlight SDKs released – Bing and Facebook

Tim Greenfield posts about his winning Component Art Silverlight Contest entry PuzzleTouch wins the ComponentArt Silverlight Coding Contest

Jeremy Alles has a great comparison up for a whole bunch of MVVM frameworks: A quick tour of existing MVVM frameworks

If you haven't seen it yet, check out Jesse Liberty's post On Our Cross Plat Commitment


From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight Tip: Enumerating embedded resources
This is pretty cool... I saw the discussion progress on the Insider's forum, and booya, here Alex Golesh has it posted... when you post something that's stumped Bill Reiss, everyone should read it!
The Secret Behind the Page Flip Technique
If you want your page flips to really stand out from the rest, check out Rick Barraza's article... print it out, make it into a PDF, paste it up on the wall next to your monitor... you're going to be reading it a few times, but wow... what a tutorial! ... oh yeah, code too :) Thanks Rick!
Silverlight 3 videos
AfricanGeek put up a very nice video tutorial site... eating his own dog-food and has some very cool features in addition to the videos... like leaving comments ... check it out!, and thanks for the link!
Blend SketchFlow project: from prototype to real screens?
Read Laurent Duveau's post about what to do with your SketchFlow prototype after everyone has agreed it's good to ... to do what?
Writing a (Completely Useless) Windows 7 Gadget using Silverlight
Want to get started doing Windows 7 gadgets? How about in Silverlight? Check out Scott Marlowe's latest post on that exact subject for a good discussion and framework to expand on.
Creating a Custom Accordion Menu in Blend
Alex Knight turns over the reigns of SilverZine to Mason Brown for a great tutorial creating an accordian control in Blend... with all source. You might want to check out Mason' site... I've put him in my watch list :)
Pseudo Multi-Binding in Silverlight using Relays
Rishi demonstrates multi-binding in nRoute using Value Converter Relays. Even if you're not using nRoute, it is a good read.
Skinning and Styling Silverlight Controls
Radenko Zec walks us through re-styling a tab control and gets an awesome look. Lots of considerations and discussion from experience in this post, with code!
Silverlight 3: Loading Merged Resource Dictionaries runtime
Alex van Beek has a good post up about Loading Merged Resource Dictionaries, with code and a sample app to get you off and running.
Silverdraw: A collaboration board using SIlverlight + WCF - Source Code & Intro Article
Anoop had discussed his Silverlight Collaborative Whiteboard app in another post, but reiterates that information, has a link to a CodePlex project for it and an article on Codeproject...this is pretty cool stuff, and I'm watching his blog now.


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