Silverlight Cream for November 29, 2009 -- #744

In this all-submittal Issue: ITLackey, AfricanGeek, Yasser Makram, Rob Houweling, James Bacon, Max Paulousky, Andrea Boschin, Andrew Veresov, Michael Washington, Corey Schuman, Mark Tucker, Fons Sonnemans, Pencho Popadiyn


Thanks for all the submittals! Very glad *that* holiday is behind us... let's get back to posting!

From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight Metronome
ITLackey has built a very cool Silverlight metronome with lots of features. If you're a musician, bonus! If you're not a musician think adjustable timer... bonus! ... and all the source too.
Silverlight 4 Video Tutorials
AfricanGeek has two more videos up on his site: Copy to and paste from the clipboard and then printing from the clipboard. The new ones are clearly marked on the site.
Silverlight 4 Native Arabic Support Deep Dive
Yasser Makram performs a basic test of the Silverlight 4 RTL features, and his results are a mixed bag. Read the post to see stick-points he reports, and check out to the good points too :)
Silverlight 4 - Drag and drop images on a Silverlight application
Rob Houweling's latest tutorial is on the new Drag/Drop additions to Silverlight 4... good discussion and all the code... I'm really liking the site too guys!
3XH Silverlight high score and in game achievement API is now available to developers
James Bacon has announced a new Silverlight in-game event system called 3XH. This gives game developers a way to work with high scores and user achievements without building it into their games ... if you're into writing games... this sounds like a winner!
Notification of Silverlight Applications about Database State Changes
Max Paulousky has a new post up at Code Project about getting data change notifications via WCF polling duplex... good detailed post with lots of code, and everything downloadable.
Five Silverlight 4.0 features you cannot do without
Andrea Boschin is posting at SilverlightShow now and has a compelling read up on the 5 things in Silverlight 4 that you can't do without ... see if you agree!
Silverlight 3 access DataContextChanged event
Andrew Veresov demonstrates getting a grip on the DataContextChanged event in Silverlight 3 along with a demo and all the code to download... I've also added Andrew to my watch list :)
DotNetNuke WCF RIA Services Tutorial
Michael Washington has a very detailed turorial up for you DNN and Silverlight fans out there... implementing WCF RIA Services in a non-WAP site and securing/segmenting data for website users.
A look at the Printing API in Silverlight 4
Corey Schuman is posting at SilverlightShow now and has a post up on the new printing capability of Silverlight 4B... nice tutorial and easy to follow.
Hidden Object: Episode 14 – Shake it up
Mark Tucker has posted episode 14 in his Hidden Object Silverlight game. In this episode he has a solution to the user that randomly and wildly clicks to try to find an object... how about an earthquake :)
Simple ReportDocument for Silverlight 4
Fons Sonnemans also takes on the new printing capability of Silverlight 4B and has a nice write-up and code for you to play with.
Implicit Styles in Silverlight 4
Pencho Popadiyn has a new post up at SilverlightShow discussing the new Implicit Styles in Silverlight 4 beta... good tutorial on the subject, graphics, code... what more do you want :)

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