December 2009 Entries
Happy New Year 2010 from SilverlightCream! In this Issue: Fredrik Normén, Damon Serji, Gavin Wignall, András Velvárt, Vibor Cipan, and CrocusGirl. Shoutouts: The Silverlight Team Blog has an interactive customizable New Year's card up for your use: Happy Holiday Season and Happy New Year from the Silverlight team I've added a WebCam/Mic tag to Silverlight Cream, and tagged 13 prior posts, so you can now search for them on the search page. From SilverlightCream.com: WCF RIA Services – Dynamically...
In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, René Schulte, Mike Taulty(2), Kirupa, David Kelley(2), and Jeff Blankenburg(2, 3, 4). Shoutout: Alex Golesh posted his material for Silverlight 4 Tutorial @SDP From SilverlightCream.com: PRISM, MEF, and MVVM Part 2 of 3: Making PRISM MEF Friendly Jeremy Likness has Part 2 of his sequence on making Prism friendly with MEF, and we're talking Silverlight 3 here. Ye Olde Kamera - Silverlight 4 Webcam & Old Movie Shader René Schulte wasn't satisfied to just use the webcam...
In this Issue: John McFetridge, Fredrik Normén(2, 3), Jeff Blankenburg, Rishi, and Expression Blog. Shoutouts: Jesse Liberty reports a Silverlight HVP Design Update Michael S. Scherotter announced Maximum.TV Launches Spanish Language Silverlight TV Site From SilverlightCream.com: Developing Business Applications with Silverlight 3 ,Prism and Ria Services John McFetridge has a great tutorial PDF up on Prism, Silverlight 3, and RIA Services. Silverlight exception handling using WCF RIA Services and...
In this Issue: Richard Waddell, Michael Washington, Shawn Wildermuth, Vikram Pendse, and Jeff Blankenburg(2). Shoutouts: Shawn Wildermuth announced not only Silverlight Tour Announces Three New Cities, but they're now including Silverlight 4! Not Silverlight, but close to most of our hearts, Scott Marlowe has a post up about The IIS SEO Toolkit From SilverlightCream.com: This Seeker Behaves Richard Waddell returned with another 'Seeker' post, this one attaches a Silverlight Behavior to his Seeker...
In this Issue: Richard Waddell, and Jeff Blankenburg. Shoutouts: Now on DotNetRocks! Scott Stanfield: Silverlight Rock Star! Wow... this is like the old days, two posts :) From SilverlightCream.com: The Seeker – Version 3: The Rise of ooBer After a short Game of Life excursion, Richard Waddell is back to 'Seeker' now in Part 3 where the Seekers are getting a lot smarter :) Day #26: Silverlight Data Grid Jeff Blankenburg continues on toward 31 Days of Silverlight by focusing today's post on the DataGrid...
Merry Christmas from Silverlight Cream! In this Christmas Eve in Phoenix Issue: Cristian Merighi, Jeff Blankenburg, András Velvárt, Jeff Prosise, Micah, Sean Blakemore, Expression Blog, Andrej Tozon, CrocusGirl, Adam Kinney, Jordan Knight, and Jonas Follesø(2). Shoutouts: It appears Adam Kinney had access to a few more Silverlight Christmas cards than I did: Silverlight Christmas Cards for 2009 Martin Grayson announced Blacklight v4.3(Dec09) released Jafar Husain has two entries at Channel 9 on Silverlight...
In this Christmas Eve in Phoenix Issue: Richard Waddell, Kirupa, Douglas Starnes, Nigel Sampson, cherylws, Colin Blair, Yavor Georgiev, John Papa, Jeff Blankenburg, and Gill Cleeren. Shoutouts: For all you bloggers out there, David Anson posted: Blogging code samples stays easy [Update to free ConvertClipboardRtfToHtmlText tool and source code for Visual Studio 2010!] Colin Blair has an interesting discussion up as Thoughts on Modular WCF RIA Services If you haven't seen it yet, Scott Guthrie announced...
In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, Alexey Zakharov, Jeremy Likness, John Bruin, Andrej Tozon, Fons Sonnemans, Adam Kinney, Andrea Boschin, Al Pascual, Giorgetti Alessandro, Rob Eisenberg, Gill Cleeren, and Jeff Blankenburg. Shoutouts: Gavin Wignall has announced the Launch of the MSUK Partner Festive Game If you're in the UK, Tesco has this technology working: Silverlight-powered Virtual DVD now available from Tesco András Velvárt announced an interview by Karen Young when he was in Berlin: Another...
In this Issue: Jeff Prosise(2), Chris Klug(2), Laurent Bugnion, Jeff Blankenburg(2, 3), Gill Cleeren(2, 3, 4), Fredrik Normén. Shoutouts: Alan Mendelevich announced Stock Chart for WPF & Silverlight 1.1 Released ... free WPF and Silverlight charting control. Just for fun: SnowCrystals.com From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 4's New Local File System Support Jeff Prosise has a post up on accessing the local file system with Silverlight 4B. Remember this is only with elevated permissions. Silverlight's...
In this Issue: Richard Waddell(2), Jeremy Likness, AfricanGeek, Michael Washington, Colin Eberhardt, clearbreeze(2), Tim Heuer, Allan Muller, Shawn Wildermuth, Jesse Liberty, Brad Abrams, and Gill Cleeren(2). Shoutouts: I'm sure you all aggregate Scott Guthrie, but just in case: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Shawn Wildermuth posted links to his XBoxGames Databases for SQL Server 2005 and 2008 Fons Sonnemans posted his Silverlight Christmas Card... using behaviors he already discussed...
In this Issue: René Schulte, Mike Hodnick, ITLackey, Glenn Block, David Anson, ChristophDotNet, Micah, Adam Kinney, Joel Cochran, Andrei Alecu, Jesse Liberty, and Gill Cleeren(2). Shoutout: Jeff Paries shared the 2009 Silverlight Christmas Card from Waggener Edstrom ... pretty cool, thanks Jeff! From SilverlightCream.com: World# - Real Time 3D Augmented Reality with Silverlight Please note coments made here are sometimes made to be humorous or poike fun at myself, as I tried to do with this one....
In this Issue: Andrej Tozon, nmarun, AmazedSaint, Shawn Wildermuth, Fredrik Normén, Damon Payne, Victor Gaudioso, Jeremy Likness(2), Alan Mendelevich, Dan Wahlin, Lee(2), Expression Blog, Andy Beaulieu, and Gill Cleeren. Shoutouts: Scott Guthrie Tweeted about Template Monster now having Silverlight Intro Templates and Silverlight Templates Einar Ingebrigtsen announced Balder 0.8.8.5 Release is out Victor Gaudioso has a list of all his videos: All of my Silverlight Video Tutorials in One Place: (Revisited)...
In this Issue: Corrado Cavalli, Davide Zordan, Braulio Diez, David Anson, Jeff Prosise, Jesse Liberty, Koen Zwikstra, Giorgetti Alessandro, John Bruin, Colin Blair, Radenko Zec, and Gill Cleeren(2). Shoutouts: Have you seen this for Visual Studio? Visual Studio Theme Generator .. very nice! Jeff Barnes has his slide deck and projects up for a Silverlight presentation he gave: Silverlight 4 – Presentation and Code Samples My Advent Candle seems to have a problem, but could answer why I'm having trouble...
In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, Rudi Grobler, Nick Kramer, Fredrik Normén, Mike Taulty, Deborah Kurata, Shayne Burgess, Glenn Block(2), and Gill Cleeren(2). Shoutout: Did you know MIX10 registration was open? Register by Jan 15th and get in for $795!! MIX10 From SilverlightCream.com: Unit Tests for ViewModels AND Views in Silverlight Confused about Unit Testing Silverlight apps in MVVM? Jeremy Likness isn't... and he shows us how! Blend 3 Tip: Filter resources by selected element Rudi Grobler has...
In this Issue: Joel Neubeck, Tim Heuer, Gill Cleeren, Cameron Albert, Damon Serji, Matthew Casperson, Corey Miller, Pete Brown, Aashish, David Poll, and Fredrik Normén. Shoutouts: Brad Abrams reported an interview: Bytes by MSDN: Brad Abrams Interview with Billy Hollis: Silverlight 4, RIA Services and VS2010 Nikhil Kothari has a set of links for RIA Services: RIA Services Link Listing #1 From SilverlightCream.com: Capturing the Webcam in Silverlight 4 Joel Neubeck has a post up at SilverlightShow...
In this Issue: Gill Cleeren, Chris Klug, Expression Blog, James, nmarun, Deborah Kurata, cherylws, Jeremy Likness, David Kelley, Lee, and Fredrik Normén. Shoutouts: Jonathan van de Veen's latest post is on time management and setting goals: Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #30 ChristophDotNet reports on a Silverlight 3 / Expression Lab Posted From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Advent Calendar: December 9th: Element-to-element bindings in Silverlight 3 Gill Cleeren's...
In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, AfricanGeek, Davide Zordan(2), raelango, Rene Schulte, Brad Abrams, Colin Blair, CorrinaB, Deborah Kurata, Gill Cleeren(2), Fredrik Normén, and amazedsaint. Shoutouts: Koen Zwikstra has an update for Document Toolkit 1.1.0.4 Shawn Wildermuth announced My Interview about Silverlight at Sweden's OreDev Doug Blackmore wrote to say his blog has moved, and to kick it off he reports his Silverlight ComboBox Updated From SilverlightCream.com: Developing applications gets easy...
In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, Zoltan Arvai, Deborah Kurata, David Poll, Fredrik Normén, Victor Gaudioso(2), Adam Kinney(2, 3), Karl Shifflett, and Gill Cleeren(2). Shoutout: Jeremy Likness has a great post describing how to Host WCF as Windows Service without Installing Bea Stollnitz announced her new site/venture: Zag Studio’s web site... good luck Bea, and I hope you keep blogging good stuff! From SilverlightCream.com: Will Silverlight 4 ICommand support simplify using commands in Prism? Damian...
In this Issue: Davide Zordan(2), Fredrik Normén, Nick Kramer, Gill Cleeren(2), Jeff Prosise, CorrinaB, Al Pascual(2), Nigel Sampson, and Kirupa. Shoutout: Pete Brown has posted his list of 10 Must-See PDC 09 Sessions ... but it's 11 :) From SilverlightCream.com: Experiments using MEF, MVVM and Silverlight 4 Beta – Part 2: Custom attributes Davide Zordan has post 2 of his MVVM, MEF, and Silverlight 4B series up talking about custom attributes Experiments using MEF, MVVM and Silverlight 4 Beta – Part...
In this Issue: Rob Eisenberg, Gill Cleeren(2), AfricanGeek, Brett Balmer, Tim Heuer, Alex Knight, Kirupa, Jeff Prosise(2), nmarun, Brad Abrams, Shayne Burgess, Michael Wolf, Micah Shoutouts: John Papa has a Silverlight MVP Twitter list up: Silverlight MVP List on Twitter, and a Silverlight Team Twitter List also ... if those don't give you enough Silverlight in Twitter, I'm not sure what to say :) Koen Zwikstra has a maintenance release of Silverlight Spy up: Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.6 Here's a link...
In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, CLR Team Blog, Deborah Kurata, Tim Heuer, Ning Zhang, Jeff Prosise, Fredrik Normén, Antoni Dol, Adam Kinney, Jordan Knight, Andy Beaulieu, Kevin Dockx, and Al Pascual. Shoutouts: Jonathan van de Veen discusses the problems of upgrading to the beta in Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #29 Victor Gaudioso has the materials up from My Silverlight 4 Presentation at LA C# Usergroup in Manhatten Beach, CA (12.01.09) including a Drop Demo...
In this Issue: Pete Brown, Davide Zordan(2), René Schulte(2), David Anson, Ning Zhang, Jeff Prosise, Antoni Dol, nmarun, Deborah Kurata(2), and Fredrik Normén. Shoutouts: John Papa announced the availability of his "What's new in Silverlight 4" whitepaper: What’s New in Silverlight 4 – Download and Run! The Expression Team Blog has a post up about Expression Blend: What's new Koen Zwikstra is reacting to Silverlight 4B along with everyone else with a Document Toolkit Roadmap Check out Pete Blois'...
In this Issue: Shawn Wildermuth, Andrej Tozon, Mark Monster, AfricanGeek, Allan Muller, nmarun, David Anson, Jesse Bishop, Fredrik Normén, Alan Mendelevich, and Laurent Duveau. Shoutout: The Thirsty Developer posted a new PodCast last week: Thirsty Developer 79: Tim Heuer on Silverlight 4 If you've got something good posted and haven't seen it yet, kick my tires. With the new bits hitting just before I was gone for 4 days, I just counted and have 52 tagged posts queued up... I'll get there, it's...