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Thursday, December 03, 2009 #

Silverlight Cream for December 03, 2009 -- #747

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' Source Code Browser using Silverlight 4B to rat around in zipped projects off the web.

From SilverlightCream.com:

The Future of Client App Dev : WPF and Silverlight Convergence: From the comments on the post, it looks like anyone that wants to has already read Pete Brown's great post on the convergence of Silverlight and WPF, but take a look and check out all the comments ... and who all is commenting too :)
First experiments using MEF, MVVM and Silverlight 4 Beta: Davide Zordan tackles MEF, MVVM, and Silverlight 4B. He has an external link to a Glenn Block post, and all the source for this example.
Having fun with Silverlight 4 Beta and the Speech APIs: Davide Zordan uses the COM capabilities of Silverlight 4B to tap into the Speech APIs in this example. He has all the code available as well.
Silverlight 4 Augmented Reality Proof Of Concept: René Schulte has a very interesting Silverlight 4 demo up on Augmented Reality with Silverlight 4. Check out the video... he promises to continue playing and publish the source.
Convert, Encode And Decode Silverlight WriteableBitmap Data: René Schulte continues with the WriteableBitmap investigations... this time he's converting the image to a byte array for database storage, and then has code for JPEG encoding and decoding of WriteableBitmaps ... and all the source is available!
Two birds, squared! [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 3 and a DataVisualizationDemos update]: David Anson points out the data visualization enhancements dropped in the latest Toolkit release that includes SL4B, and the WPF team slipped a release out as well.
Silverlight Drag and Drop API: Ning Zhang has a good post up on Silverlight 4B Drag/Drop. Explanations, sample project to run and all the code.
Silverlight 4's New Clipboard Support: Jeff Prosise is investigating the Silverlight 4B features and this post is on the ClipBoard support. Good example showing the user experience side as well, code on the page.
Tip: Set DesignWidth and DesighHeight when styling Silverlight 3 controls: Antoni Dol has a quick tip up for Silverlight 3+ for styling controls for design-time viewing.
Local file access - Silverlight 4: nmarun shows how to make your Silverlight 4B app a 'trusted' application and access the local file system. External links and source code available.
Silverlight and RIA Services: Managing Your Codes: This is the second in a series Deborah Kurata is doing on .NET RIA Services and she's discussing tables of codes for your business logic and she then creates a Domain Service class to access them.
Silverlight and RIA Services: Binding to a DataForm: As the third in a series on .NET RIA Services, Deborah Kurata is discussing CRUD and relating it to the Silverlight DataForm. Lots of good hints in the nicely-done tutorial.
WCF RIA Services – What you need to know when creating DTO/Presentation Model: Fredrik Normén has a post up about WCF RIA Services and more specifically he's discussing DTOs, making them read-only, making them partial, or testable.