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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 and Webcam app.

After releasing Froggy Math, Andy Beaulieu posted There's an App for THAT?, so he changed his to "Wormy Math"... with Physics :)

Read David Kelley's post on Silverlight and Dual Screen Monitors...

Laurent Bugnion has an update to his MVVM Light Toolkit V3 Alpha 3 for WPF4/SL4

John OBrien posted a link to a BingMaps app he did that is pretty amazing if you zoom in on Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, or Brisbane: NearMap in Silverlight, is that your washing on the line?

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight MEF: Custom ExportProvider for Attached XAML Exports

Jeremy Likness has a 10-minute walkthrough post up on MEF, I archived it at WynApse.Com, so that's a good starter because he's got a good post up now that's much more than 10 minutes, but it's Silverlight, XAML, and MEF... so it's dead-on... oh and all the source too, so have at it!

Sharing Silverlight Assemblies with .NET Apps

Confused about "sharing assemblies between Silverlight and .NET?" So are a bunch of folks, so this post by the CLR Team Blog should help and you'll either be pleasantly surprised or disappointed :)

Silverlight and RIA: Adding a ComboBox to a DataForm

In her last post, Deborah Kurata mentioned how hard it was to add a ComboBox to a DataForm that is bound to a DomainDataSource. This time, she does just that... lots of code as usual... just the way I like it :)

Building extensible Silverlight applications with MEF

Tim Heuer points us at a sound byte from Glenn Block, MEF-Guru, then gives links to Glenn's latest work in MEF with Silverlight.

Silverlight Design Time Assemblies

Ning Zhang has a post up discussing adding Design-time assemblies for your controls. He makes his case then goes on to explain the various ways to do so with external links as well.

Silverlight 4's Improved Element Data Binding

Continuing his investigation into Silverlight 4B features, Jeff Prosise has a post up about the extended element data binding.

Refresh the cached EntitySet after a SubmitChanges – WCF RIA Services

Fredrik Normén responded to a complex question on the forum about updating a chached EntitySet taking into consideration what other users may have been doing... all good stuff!

Top 10 Silverlight 4 beta features for Designers

Catching up on older Antoni Dol posts, here's one on the top 10 Silverlight 4B features for all the Designers out there.

BugCamSmash – Motion Detection with Silverlight 4 Beta

Adam Kinney has a post up about a Bug Smash game using the webcam and frame diff calculations. He's going to talk more about it later, but get the source, the video, play it... fun stuff!

Upgrading from .NET RIA Services to WCF RIA Services

If you've been developing a .NET RIA Services app and want to transition to WCF RIA Services, check out Jordan Knight's post... he discusses his pain and solutions.

Creating a Pinball Game in Silverlight: Using the Physics Helper Library + Farseer Physics

Andy Beaulieu announced the release on Coding4Fun of his PinBall game creation tutorial... great-looking tutorial using Expression Blend, Farseer Physics, and Silverlight

Getting Silverlight to work over SSL with a self-signed certificate

Kevin Dockx has a post up about restricting your service methods to only those folks you want, but then you step into the realm of SSL, and that's where his post comes in handy.

A few issues with Silverlight 4 after Installing Visual Studio 2010

Al Pascual discusses issues with Silverlight 4B and VS2010. He discusses problems with COM Interop, the Printing API, and hosting HTML content.

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