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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 Schenkelman posts a question about Silverlight 4 Commanding simplifying using commands in Prism, then takes a shot at answering... let him know your thoughts.

Building N-Tier business applications with WCF RIA Services – Part II

Zoltan Arvai's previous post in this series at SilverlightShow was in early November and was .NET RIA Services... part 2 is now .NET WCF Services and setting it up in addition to creating some complex queries and controlling data flow.

Silverlight and RIA: Ignoring a Property in Your Business Object

Deborah Kurata has some great RIA posts up from before I found her blog. This one is on how to ignore a property in your Business Object -- for whatever reason.

Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Introduction to INavigationContentLoader

David Poll follows up a bunch of Silverlight 3 Navigation posts with this one about INavigationContentLoader in Silverlight 4B... external links, and a buncha source!

WCF RIA Services and a guide to use DTO/”Presentation Model”

Fredrik Normén has a post up about WCF RIA Services and a really nice Data Transfer Object (DTO) tutorial.

New Silverlight 4 Video Tutorial: How to use the COM API to Open Word in an Out of the Browser SL4 App

Victor Gaudioso is moving into Silverlight 4B with his video tutorials and in this first one, he opens Word with the COM API and adds a file.

New Silverlight 4 Video Tutorial: Making a Cool Webcam Application that can Save Images

In his next tutorial, Victor Gaudioso shows how to take a webcam shot, then manipulate the image before saving it.. can you say funny hats?

BugCamSmash Dissected part 1 – Smash a Bug

Adam Kinney is deep-diving (dissecting) his Bug Smash program, and in Part 1 we find him building his bug, adding things like a 'twitch' storyboard ... and a Rock, for obvious purposes :)

BugCamSmash Dissected part 2 – Make the Bugs Crawl

In part 2, Adam Kinney gets his bug crawling and rotating toward the destination (the point clicked).

BugCamSmash Dissected part 3 – Give the Bugs Brains

In part 3, Adam Kinney gives the bugs a brain to allow them to move independently, and also gets the webcam going.

Extensibility Series – Loading Metadata for Microsoft Controls

Want to add metadata to controls you didn't author, such as a Microsoft control? Karl Shifflett has a post up to explain how to do exactly that... wow!

Silverlight Advent Calendar: December 5th: Implicit styling in Silverlight 4

Continuing to catch up with Gill Cleeren on his "Silverlight Advent Calendar" posts, this one is all about the Explicit Styling now available in Silverlight 4B.

Silverlight Advent Calendar: December 6th: Toasts from Silverlight

Gill Cleeren Follows that one up with a post on 'toast' ... the notification windows like we're used to from tray icons such as Explorer has... of course this is only for OOB, but hey... it's cool :)

Stay in the 'Light!

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