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Tuesday, December 08, 2009 #

Silverlight Cream for December 08, 2009 -- #752

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 with improved DataBinding in Silverlight 4: Andrea Boschin has a new post at SilverlightShow discussing the enhancements to databinding in Silverlight 4B and how that improves life for us the developers.
Silverlight 3 Video Tutorial 10: AfricanGeek has his 10th Silverlight 3 video tutorial up describing how to handle the click event for the Play/Pause button.
Experiments using MEF, MVVM and Silverlight 4 Beta – Part 4: Part Creator: Davide Zordan has the next two parts to his MEF, MVVM, and Silverlight 4B series up. Part 4 is on the Part Creator.
Experiments using MEF, MVVM and Silverlight 4 Beta – Part 5: Enabling Blend and the Visual Studio designer: In Part 5, Davide Zordan has a demo giving sample data during editing in Blend or Visual Studio Designer (with a nod to Laurent Bugnion).
Export Silverlight DataGrid to Excel XML/CSV: raelango has a post up on The Code Project on exporting a Silverlight DataGrid to Excel format
WriteableBitmapEx - WriteableBitmap extensions now on CodePlex: Rene Schulte has been doing lots of great work with WriteableBitmap, and now he's released his WriteableBitmapEx library to CodePlex!
Field Level Access with RIA Services: Brad Abrams has a cool post up about field-level access in RIA Services he also discusses situations where just not displaying the data isn't enough... don't bring it down the pipe.
Bug in the Create DomainService wizard: Colin Blair had blogged about a 'breaking change' a few days ago, and now reports it truly is a bug in the DomainService wizard.
Silverlight 4 Notification Window Class: As usual, CorrinaB has some great work out there... she's styled the Silverlight 4 Beta Toast to match the default Silverlight control styles.
Silverlight and RIA: Sharing Your Business Object Files: Deborah Kurata took a shot at sharing code between her business object and Silverlight project and had troubles... then she figured out what they were talking about, and shares that plus working code with all of us :)
Silverlight Advent Calendar: December 7th: Creating a kiosk application: One week into Gill Cleeren's Silverlight Advent Calendar and he's doing a Kiosk application.
Silverlight Advent Calendar: December 8th: Working with the clipboard in Silverlight 4: Gill Cleeren's next is all about using the clipboard with Silverlight 4 Beta
WCF RIA Services Unity DomainServiceFactory: Fredrik Normén demonstrates using Unity as a Dependency Injection Framework to create his Domain Services in WCF RIA Services
Silverlight : Listening to Dependency Property Change notification of a given Element: amazedsaint has a hack that gives us Silverlight folks something like WPF's DependencyPropertyDescriptor AddValueChanged ... give it a shot and give him some feedback