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Saturday, December 12, 2009 #

Silverlight Cream for December 12, 2009 -- #755

In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, Rudi Grobler, Nick Kramer, Fredrik Normén, Mike Taulty, Deborah Kurata, Shayne Burgess, Glenn Block(2), and Gill Cleeren(2).

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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 a good Blend post up that is for WPF, but it should be important to Silverlight as well.
xml syntax highlighting in Silverlight: Nick Kramer revisted his XML Tokenizer and built a Silverlight project to demonstrate using the tokenizer to do syntax highlighting.
RIA – Should a service return the IQueryable<T>?: Fredrik Normén has a post up discussing IQueryable, and how it may be returning more data than you'd like... is that a problem? Read his discussion of using IEnumerable
Silverlight 4 – More on Capturing Video from WebCams: Mike Taulty has a post up that's a follow-on to a previous on the use of the webcam in Silverlight 4 beta. He calls out lots of external posts and has good info and all his source.
Silverlight: ComboBox SelectedItem: Deborah Kurata has a post up talking about problems with the SelectedItem of a ComboBox and the resolution of that... all the code you'd want :)
Using the Silverlight 4.0 WCF Data Services Client Library: Shayne Burgess has a post up about the update to the Data Services Silverlight client in SL4B, and discusses using it in VS2010, and how to resolve the compilation errors you're going to get.
Building the Hello MEF dashboard in Silverlight 4 - Part I: Who better to do a series in MEF than Glenn Block? He is rebuilding is PDC dashboard app in a series of posts. This is the first and starts with getting the tools and building a new app.
Building Hello MEF – Part II – Metadata and why being Lazy is a good thing.: Glenn Block's second post in the series adds a second widget to the app, and adds in MetaData. He also discuses Lazy ... are you familiar with that?
Silverlight Advent Calendar: December 11th: Local file access in Silverlight 4: Gill Cleeren has the next two of his Silverlight Advent Calendar posts up... the first is on local file access in SL4B in OOB.
Silverlight Advent Calendar: December 12th: The RichTextArea exposed: Gill Cleeren's second in this post is on the new RichTextArea. Folks have only been wanting this for about 2-1/2 years :)