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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 #

Silverlight Cream for December 16, 2009 -- #757

In this Issue: Andrej Tozon, nmarun, AmazedSaint, Shawn Wildermuth, Fredrik Normén, Damon Payne, Victor Gaudioso, Jeremy Likness(2), Alan Mendelevich, Dan Wahlin, Lee(2), Expression Blog, Andy Beaulieu, and Gill Cleeren.

Shoutouts:

Scott Guthrie Tweeted about Template Monster now having Silverlight Intro Templates and Silverlight Templates

Einar Ingebrigtsen announced Balder 0.8.8.5 Release is out

Victor Gaudioso has a list of all his videos: All of my Silverlight Video Tutorials in One Place: (Revisited) ... of course you could Search SilverlightCream for his name :)

Since I'm home this morning, this is almost a 'home boys' post... catching up with all the blogs I can't see at the office (yet):

From SilverlightCream.com:

Camdoodle: showcasing Silverlight 4 new features as behaviors: Andrej Tozon has a tutorial on SilverlightShow where he's building a pretty complete 'doodling' application ... wow... that's all good!
Xap Reflector – Silverlight 4: Check out nmarun's XAP Reflector... first version and pretty cool... give it a shot, and give him some feedback.
Introducing Slex - Silverlight Experimental Hacks – Now you’ve a PropertyTrigger, EventTrigger, InvokeCommandAction etc.: AmazedSaint built a framework up to expose a bunch of Silverlight Hacks he's been playing with, and plans on building on this and sharing it all with us.
Architecting Silverlight 4 with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM - Part 1: Remember when Shawn Wildermuth lambasted Brad Abrams for his PDC post? ... well, ok maybe not 'lambasted', but hey... it's my blog :) ... Shawn's starting his series here... this is definitely going to be an RIA Services series to read.
WCF RIA Services Exception Handling: Fredrik Normén follows up a post about handling .NET RIA Services exceptions with one on the same subject, but this is WCF RIA Services.
Using MEF to Work Offline in Silverlight 3: Damon Payne has a tutorial up on OOB, MEF, Isolated Storage, and sometimes connected ... say that 5 times real fast :)
New Silverlight 4 Video Tutorial: How to make an Out of the Browser Web Browser Applicaiton: Victor Gaudioso has a new post up on the Silverlight 4 Beta OOB application scenario... how to do all the setup for one, including the new WebBrowser control.
Simplifying Asynchronous Calls in Silverlight using Action: Jeremy Likness slipped a couple posts past me ... if I miss something, kick my tires! The first is about using Actions to deal with Asynchronous web service calls.
Unit Tests for ViewModels AND Views in Silverlight: Jeremy Likness' next post is on MVVM and Unit Tests with Silverlight, and Unit Tests for the View itself... lotsa fun code :)
Weekend project: Open Source Silverlight Battleship Game: Alan Mendelevich produced a cool Battleship game in Silverlight and is sharing the code with all of us.. MsPL license... very nice, Alan!
Getting Started with the MVVM Pattern in Silverlight Applications: If you're looking for a good intro to MVVM and Silverlight, Dan Wahlin may have it for you in his latest tutorial... good starting point!
Customizing datafield in SL3: Looks like Lee slipped a couple past me also ... This first one is in response to a forum post about customizing datafield ... sample and all the code.
Binding DataField to a collection: In this second post, Lee details an issue with DataField binding it to a collection and the control not being enabled... but he shows how to get it to work.
Assign template parts to objects: The Expression Blog has a nice tutorial up on Assigning template parts to objects ... making it easy to design control templates.
Using Fiddler to Capture RIA Services: If you've tried to use Fiddler with WCF RIA Services you're hitting the binary-encoding wall, but Andy Beaulieu explains how to use Samuel Jack's plug-in and get the job done... great post, Andy!
Silverlight Advent Calendar: December 15th: Right-clicking in Silverlight 4 to create a context menu: Gill Cleeren's latest in his Silverlight Advent Calendar series is up and he's talking about the Silverlight 4B right-click context menu... but he makes Christmas go away :) [see the demo]