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Thursday, January 14, 2010 #

Silverlight Cream for January 14, 2010 -- #778

In this Issue: Andrew Marshall, Jim Wightman, Matthias Shapiro, Alan Mendelevich, David Anson, Mike Taulty, Fredrik Normén(2), Jeremiah Morrill, and Benjamin Roux.

Shoutouts:

John Stockton has an interesting post up on The Illusion of Performance

Scott Barnes discusses How do I get started in User Experience?

Laurent Bugnion posted a Quick tip: Finding Silverlight 4 documentation fast

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight and CUDA interop: Andrew Marshall is posting about lashing up Silverlight and MEF to NVIDIA's CUDA GPU Acceleration using COM interop ... cool... he acknowledges there's no code, but promises it will be there later, so check back... and I'll try to do a shout out when I see it or Andrew let's me know (hint!)
Silverlight running under Windows PE 3.0 - Preface: Jim Wightman has Silverlight working on Windows PE... this first post in an intro and a video... cool stuff, and another dev to follow!
How To Create a Flexible Striped Gradient In Silverlight and WPF: Matthias Shapiro has a great Gradient strip for Silverlight or WPF. He explains how to build it in Blend, and he's got a running example linked out to CodeRun that I'd never heard of before... might investigate that a bit :)
Writing WPF/Silverlight compatible code. Part 6: Adding XAML files as links: Read how Alan Mendelevich is sharing XAML between Silverlight and WPF as linked-in files in both cases.
"I feel the need... the need for SPEED!" [Seven simple, performance-boosting tweaks for common Silverlight/WPF Charting scenarios]: And now from the guy who wins the 'longest title' contest... David Anson has a post up about boosting performance in charting apps for Silverlight and WPF... with 7 tweaks to do so.
Silverlight 4 – Displaying a Bunch of Files from a Zip File: Mike Taulty beat up DotNetZip from CodePlex to get it to be a Silverlight 4B application that he could then use to display files on his blog... very cool application Mike!
Silverlight – About validation when binding to custom forms: Fredrik Normén's another prolific poster... it's hard keeping up with some of you guys! ... this post is on using Silverlight Validation outside the normal arena we see that done... in other words, wherever you want it!
Silverlight – About validation when binding to custom forms – Part 2 using Silverlight 4: Fredrik Normén's follow-on post is a similar validation post, only this time in Silverlight 4B.
Silverlight and Desktop .NET Integration: Jeremiah Morrill demonstrates Silverlight 4B COM Interop, or what he calls an "escape hatch out of the sandbox"... good comments as well so far.
[Silverlight] An image loading control: Benjamin Roux follows up his last animated control post with a post demonstrating using that as a 'loading' control.