Silverlight Cream for January 24, 2010 -- #786

In this Issue: Fredrik Normén(2), Antoni Dol, Alex van Beek, Rishi, Mike Taulty, Giorgetti Alessandro, Michael S. Scherotter, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, and Anoop Madhusudanan.

Shoutouts

David Kelley announces a podcast: Lunch With Interact - MVVM For Tards


I don't keep a close eye on it, but sometime in the last two days, @SilverlightNews has hit 4000 followers... thanks to all the readers!

From SilverlightCream.com:
Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 5 of X – New Repository implementation
Fredrik Normén has Part 5 of his Aspen series up discussing using the same ObjectContext for the entire DomainService operation.
Aspen – part 6 of X – Reusing ObjectContex among Repositories during a DomainSerivce operation.
Fredrik Normén then continues with Part 6, showing that what is in Part 5 and much of this post is for testing, and the real deal is near the end of this post.
Accessing Properties and Objects in Silverlight DataTemplates using Loaded and FindName
Antoni Dol describes using the Loaded event of the container to get access to properties and objects in a Data Template.
Configuring MEF with Linq To Xml Part 2: Making MEF recomposition on the fly when the file is edited
Alex van Beek has Part 2 of his MEF configuration with XML up. This episode is on MEF's recomposition when the XML file changes.
iPhone Sudoku in Silverlight using MVVM
Rishi uses nRoute and MVVM to build an iPhone-style Sudoku game that plays quite nicely. The code is on CodePlex and was just updated today.
Silverlight 4 – Writing a Windows-Only Application via COM Interop?
Mike Taulty has a good discussion post up about the whole Silverlight/COM thing with reference out to Justin Angel's post, of course.
Castle Windsor enabling XML configuration files in Silverlight
Giorgetti Alessandro works through swapping out the XmlDom to Linq to XML for Silverlight ... check out the source for yourself.
Scrubbing with Thumbnails with the SMF Player
Michael S. Scherotter responded to a question about thumbnail previews while scrubbing a video and boy does his solution look great... and not extremely difficult to do either!
Configuration & Decoupled Modules
Jesse Liberty spent a bunch of time discussing the Silverlight HPV project with the folks at CodeMash and has a new design that not only resolves the two issues he was shooting for but also two more useful objectives
Simple Dialog Service in Silverlight
Jeremy Likness discusses the problems with trying to force a classical WinForms Dialog paradigm into Silverlight, then describes a straightforward dialog solution that should satisfy everyone.
Behaviors, Triggers and Actions in Silverlight And WPF Made Simple – Part 2 – Triggers
Anoop Madhusudanan has part 2 of his series up, and is concentrating on Triggers in this one... not just using Triggers and Actions, but creating your own.

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posted @ Sunday, January 24, 2010 10:00 AM
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