Silverlight Cream for January 27, 2010 -- #788

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Silverlight Cream for January 27, 2010 -- #788

In this Issue: Richard Waddell, Scott Barnes, Bob Bartholomay, Alex van Beek, Sergey Barskiy, Chris Klug, Microsoft Expression Blog

Shoutout:

All U.S. MVPs going to the Summit note that Suzanna Moran, my MVP lead, highly suggests the session at 1:30 on Tuesday "Developer & Platform Evangelism"... nudge, nudge :)

John Papa is a very busy guy... Silverlight TV number 4 is up: 3 Steps to MEF (MEF Part 1) – Silverlight TV Episode 4

The Silverlight Team Blog announced Jordan Brand Leverages Silverlight to Invigorate and Find Enthusiasts ... that's 'Jordan' as in Michael Jordan.

Jeff Weber announced that Diver 2 Status: Done… and... Done!

Tim Heuer takes a good detailed look at the Silverlight Client for Facebook available

Subodh Pushpak posted his Community Tech days Slide deck and code on Silverlight

From SilverlightCream.com:

Seeker Sidebar 4 – Styles, Control Templates, and Visual States: I think Richard Waddell said this best: "If you don’t already know how to create templated controls, and you want a detailed description with pictures of every step and misstep, read on" ... great tutorial, running sample, and all the code.
Controlling your Silverlight Installation Experience: Scott Barnes has a great write-up on the Install Experience that we should all be paying attention to... after all, not all our users have Silverlight already, right?
FlexibleBehavior class: More on reuse and Behaviors: Bob Bartholomay writes about Behaviors and reuse and crafted a 'flexible' behavior class that will give your designers more well, flexibility when in Blend
Silverlight 4 vs Flex 4: Printing: Alex van Beek does a comparison between Flex 4 and Silverlight 4 Beta, specifically in the area of printing.
RIA Services (Cont.): I guess I missed this the other day because the title matched the previous one :) Sergey Barskiy has his next post up on RIA Services. He recaps where he left off and continues on discussing Updates.
Silverlight and non-IIS hosted WCF-services: Read the very detailed post by Chris Klug where he describes how he worked out how to build a Kiosk app in Silverlight talking to a couple WCF services running but not with IIS on-board.
Add Silverlight video to a page: If you have yet to place a video on a page using Silverlight, The Microsoft Expression Blog has a nice quick tutorial up on doing just that.