Silverlight Cream for January 27, 2010 -- #788

January 27, 2010 · 2 min read

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:

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

Tim Heuer takes a good detailed look at the

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

From:

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.

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?

Bob Bartholomay writes about Behaviors and reuse and crafted a 'flexible' behavior class that will give your designers more well, flexibility when in Blend

Alex van Beek does a comparison between Flex 4 and Silverlight 4 Beta, specifically in the area of printing.

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.

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.

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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.

Stay in the 'Light!

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