Silverlight Cream for January 28, 2010 -- #789

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Silverlight Cream for January 28, 2010 -- #789

In this Issue: Mark Monster, René Schulte, Damon Serji, Shawn Wildermuth, Rishi, Gavin Wignall(2), and roboblob.

Shoutouts:

David Anson reports that Flattery will get you everywhere [Html5Canvas source code now available on CodePlex!]

Robbe Morris announced EggHeadCafe Chat Chaos in Silverlight Released Today ... this looks great, I'm surprised there's not a ton of people on there slinging code around!

Check out what Rishi's been doing in his spare time: Outing my inner iTablet

From SilverlightCream.com:

Capture usage information of a Silverlight application using Google Analytics and a Blend Behavior: Mark Monster created a Behavior that does all his event tracking for him ... for Google Analytics.
Rounder, Faster, Better - WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.0.0: René Schulte has an update to WriteableBitmapEx... the biggest addition is parametric curves, but there's lots of other features on the list and he's got a nice demo up.
Google Analytics in Silverlight (Event Tracking): Damon Serji shows how to get information from inside our Silverlight apps out to Google Analytics.
Handing Events with Care?: Shawn Wildermuth has a post up on Events in Silverlight ... it's not a big article, and it may surprise you or help you out if you're having some problems... especially if you're an old win32 dev like me.
Creating and Porting applications to Cloud Light: Rishi has a nice tutorial up walking through porting his Sudoku game to Cloud Light. Grab the code: Sudoku, Cloud Light, and the nRoute Toolkit adapter.
Playing with Projection in Silverlight: Wow... Gavin Wignall has been having fun... check out the 3D particle effect he did completely in Blend... thank goodness he included the source... :)
Creating a 3d spiral effect with projection: Gavin Wignall then turned around and did a spiral... these things are very cool... stared at them enough it's affecting my glaucoma I think :)
Binding UI Events from View to commands in ViewModel in Silverlight 4: I just came across roboblob's blog. This is apparently the third post in a series on MVVM and is on binding UI events of the View in the ViewModel and not putting anything in the code behind of the View... and check out the other two posts.. he's got links to them!