Silverlight Cream for February 03, 2010 -- #791

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Silverlight Cream for February 03, 2010 -- #791

In this Issue: Joel Neubeck, Alex van Beek, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Jim McCurdy, Dave Britton, Laurent Bugnion, Brendan Enrick, Robby Ingebretsen, David Burela, and Lee.

Shoutouts:

Michael Sync put up a post about 3 new websites for Silverlight Community... good ones to aggregate I think :)

John Papa announced a new episode up: Silverlight TV Episode 005 – Using Metadata with MEF

I don't want to advertise this guy, but there is a site silverlight-travel dot com that is scraping Silverlight sites such as Josh Holmes, Mike Taulty, David Poll, Shawn Wildermuth, Jesse Liberty, etc.

Laurent and I discussed this, and the owner's email address can be found by doing a whois search. Laurent's posts don't appear to be on the site anymore, so it looks like you may be able to send him an email and get your bandwidth back.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight 4 How to Command Control: Joel Neubeck has an MVVM and tutorial up at SilverlightShow ... good write-up and code, plus a hint of more to come.
Silverlight 4 vs Flex 4: Data Validation: Alex van Beek is back with another Silverlight 4/Flex 4 comparison, and the feature he's digging into this time is Data Validation.
Saving Files Locally in Silverlight: Kirupa Chinnathambi has a 4-pager up building a File Save dialog for your Silverlight app.
Implement MouseWheel support for Silverlight 3 controls: Jim McCurdy has a post up that will give you MouseWheel support in the Silverlight 3 code you're supporting while having Silverlight 4 MouseWheel envy
Document Outline and XAML: Dave Britton has a quick tip up on using the Document Outline window in Visual Studio to wind your way through your XAML
Quick tip: Commenting out properties in XAML: On Monday while I was home writing code I saw this post by Laurent Bugnion come through, but didn't look close enough which is hilarious because I was block-commenting out XAML, and here Laurent is showing us a way to just do properties... cool stuff!
Quick Silverlight Tip: Looking at the code: Brendan Enrick walks us through using .NET Reflector on a Silverlight app... use one of your own as an example :)
Top Albums 2009: There are a few people that you should pay attention when they blog and Robby Ingebretsen is one of them... check out his Top Albums 2009 application... very nice Silverlight 3 app with source ... oh and you may be interested in his 2009 music selections too :)
Guide to creating Expression blend 3 addins: David Burela has a quick tutorial up on creating add-ins in Expression Blend 3... he walks you through building a sample and demonstrating it is loaded.
Summary row in DataGrid: Lee demonstrates how a DataGrid looks with a "Summary Row", and then shows how to produce that yourself by customizing the GroupHeader