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In this Issue: Nokola, Braulio Díez Botella, Gavin Wignall, David Poll, Mike Taulty, Pete Brown, Tim Heuer, Bruce Abernethy(2), and Kathleen McGrath.

Shoutouts:

John Bruin has a fun Silverlight app up on his site: Silverlight Circle Twist ... with source.

Pixel in Gene posted a Quick tip about changing SketchFlow’s startup page name (Silverlight)

From SilverlightCream.com:

EasyPainter Beta: Top Secret Online Image Editor Announced

Nokola posted information about and a link to his EasyPainter Beta, and wow is this a very nice online 'paint' tool. I'm sure we're going to hear a lot about this one!

Avoid Silverlight toolkit DLL hell

Braulio Díez Botella wrote about a Toolkit DLL problem, but this could apply to any DLL used in your Silverlight app. Don't take a step backward in time!

Create a simple 3D sphere animation in Silverlight

Wow, so much Silverlight goodness today :) ... Gavin Wignall has a very nice 3D sample up... well it LOOKS 3D :) ... great explanation, all the code, and on this dual quad-core machine it just looks perfect!

On-demand loading of assemblies with Silverlight Navigation – Revisited for Silverlight 4 Beta

If you've got a Silverlight app of any size at all, you should probably print out this post by David Poll where he has a great multi-XAP loader explained in great detail... source, and just tons of info... I'm printing it as a PDF myself :)

Silverlight 4 & MEF – Switching on functionality based on application context

Mike Taulty has a very cool application for MEF up ... switching in and out the different modes his Silverlight app may be running in.

Silverlight Quick Tip: Controlling the Out-of-Browser Window

Pete Brown has a quick tip up on OOB in Silverlight 4B ... and it's nice to see Pete posting some Silverlight stuff too :)

Reading MP3 metadata with Silverlight and drag-drop

Tim Heuer has a cool SL4B article up on a music project he's working on. He's discussing dragging MP3 files onto a Silverlight app and reading the metadata... very nice! ... and when you blog a tad late about something, there's also lots of good comments on the post :)

Silverlight Kata: IFS Fractals with TransformGroup and MessageBus

Bruce Abernethy has begun a series on IFS Fractals. This is the first and introduces the basics, and how he's going to tackle this project. He also has a road-map of what all 5 episodes are going to be about.

Silverlight Kata: IFS Fractals: Automating the Transforms

In Bruce Abernethy's 2nd post in the series, he introduces the IFS transform and then automates it... definitely the most interesting article on fractal generation I've seen!

Binding Silverlight Controls to a Data Service in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Kathleen McGrath has a post up about a Channel 9 video by Steve Stein, and accompanying blog post on the drag and drop databinding features in Visual Studio 2010B for all us Silverlight geeks.

Stay in the 'Light!

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