Silverlight Cream for February 05, 2010 -- #793

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Silverlight Cream for February 05, 2010 -- #793

In this Issue: Joel Neubeck, James Bacon, Jeremy Likness, John Stockton, Fredrik Normén, Subodh Pushpak, Alexander Golesh, PhaniRajuYN, Victor Gaudioso, and Syed Mehroz Alam.

Shoutouts:

Michael Sync posted the material for his My WPF MVVM Session at Consistel

Michael also posted an interesting post Rules of MVVM??

Andrew Marshall reported to me that he now has the code posted for his Silverlight and CUDA interop article.. thanks Andrew!

John Papa isn't wasting any time with Silverlight TV ... he's got Custom Preloader - Silverlight TV 006 with John Stockton up already... and did you notice he's got his numbering setup for 3 digits? :)

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight 4 How to Command Control: Joel Neubeck has another post up at SilverlightShow discussing MVVM, this time showing how to using commanding and binding to reduce your code.
Using the free Babel Obfuscator in Silverlight projects: James Bacon discusses using the free Babel Obfuscator with your Silverlight projects and offers up some hints from his experience doing so.
Using Moq with Silverlight for Advanced Unit Tests: Jeremy Likness' latest is on Moq'ing Silverlight ... lotsa code and explanation to go along with it too!
Silverlight Splash Page: John Stockton has a tutorial up about Silverlight Splash Pages that goes along with his Silverlight TV appearance mentioned above... all the code, and lots of info... good one, John!
Aspen – part 7 of X – Entity Validations: Fredrik Normén apparently snuck a few past my Pattern-Recognition Module^TM :) This is episode 7 of his Aspen series, and he is following up a long discussion of validation with an explanation of his plans for entity validation in Aspen.
HTML text in Silverlight controls with ellipses, tooltip and rollover: Subodh Pushpak blogged about a User Control that displays HTML, ellipses when the HTML is too long, and plain text tooltips ... all with source!
Silverlight Tutorials: Styling and Templating: Alexander Golesh has a tutorial up on the new WPF/Silverlight Insiders site that is the 5th in a series of Silverlight Tutorials. This one is on Styles and Templates.
Silverlight 3 Applications broken with new WCF Data Services release: PhaniRajuYN has a post up describing Silverlight 3 breakage with the RTM version of Astoria... no work-arounds, so check out what's pooting.
Creating a Three-Column Silverlight ListBox: Victor Gaudioso has a new post up on the latest Expression Newsletter... it's a cool tutorial on building a 3-column ListBox in Blend ... and sign yourself up for the newsletter when you get out there!
AutoCompleteComboBox for Silverlight: Syed Mehroz Alam has a post up about a customization of the AutoCompleteBox to be used as a type-ahead ComboBox. The full article is on CodeProject with all the code, and his post has a link to it.