Silverlight Cream for February 12, 2010 -- #797

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Silverlight Cream for February 12, 2010 -- #797

In this Issue: András Velvárt, Michael Washington, Frodeh, Damon Serji, Andy Beaulieu, Timmy Kokke, Jeff Wilcox, Jesse Liberty, and Michael Ceranski.

Shoutout:

John Papa and Glenn Block on Silverlight TV 7: When and Where to Use MEF

Have you seen this at SilverlightShow? SilverlightShow with Brand New Book Shelf ... very nice job on that!

Matthias Shapiro blogged an Introduction to User Experience (UX) Design

Spinning out a new Show format and a new show, Erik Mork hosts This Week in Silverlight – February 11th 2010

From SilverlightCream.com:

Transforming an Ugly Duckling to a Graceful Swan with Expression Blend and Silverlight - Part I: András Velvárt has a video tutorial up at SilverlightShow demonstrating using Blend to setup the first part of a series he's going to do on this topic.
Silverlight Keep Logged In: Prevent pages from timing out: Michael Washington has a post up with a DNN 4+ module that will keep Silverlight users logged in long enough to fill out a long form, or deal with whatever they need to do.
Silverlight presence indicator: Frodeh has a post up explaining his Silverlight Presence Indicator that he has on CodePlex. This looks pretty interesting... I'm going to check it out when I get outside this building.
Tracking in Silverlight (Google Analytics) - Part II: Damon Serji follows up his original Google Analytics plus Silverlight post with this one one adding some downright useful Silverlight information in the reports.
VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly: In Andy Beaulieu's own words, this post is only left up in case someone is 'feeling frisky' ... so read it, read the warning...
The Silverlight 3D Controls project: Timmy Kokke has been working on a Silverlight Controls project he's put up on CodePlex and has a very interesting demo running on the blog post... check it out!
Helpful Silverlight Snippets: Jeff Wilcox posted a set of 8 C# snippets that he and others use back at the Mother Ship... all zipped up and ready for you to download and use
Silverlight Test Driven Development – Part II: In this part II of his TDD series, Jesse Liberty rewinds his HVP project to where he's defining the ItemsViewModel class and then pounds it into place using TDD, explaining it all along the way... I think I might be starting to understand this stuff too, Jesse :) Thanks!
How to build an asteroids inspired Silverlight game: Everyone liked Michael Ceranski's Frogger so much yesterday, I thought I'd put up a link to his Asteroids game as well... all good stuff and links out to other game masters like Andy Beaulieu and Bill Reiss.