Silverlight Cream for February 23, 2010 -- #802

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Silverlight Cream for February 23, 2010 -- #802

In this Issue: Rik Robinson, Jeremy Likness, Ryan Lee, EQATEC, Rui Marinho, Victor Gaudioso(-2-), Steve Strong and Deb Walker, and Martin Duffy.

Shoutout:

Adam Kinney posted Carbon Counter and EcoLight win the Silverlight Eco Contest!

Adam also posted a big list of Silverlight and Expression Blend tutorials I’ve worked on recently. -- dang, Adam, you've been busy!

Congratulations also go out to CrocusGirl for being the Eco Contest Community winner with My SilverlightShow Eco Contest Entry

Joshua Porter has a blog up that I came across last week: 52 Weeks of UX

From SilverlightCream.com:

Introduction to Using Prism with Silverlight 3: Rik Robinson has a post up that's a great overview of Prism, with code, and in case you didn't notice, this thing is 7 pages! ... good stuff.
A Fluent RSS Reader for Silverlight Part 2: NDepends on What you Need: Jeremy Likness gives a great blow-by-blow of his use of NDepend to do some cleanup on his RSS reader prior to continuing posting about it.
Gesturecons: I found this via Adam Kinney... Ryan Lee of Cynergy (lots of the cool kids work there) has posted a set of Gesture Icons for all of us to snag... you may want to also snag the link to Ryan's blog, I am!
First code profiler for Silverlight: As tweeted by ScottGu, check out this Channel 9 presentation on EQATEC's publicly available Silverlight code profiler ... then download the profiler ... or the other way around, you choose :)
Grab desktop in silverlight: Rui Marinho followed up the post I blogged last night very quickly with a video tutorial demonstrating grabbing the desktop from a Silverlight application. Want to be inspired to watch? Spin it out to the end and watch the demo... you'll want it :)
New Silverlight Video Tutorial: The Blend IDE – Part 1 – the Toolbar: Victor Gaudioso's been busy while I've been away... he has two new videos up and they're great... the beginning of a series on Blend .. this first one is all about the Blend toolbar.
New Silverlight Video Tutorial: The Blend IDE – Part 2 – Layout Controls and User Input Controls: Victor Gaudioso's next video tutorial is all about the Blend Layout Controls and User Input Controls
M-V-VM Product Configuration: Steve Strong and Deb Walker have produced an MVVM app for the Summer Silverlight Coding Competition and are sharing a demo and a bunch of code... give it a look, then check out the link to the competition.
Windows Phone 7 Series Countdown to Mix 10: Excited about the possibilities with the new Windows phone? Yeah, me too... and so is Martin Duffy ... he's created a MIX10 countdown timer using his best info about the phone's appearance