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Saturday, February 27, 2010 #

Silverlight Cream for February 27, 2010 -- #804

In this Issue: Jianqiang Bao(-2-, -3-), Kevin Dockx, SilverLaw, Xianzhong Zhu(-2-), Nokola(-2-), John Papa, David Anson, and Ning Zhang.

Koen Zwikstra (SilverlightSpy) announced that you can now follow SilverlightSpy on Twitter

Check out Erik Mork's new Sparkling Client Podcast What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight

From SilverlightCream.com:

MMORPG programming in Silverlight Tutorial (4)Implement the spirit’s 2D animation (Part I): Jianqiang Bao has more of hs RPG game up... you're looking at this, right? ... this is a series of 3 on 2D Sprite animation. He also has an overview post up that would be good to bookmark.
MMORPG programming in Silverlight Tutorial (5)Implement the spirit’s 2D animation (Part II): Jianqiang Bao's second of the Sprite series is focusing on having the sprites in one image and clipping them in.
MMORPG programming in Silverlight Tutorial (6)Implement the spirit’s 2D animation (Part III): In the third of this series, Jianqiang Bao animates the sprites using WriteableBitmap.
MVVM challenge: binding to a command from inside an ItemsControl DataTemplate: Read as Kevin Dockx walks through the popular ways to bind to a command from inside a DataTemplate, and finish off with his personal favorite, ElementBinding.
Leather Stamped TextBox Style Silverlight 3: SilverLaw discusses a TextBox style he has at the Expression Gallery that looks like stamped leather.. and it does...
Cloning Windows Solitaire Game in Silverlight 3 - Part 1: Xianzhong Zhu has a two-parter Tutorial up on cloning Windows Solitaire in Silverlight ... Crank up Blend and check this all out.
Cloning Windows Solitaire Game in Silverlight 3 - Part 2: In Part 2, Xianzhong Zhu deals with the mouse events. There's some things missing making it a complete game, but hey... what's there works, and you got a walk-through to boot!
Old Photo, Pastel, and Pencil Sketch Pixel Shaders For Silverlight: Nokola has some new features up in EasyPainter that I missed... check out this one on Pixel Shaders, and he describes how to make them...
EasyPainter: Watercolor, Blood and Gloom Pixel Shaders: In the next Post, Nokola discusses and shows examples of three more new PixelShaders he added ... just amazing stuff!
5 Simple Steps to Commanding in Silverlight: John Papa responds to queries about Commanding with a blogpost about it for Silverlight 4B. Nice quick explanation and code.
Enhancements make preventing memory leaks with WeakEventListener even easier!: David Anson talks a bit about his Weak Event Listener then gives the nod to two other bloggers using it and expanding on David's discussion.
Silverlight Deployment Troubleshooting Guide: This is another post from Ning Zhang talking about Silverlight Installations and how to troubleshoot them... not necessarily a developer thing, but you *do* have users!