Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2010 - 2 -- #811

In this Issue: AfricanGeek, Phil Middlemiss, Damon Payne, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Jobi Joy(-2-), Fredrik Normén, Bobby Diaz, and Mike Taulty(-2-).

Shoutouts:

Shawn Wildermuth blogged that they posted My "What's New in Silverlight 3" Video from 0reDev Last Fall

Shawn Wildermuth also has a post up for his loyal followers: Where to See Me At MIX10

Jonas Follesø has presentation materials up as well: MVVM presentation from NDC2009 on Vimeo

Adam Kinney updated his Favorite Tool and Library Downloads for Silverlight


From SilverlightCream.com:
Styling Silverlight ListBox with Blend 3
In his latest Video Tutorial, AfricanGeek is animating the ListBox control by way of Expression Blend 3.
Animating the Silverlight Opacity Mask
Phil Middlemiss has written a Behavior that lets you turn a FrameworkElement into an opacity mask for it's parent container... check out his tutorial and grab the code.
AddRange for ObservableCollection in Silverlight 3
Damon Payne has a post up discussing the problem with large amounts of data in an ObservableCollection, and how using AddRange is a performance booster.
Easily rotate the axis labels of a Silverlight/WPF Toolkit chart
David Anson blogged a solution to rotating the axis labels of a Silverlight and WPF chart.
Persisting the Configuration (Updated)
Jesse Liberty has a good discussion on the continuation of his HyperVideo Platform talking about what all he is needing from the database in the form of configuration information... including the relationships.
Animations and View Models: IAnimationDelegate
Check out Jeremy Likness' IAnimationDelegate that lets your ViewModel fire and respond to animations without having to know all about them.
Button Style - Silverlight
Jobi Joy converted a WPF control template into Silverlight... and you'll want to download the XAML he's got for this :)
A Simple Accordion banner using ListBox
Jobi Joy also has an Image Accordian created in Expression Blend... and it's a 'drop this XAML in your User Control' kinda thing... again, go grab the XAML :)
WCF RIA Services Silverlight Business Application – Using ASP.NET SiteMap for Navigation
Fredrik Normén has a code-laden post up on RIA Services and the ASP.NET SiteMap. He is using the Silverlight Business app template that comes with WCF RIA Services.
A Simple, Selectable Silverlight TextBlock (sort of)...
Bobby Diaz shares with us his solution for a Text control that can be copied from in the same manner 'normal' web controls can be. He also includes a link to another post on the same topic.
Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 11 - WCF and TCP
Mike Taulty has another pair of video tutorials up in his Networking series. This one is on WCF over TCP
Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 12 - WCF and Polling HTTP
Mike Taulty's 12th networking video tutorial is on WCF with HTTP polling duplex.

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Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2010 -- #810

In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Jeremy Likness(-2-), Andrew Veresov, Nokola, SilverLaw, Gill Cleeren, Jim Wightman and Jeremy Likness, Viktor Larsson(-2-), and Walter Ferrari.

Shoutouts:

Viktor Larsson has a post up about Silverlight Market Penetration ... hope to meet you at MIX10, Viktor!

Gergely Orosz has posted the Slides and code for the presentation “An Introduction to Silverlight”


It appears that if I miss a day, I can pretty much do an all-submittal post :)

From SilverlightCream.com:

Writing an AsyncLoader to enqueue long running operations
Andrea Boschin has a tutorial on SilverlightShow where he's building up an asynch service to deal with a long-running app on the server.
MVVM with MEF in Silverlight: Video Tutorial
Jeremy Likness has a video tutorial up for helping beginners wire up MVVM and MEF to Silverlight. Source code for the app in the video is downloadable.
MVVM with MEF in Silverlight Video Tutorial Part 2: Plugins and Metadata
In part 2, Jeremy Likness redesigns the app using metadata to turn the shapes into objects, and then show how easy it is to add a new plugin... and the source for the app is downloadable.
Binding a Converter Parameter
Andrew Veresov has a nice code-filled solution up for those times that you need to bind a ConverterParameter value.
EasyPainter: Lion Hair styling
Nokola has not been idle with Easy Painter... now he's added "Lion Hair" to the list of stylings you can apply... guess if you want to change someone's 'mane' ... sorry!
Twisting Navigation - Silverlight 3
SilverLaw has another control up - a "Twisting Navigation" control... very cool :) ... and since I'm behind the curve, he already has an update in the Expression Gallery as noted in his post, and a video tutorial on implementing it in an application... and if you understand German, turn up the sound :)
Uploading and downloading images using a WCF service with Silverlight
Gill Cleeren has a tutorial up at SilverlightShow on uploading and downloading images using WCF Services in Silverlight
New Windows Phone 7 Community Developer Hub
Jim Wightman and Jeremy Likness have a very cool Silverlight page up where you can paste the URL of your XAP in and have it display in a "Windows 7 Series Phone" ... and that's all I'm saying about that.
XAML Transformation 101
Viktor Larsson is discussing Transforms in XAML and has a nice tutorial up that is easily the beginning of a carousel... you may also want to check out his other posts... I'm adding him to my list.
Silverlight 4 Webcam Demo
In this post, Viktor Larsson has a tutorial up for using the WebCam. This is from a beginner perspective, so if you haven't jumped in, now's a good time.
How to extend Bing Maps Silverlight with an elevation profile graph - Part 1
Walter Ferrari has a post up at SilverlightShow discussing extensions to BingMaps such as creating routes using GeoCoding and Route Services plus drawing lines on the maps and getting coordinates of the points.


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