Silverlight Cream for April 04, 2010 -- #830

April 4, 2010 · 2 min read

In this Issue: Michael Washington, Hassan, David Anson, Jeff Wilcox, UK Application Development Consulting, Davide Zordan, Victor Gaudioso, Anoop Madhusudanan, Phil Middlemiss, and Laurent Bugnion.

Shoutouts:

Josh Smith has a good-read post up: Design-time data is still data

Shawn Hargreaves reported his

From:

Michael Washington has a tutorial up on MVVM and using a web service to get design-time data that works in Blend also... lots of information and screenshots.

Hassan has a new WP7 tutorial up that demonstrates playing media and adding transition animation between pages.

David Anson's latest tip is in response to comments on his previous post and details one by Dr. WPF who points out that a read-only DependencyProperty doesn't actually need to be a DependencyProperty as long as the class implements INotifyPropertyChanged.

Jeff Wilcox has posted a set of tips and recommendations to use when developing control development in Silverlight... this is a post to bookmark.

The UK Application Development Consulting details a 'problem' in Silverlight that doesn't exist in WPF and that is data templates that vary by type... and discusses a way around it.

Davide Zordan brought Multi-Touch to the Silverlight Simon game on CodePlex using Blend Behaviors.

Victor Gaudioso has a video tutorial up responding to a question from a developer. He demonstrates development of a Behavior that can be attached to objects in or out of Styles that allows you to specify what Method they need to fire.

Anoop Madhusudanan took Scott Hanselman's post on an OData API for StackOverflow, and has created a Silverlight client for Nerd Dinner, including BingMaps.

Phil Middlemiss has the next part of his Chrome and Glass Theme up. In this one he creates a very nice chrome-look button with visual state changes.

Laurent Bugnion has released a new version of MVVM Light for WP7. Included is an installation manual and information about what was changed.

Stay in the 'Light!

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