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In this Issue: Rénald Nollet, Davide Zordan(-2-, -3-), Scott Barnes, Kirupa, Christian Schormann, Tim Heuer, Yavor Georgiev, and Bea Stollnitz.

Shoutouts:

Yavor Georgiev posted the material for his MIX 2010 talk: what’s new in WCF in Silverlight 4

Erik Mork and crew posted their This Week in Silverlight 4.1.2010

Tim Huckaby and MSDN Bytes interviewed Erik Mork: Silverlight Consulting Life – MSDN Bytes Interview

From SilverlightCream.com:

Home Loan Application for Windows Phone

Rénald Nollet has a WP7 app up, with source, for calculating Home Loan application information. He also discusses some control issues he had with the emulator.

Experiments with Multi-touch: A Windows Phone Manipulation sample

Davide Zordan has updated the multi-touch project on CodePlex, and added a WP7 sample using multi-touch.

Silverlight 4, MEF and MVVM: EventAggregator, ImportingConstructor and Unit Tests

Davide Zordan has a second post up on MEF, MVVM, and Prism, oh yeah, and also Unit Testing... the code is available, so take a look at what he's all done with this.

Silverlight 4, MEF and MVVM: MEFModules, Dynamic XAP Loading and Navigation Applications

Davide Zordan then builds on the previous post and partitions the app into several XAPs put together at runtime with MEF.

Silverlight Installation/Preloader Experience - BarnesStyle

Scott Barnes talks about the install experience he wanted to get put into place... definitely a good read and lots of information.

Changing States using GoToStateAction

Kirupa has a quick run-through of Visual States, and then demonstrates using GoToStateAction and a note for a Blend 4 addition.

Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part IV

Christian Schormann has the next tutorial up in his series on Path Layout, and he's explaining Motion Path and Text on a Path.

Managing service references and endpoint configurations for Silverlight applications

Helping solve a common and much reported problem of managing service references, Tim Heuer details his method of resolving it and additional tips and tricks to boot.

Some known WCF issues in Silverlight 4

Yavor Georgiev, a Program Manager for WCF blogged about the issues that they were not able to fix due to scheduling of the release

How can I update LabeledPieChart to use the latest toolkit?

Bea Stollnitz revisits some of her charting posts to take advantage of the unsealing of toolkit classes in labeling the Chart and PieSeries

Stay in the 'Light!

Technorati Tags: Silverlight    Silverlight 3    Silverlight 4    Windows Phone MIX10

The next regularly-scheduled meeting of the Phoenix Silverlight User Group is Wednesday April 7.

We meet at Interface Technical Training at roughly Central and Thomas in downtown Phoenix beginning with pizza and socializing at 6PM meeting after and running until 8PM.

This month Joel Neubeck will be presenting on Windows Phone 7 development, and yes -- had you heard that they dropped the word 'Series' from the end??

Get another great presentation from someone actually using Silverlight during the day.

I'll see you at 6PM on Wednesday!