Silverlight Cream for April 18, 2010 -- #840

April 18, 2010 · 2 min read

In this Issue: CrocusGirl, Giorgetti Alessandro(-2-), smartyP, Pete Brown, David Poll, David Anson, and Bill Reiss.

Shoutouts:

Yasser Makram has a post up discussing. I saw this demo'd at DevConnnections and it definitely deserves a look.

Shawn Wildermuth posted his materials from DevConnections all on one post: Back from DevConnections with SourceCode

Shawn Wildermuth also posted an Updated RIA Services + MVVM Example

Laurent Bugnion announced a Small change in MVVM Light Toolkit templates for Blend 4 RC

Laurent Bugnion also announced Crowdsourcing MVVM Light Toolkit support

The Expression Blend and Design Blog announced Expression Blend 4 Release Candidate Available!

Dan Wahlin posted

From:

CrocusGirl has blogged about WP7 and the Metro design concept. She has a bunch of resources up and information about Metro and the design methodology. Stay tuned for Part 2.

Giorgetti Alessandro has part 1 of a multi-parter up on IoC and MVVM for LOB apps in Silverlight... a pretty quick into to MVVM.

Giorgetti Alessandro also posted part 2 of his series, and this one digs deeper into the code and discusses what goes into the view and the model.

smartyP has a post addressing using the Facebook Developer toolkit with WP7... it took some hacking, and he explains it, and provides it for download.

Having trouble fitting items into a Listbox in Silverlight or WPF without getting horizontal scrollbars? Pete Brown has a solution for you in 4 steps.

David Poll has a great detailed post up about printing in SL4, taking it to building a higher-level API that allows printing of collections... all demos and source included.

David Anson details the improvements to Data Visualization in the Toolkit release from last week.

Bill Reiss has his latest game episode up and this time he's putting asteroid sprites in play. No placement, movement, or collisions yet, but it's a beginning. And, he's updated all his code to Silverlight 4.

Stay in the 'Light!

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