WynApse

In this Issue: Ben Hodson, Marcel du Preez, Karl Shifflett(-2-), Rishi, Chris Koenig, Adam Kinney, Xianzhong Zhu, Jeremy Likness, and CrocusGirl.

Shoutouts:

Victor Gaudioso posted an inteview: Checkout my Interview with Bytes on MSDN (Microsoft)

The Silverlight Web Services Team poses this question: How can we make WCF support in Silverlight better? ... read and give feedback in the comments.

Timmy Kokke has announced the opening of a new XAML resource site to bookmark: XamlResource.com

Chris Bowen has a video on Channel 9: Northeast Roadshow: Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Development

Christine Alluise sent me this info: I work with Microsoft Developer User Research and am seeking Seattle/Puget Sound area Silverlight developers to participate in a 2 hour research study in Redmond, WA. All participants receive a gratuity item from a selection of Microsoft products. Contact Christine Alluise

Today is July 1, 2010, but more importantly it is July 1 ... and that means MVP Awards and Re-Awards happen for this quarter today.

I am ecstatically happy and humbled to announce that I've been re-awarded for 2010. Re-Awardees have to be vetted just like new Awardees, so it's never a sure thing, and always a fun email to receive.

Thanks Suzanna, Toby, all the product team folks, and anyone else involved... you've made my week/month/year :)

We now return to our regularly-scheduled programming...

From SilverlightCream.com:

Explanation of Cross Domain and Client Access Policy files for Silverlight

Ben Hodson has a diagram and code-filled post up about Silverlight Cross-Domain and Client access policy files... another to read even if you think you know it. Thanks Ben!

Uploading and geo-tagging photos on Flickr using Silverlight 4's HttpWebRequest

Marcel du Preez has a very complete tutorial at SilverlightShow on geo-tagging photos on FlickR ... all the source and other fun bits like a link to the MD5 algorithm.

Tips and Tricks for working with the WPF and Silverlight Designer in Visual Studio 2010

Karl Shifflett posted a good set of Tips and Tricks for using VS2010 for WPF and Silverlight ... you should at least give it a once-over. I've added it to the Cheat Sheet Outlook Bar entry on the right-hand side of WynApse.com (a Silverlight 1 control)

Sample Data in the WPF and Silverlight Designer

Karl Shifflett also has a must-read tutorial up if you're doing anything with data in VS2010 and Blend and SL/WPF ... explaining in detail on how to get your sample data to work in the Visual Designer without pulling out what hair you have left.

Creating a Netflix App using nRoute: A Step-by-Step Guide

Rishi has a great tutorial up on building the NetFlicks interface using his nRoute package... what a way to show off what all it can do! ... and all the source is available.

Open Source Databases for WP7

Chris Koenig is talking about the currently-available 'open source' databases for WP7. I may be a little fuzzy on open source, but you may want to look at my post yesterday about Perst database for WP7 cost breakdown

Import Art from Photoshop and Make into Silverlight Controls

Adam Kinney has a very cool tutorial up on taking Photoshop artwork through Blend to Silverlight as a control... how cool is that? ... and all the source too.

A WaspKiller Game with Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services, MVP and MVVM Patterns Part 1

Xianzhong Zhu posted the first part of a nice long tutorial up on a Silverlight 3 game using .NET RIA Services and MVP. This first part is setting up the MVP portion. Silverlight 3 you say? ... well, I'm thinking WP7 :)

Unit Testing Dynamic XAP Files

We've been reading a lot about using MEF to dynamically load XAP files but how about this one... Jeremy Likness has a post telling us how to UnitTest that stuff...

Get Started with Silverlight 4

I would normally list something like this as a Shoutout, but CrocusGirl has such a great set of references for Silverlight learning, I thought I'd post it here... looks like one to bookmark to me... check it out! -- oh, and thanks for the shoutout :)

Stay in the 'Light!

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