Silverlight Cream for July 25, 2010 -- #910

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Silverlight Cream for July 25, 2010 -- #910

In this Issue: Tony Champion, David Poll, Ben Gracewood, Ryan Alford, Willem Meints, Nokola(-2-), and Deborah Kurata.

Shoutouts:

This is pretty cool-- 10 years of MSDN Magazine in a Silverlight Pivot

Found this via Catherine Russell -- MSDN Virtual Labs

Just for those that haven't seen it already, there's a page up on MSDN containing Code Samples for Windows Phone

From SilverlightCream.com:

Messaging in Silverlight with MVVM Light: Tony Champion sings the praises of Laurent Bugnion's MVVM Light, and particularly the messaging... check both out.
To XAML, with love (an experiment with XAML Serialization in Silverlight): David Poll began with a need for some serialization which fostered an idea, and produced an awesome XAML Serializer... you gotta read it all... good stuff.
One-time Cached Images in Windows Phone 7: Ben Gracewood has a image cache for WP7 that will pull down images only once unless your app gets reinstalled... the concept is definitely worth a read, and he's got lots of other stuff on the site.
Silverlight 4 – Creating a Custom Modal Dialog: Ryan Alford has a great Blend tutorial up on creating a custom Modal dialog... and the end result is very nice.
Tips for effective usage of resource dictionaries in Silverlight and WPF: Willem Meints shares with us 5 major tips for effectively using resource dictionaries and it applies to WPF as well.
Fantasia Lite: New Silverlight Painting Tool: For when you start thinking you're *all that*, just go to Nokola's blog and you'll get a level-check... note he wrote this painting tool in an evening... geez... cool stuff
New Directional Rainbow Brush; Smear Effect; EasyPainter Out of Beta and Becomes Fantasia!: Right on the heels of his 'Fantasia' post, Nokola has renamed Easy Painter to Fantasia and included all the Fantasia bits as well... wow!
SL/RIA/POCO: No Generated Code?: Deborah Kurata continued on with her SL/RIA/POCO series and I'm going to tag the rest onto this one link. (2): SL/RIA/POCO: Generated Code, (3): SL/RIA/POCO: Field Ordering, and (4): SL/RIA/POCO: Update Data