Silverlight Cream for July 29, 2010 -- #913

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Silverlight Cream for July 29, 2010 -- #913

In this Issue: Michael Washington, Ezequiel Jadib, Kunal Chowdhury, Ernesto Herrera, Levente Mihály, Rob Davis, Sergey Barskiy, Jeremy Likness, Victor Gaudioso, and Jonathan van de Veen.

Shoutout:

Right on cue, Erik Mork and company posted This Week In Silverlight 7.23.2010 – Early Windows Phone 7 Reviews

From SilverlightCream.com:

Using The Silverlight DataGrid with View Model / MVVM: Michael Washington has posted a tutorial on a pretty-much all-singing, all-dancing DataGrid (i.e. inline edits, button events, paging, and sorting) and using MVVM/ViewModel... check out the live demo link, and grab the code.
Rough Cut Editor (RCE) and IIS Transform Manager: Best Friends: Ezequiel Jadib dug deep int the recently-released IIS Transform Manager and its integrated video encoding and batch conversion of video files to the IIS Smooth Streaming format.
Beginners Guide to Silverlight 4 PathListBox Control (Part–I): Kunal Chowdhury has a nice tutorial up at Code Project on the PathListBox control. This is a "Part 1", so will be interesting to see where he goes next :)
Integrate Reporting Services with Silverlight and RIA Services: Ernesto Herrera has a post up at Code Project demonstrating end-to-end building a LOB app with some nice reporting services thrown in.
Using Blend 4's new built-in TransitionEffects in Navigation and MVVM applications: Levente Mihály has a post at SilverlightShow discussing using Blend 4's transition animation effects using the navigation framework and the MVVM Light framework as well
Dependancy Properties and the Light Fantastic: Rob Davis has a very mesmerizing app on his site that he's discussing animation using dependency properties and very little code other than what VS2010 generates.
Unit Testing Silverlight Applications – UI testing and Test Automation: Sergey Barskiy is discussing Unit Testing the UI of your Silverlight app and then test automation with StatLight -- check out his write-up then go grab it from CodePlex.
Silverlight UI Automation Testing using Prism 4.0: Jeremy Likness provides a step-by-step guide to automation testing your Silverlight apps within the Visual Studio IDE.
New SIlverilght Video Tutorial: How to Create a ListBox with a Static Background: Victor Gaudioso has a new video up demonstrating how to build a ListBox with a static background ... quick video, good instruction, and all the code.
Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #34: Jonathan van de Veen describes a performance issue in a Silverlight app while getting ready to deliver. He describes front-to-back how he found the problem, and is definitely worth your time to check out what he found.