Silverlight Cream for September 02, 2010 -- #939

In this Issue: Sergey Barskiy, Tim Heuer, Shawn Wildermuth, Patrick Cauldwell, David Anson, Michael Sync, Jeremy Likness, Victor Gaudioso, René Schulte, John Papa, and Todd Knudsen.
Shoutouts:

Telerik's Premium Collection for .NET wins Jolt Product Excellence Awards: App Libraries and Frameworks

SilverlightShow announced a Free SilverlightShow Webinar: Running Silverlight Outside the Browser and with Elevated Trust... see you there... I'll be the one in shorts with no shoes :)

John Papa has a two-part post up on Keeping Up with Silverlight ... how he stays in touch.

 


From SilverlightCream.com:

Modular Silverlight Development, App.xaml, Blend and Resources
Sergey Barskiy explains how he created a project for his styles but then Blend didn't like them... and how he got around that problem too.
Silverlight 4 service release (September 2010)
This is a couple-days old news, but I wanted to get it in the database, and also Tim Heuer has some helpful information on the post beyond the announcement.
HTML5, XAML and Declarative User Interfaces
Read Shawn Wildermuth's take on HTML5 and how in his opinion, it could impact RIA.
Default button semantics in Silverlight, once more
Patrick Cauldwell revisits his default Button sample again with an update from a reader ... how cool is that?
LowProfileImageLoader helps the Windows Phone 7 UI thread stay responsive by loading images in the background
David Anson shares some code that might not work until the 16th... so check it out... this is a couple things to help us out in the WP7 performance department, and he's not talking new valve-lifters... how about LowProfileImageLoader and DeferredLoadListBox (next time)?
Encoding MP4 Problem in Expression Encoder 4 Pro
Michael Sync reports an Expression Encode 4 issue that he's having: "This functionality is only available in the fully-featured Expression Encoder Pro" when he has the Ultimate... check out the reason... mine is the same as Michaels
Hello, MEF Silverlight
Jeremy Likness has another Quickstart up at MEFContrib, and is about creating a MEF 'part' in Silverlight
New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to Style a Hyperlink Button
Victor Gaudioso's latest video tutorial is up and is on styling a Hyperlink button in Blend... and he's got the code for the sample available too.
Rect and Point Extension Methods
Here's a couple extension methods from René Schulte that are downright useful for extending the information you can glean from Points and rectsk.
Applying Animations and States to your Silverlight Application
In the latest Silverlight TV, John Papa has John Stockton in to talk about animation and storyboards in Blend and all sorts of other animation goodness.
Marquee Text Block Demo
Todd Knudsen has a demo page up for a Marquee control that works very nicely... source available by clicking the the appropriate text.


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