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Friday, September 10, 2010 #

Silverlight Cream Top Posted Authors March to August, 2010

In discussion with some folks over the last few days, we have talked about ways to recognize devs that have a large number of posts in Silverlight Cream.

Arguably, the results begin a little skewed since I choose what to post, but that’s where we start.

As with the ‘Skim’ page, I’m only looking at posts that go into the database, so ‘Shoutouts’ are not aggregated for this count.

Another stipulation decided upon was that to be eligible for ranking, the author had to have posted something in at least 4 of the 6 months in the period.

I worked out a somewhat-automated scheme for this today and have run data from March1 to August 31.

I averaged the monthly posts and am only showing Authors with an average greater than 1.

All that being said, here are the Top Posted Authors at Silverlight Cream for March 1, 2010 through August 31, 2010:

It is my intention to post a new list sometime shortly after the 1st of every month to recognize the top posted in the previous 6 months, so next up is October 1!

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Silverlight Cream for September 10, 2010 -- #945

In this Issue: Szilárd Szakács, Michael Washington, Mike Taulty(-2-), Chris Koenig, Tim Heuer, Kranthi Kiran Gullapalli, David Anson, Mohamed Mosallem, Michael Crump, Dan Wahlin.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"MVVM so easy a n00b can do it (Silverlight4) " Michael Crump
WP7:	"DeferredLoadListBox (and StackPanel) help Windows Phone 7 lists scroll smoothly and consistently " David Anson
Lightswitch:	"A LightSwitch Home Page " Michael Washington

Shoutouts:

Jesse Liberty has a ** DRAFT ** Community Comment Requested ** iPhone to Windows Phone 7: Lists and Details post up... so give him a hand!

Mike Henderlight posted a message on the Windows Phone Forums: What's on your controls wish list?... I'm sure he's going to get an earful :)

Eric Ligman put up an announcement: Announcing Expression Encoder 4 Pro availability for redistribution!

Pete Brown anounced a discount code for his book Silverlight 4 in Action ... and I think it's a great book... I've been in the MEAP and reading it as it was being written... and the code is: dotd0910tw ... if that doesn't work, try dotd0910 -- I saw another post with that code

Dark Genesis is instructing a new WP7 webcast from AT&T: Meet the Expert - Build a XNA Game in 60 minutes

Rob Houweling posted about a new release of SLSharpZipLib for Silverlight 3, 4 and Windows Phone 7

From SilverlightCream.com:

Import Expression Blend sample data from Excel in three easy steps: I like this... Szilárd Szakács has a post up about importing yourowndangdata into Expression Blend for use in SketchFlow or whatever ... oh, from Excel... and he uses a site called Mr. Data Converter to help out along the way ... that one is getting linked in the sidebar at WynApse.com, thanks :)
A LightSwitch Home Page: Michael Washington continues with Lightswitch - this post is on displaying just a screen of data, not associated with a Table as is the norm... also using authentication... all the source and external links too.
PivotViewer–The Control: Mike Taulty takes a long look at the Control side of the Pivot Control in this post... features, properties, and the customizations individual developers can do on the same set of data.
Blend Bits 7: Be Resourceful: Mike Taulty also has another Blend Bits post up, concentrating on Resources: making new ones, putting them in a dictionary, and using them.
Update to my Sample WP7 Application: Chris Koenig updated his WP7 demo app to use DataServiceCollection ... not heard of it? check out his code...
Writing plugins for Seesmic Desktop: Tim Heuer discusses Seesmic, and its origins then offers up some plugins he's written and some VS2010 templates also ... how cool is that??
How To : Communicate between two user-controls using Event Aggregator: Kranthi Kiran Gullapalli has not only a description plus code of communicating between two user controls, but he also has a live demo up.
DeferredLoadListBox (and StackPanel) help Windows Phone 7 lists scroll smoothly and consistently: David Anson uses his DeferredLoadListBox with the StackPanel to get some list scrolling goodness going on in a WP7 app.
Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (8 of N): Fluid Layouts: Mohamed Mosallem has number 8 of his Silverlight 4 tutorials and is discussing Fluid Layouts, using Blend for state transitions.
MVVM so easy a n00b can do it (Silverlight4): Michael Crump has a great MVVM tutorial up by starting from File->New Project and only external element is Josh Smith's RelayCommand code... easy to read and good instruction.
Maximizing Productivity with the Visual Studio 2010 Silverlight Designer: Let an expert walk you through using VS2010 to build your Silverlight apps... Dan Wahlin goes through many of the normal things you need to do inside the Silverlight Designer... maybe even some you didn't know about!