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Wednesday, September 29, 2010 #

Silverlight Cream for September 20, 2010 -- #957

In this Issue: Sandrino Di Mattia, Kranthi Kiran Gullapalli(-2-), Mike Snow, David Anson, Jeremy Likness, Vikram Pendse, Paul Sheriff(-2-), Markus Egger, Johan Danforth, and Beth Massi.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Change Templates Dynamically in Silverlight" Paul Sheriff
WP7:	"Silverlight On Mobile : InputScope in Windows Phone 7" Vikram Pendse
MEF:	"MEF in the Wild: A Retrospective " Jeremy Likness

Shoutouts:

Jesse Liberty posted The Great Silverlight Competency Test #6

From SilverlightCream.com:

A guide to cleaner XAML with custom namespaces and prefixes (WPF/Silverlight): Sandrino Di Mattia has an interesting post about removing the number of namespaces in your XAML ... or removing all of you own?... interesting...
How To : Load Multiple XAP files in Silverlight Application: Kranthi Kiran Gullapalli blogged about loading XAP files on demand... I've been looking at this issue myself... going to give this a shot :)
Workaround for showing a tooltip for disabled control in silverlight: Kranthi Kiran Gullapalli also shows his workaround for displaying a tooltip on a disabled control... something you are used to doing if you came here from WPF.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #34 – Removing Underline from the Hyperlink Control: Mike Snow explains how to remove the default underlining from the Hyperlink control, and a hint on a quick way to use your new overloaded control.
Code to animate and fade Windows Phone orientation changes now supports a new mode: hybrid!: David Anson blogs about a class, HybridOrientationChangesFrame that combines the best of both AnimateOrientationChangesFrame and FadeOrientationChangesFrame.
MEF in the Wild: A Retrospective: Jeremy Likness looks back over some major projects he's been involved in using MEF and discusses the value gleaned from it's use.
Silverlight On Mobile : InputScope in Windows Phone 7: Vikram Pendse is discussing WP7 input scope in his post today... good information, good code, and good screenshots.
Change Templates Dynamically in Silverlight: I like reading posts like this one from Paul Sheriff... because I wouldn't even have thought you could do this.. Thanks Paul! .. oh yeah... changing data templates at runtime... too cool!
Using Value Converters in Silverlight: Paul Sheriff also has another post up on Value Converters in Silverlight 4.
Xamalot.com: Why have I not heard of this Markus Egger site before?? I found this via Lester's Blog, and is getting it's very own link in the OutlookBar at WynApse.com
Silverlight AutoCompleteBox DataTemplate: If you're getting wrapped around the axle in Silverlight 4 with the AutoCompleteBox and RIA, check out Johan Danforth's post... he describes how he resolved the problem he was having.
Deployment Guide: How to Configure a Machine to Host a 3-tier LightSwitch Beta 1 Application: Beth Massi has another Lightswitch tutorial up, and is taking you from a clean machine all the way to a 3-tier app.