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.RSSImage

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:

Sandrino Di Mattia has an interesting post about removing the number of namespaces in your XAML... or removing all of you own?... interesting...

Kranthi Kiran Gullapalli blogged about loading XAP files on demand... I've been looking at this issue myself... going to give this a shot:)

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.

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.

David Anson blogs about a class, HybridOrientationChangesFrame that combines the best of both AnimateOrientationChangesFrame and FadeOrientationChangesFrame.

Jeremy Likness looks back over some major projects he's been involved in using MEF and discusses the value gleaned from it's use.

Vikram Pendse is discussing WP7 input scope in his post today... good information, good code, and good screenshots.

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!

Paul Sheriff also has another post up on Value Converters in Silverlight 4.

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

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.

Beth Massi has another Lightswitch tutorial up, and is taking you from a clean machine all the way to a 3-tier app.

Stay in the 'Light!


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