Silverlight Cream for October 10, 2010 -- #964

In this Issue: Jeff Handley, Jeff Blankenburg, Kunal Chowdhury, Abhijit Jana, Larry Schoeneman(-2-), Michael Crump, Kevin Marshall, Derik Whittaker, Victor Gaudioso(-2-), and Mohamed Mosallem.RSSImage

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:"Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (9 of N): Using the WebCam as a Barcode Scanner"
Mohamed Mosallem
WP7:"Profile your Windows Phone 7 Application for Free"
Michael Crump
MEF:"Fun with the Microsoft Managed Extensibility Framework Part 1"
Larry Schoeneman

Shoutouts:

I've mentioned Shan Carter before, but I had occassion to use his site today, and it works great!

Microsoft has a Windows Phone page up -- did you know that?... lots of good information there.

Dennis Delimarsky has a great podcast up on MEF, and lots of good links included on the associated post:

Somehow I missed this Podcast from Erik Mork and Crew, this time including MossyBlog hisowndarnself:) Show 108: The HTML5/Silverlight “Controversy” with Scott Barnes


From:

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned some of these posts by Jeff Handley, but he's gathered links to them all in one place... and is a great resource for RIA Services Validation... bookmark it... I did in the RH sidebar of WynApse.com

Jeff Blankenburg has his 10th in his 31-day series up and is talking about the WP7 keyboard today... including a big hint for switching to your regular keyboard while running the emulator... and if you've tried doing that, you'll appreciate the tip:)

For those days that you have a hankering to change the Caret of a Silverlight Textbox, Kunal Chowdhury has the solution for styling that little sucker.

Abhijit Jana has a good tutorial up on "High Touch Integration" with Silverlight and SharePoint using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model.

Not strictly Silverlight, but many Silverlight folks (like me) are using or at least investigating MEF, so this 2-part series by Larry Schoeneman looks good to get you going. The first is intro material and componentization of a single module.

In part 2 of Larry Schoeneman's MEF postings, he gets into the nitty gritty of pluggable parts using MEF.

Michael Crump has a nice tutorial up on the use of Eqatec's profiler for WP7

Kevin Marshall has a post up about a Quick Jump Grid for WP7... good discussion and example pictures.

Derik Whittaker has a post up that will help you if you're trying to exercise a photo or camera task on your actual WP7 device

Victor Gaudioso has another WP7 video tutorial up, and this one is on creating a browser app

Victor Gaudioso also has a post up discussing the Extensibility of Blend after being queried about the subject on Twitter.

Mohamed Mosallem has his 9th Silverlight tutorial up, and this has lots of possibilities: using the WebCam to read a barcode... I'm thinking event registration here...

Stay in the 'Light!


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This article is part of the GWB Archives. Original Author: Dave Campbell

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