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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 #

Silverlight Cream for July 01, 2009 -- #626

In this Issue: Cristian Merighi, Walt Ritscher, Al Pascual, Vijay, and Faisal(2).

Shoutouts:

The Mashooo folks have the winning entries up for their S Prize contest. I'd like to thank them for the honor of participating as a judge. I didn't look at any of the games prior to going through the 10 finalists because I didn't want to be swayed. Since I was a judge I won't comment on the winners, but I will say I'm not disappointed :) Check them out ... the other 7 are all winners also! Mashooo S Prize Silverlight Games Contest

Danijel Stulic sent me a link to this awesome school timetable software completely done in Silverlight: School timetabling just got better using Silverlight. I did a trial, and it looks and works great. I hope you get time to blog about this, and if you do, let me know!

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight and F# happily ever after: I've blogged about Cristian Merighi's work before... but have you looked at his blog? ... I love the Silverlight on there! In this post he talks about the F# templates that are available (and links), and then tackles building a custom IValueConverter that translates a PointCollection into the area of the relevant generic Polygon.
Arranging Shapes in a Circle with Expression Blend – Part 2: Walt Ritscher has part 2 of his great Expression Blend tutorial up on creating spinning thingies to let your users know your app is busy, or at least give them something fun to look at if it locks up :)
Silverlight 2.0 Authentication Services: Al Pascual demonstrates creating a Silverlight Authentication Service in Sl2, so that Silverlight will use the authentication cookie.
Unit Testing Business Logic in .NET RIA Services: Vijay uses the .NET RIA Services walkthrough application and demonstrates using a repository to make it more Unit Testing friendly.
Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-1: Faisal took aim at the original Nike Site and decided to take a shot at doing it in Silverlight ... and it looks great to me! ... very cool Blend tutorial along the way! and by the time I saw the first one, part 2 was up: Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-2

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Silverlight 3 Beta

posted @ Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:55 PM | Feedback (0)

Sure Cure for the Blahs: MVP Re-Award!

First congratulations to everyone else that got awarded or re-awarded today!

The only one I'm aware of so far is John Stockton -- a first-time awardee in Silverlight -- very cool John! I'm sure Twitter is alive with all the info, but I can't get to it from here.

Just after getting to work, I got my re-award email and it made the muggy gray day here in Phoenix much brighter :)

Thanks to everyone involved... I know it's a tough thankless job sifting through all the information and there are so many people to choose from. I'm proud and humbled at the same time (is that possible??).

Thanks a bunch to my lead, Suzanna Moran-- a tireless lady that is always watching out for all of us.

And thanks to all of you that are involved with either developing Silverlight or making it what it is by developing using Silverlight.

As always

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 #

Silverlight Cream for June 30, 2009 -- #625

In this Issue: Davide Zordan, Erik Mork(2), Walt Ritscher, Peter Bromberg, and Lee.

Shoutouts:

Are you up for showing off?? Tim Heuer has announced a Silverlight Coding Competition – win USD $10,000! ... and check that list of judges... wow :)

Remember Chris Klug's FlickR ViewR? Well, check out the problems he had putting it on the blog: And then Firefox does it differently…reloading the Silverlight control when the css changes….

From SilverlightCream.com:

Multi Touch enabling your WPF application: Yeah I know this is WPF, but it's just cool, check out Davide Zordan's Windows 7 RC multi-touch app... and check out the link to David Kelley's Silverlight version too!
Prism’s Event Aggregator: In a continuation of the interviews with the P&P team members, Erik Mork and Shawn discuss Eventing in Prism this time.
Eventing in Prism - Loosely Coupled Talking: At the same time as the PodCast above, Erik Mork has pushed out another of his very cool tutorial videos and this one is on Eventing in Prism.
Arranging Shapes in Circle with Expression Blend – Part One: Walt Ritscher has put up an outstanding tutorial on using Blend to put your own spin (heh) on a graphic ... this is really great Walt!!
Silverlight 3 Polling Duplex Chat and Realtime Stock Updates: In a continuation on his previous post, Peter Bromberg extends into pushing data to subscribers using Silverlight 3 Duplex Polling... lots of code for us to sift through :)
Hilighting entire row in datagrid: Ever wanted to NOT highlight a row in a datagrid if it's readonly? Lee shows you how easy it is!

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Silverlight 3 Beta

posted @ Tuesday, June 30, 2009 6:26 PM | Feedback (0)

Silverlight Cream for June 29, 2009 -- #624

In this Issue: Andrej Tozon(2, 3), Jonathan van de Veen, Corey Schuman, and Al Pascual.

Shoutouts:

I'm with Jesse on this one: So Much Is Happening The Silence Is Deafening!

Remember when Mike Snow said he was writing a book on Silverlight Game Programming? Have you noticed his blog has slowed down? Well... the book is NOW: Game Programming with Silverlight.

Shawn Wildermuth announces that My Sillveright-Prism Article is Live! -- in MSDN Magazine... very cool, Shawn!

What a weekend... essentially 3-1/2 days trying to finish off my part of the book. Hopefully I've got that behind me now :)

From SilverlightCream.com:

Countdown to Silverlight 3 #3: Merged resource dictionaries: Andrej Tozon's third post in the series is on Merged Dictionaries.
Countdown to Silverlight 3 #2: Setting styles: Andrej Tozon's second in the SL3 series is on Silverlight 3 Styles and how in SL3 we aren't held down to just setting something once or not being able to inherit.
Countdown to Silverlight 3 #1: Out of Browser applications: Andrej Tozon is getting together some Silverlight 3 articles in preparation for it's release. This first is on the Out Of Browser experience.
Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #14: Jonathan van de Veen can't show code but discusses a situation where he was required that various modules have a different look and even different features based on where they were used... interesting.
YouTube video in Silverlight 3: Corey Schuman did a proof of concept app displaying YouTube video in Silverlight 3 by inserting the URL of the video into the source of a MediaElement.
Problems with the clientaccesspolicy.xml for Silverlight access to HTTPS: Al Pascual expresses some frustration along with the solution to his clientaccesspolicy problems and asks if anyone has any thoughts.

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Friday, June 26, 2009 #

Silverlight Cream for June 26, 2009 -- #623

In this Issue: Erik Mork, Colin Eberhardt, Nigel Sampson, and Alex Golesh.

Shoutouts:

Pavan Podila has a post up about a great-looking TreeMap he's done. He may post source later, I'll watch for it. Meanwhile read the post and watch the video. A SilverLight TreeMap control

Commanding in Prism: Erik Mork interviews P&P members Bob Brumfield and David Hill along with Shawn Wildermuth all discussing Commanding in Prism ... another great Prism Podcast Erik!
Silverlight MultiBindings, How to attached multiple bindings to a single property: I first looked at this and thought so... but oh... Colin Eberhardt has the aggregation of two bound properties not on the sample as a string but as a bound aggregate of the two elements already bound below ... now my head hurts:)... very cool, Colin!
A Mouse Wheel Blend Behavior: Wow... Nigel Sampson isn't talking about the 'behaviour' of the MouseWheel... he's talking 'Behaviors'. Nigel brought the mousewheel into Blend as a Behaviour and you can drag it onto your control to get mousewheel support... dang that's cool :)
Quick Tip: LINQ & Data Binding notifications: Alex Golesh gives us a quick tip on how to get around the fact that our LINQ query doesn't give any notification of collection changes.

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posted @ Friday, June 26, 2009 10:25 AM | Feedback (0)

Phoenix Silverlight User Group Meeting July 1

The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Phoenix Silverlight User Group will be next Wednesday, July 1 at 6pm at Interface Technical Training in downtown Phoenix (Central and Thomas, NW corner).

Steele Price will follow-up last month's excellent presentation with a full LOB presentation this time around.

He showed us a little of this last time, but come prepared to learn all about it on Wednesday.

Hope to see you there!

Phoenix Silverlight User Group

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Thursday, June 25, 2009 #

Silverlight Cream for June 25, 2009 -- #622

In this Issue: Corey Schuman, and Pete Brown.

Shoutouts:

Jonathan van de Veen is working on a new project: The birth of CodeEmbed4Web. I'm looking forward to the post saying it's ready :)

From SilverlightCream.com:

ToggleButton Command for Prism: Are you working with Prism and chafing that you don't have Checked and Unchecked commands for a ToggleButton? Well, Corey Schuman has resolved that and along the way gives us insight into how to perform that magic, along with all the code.
From Silverlight in Action 2nd Edition: UI Element Binding: Pete Brown shares an excerpt from "Silverlight in Action 2nd Edition" ... the excerpt being on UI element binding. This resolves a problem I've found myself faced with many times both on the desktop and in web apps... good stuff, Pete!

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Silverlight 3 Beta

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 #

Silverlight Cream for June 24, 2009 -- #621

In this Issue: Erik Mork, Fons Sonnemans, Ian Blackburn, Lee, and Timmy Kokke.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Commanding and Adding Commands in Prism: Erik Mork has his latest Prism Hypervideo up ... this one is on Commands and commanding ... great job on all these, Erik!
ImageSlider in Silverlight 2.0: Fons Sonnemans came across a blog of cool JQuery tutorials and decided to give one of them a shot in Silverlight ... looks like he stuck the dismount to me ... keep them coming, Fons!
Pushing Data From the Server to Silverlight 3 using a Duplex Wcf Service: Ian Blackburn took on a challenge after a class and put together a Duplex WCF service that pushes data to the Silverlight 3B application. This is actually a great tutorial on the subject, thanks Ian!
Resizing Childwindow: Lee has a good example of a way to resize a ChildWindow. I think the idea is there but it didn't exactly stay with my mouse... maybe it was my system (probably!)
SilverBullet #4 – System.Windows.ApplicationIdentity: Timmy Kokke explains the ApplicationIdentity class that provides all the info to the Out Of Browser application.

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Silverlight 3 Beta

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 #

Silverlight Cream for June 23, 2009 -- #620

In this Issue: Erno de Weerd, Colin Eberhardt, Thanigainathan Siranjeevi, Stefan Olson(2), Dan Wahlin, Chris Klug, and Alex Golesh.

Shoutouts:

Tim Greenfield has entered the NewCloudApp Windows Azure contest with a Silverlight app and asks us to Look what Silverlight can do... for now he has his submittal, a cool jigsaw puzzle, but he promises to write all about it.

Silverlight, Windows Live Writer and WordPress: Erno de Weerd blogged this and it's been picked up by others. If you're blogging on WordPress, now you can embed your Silverlight... of course my client has WordPress blocked, but that's not your problem :)
Exposing Bindings as Properties of a Control: Colin Eberhardt has an example up using a control he creates to display Brownian motion of 50 objects. This end-to-end example should give you a good understanding of exposing Bindings as properties and then using them.
Silverlight 3 with Bing Translator Services: Thanigainathan Siranjeevi shows a quick-up app using the Bing API to get translation running in an application. I didn't know Bing did that!
Updates to custom routing using the Uri Mapper in Silverlight 3: In this update to Stefan Olson's custom routing he explains an exception if the navigation is cancelled and how changing the way the cancellation is done will resolve the problem.
Displaying a login dialog based on page attributes in Silverlight 3: Stefan Olson fills in some blanks for us in the Navigation architecture by providing and describing an AuthenticationUriMapper based on the Custom URI Mapper he's been describing in other posts.
Control-Oriented Vs. Data-Oriented Programming in Silverlight: Dan Wahlin takes a shot at helping us shift our paradigm to thinking about data rather than controls. It's the binding, man :)
flickrVIEWR – A flickr viewer in Silverlight – Part 3: Chris Klug has part 3 of his flickrViewR up and posted and this one ties it all together. Through the power of MVVM he has no code in the CodeBehind, so if you're trying to wrap your head around it, this is a good real-world example.
Silverlight 3 Quick Tip #10: Styling Improvements: Alex Golesh quickly demonstrates the enhancements to Styles in SL3B that have the rest of us smiling, such as Based On which lets us inherit styles... what a relief :)

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posted @ Tuesday, June 23, 2009 8:40 AM | Feedback (0)

Monday, June 22, 2009 #

Silverlight Cream for June 21, 2009 -- #619

In this Issue: Brian Genisio, Cristian Merighi, Terence Tsang, Gavin Wignall, and Alex Golesh(2),

Shoutouts:

The Expression Blend and Design blog announced Deep Zoom Composer - June 2009 Preview!

Unni posted a set of links on Blend 3 Databinding

From SilverlightCream.com:

Adventures in MVVM -- Ball of Mud vs MVVM: Brian Genisio discusses a demo he's doing of the contrast between a messy untested app and a good componentized one all of which is a twitter search app in WPF.
Parametric Shader Effect in Silverlight 3 Beta1: Cristian Merighi takes us step-by-step through writing a .fx file using HLSL, compiles it into a .ps file, and then uses it as a resource, and his demo works great!
6 New Silverlight Image Rotators: Terence Tsang has added to his collection of image rotators and has reworked the others to be easily resued via xaml .. very cool!
Shadow effect using 3D projection in Silverlight 3: Gavin Wignall does a very cool 3D projection on a ball image where the light and shadow follow the mouse.
Silverlight 3 Quick Tip #8: Caret Brush: Alex Golesh demonstrates issues with alternative UI and how you need to control the caret also... gradient caret anyone ?
Silverlight 3 Quick Tip #9: DataBinding with Validation: In this tip Alex Golesh quickly shows us Databinding with validation using a ListBox.

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Silverlight 3 Beta

posted @ Monday, June 22, 2009 12:03 AM | Feedback (0)

Friday, June 19, 2009 #

Silverlight Cream for June 19, 2009 - 2 -- #618

In this Issue: Ian T. Lackey, and Al Pascual.

Shoutouts:

Don't forget it is Time to rate the Silverlight games on the Mashooo S Prize

From SilverlightCream.com:

DotNetNuke Silverlight Chat v2 – Gravatar Support: Ian T. Lackey approaches adding Gravatar support to a Silverlight application with a perspective of if it's not there, make it so... read his code and comments.
IIS Security Settings for Silverlight 2.0: Al Pascual walks us through some of the problems we might encounter with Silverlight accessing files on servers. He then follows with a bunch of good advice on how to set things up properly.

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Silverlight 3 Beta

posted @ Friday, June 19, 2009 6:59 PM | Feedback (0)

Silverlight Cream for June 19, 2009 -- #617

In this Issue: Erik Mork, Nigel Sampson, Jonathan van de Veen, Steve Strong, and Kevin Dockx.

Which comes first the View or the ViewModel?: Erik Mork and Shawn Wildermuth attempt to unravel the chicken/egg debate as it relates to MVVM... what, you didn't think Shawn had an opinion on that one ?? :)
Attaching Silverlight 3 Behaviors in C#: If you're not familiar with Microsoft.Expression.Interactivity.Interaction or dealing with Attached Behaviors in your C#, then Nigel Sampson has some good information for you.
Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #13: Jonathan van de Veen explores the good and bad of his decision to use EF in the application he's building. Good insight into how he got to this point and hopefully help us as well.
Virtual Earth Silverlight Control Part 3: Locating Best Buy Stores: Steve Strong has his latest Silverlight/Virtual Earth episode up and this time he's using the BestBuy Remix service. Steve gives you all the info you need and even has a video up explaining it.
Working with RIA Services #1: General Setup & Concepts: Kevin Dockx is starting a series of tutorials on .NET RIA Services and in this first one he's showing how to just get started using the AdventureWorks database.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 #

Silverlight Cream for June 17, 2009 -- #616

In this Issue: Alex Golesh, Chris Klug(2), Gavin Wignall, Peter Bromberg, and Al Pascual.

Shoutouts:

Shawn Wildermuth is on Deep Fried Bytes: Listen to me on Deep Fried Bytes!... listen to him discuss OSLO and DSLs in general.

Updated with Chris Klug's real last name... sorry Chris!

Silverlight 2 applications: a day after Silverlight 3 release: Alex Golesh puts himself in the position of being 1 day after the release of Silverlight 3 and what we all need to do with out code to make it work... good advice, and there's still a lot of 1.1 code broken out there :)
flickrVIEWR – A flickr viewer in Silverlight – Part 1: Chris Klug took on a task of helping get pictures to a blog quicker by utilizing Silverlight and Flickr with a touch of MVVM along the way. Part 2 is here: flickrVIEWR – A flickr viewer in Silverlight – Part 2
Creating a 3D cube with images in Silverlight 3: Gavin Wignall followed his 3D Carousel with a 3D rotating cube... and it works just great! Of course he has all the code as well, thanks Gavin!
A Silverlight application that displays the TwitterCounter user's stats and chart.: Peter Bromberg decided to take a shot at his own version of twittercounter.com using Silverlight 3B and the Silverlight Chart control... end-to-end solution and code... cool!
Class to handle HTTPS and non HTTP services: Al Pascual continued working on the problem he was having yesterday and decided it had less to do with seeing the request and more to do with the connection itself... and he's shared his class that takes care of it.

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posted @ Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:02 PM | Feedback (0)

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 #

Silverlight Cream for June 16, 2009 -- #615

In this Issue: Nigel Sampson, Kevin Dockx, Al Pascual, John Papa, Timmy Kokke, Arturo Toledo, Alexey Zakharov, and David Anson.

Shoutouts:

James Bacon and SilverlightGirl have announced the end of their "Mashooo S Prize Silverlight Game Contest". Now it's your turn to go rate the entries (until the 21st), and then the top 10 rated go to the judges. Read their posts: Mashooo S Prize Silverlight Game Contest Rating Period and Time to rate the Silverlight games on the Mashooo S Prize .

I posted yesterday about Laurent Bugnion's MVVM Lite toolkit, well he has now posted the Silverlight version: MVVM light toolkit (Silverlight edition) posted... time to check that out I think :)

Silverlight 3 Behaviors : Double Click Trigger: I had looked at this post twice in the last two days and thought "Oh yeah... I've talked about THAT" but nooo... Nigel Sampson kicked my tires last night... great post, Nigel... Double-Clicks here we come :)
RIA Services: intro, references & something you might not yet know: Kevin Dockx gives us an intro to the .NET RIA Services platform based on his experience in the last few weeks. This intro is a tease into a series he's launching on the topic... should be good reading.
Silverlight 2 cannot access web services cross domain in SSL: Al Pascual discusses the issues surrounding Cross Domain Web Services with Silverlight and SSL. He is going to explore Silverlight 3B, and gives credit and a link to Tim Heuer for information.
Fill My Prism Region, Please: John Papa explains how Prism Regions came to the rescue on an app he's working on and gives out the code plus a bunch of advice from his experience.
SilverBullet #3 - System.Windows.Input.FocusManager: Timmy Kokke gives us the short course on finding out which control has focus and what FocusManager does for us. Note -- I added a "SilverBullet" tag for these to make them easy to find on the search page.
Principles of Design Series: Learning about Balance using Expression Design: Arturo Toledo has a video up on the Microsoft Showcase discussing Balance while working through Expression Design ... if you're not familiar with it's use, it's fun just to watch someone else push buttons :)
Deep zooming on the fly: Alexey Zakharov has a good article on the SilverlightShow site for creating multi-scale image files on the fly from existing content. He also includes some really useful links at the bottom... don't skip those!
Peanut butter jelly time [How to: Create a pleasing visual effect with Silverlight/WPF Charting]: Remember the "Jelly" chart behaviour of Richard Zadorozny? Well, David Anson has taken a shot at that with the Chart control in the Toolkit, and I knew when I saw that title that Pete's name would be in there somewhere :)... this is really fun to play with!

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