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Prompting the user to install the correct version of Silverlight (MinimumVersion="2.0")

Michael Washington works through the issues surrounding getting your user to install the proper version of Silverlight... this came about in the context of his Silverlight Desktop and if you haven't seen that... go do so!

Stock List Demo Optimised

Peter McGrattan has not only updated his Stock List demo, but has optimised it as well... this has lots of cool features embedded in it, and is a good resource for how to do something similar... and all the code's there!

Asynchronous loading of TimelineMarkers for Silverlight Video Player

Joel Neubeck tackles Asynchronous loading of Timeline Markers for the Video Player he and Tim Heuer recently posted on CodePlex.

Deep Zooming EVERYTHING!

Alex Knight is, as he says "Deep Zooming EVERYTHING!" ... and I really like the out-of-the-box thinking... I've demoed both of his latest to people just as examples of using Deep Zoom. I also really REALLY like the way Alex has SL pages for all his demos... nice touches of subtle animations... good job!

LayoutTransform functionality updated and enhanced for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!

David Anson brings his LayoutTransform into the B2 world, and provides all the source for doing so, plus pictures and explanation.

Updating Silverlight.js and Firefox 3

Tim Heuer takes a definitive shot at how to update your Silverlight.js detection, and why you should, what it means, and what's the deal with FF3?

Silverlight Navigation Framework (NavFx)

Mike Hanson popped up on my submittal list last night with this NavFx framework he has on CodePlex. There's a link from CodePlex to his site, so take a look around there as well!

Consuming ASMX Web Services with Silverlight 2

Martin Mihaylov posted this article about consuming asmx Web Services with Silverlight 2. He tagged it as a Tutorial, and sometimes I don't do that, but this one really is... great walk-through and lots of external resources tagged... very nice tutorial to keep a link to!

Search for Rich Internet Applications

Nikhil Kothari has posted an article discussing Search in the general sense for RIAs, and has links out to presentation materials of his sprinkled through his discussion. I know this is of interest to lots of folks.

Changing Silverlight Control Appearance with Corrina Barber

Erik and Monica Mork interview Corrina Barber in their latest Sparkling Client Podcast... Corrina is the one that has done the very cool skin sets for SL2, so this is definitely worth a listen!

Free Silverlight 2 training CD

Tim Heuer updated his post about the Silverlight 2 Training from a week or so ago. The AppDev folks have reacted to the feedback, and changed their offer... take a look at it now.

Progressive Metal – And, oh yeah, Silverlight

Jesse Liberty takes a walk through a music genre that I've never been involved with, but he does come back to Silverlight and outlines the project he's going to build... so even if your taste in music runs different, your taste in code is probably Silverlight, so it's all good :)

Line Rider rides on Silverlight 2

Time Heuer blogged about the Casual Game Line Rider... this was my first exposure, and all I've seen so far is the You Tube video he references, but it looks very cool. The artwork Tim is displaying on his site is awesome!

Virtual Earth Wrapper for Silverlight (VIEWS)

Here's something that some folks have been waiting for... a way to get into doing Virtual Earth with Silverlight... Marc has references and information about getting the resources to get going.

Using Pub/Sub and the Observer Pattern in Silverlight 2 (Part 2 of 2) Navigation

Pete put up part 3 of 2, or is it 2... gosh... between Pete and Mike Snow, I need a basic math refresher! Check out the article, Pete has links back to the previous two articles if you missed them :)

Silverlight DevNuggets Episode 2 is Now Up

Another from Pete... his second DevNuggets webcast in concert with Andrew Duthie is up, and waiting for you to give it a spin!

Declarative Tweening (2)

Koen Swikstra expounds in this part 2 of his Declarative Tweening post... dang, he had me with the demo yesterday :)

Building a Simple Custom Control in Silverlight 2

Adam Kinney posted a short but sweet Custom Control for SL2... you can never have too many good examples, thanks man!

VSM Strangeness

Page Brooks posts about an issue with VSM that apparently has been reported and will be fixed. Page gives a possible workaround for now... so that's cool :)

How to access HTML DOM from Silverlight and Silverlight managed objects from HTML?

Tamir Khason approaches the subject of working back and forth between the HTML DOM and SL... with lots of code!

Tip of the Day #13 - How to Get an Images Dimensions in Silverlight.

Mike Snow has Tip 13 up now on a clever way to find an image's width and height.

Tip of the Day #14 – How to Right Click on a Silverlight Application.

Mike also discusses how to get a right mouse click working for you in SL2

Loading images in Silverlight 2

Joel Neubeck has a very nice article on loading images in SL2 ... and gives four scenarios with sample code for each!

Free Silverlight 2 Refcard from DZone

SilverlightShow announed a SL2 RefCard from DZone. The card is by Chad Campbell, so I'd say it should be good. I'm going to admit I didn't finish my registration on the site when I realized I needed to input mailing info... going to have to go back and read all that when I'm more awake :)

ItemsPanelTemplate Differences in SL and WPF

Lee Compares the way some ItemsPanelTemplate code runs in SL and WPF, and just asks why...

I'm not sure which was sweeter, getting MVP the first time, or getting re-awarded, but I got my email this morning:

"Dear Dave Campbell,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! ..."

In the words of my buddy Brian: Woot!

Thanks to everyone involved in this effort, and all the time they put into vetting all the MVPs.

And thanks to all the folks that read my ramblings because when it's all said and done, the development community is what it's all about. I know some stuff but I'm far from the sharpest crayon in the pack If I can help other people get energized about Silverlight or find the resources they need to learn, then that's what feels good.

I always reference 'doing the happy dance', and I found this site on a *very* quick search this morning:

Now I just need to wipe this smile off my face before the folks here at my client's facility think I've gone (farther) around the bend and become totally unhinged

Stay in the 'Light!

Declarative Tweening

Koen Swikstra put together a great article on tweening and Silverlight, and goes on to define some attached dependency properties that allow him to do all this in xaml... very cool, and source included!

Data Conversion in Silverlight 2 Data Binding

Emil Stoychev has an article up on DataBinding and converting and formatting the data in Silverlight just like we're familiar with doing it elsewhere in .NET ... very useful right now!

ContentPresenter in Items Controls

chrishayuk blogged about a 'hang' situation using ContentPresenter in an ItemsControl... read his thoughts on this.

WebClient and LINQ Demo

Tim Rule has a very nice app using WebClient, LINQ, and Silverlight making requests out to Adobe's kuler API for color themes ... and all the source!

Printouts of the slides, presented on Silverlight 2.0 open house today

Tamir Khason gave a presentation on Silverlight 2.0 for building Rich Internet Applications and has all his materials available on his blog. He has the link to another presentation on July 23rd on the site.. you might want to join in on that ont.

Silverlight 2 beta1 - Best of SilverlightCream

Michael Sync posted this yesterday and surprised me... 'Best of SilverlightCream' ... lol ... well, that's been discussed :) ... but he did a GREAT job of hilighting the ones he likes with screenshots and text ... good job of gathering up information!

Silverlight 2 beta2 - Samples Updated

Michael also reports on the SL2B2 updates that he's been up to ... along with everyone else :)

Silverlight 2 (beta2) Contest Extended - More Cash Prizes for Winners

And finally, Michael reports that he has extended the SL2B2 contest and has received a cash donation from Ivan Dragoev, Product Manager of SilverlightShow ... how cool is that?? ... take a look at Michael's site, and write an article!

Join our next webcast! 15th of July 2008

The Irish Developer's group, Developers.ie, is having it's next .net Coffee Break Show, and Phoenix' own Tim Heuer will be speaking (from Pheonix, or 'the QC' more than likely). This one will be at 3pm GMT, so let me get out my abacus here... I 'think' that will be at 8am Phoenix time, but go to http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/ and figure out your own part of the world :)

Triangle Texturing, Theory and Silverlight App

I left this post by Christian Merighi off my list last night, so had to post it first chance I got today... this is some serious math, so look at it at your own risk :) ... reminds me of when I look back at my Master's Thesis ... I can't read it either !! ... this post is for show, but in the post he says he's going to be posting code so hang on...

Silverlight Experiment: Create a PullDown Menu using Storyboards.

Scott Barnes spent some time working at building a pulldown menu using storyboards, and detailed his work for all of us to learn from ...

Defines "propdps" shortcut for adding Silverlight Dependency Property with backed end.

After I posted the link to Dave Relyea's Code Snippet post last night, Tamir Khason sent me a couple links to snippets he had already done. If I understand, the link above is the B2 enhancement to a prior post: Defines "propdps" shortcut for adding Silverlight Dependency Property with backed end. ... thanks Tamir!

2008 Silverlight Control Builder Contest

I blogged separately about this, but wanted it to go out in a 'Cream post as well. Page Brooks is putting on a Silverlight Controls contest ... check it out... even if you don't enter, this should be fun!

How to get your Deep Zooms working with Blend.

Alex Knight has been really digging into DeepZoom and in addition to finding a really annoying problem, he elaborates on getting DZ to work with Blend...

Using VS Snippets to Add DependencyProperties and Attached DependencyProperties

Dave Relyea came up with an idea of setting up snippets in VS2008 to help with Dependency Properties ... this has GOT to be one of those things that we all look at and go "hey... why didn't I think of that?"... very cool, Dave!

3rd Party Silverlight 2 Controls

Shawn Wildermuth was asking on Twitter about 3rd party controls and I was wonder why, since of all the folks I know, I think he would be on the short list of devs that could just write one himself... but he was putting the blog post together about the controls that are currently out there, so that all of us would get the benefit of his expertise!

Page Brooks has been working on this idea for a few weeks and emailed me about this on the 16th... so he's been a very busy guy rolling all this together in that amount of time!

I think this will be fun! Think of the benefit to all of us developers... all the fun controls to play with... plus I'm sure we're going to see some out of the box thinking, so it will be a great way to generate some fun thought processes.

I'm excited about seeing what the submissions look like, and if you want to enter... there's definitely some cool prizes!

Stay in the 'Light!

Working with Collections in Deep Zoom.

Jaime Rodriguez almost snuck this one by me, but I caught it :) ... this has enough information, I'm calling it a tutorial... great info about DeepZoom and Collections!

Using Pub/Sub and the Observer Pattern in Silverlight 2 (Part 1 of 2) - Async Service Call Chaining

Pete Brown has started a 2-part series of postings on Pub/Sub and the Observer Pattern in SL2 ... yikes... um, what? ... don't listen to me, go read Pete's great post!

XAML Control Design

Shawn Wildermuth passes on some pearls of wisdom based on his XAML experience ... good stuff for making things nicer for your users.

Some new Silverlight videos

Tim Heuer reports the existence of some new SL Videos at Silverlight.net ...

Silverlight Streaming SDK Client API and Sample App

Bill Reiss has a sample app to provide an explorer-type interface to your Silverlight Streaming account ... code included, so lots of fun learning in there as well!

Building a Multi File Uploader with Silverlight and AJAX

Philip Beadle takes aim at one of Nikhil Kothari's older applications and provides a multi-file Uploader with SL2... AND provides the code :) ... and I just realized Philip's name is on "DNN For Dummies" which Michael Washington told me to go buy just this morning! ... how's that for Serendipity??

Xbox Gamercard updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Adam Kinney has an update to SL2B2 for his XBOX Gamercard, whatevertheheckthatis :) ... If you know, you'll want it, so go get it :)

Data focused Silverlight demo

Brad Abrams provides a data-centric demo involving LINQ, WCF, user-defined changes in a Grid, asynchronous updates via LINQ, and Local Storage to cache data ... can you think of anything else you'd like to do?? ... great stuff, and code included!

Go Deeper! - The Deep Zoom Day

Scott Barnes had his own personal DeepZomm intro with the DZ folks, so go take a look at what he has to say, and the links he provided!

Tips and Tricks for searching for Silverlight content on MSDN

Ever had trouble finding something on MSDN? .. nevermind... you know when you had trouble about 1/2 hour ago? ... lol ... well, the folks at SilverlightSDK have provided some Tips and Tricks to help us out ... and boy, from my chair anything would be a help :)

Tip of the Day #3 – Transparency - How to make your Silverlight control transparent.

Mike Snow is trying to drive me crazy I think... or he's enabling something :) ... yesterday I found this Tip of the Day #3 and thought... geez... did I miss 1 and 2? ... so I looked and heck no... I had them, but they weren't labeled that way... then today he posted Number 12... 12? ... yikes.. nope... he went back and renumbered them again... stop, you're making my headache worse ... lol ... ok, so this one, whatever it is numbered right now is on Silverlight and Transparency ... always something that comes up at some point.

Full Implementation of a Silverlight Policy Server.

Before typing this, I verified that this post is now Tip of the Day #12 :) ... but whatever it is when you read it... it's good and very useful, in Mike's words: "Below I will take you through every step you need to create and run your own policy server." ... good stuff.

Deep Zoom: Selecting an Image

Matthew sent me email asking if I might be interested in posting this and after looking at his blog, not only am I posting this, but I added his blog to SC as well. Everybody has a slightly different take on how they want or expect to use DeepZoom, and Matthew describes his, has an example, and provides all of us his code... thanks Matthew... I enjoyed cruising around in your DZ images :)

Silverlight X-Domain Scenario

Emil Stoychev discusses how they pulled off allowing us to use the Twitter Widget they posted yesterday by running code from SilverlightShow on our sites... good to know info, particularly with a working example.

Dragging an element from one user control to another

Michael Washington takes Drag and Drop to a new level on his Silverlight Desktop allowing Drag and Drop between UserControls -- no really... he has a small video playing on the blog, and it just made me smile to watch it... it 'just works' ... very cool, Michael.. oh, and did I forget to mention he includes the code??

Silverlight "Art and Technology"

I found this by way of Chris Carper on The Business of Silverlight site. In Chris' words: " Its focus is on the integration between our rich design/development tools and the Silverlight run time. We have some case studies as well as source code, etc. that designers and developers can utilize." -- at first glance, it's definitely slick... looks like fun, but I haven't had a lot of time to spend there (yet) :)

Parts & States Model with VisualStateManager (Part 4 of 4)

I put this post last because I know everyone that hasn't already gone there is now off and running to Karen Corby's site for Part 4 of her Parts and States Model series, and they'll all forget to come back here to see if there's anything else :) ... hey, I would have too!

Silvester - A Silverlight Twitter Widget

Emil Stoychev says he's not a fan of Twitter, but he's merged Twitter and Silverlight to produce a 'widget' we can load on our sites... He even has code running on silverlightshow.net that you can link to... how cool is that? ... and all the source is here, so this is a great reference on how to do all this goodness!

WatermarkedTextBox for Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Don't know what a Watermarked TextBox is? Or wonder where the one went that we were going to get? How about getting it now? ... Well, Kathy Kam has all those answers... and who better to give out the code and answers than one of the team members :)

Tweening Equations for Silverlight

Adam Kinney has lots of links and code for tweening and one of his commentors has said he's going to produce a blog post of something similar, so hopefully we'll be able to find that as well.

Silverlight - Dynamic DeepZoom with MultiScaleImage and MultiScaleTileSource

Mike Taulty dives into doing dynamic DeepZoom by experimenting with allowing the MultiScaleImage control to request image tiles from an alternate source... interesting and complete code.

Silverlight 2 Media Player project now open source

The result of the back-and-forth that Tim Heuer and Joel Neubeck have been doing with the Media player finally came to a conclusion with them putting the project into Codeplex ... so go have at it, modify it, have fun!

The Photo Flip!

Alex Knight put up a very nice Silverlight page showing both sides of a photo using a 'flip' animation... several uses of this technique come to my mind as I'm sure they have yours as well...

What's new in the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 SDK's Silverlight.js file?

Piotr Puszkiewicz continues with his in-depth study of the Silverlight control and install/presentation techniques. He goes into what is new in the B2 version as well as what's removed. Definitely worth reading and bookmarking... oh wait, I did that :)

Silverlight soft-body physics

Chris Cavanagh shows off a physics demo based on Walaber's JelloPhysics library... gotta see this, no way could I describe it... great links and Chris will post the code later after some improvements :)

Tip: Asynchronous Silverlight - Execute on the UI thread

Emil Stoychev discusses using the Dispatcher class to call the UI thread from a callback ... all the code, check it out!

Skinning Controls in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Richard Griffin extends from some work by Tim Heuer and produces some very nice-looking skinned controls.

Using Silverlight for efficient low level communications

James Bacon discusses the restrictions on communication options within Silverlight

Simple Particle Physics in Silverlight

Avi Pilosof sent me a link to his work, and I thought "ok, Part 1", but whoa... he's got 5 parts of this stuff out there... dang, but this stuff goes so far beyond what I've ever been involved in graphically... yikes... very cool stuff, glad it's 5 parts :)

Silverlight Etch-A-Sketch

Jeff Paries pinged me that he had some new product out... very cool.. an Etch-A-Sketch... and the thing just works... how cool is that :)

Vector Space: Zero

Bill Reiss blogged about this, and it is addicting, so don't go there if you have any writing to do :) ... great game, I'll let you read Bill's description.

Silverlight Streaming now supports Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Bill Reiss talking about Silverlight Streaming and leading into his Stack Attack game if you haven't played this... got time now?

Deep Zoom Gallery - Cool way to display your photos

Alex Knight posted this on the Oz Silverlight group this morning, and I thought it was clever enough to post here... great pictures too!

How to consume WCF or Webservice from Vista Sidebar gadget by using Silverlight?

Tamir Khason takes on the challenge of consuming a web service from inside a Silverlight Vista Sidebar Gadget ... and pulls it all off :)

Instantiating Silverlight: HTML vs. Script

Piotr Puszkiewicz has a couple Silverlight instantiation posts. This first one a general-case what are the options, and how do they affect me.

Structure of the Silverlight Object Tag

In Piotr's second article, he fills in detail surrounding the criteria described in the previous post.

If you're not in Phoenix, or more particularly if you're not in North Phoenix, Action Auto Repair is probably out of your way, but if it isn't out of the way, you should definitely consider going there for all your work.

I've been using Tom and the guys there for at least 10 years, and some of the perks I receive is because of that history, but I think some of it is just the way Tom operates.

He always checks my vehicle over to make sure that not only is what I took it in there getting fixed, but the thing is road-worthy when I leave... not to find something else to charge me for, but because he cares about the work that leaves the shop. He doesn't try to add stuff on, he will tell me things like "watch those rear brakes... they've got about 6,000 miles left on them".

We don't live all that far away, so we always get a ride home when we drop off a vehicle.

I had a boss that told me "Oh I wouldn't take my car anywhere but the dealer". That night when I picked up my truck there was a car in the shop with a sticker on the window. I asked about it and Tom told me "oh, the dealers send cars over here when they get busy, or have something they can't deal with"... dealer-only indeed :)

I had trouble with battery bolts on my old pickup and he left some laying on a ledge outside the door for me so I could get them on the way home.

Just this morning I stopped on the way to work with a postive battery connector that was all franged up and just sitting on the terminal... there was no longer any way to tighten (or loosen) the connector. I asked him if he could get me on the way to work and showed it to him. I had barely started playing sudoku on my palm pilot when he came in and said "it's done, running, and pointing toward work" ... and refused money!

Stack either of those up against ANY place you've ever been!

I paid plenty a week ago for brakes all around on my F250 Super Duty, but still... anywhere else, I'd have had to pay for that battery terminal work today. And that's not to say you'll get that sort of consideration if you just drive in and he doesn't know you, but you never know... he's that kind of a guy...

Definitely worth a try!