WynApse

Be careful what you wish for...

Dave Campbell — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:41:30 GMT

...because you might get it...

Today I finally got Office 2007 installed on this machine at my client's facility. They even installed OneNote for me.

But I made one small teensy error... I neglected to consider what all I am supporting here, and of course the IT's install policy which involves tromping all over the PC with muddy boots.

Office 2003 was uninstalled, which under normal circumstances would have been a nice surprise, but then I started thinking about the 4 large MS Access applications that I deploy from a server. And of course all my shortcuts to build MDB files disappeared because they pointed out to Office11.

The files are all intact though, so I cranked up one with Access2007 and after a few messages telling me some things were disabled, it came up and ran. Then I started nosing around. I'm familiar with most of Office 2007, but have not had the opportunity to use Access2007 yet, and for the life of me I couldn't find out how to do things such as:

Compact/Repair

Compile

Make MDE

Make or modify Users or groups

Make or modify passwords

running macros

So I looked on the web, and then called the help desk. Turns out they cut me off at the knees... the install is the 'dumb user' install and doesn't allow any of that 'developer' nonsense!

That 20 minutes of sheer glee this morning installing the long-awaited Office 2007 is going to drag out into a long painful process (sound familiar?) ... specifically, the "desktop support" crew is going to have to uninstall Office 2007, then install Access 2003 followed by a custom install of Office 2007 for li'l ol' me that leaves Access 2003 alone. Hopefully this 'custom install' also includes OneNote and all the development stuff they ripped out of Access.

Oh, and one of the web apps threw an error because of something missing as well... sigh

Color me Dismayed.

Silverlight Cream for February 08, 2010 -- #794

Dave Campbell — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:06:23 GMT

In this Issue: Fons Sonnemans, Mark Monster, Karl Shifflett, Einar Ingebrigtsen(2), Jeremy Likness, Emil Stoychev, Andrew Veresov, Sergey Barskiy(2), and Tim Heuer.

Shoutout:

Karl Shifflett announced Karl Now Using Vimeo for Videos... check it out, thank Karl, and create an acount.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Keyboard selection on Silverlight ListBox and ComboBox: Fons Sonnemans explains and provides a behavior that allows keyboard selection on a ListBox or ComboBox.
MeXperience – Step 3 – Architecture, implementing pipes and filters: Mark Monster has part 3 of his MeXperience application up... discussing the implementation of the pipes and filters pattern that he's filtering experience objects with.
BBQ Shack - Ocean v2 for Visual Studio 2008: If you've heard Karl Shifflett speak in the last year, you've been waiting for this post... Ocean V2 is out, and his BBQShack tutorial is up... wow!
Silverlight Tutorials: Silverlight Basic – SpinningCube: Einar Ingebrigtsen has a Spinning Cube post up on the Insider's site that involves some very basic 3D manipulation using the 3D projection in Silverlight.
Balder 0.8.8.6 is out: Einar Ingebrigtsen has the latest version of Balder up ... don't read anything, just take this link and be amazed ... then go start playing with it... and show us all what you've done!
A Fluent RSS Reader for Silverlight Part 1: Proof of Concept: Jeremy Likness has a great detailed post up on the beginning of a Silverlight RSS reader... and he's reading from Twitter.
Silverlight Tutorials: Data Binding: Emil Stoychev has a post up on the Insider's site about DataBinding that's a "Beginner's" post, but is a good post, so check it out... might be something there you missed!
Can’t attach Silverlight debugger when System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage.Window.Navigate is used to open new window: Andrew Veresov provides relief if you're having trouble debugging your Silverlight app
WCF RIA Services Validation: Sergey Barskiy discusses some custom validation in a WCF RIA Services application... with lots of code :)
Silverlight, MVVM and Animations: Sergey Barskiy also has a post up on Animations and MVVM, and offers up a couple possibilities... no comments yet... see if you agree.
Silverlight DataGrid quick styling tip: keep selected row focus state: Tim Heuer has some DataGrid manipulation in Blend on his blog to retain focus on a selected row. You can grab the style, or you can follow along and learn how to do it too!

Stay in the 'Light!

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Silverlight Cream for February 05, 2010 -- #793

Dave Campbell — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:51:38 GMT

In this Issue: Joel Neubeck, James Bacon, Jeremy Likness, John Stockton, Fredrik Normén, Subodh Pushpak, Alexander Golesh, PhaniRajuYN, Victor Gaudioso, and Syed Mehroz Alam.

Shoutouts:

Michael Sync posted the material for his My WPF MVVM Session at Consistel

Michael also posted an interesting post Rules of MVVM??

Andrew Marshall reported to me that he now has the code posted for his Silverlight and CUDA interop article.. thanks Andrew!

John Papa isn't wasting any time with Silverlight TV ... he's got Custom Preloader - Silverlight TV 006 with John Stockton up already... and did you notice he's got his numbering setup for 3 digits? :)

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight 4 How to Command Control: Joel Neubeck has another post up at SilverlightShow discussing MVVM, this time showing how to using commanding and binding to reduce your code.
Using the free Babel Obfuscator in Silverlight projects: James Bacon discusses using the free Babel Obfuscator with your Silverlight projects and offers up some hints from his experience doing so.
Using Moq with Silverlight for Advanced Unit Tests: Jeremy Likness' latest is on Moq'ing Silverlight ... lotsa code and explanation to go along with it too!
Silverlight Splash Page: John Stockton has a tutorial up about Silverlight Splash Pages that goes along with his Silverlight TV appearance mentioned above... all the code, and lots of info... good one, John!
Aspen – part 7 of X – Entity Validations: Fredrik Normén apparently snuck a few past my Pattern-Recognition Module^TM :) This is episode 7 of his Aspen series, and he is following up a long discussion of validation with an explanation of his plans for entity validation in Aspen.
HTML text in Silverlight controls with ellipses, tooltip and rollover: Subodh Pushpak blogged about a User Control that displays HTML, ellipses when the HTML is too long, and plain text tooltips ... all with source!
Silverlight Tutorials: Styling and Templating: Alexander Golesh has a tutorial up on the new WPF/Silverlight Insiders site that is the 5th in a series of Silverlight Tutorials. This one is on Styles and Templates.
Silverlight 3 Applications broken with new WCF Data Services release: PhaniRajuYN has a post up describing Silverlight 3 breakage with the RTM version of Astoria... no work-arounds, so check out what's pooting.
Creating a Three-Column Silverlight ListBox: Victor Gaudioso has a new post up on the latest Expression Newsletter... it's a cool tutorial on building a 3-column ListBox in Blend ... and sign yourself up for the newsletter when you get out there!
AutoCompleteComboBox for Silverlight: Syed Mehroz Alam has a post up about a customization of the AutoCompleteBox to be used as a type-ahead ComboBox. The full article is on CodeProject with all the code, and his post has a link to it.

Stay in the 'Light!

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Silverlight Cream for February 04, 2010 -- #792

Dave Campbell — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:52:12 GMT

In this Issue: Nokola, Braulio Díez Botella, Gavin Wignall, David Poll, Mike Taulty, Pete Brown, Tim Heuer, Bruce Abernethy(2), and Kathleen McGrath.

Shoutouts:

John Bruin has a fun Silverlight app up on his site: Silverlight Circle Twist ... with source.

Pixel in Gene posted a Quick tip about changing SketchFlow’s startup page name (Silverlight)

From SilverlightCream.com:

EasyPainter Beta: Top Secret Online Image Editor Announced: Nokola posted information about and a link to his EasyPainter Beta, and wow is this a very nice online 'paint' tool. I'm sure we're going to hear a lot about this one!
Avoid Silverlight toolkit DLL hell: Braulio Díez Botella wrote about a Toolkit DLL problem, but this could apply to any DLL used in your Silverlight app. Don't take a step backward in time!
Create a simple 3D sphere animation in Silverlight: Wow, so much Silverlight goodness today :) ... Gavin Wignall has a very nice 3D sample up... well it LOOKS 3D :) ... great explanation, all the code, and on this dual quad-core machine it just looks perfect!
On-demand loading of assemblies with Silverlight Navigation – Revisited for Silverlight 4 Beta: If you've got a Silverlight app of any size at all, you should probably print out this post by David Poll where he has a great multi-XAP loader explained in great detail... source, and just tons of info... I'm printing it as a PDF myself :)
Silverlight 4 & MEF – Switching on functionality based on application context: Mike Taulty has a very cool application for MEF up ... switching in and out the different modes his Silverlight app may be running in.
Silverlight Quick Tip: Controlling the Out-of-Browser Window: Pete Brown has a quick tip up on OOB in Silverlight 4B ... and it's nice to see Pete posting some Silverlight stuff too :)
Reading MP3 metadata with Silverlight and drag-drop: Tim Heuer has a cool SL4B article up on a music project he's working on. He's discussing dragging MP3 files onto a Silverlight app and reading the metadata... very nice! ... and when you blog a tad late about something, there's also lots of good comments on the post :)
Silverlight Kata: IFS Fractals with TransformGroup and MessageBus: Bruce Abernethy has begun a series on IFS Fractals. This is the first and introduces the basics, and how he's going to tackle this project. He also has a road-map of what all 5 episodes are going to be about.
Silverlight Kata: IFS Fractals: Automating the Transforms: In Bruce Abernethy's 2nd post in the series, he introduces the IFS transform and then automates it... definitely the most interesting article on fractal generation I've seen!
Binding Silverlight Controls to a Data Service in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2: Kathleen McGrath has a post up about a Channel 9 video by Steve Stein, and accompanying blog post on the drag and drop databinding features in Visual Studio 2010B for all us Silverlight geeks.

Stay in the 'Light!

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Silverlight Cream for February 03, 2010 -- #791

Dave Campbell — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:30:56 GMT

In this Issue: Joel Neubeck, Alex van Beek, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Jim McCurdy, Dave Britton, Laurent Bugnion, Brendan Enrick, Robby Ingebretsen, David Burela, and Lee.

Shoutouts:

Michael Sync put up a post about 3 new websites for Silverlight Community... good ones to aggregate I think :)

John Papa announced a new episode up: Silverlight TV Episode 005 – Using Metadata with MEF

I don't want to advertise this guy, but there is a site silverlight-travel dot com that is scraping Silverlight sites such as Josh Holmes, Mike Taulty, David Poll, Shawn Wildermuth, Jesse Liberty, etc.

Laurent and I discussed this, and the owner's email address can be found by doing a whois search. Laurent's posts don't appear to be on the site anymore, so it looks like you may be able to send him an email and get your bandwidth back.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight 4 How to Command Control: Joel Neubeck has an MVVM and tutorial up at SilverlightShow ... good write-up and code, plus a hint of more to come.
Silverlight 4 vs Flex 4: Data Validation: Alex van Beek is back with another Silverlight 4/Flex 4 comparison, and the feature he's digging into this time is Data Validation.
Saving Files Locally in Silverlight: Kirupa Chinnathambi has a 4-pager up building a File Save dialog for your Silverlight app.
Implement MouseWheel support for Silverlight 3 controls: Jim McCurdy has a post up that will give you MouseWheel support in the Silverlight 3 code you're supporting while having Silverlight 4 MouseWheel envy
Document Outline and XAML: Dave Britton has a quick tip up on using the Document Outline window in Visual Studio to wind your way through your XAML
Quick tip: Commenting out properties in XAML: On Monday while I was home writing code I saw this post by Laurent Bugnion come through, but didn't look close enough which is hilarious because I was block-commenting out XAML, and here Laurent is showing us a way to just do properties... cool stuff!
Quick Silverlight Tip: Looking at the code: Brendan Enrick walks us through using .NET Reflector on a Silverlight app... use one of your own as an example :)
Top Albums 2009: There are a few people that you should pay attention when they blog and Robby Ingebretsen is one of them... check out his Top Albums 2009 application... very nice Silverlight 3 app with source ... oh and you may be interested in his 2009 music selections too :)
Guide to creating Expression blend 3 addins: David Burela has a quick tutorial up on creating add-ins in Expression Blend 3... he walks you through building a sample and demonstrating it is loaded.
Summary row in DataGrid: Lee demonstrates how a DataGrid looks with a "Summary Row", and then shows how to produce that yourself by customizing the GroupHeader

Stay in the 'Light!

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Silverlight Cream for January 31, 2010 -- #790

Dave Campbell — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:45:02 GMT

In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, Vikram Pendse, David Burela(2), Paulio, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, and Brett Balmer.

Shoutout:

Jeremy Alles has a Minor update to the Silverlight MVVM frameworks explorer

Seema Ramchandani posted his materials PDC video, TechEd Iceland, VS2010, profiling, Silverlight 4

Gavin Wignall blogged about Metia launch Silverlight banner with Deepzoom and Smooth Streaming!

Andrew Myhre posted about his Silverlight Preloader Project on Google Code

Jim Lynn has a post up about a presentation he did on Silverlight, Maps and the BBC

From SilverlightCream.com:

Introduction to Debugging Silverlight Applications with WinDbg: Jeremy Likness has a video tutorial up for debugging Silverlight with WinDbg ... wow that brings back some win32 memories!
Silverlight 4 : COM Interop..Endless Opportunities: Vikram Pendse has a post up talking about Silverlight 4B and COM interop, and has examples of text to speech, Word, and Outlook.
Using Windows Azure to scale your Silverlight Application: David Burela has a high-level article up on using Azure to deliver your Silverlight.
Using Silverlight to distribute workload to your clients: In another high-level article, David Burela discusses using Silverlight to deliver product to your customer and uses seti@home as his example
Scrollable textblock within a ListItem (or other container)?: Paulio is discussing issues he's had with a scrollable TextBlock within a container, and how he resolved them... all for our benefit!
The Code Not Taken [Comparing two ways of creating a full-size Popup in Silverlight - then picking the best]: Do you know the right way to implement a popup that overlays the entire Silverlight plugin? Check out David Anson's post and see if he agrees with you?
MVVM – It’s Not Kool-Aid: Jesse Liberty has a post up about MVVM ... in case you haven't drank the Kool-Aide yet :)
Drag and Drop Upload to Azure Storage via Silverlight 4: Brett Balmer has a great post up on Dragging files using SL4B into Azure storage... and check out the header on his blog ... that's some Silverlight love!

Stay in the 'Light!

Silverlight Cream for January 28, 2010 -- #789

Dave Campbell — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:49:08 GMT

In this Issue: Mark Monster, René Schulte, Damon Serji, Shawn Wildermuth, Rishi, Gavin Wignall(2), and roboblob.

Shoutouts:

David Anson reports that Flattery will get you everywhere [Html5Canvas source code now available on CodePlex!]

Robbe Morris announced EggHeadCafe Chat Chaos in Silverlight Released Today ... this looks great, I'm surprised there's not a ton of people on there slinging code around!

Check out what Rishi's been doing in his spare time: Outing my inner iTablet

From SilverlightCream.com:

Capture usage information of a Silverlight application using Google Analytics and a Blend Behavior: Mark Monster created a Behavior that does all his event tracking for him ... for Google Analytics.
Rounder, Faster, Better - WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.0.0: René Schulte has an update to WriteableBitmapEx... the biggest addition is parametric curves, but there's lots of other features on the list and he's got a nice demo up.
Google Analytics in Silverlight (Event Tracking): Damon Serji shows how to get information from inside our Silverlight apps out to Google Analytics.
Handing Events with Care?: Shawn Wildermuth has a post up on Events in Silverlight ... it's not a big article, and it may surprise you or help you out if you're having some problems... especially if you're an old win32 dev like me.
Creating and Porting applications to Cloud Light: Rishi has a nice tutorial up walking through porting his Sudoku game to Cloud Light. Grab the code: Sudoku, Cloud Light, and the nRoute Toolkit adapter.
Playing with Projection in Silverlight: Wow... Gavin Wignall has been having fun... check out the 3D particle effect he did completely in Blend... thank goodness he included the source... :)
Creating a 3d spiral effect with projection: Gavin Wignall then turned around and did a spiral... these things are very cool... stared at them enough it's affecting my glaucoma I think :)
Binding UI Events from View to commands in ViewModel in Silverlight 4: I just came across roboblob's blog. This is apparently the third post in a series on MVVM and is on binding UI events of the View in the ViewModel and not putting anything in the code behind of the View... and check out the other two posts.. he's got links to them!

Stay in the 'Light!

Silverlight Cream for January 27, 2010 -- #788

Dave Campbell — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:47:52 GMT

In this Issue: Richard Waddell, Scott Barnes, Bob Bartholomay, Alex van Beek, Sergey Barskiy, Chris Klug, Microsoft Expression Blog

Shoutout:

All U.S. MVPs going to the Summit note that Suzanna Moran, my MVP lead, highly suggests the session at 1:30 on Tuesday "Developer & Platform Evangelism"... nudge, nudge :)

John Papa is a very busy guy... Silverlight TV number 4 is up: 3 Steps to MEF (MEF Part 1) – Silverlight TV Episode 4

The Silverlight Team Blog announced Jordan Brand Leverages Silverlight to Invigorate and Find Enthusiasts ... that's 'Jordan' as in Michael Jordan.

Jeff Weber announced that Diver 2 Status: Done… and... Done!

Tim Heuer takes a good detailed look at the Silverlight Client for Facebook available

Subodh Pushpak posted his Community Tech days Slide deck and code on Silverlight

From SilverlightCream.com:

Seeker Sidebar 4 – Styles, Control Templates, and Visual States: I think Richard Waddell said this best: "If you don’t already know how to create templated controls, and you want a detailed description with pictures of every step and misstep, read on" ... great tutorial, running sample, and all the code.
Controlling your Silverlight Installation Experience: Scott Barnes has a great write-up on the Install Experience that we should all be paying attention to... after all, not all our users have Silverlight already, right?
FlexibleBehavior class: More on reuse and Behaviors: Bob Bartholomay writes about Behaviors and reuse and crafted a 'flexible' behavior class that will give your designers more well, flexibility when in Blend
Silverlight 4 vs Flex 4: Printing: Alex van Beek does a comparison between Flex 4 and Silverlight 4 Beta, specifically in the area of printing.
RIA Services (Cont.): I guess I missed this the other day because the title matched the previous one :) Sergey Barskiy has his next post up on RIA Services. He recaps where he left off and continues on discussing Updates.
Silverlight and non-IIS hosted WCF-services: Read the very detailed post by Chris Klug where he describes how he worked out how to build a Kiosk app in Silverlight talking to a couple WCF services running but not with IIS on-board.
Add Silverlight video to a page: If you have yet to place a video on a page using Silverlight, The Microsoft Expression Blog has a nice quick tutorial up on doing just that.

Stay in the 'Light!

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Silverlight Cream for January 26, 2010 -- #787

Dave Campbell — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:24:47 GMT

In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, and Walter Ferrari

Shoutouts:

Scott Guthrie has a great post up: About Technical Debates (and ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC debates in particular)

SilverlightShow has Featured Author: Interview with Silverlight MVP Andrea Boschin

SilverlightShow reports Silverlight MVP András Velvárt tells the story behind the creation of his portal www.response.hu, and two of his award-winning projects

SilverlightShow also has an Interview with Telerik Silverlight Unit Manager Nikolay Atanasov

I've had some submittals since I posted last and thought I'd push them. 3 are the SilverlightShow interviews in the Shoutouts, two are below.

From SilverlightCream.com:

A simplified DataForm replacement - Part 1 Create the control and detect commands: Andrea Boschin has a post on SilverlightShow where he describes what he doesn't like about the DataForm... but then goes about working on his replacement. This is part 1, full code in part 2.
An Excel file Viewer in Silverlight 4: Walter Ferrari has a tutorial up at SilverlightShow where he's creating an Excel (xlsx) viewer in Silverlight 4... great stuff... read the comments for the code link.

Stay in the 'Light!

Silverlight Cream for January 24, 2010 -- #786

Dave Campbell — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:00:54 GMT

In this Issue: Fredrik Normén(2), Antoni Dol, Alex van Beek, Rishi, Mike Taulty, Giorgetti Alessandro, Michael S. Scherotter, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, and Anoop Madhusudanan.

Shoutouts

David Kelley announces a podcast: Lunch With Interact - MVVM For Tards

I don't keep a close eye on it, but sometime in the last two days, @SilverlightNews has hit 4000 followers... thanks to all the readers!

From SilverlightCream.com:

Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 5 of X – New Repository implementation: Fredrik Normén has Part 5 of his Aspen series up discussing using the same ObjectContext for the entire DomainService operation.
Aspen – part 6 of X – Reusing ObjectContex among Repositories during a DomainSerivce operation.: Fredrik Normén then continues with Part 6, showing that what is in Part 5 and much of this post is for testing, and the real deal is near the end of this post.
Accessing Properties and Objects in Silverlight DataTemplates using Loaded and FindName: Antoni Dol describes using the Loaded event of the container to get access to properties and objects in a Data Template.
Configuring MEF with Linq To Xml Part 2: Making MEF recomposition on the fly when the file is edited: Alex van Beek has Part 2 of his MEF configuration with XML up. This episode is on MEF's recomposition when the XML file changes.
iPhone Sudoku in Silverlight using MVVM: Rishi uses nRoute and MVVM to build an iPhone-style Sudoku game that plays quite nicely. The code is on CodePlex and was just updated today.
Silverlight 4 – Writing a Windows-Only Application via COM Interop?: Mike Taulty has a good discussion post up about the whole Silverlight/COM thing with reference out to Justin Angel's post, of course.
Castle Windsor enabling XML configuration files in Silverlight: Giorgetti Alessandro works through swapping out the XmlDom to Linq to XML for Silverlight ... check out the source for yourself.
Scrubbing with Thumbnails with the SMF Player: Michael S. Scherotter responded to a question about thumbnail previews while scrubbing a video and boy does his solution look great... and not extremely difficult to do either!
Configuration & Decoupled Modules: Jesse Liberty spent a bunch of time discussing the Silverlight HPV project with the folks at CodeMash and has a new design that not only resolves the two issues he was shooting for but also two more useful objectives
Simple Dialog Service in Silverlight: Jeremy Likness discusses the problems with trying to force a classical WinForms Dialog paradigm into Silverlight, then describes a straightforward dialog solution that should satisfy everyone.
Behaviors, Triggers and Actions in Silverlight And WPF Made Simple – Part 2 – Triggers: Anoop Madhusudanan has part 2 of his series up, and is concentrating on Triggers in this one... not just using Triggers and Actions, but creating your own.

Stay in the 'Light!

Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2010 - 2 -- #785

Dave Campbell — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:43:12 GMT

In this Issue: Deborah Kurata, and Praveen.

Shoutouts:

David Anson announced: Update to free ConvertClipboardRtfToHtmlText tool and source code gives more compact output

Jeff Handley reports My Stretch Goal: To Ship RIA Services Source Code ... give him some feedback

Laurent Bugnioin posted The MVVM landscape at MIX10 ... I hope to see them all :)

Benjamin Roux posted this: The Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's life in Silverlight, and there are other manuscripts on the site as well.

It turns out I had more shoutouts than posts, but I wanted to get these all out tonight. Remember I also a lot of other things I come across all tagged up at WynApse.com. There's currently over 8200 posts linked from that page.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight: Themes: Deborah Kurata discusses the themes available in the Silverlight Toolkit. Screenshots and helpful information included.
Read xml from web page and bind the data to Silverlight module: Praveen solved a Sharepoint to Silverlight issue, but the solution is a generic issue of reading XML from a page, processing it, and binding it in Silverlight ... useful for other situations as well.

Stay in the 'Light!

Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2010 -- #784

Dave Campbell — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:39:50 GMT

In this Issue: Brett Balmer, Shawn Wildermuth, Tim Greenfield, Anoop Madhusudanan, Victor Gaudioso, David Kelley

Shotouts:

Jeremy Likness posted New Silverlight 3 Version Released (3.0.50106.0)

Koen Zwikstra is always out there working :) Check out his PDF for Silverlight Preview

From SilverlightCream.com:

Hosting Silverlight Accessible WCF Services in an Azure WebRole: Brett Balmer posted a solution to a problem lashing up to WCF while running Silverlight in Azure, and I added an Azure tag, Brett... thanks!
New SL4 Feature: Commanding: Shawn Wildermuth has a post up about Commanding in Silverlight 4 ... if you're coming from WPF you'll wonder what the big deal is, but remember, we're the little brother :)
Use Silverlight to resize images and increase compression BEFORE uploading: This one is needed: Tim Greenfield has a post up on how to size down those camera images that you could post on your garage door prior to your users uploading them... yeah, PRIOR to upload! ... oh, and of course it's doing so with Silverlight :)
Behaviors, Triggers and Actions in Silverlight And WPF Made Simple – Part I - Behaviors: Anoop Madhusudanan has a first part of an introduction to Behaviors, Triggers, and Actions up on his site... a good one to check out if this is all new to you!
The Blend/Silverlight StarterKit Screencasts I Recorded for Microsoft: Victor Gaudioso created a Starter Kit for Microsoft on Expression Blend and Silverlight that ran 10 videos... and he's got them all linked up on this post... very nice, Victor, thanks!
Silverlight TV Episode 3: Multi-Touch 101 with Silverlight: Silverlight TV Episode 3 has been up -- John talks with David Kelley about Multi-Touch and David has a bunch of code and links on his blog post.

Stay in the 'Light!

Silverlight Cream for January 20, 2010 -- #783

Dave Campbell — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:08:46 GMT

In this Issue: Michael Wolf, Justin Angel, Karl Shifflett(2, 3), András Velvárt, Bryant Likes, and Nigel Sampson.

Shoutouts:

John Papa posted a note: Hidden Gems: Why .NET Developers Need to Take a 2nd Look at Project Rosetta

Shawn Wildermuth poses the question Are ORMs Solving Anything?

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight 4 FileSystemWatcher ... no strings attached: Michael Wolf returns with a second pass at his FileWatcher this time having a background thread doing the checking. Video of it in action and the code is included, plus some external links.
Cutting Edge Silverlight4 COM+ Features: Justin Angel in typical fashion has a huge tutorial up on Silverlight and COM+ oh wait... what? ... oh ok, he's only using common OS COM+ objects ... whew :) ... all the source, lots of links.. big honkin' tutorial!
WPF & Silverlight Layout Controls: Karl Shifflett has some tutorials up on the WPF & Silverlight Designer Site ... this first one is discussing the layout controls.
How to Layout a Data Entry Form: The next tutorial Karl Shifflett has up is on laying out a Data Entry form.
How to Insert a Row in a Data Entry Form: Karl Shifflett's 3rd tutorial is showing how to add a new row to an existing Data Entry Form... and video to go along with the article
Extract styles in Expression Blend: András Velvárt has a cool tutorial up for extracting styles from Blend into a resource.
Getting Started With Silverlight and SharePoint 2010: Bryant Likes has a tutorial up on getting Silverlight 3 development going with Sharepoint 2010.
Building a Visual Studio Style Tabbed Interface with Caliburn: Nigel Sampson is using Caliburn to build a Visual Studio-style tabbed interface. He agrees this is for WPF, but most of it is Silverlight as well.

Stay in the 'Light!

Silverlight Cream for January 18, 2010 -- #782

Dave Campbell — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:01:12 GMT

In this Issue: Rene Schulte, Jim Wightman, Michael Wolf, Karl Shifflett, Braulio Diez, Walt Ritscher, Mike Taulty, and Deborah Kurata.

Shoutouts:

Karl Erickson posted at the Silverlight SDK that Source viewer added to the Silverlight SDK sample browser

Karl Shifflett announced WPF & Silverlight Designer Team – New Blog... last I looked there were 5 articles up there!

If you haven't seen this yet from John Papa: Silverlight TV Episode 2: Perspectives on Flash and Silverlight... I just pointed my Zune at the feed last night and saw this coming down earlier tonight :

Rob Eisenberg has a big announcement: Caliburn v1.1 Release Candidate Available! ... huge list of fixes/improvements.. check it out.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Matrix3DEx 1.0 - When PlaneProjection is not enough: Oh man... I think this is going to be big ... Rene Schulte has pushed a Matrix3D library onto CodePlex... read his post, grab the code...
Consuming Web Services from Silverlight in WinPE: Jim Wightman continues on in his efforts with Silverlight and WinPE... this time out he's calling a webservice under WinPE from Silverlight.
Silverlight 4 breaking the com sandbox to create a file watcher: Michael Wolf explains how to build a File Watcher as an example of using a bridge service to communicate back to a Silverlight app.
Create First Silverlight Application: It's only appropriate that the first post I blog about from the new WPF & Silverlight Designer Blog is a First Silverlight app tutorial by Karl Shifflett...he has a video up on this as well.
Silverlight 4 Desktop Drag and Drop + Silver Sky: Braulio Diez has a post up at SilverlightShow detailing Silverlight 4 Drag and Drop and then goes on to do so to a Sky Drive page and posts some other cool ideas in a "What's Next" section.
Use Reflector to determine what .NET namespaces are aliased to Silverlight XAML namespace: Walt Ritscher is exploring the Silverlight assemblies with Reflector to see what he can find ... interesting information!
Silverlight in Seventy Seven Slides ( yes, I know ;-) ): File this in the Holy Crap category... Mike Taulty has a Silverlight slide deck that went 77 slides... gulp ... I'm not sure I've produced 77 slides total :)
Silverlight: Centering a RadioButton: Deborah Kurata stumbled across a situation with radio buttons that I'm not sure might not also be a problem with other controls. She does have a solution... good one, Deborah!

Stay in the 'Light!

Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2010 -- #781

Dave Campbell — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:31:06 GMT

In this Issue: Jim Wightman, Richard Waddell, Fredrik Normén(2), Einar Ingebrigtsen, Sergey Barskiy, Chris Klug, Dan Wahlin, Walt Ritscher, and Jonas Follesø.

Shoutouts:

You saw the beginning of Silverlight TV ... now John Papa announces Get Your Questions Answered on Silverlight TV

Mark Monster is discussing the architecture of his MeXperience application: MeXperience – Step 2 – Architecture and more

From SilverlightCream.com:

Another brief Silverlight in WinPE post: Jim Wightman has another video demo up of Silverlight in WinPE, now with full video playback and OOB
Seeker Sidebar 3 - Parts and States: Richard Waddell has the latest in his Seeker Series up. He's creating a multi-part Templated Seeker that is visible in Blend ... States next time.
Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 3 of X – Repository implementation: Fredrik Normén has part 3 of Aspen up and is already refactoring prior code! He also discusses the repository for the Member Entity
Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 4 of X – DomainService, using DTO and Unity: Fredrik Normén also has part 4 of Aspen up and in this one has a RIA Services Domain Service up for the Repository created in part 3.
Dispatcher Safe INotifyPropertyChanged: Einar Ingebrigtsen revisits his INPC post and this time around is dealing with the Dispatcher as well, and the code snippets are from the Balder project.
RIA Services (Cont.): Sergey Barskiy continues his exploration of RIA Services and is extending his DomainContext with custom classes
Button “hacks”: Chris Klug explains a couple issues he has with the out-of-the-box Silverlight Button... then goes on to explain his alterations... the cool one being a DelayedClickButton... very nice!
New Article – Getting Started with WCF RIA Services: Dan Wahlin has a new 3-part series on WCF RIA Services up on DDJ
Trusted and sandboxed applications in Silverlight 4: Walt Ritscher discusses all the options available to an OOB app in Silverlight 4B
Automatic INPC using dynamic proxy and Ninject: Jonas Follesø continues the INPC discussion of Justin Angel from my last SC post, and Jonas is combining a dynamic proxy approach with an IoC container.

Stay in the 'Light!