Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2008 -- #323

July 11, 2008 · 2 min read

Azret Botash with a series on the Devexpress Grid, Martin Mihaylov on JSON Serialization, Lee on UserControl Communication, Michael Sync on SL Unity Application block, Adam Kinney with an Animation Lab, Jesse Liberty on Blend, and Tim Heuer on debugging SL and fonts and file uploading.

Karen Corby has her FlickrViewr updated for SL2B2.

Page Brooks has materials up from his, and while you're on his site, check out the prize list now available for the.

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Azret Botash of Devexpress has started a series on a Devexpress blog (watch this blog), discussing the new Datagrid they are offering for a free download. The posts have some write-up and then a video. This first post introduces the grid. The next one is on. This is followed by which intruduces templates with the grid. The next is on using the 5 built-in aggregate functions. Next is, such as check, or date columns, and finally a roll-up sort of application, where a very cool display of Facebook info is pulled into the grid very quickly!... all good stuff... go get the grid and then do the videos... what else you going to do on Saturday... it's summer and it's hot:)

JSON serialization and deserialization in Silverlight

Martin Mihaylov has a very nice article up on JSON Serialization/deserialization in Silverlight... and as usual, has a link out to external information... very nice!

Communication between UserControls

Lee is proving to be a man of few words, but his UserControls are communicating, so that makes up for it... go check out the source!

Ok so I haden't heard of Unity prior to Michael's post... there was Trinity in The Matrix, but that's something different:)... if you don't know what it is either, Michael has a bunch of reference links on the bottom of the post for us dullards:)

Adam Kinney posted about a new Animation Hands-on Lab that he says is better than the one at MIX '08, so I'd say we should head on over there!

Green Eggs and Blend

Jesse Liberty channels Dr. Seuss for his post about his latest instructional video on Blend... I haven't watched this yet, but I'd say if it follows the quality of Jesse's other work, you should just go watch it now!

Tim Heuer is asking for opinions to be posted on his blog about a SL debugging idea he has... read his post and let him know your thoughts.

Tim also reports on a couple new videos on the Silverlight.net site about embedded fonts and file upload.

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

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