Silverlight Cream for October 07, 2008 -- #390

In this issue: Write & Win Contest Winners, Jeff Paries, Erik & Monica Mork with John Papa, Martin Mihaylov, Dave Crawford, Tim Heuer, Laurence Moroney, Peter Bromberg, and Terence Tsang.

I received this yesterday and it fell through the cracks in the interweb, but SilverlightShow has announed The Winners! of their latest Write and Win contest... check it out, and congratulations to the winners!

Jeff Paries has posted Silverlight 2 Animation Book Cover, and has snuck a couple more video examples out to amaze and confound us while waiting... awesome, Jeff!


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Accessing Data Services in Silverlight

Erik and Monica Mork interviewed John Papa in the latest Sparkling Client Podcast. For those of us patiently awaiting John's book, this may either pacify us for a moment, or make us want it more.

The ProgressBar control in Silverlight 2

Martin Mihaylov takes a good long look at the ProgressBar in Silverlight 2 RC0.

Tim Heuer reports on Dave Crawford's work... yikes did he do a great job on that skin!... I've added Dave to my big list-o-bloggers and also put him in the SC database.

DeepZoom your Office Documents!

Laurence Moroney takes DeepZoom into the realm of serving up your docs. I've heard of people doing their PowerPoint Presentations, but not docs... but he's got a very valid reason for doing so... check it out!

SILVERLIGHT CROSS-DOMAIN / CLIENTACCESSPOLICY FILE CHECKER

Going back a bit, Peter Bromberg posted this article on Cross-Domain Client-Access Policies. He makes simple work of all this... and it's all code!

Silverlight vs Flash: Switching to Full Screen

Terence Tsang posted this Full-Screen demo/article today.

Stay in the 'Light!


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