Silverlight Cream for October 20, 2008 - 2 -- #402

October 20, 2008 · 1 min read

In this issue: Rob Zelt, Page Brooks, Chad Campbell, Jeff Prosise, Mike Snow, Jordan Knight, and Silverlight Web Services Team.

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Rob Zelt sent me this post this evening... and it's pretty cool that items placed get rearranged according to date. I'm sure this should spark ideas in some folks... thanks Rob!

Page Brooks is making a big hit with his Silverlight Contrib project. Page, Koen Zwikstra, Rob Houweling, and Shawn Wildermuth are all collaborating for the benefit of all of us on this project, and they have an Alpha release... check it out, and climb on board! In addition to Page's post, others have taken note of his project as well, most noteably and.

Silverlight 2 - Templating Video

Chad Campbell has a Video on Control templating up now, as if anybody needed any prompting to get a copy of his book:)

Cool Silverlight Trick #2

Jeff Prosise put up his Trick number 2, this time on ditching the JavaScript bridge and associated JS.

Silverlight Tip of the Day #63 – How to Monitor HTTP Traffic for Errors

Mike Snow has a very nice article up on using Fiddler to fiddle around with Silverlight, HTTP Traffic and more... if you don't know how to do this yet, check it out!

Jordan Knight has a quick post up about getting a relative URI to your WebService.. he discusses the portability issue and a workaround for it as well!

New Web Services Features in Silverlight 2 RTW

The Silverlight Web Services Team has a new blog post up highlighting the features in RTW, and it's a pretty good list of stuff!

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

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