Silverlight Cream for November 05, 2008 -- #420

November 5, 2008 · 1 min read

In this issue: Rich Griffin, Nikolay Raychev, David Anson, Manish Dalal, and Terence Tsang.

I apologize for not posting this on Monday, but Scott Barnes is asking for everyone's assistance on a poll: Calling all Silverlight/WPF Developers & Designers.

Then today Tim Heuer posted this:... wow... if you're a startup, check that out!

From:

Silverlight themes 101 - Resource Dictionary Visual Studio Item Template

Rich Griffin posted an item template for VS Resource Dictionaries... he has some info about it's use also... another time-saver from someone in the trenches:)

Silverlight Toolkit Overview

Nikolay Raychev posted a nice overview of the Silverlight Toolkit... one more won't hurt to drive the point home about all the goodness:)

A simple step continues to shrink the download size of Silverlight 2 applications

David Anson discusses re-compressing the XAP and has links out to a few blogs talking about it... I think I'm only missing one:)

Manish Dalal Acknowledges that we're all dorking with out configurations and provides us a tool to help switch between configurations -- pretty cool actually, one of those things to help you avoid pulling out what hair you have left!

Flash vs Silverlight: JavaScript Sample 2

Terence Tsang's latest demo has a ball bouncing between Silverlight and Flash... I remember some 1.0 demos something like this... but no matter what, it's seriously interesting to synch it up:)

Stay in the 'Light!

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