Silverlight Cream for November 27, 2008 -- #439

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

In this issue: Martin Mihaylov, Tim Heuer, Katrien De Graeve, Expression Blend and Design Blog, Ruurd Boeke, Mike Snow(4), Jeff Wilcox, Michael S. Scherotter, Terence Tsang, and Corey Schuman.

Also:

Michael S. Scherotter has started a Silverlight Jobs Feed, and that sounds like a great idea!

Jeff Prosise reports Silverlight Enigma Simulator Updated (and a Lesson on Internationalization).

CrocusGirl has two updates going: Crocusgirl’s Silverlight 2 Updates and Silverlight 2 Update to “Save the Robot”.

Karsten Januszewski has an update also:.


From:

Routed Events in Silverlight

Martin Mihaylov posted a tutorial on routed events in Silverlight... in great detailed format as usual, including lots of links to other resources.

Tim Heuer highlights the great feeds on Silverlight.net, talks about othe resources there and in particular a new Gantt chart app.. very cool.

Live Framework – storing data in a Mesh-enabled Silverlight web application in 4 steps

Katrien De Graeve has another great multi-step tutorial up... this one is taking advantage of the Live Framework and Mesh.

Hello DeepZoomTools.DLL: Deep Zoom Image Tile Generation Made Easy

The Expression Blend and Design Blog describes tile generation in the latest DeepZoom bits.

Animating items part two

Ruurd Boeke expands on his previous post with an animated WrapPanel sample... and this sample is very cool to play with... great stuff, Ruurd!

Silverlight Tip of the Day #72 - How to call Page.xaml.cs from App.xaml.cs

Mike Snow more than doubled-up on me again... between checking, I found 4 Tips of the Day:) This first one explains how to call back into page.xaml.cs from app.xaml.cs -- I haven't had a need for this, but now I know I can! In the next one, Mike discusses and gives an example of threading: Silverlight Tip of the Day #73 - Threading in Silverlight. The next tip is: Silverlight Tip of the Day #74 - Monitoring for App.Current Events - Startup, UnhandledException & Exit., and the latest is on where to find all the localization information for Silverlight: Silverlight Tip of the Day #75 - Where to get the Localized Languages of Silverlight 2 Tools.

Jeff Wilcox delivers an outstanding guide to the AutoCompleteBox control in the Toolkit... who better than the person that developed the AutoCompleteBox... oh and, you'll notice a reference to a "December 2008 Toolkit"??

How to Teach Yourself Expression Blend

Michael S. Scherotter has some great links to resources for helping us learn Expression Blend.

Flash vs Silverlight: Media / Video Player

Terence Tsang's latest outing is using his previously demonstrated Media player.

Corey Schuman gives Dave Relyea credit on customiing the Tooltip, but then goes on to show us how to position it where we want... in XAML.

Stay in the 'Light!


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