Silverlight Cream for November 28, 2008 - 2 -- #441

November 28, 2008 · 1 min read

In this issue: Michael Washington, Adam Kinney, Arturo Toledo(2), Hannes Preishuber, Tim Greenfield, and Jonathan van de Veen.

Shoutout:

Bill Reiss has an announcement on his blog that I keep forgetting to mention:... you don't want to lose track of Bill!

From:

Michael Washington has been posting new Silverlight Desktop posts the last couple days and I was going to give him a shoutout today, but hey... he sent me this link... he's got another release up... so go take a look!...thanks Michael:)

Adam Kinney has a post up about an application written by Manifest Digital that has some very cool Silverlight bits.

Arturo Toledo has a page up in response to the question of what do I need on-board to get going with Silverlight.

Arturo also is announcing the next PhizzPop Online Challenge... check out the rules, etc... you have until Jan 20!

Hannes Preishuber has a clever solution to getting a rownumber displayed in a datagrid or listbox.

GotFocus and LostFocus events on Silverlight containers

Tim Greenfield discusses why we aren't seeing GotFocus and LostFocus events on containers and why that makes sense, then goes about showing us howto retrieve them anyway:)

Using Source Control with Silverlight 2 and non-standard fonts

Jonathan van de Veen walks us through the progression of issues surrounding using Source Control with Silverlight 2 and non-standard fonts... and he leaves us with a solution and a question.

Stay in the 'Light!

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

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