Silverlight Cream for December 01, 2008 -- #443

In this issue: Alex Golesh, Silverlight SDK, John Stockton, Page Brooks(2), Mike Snow(2), Terence Tsang(2), Adam Kinney, Shawn Wildermuth, Jesse Liberty, and Jonathan van de Veen.

Shoutouts:

Adam Kinney has some good comments about a much-viewed Surface video:.

Jesse Liberty waxes poetical about divElements, and it looks like with good reason:) SandDock for Silverlight – Commercial floating windows

Corey Schuman is going to be on GeekSpeak on the 10th:,


From:

Alex Golesh submitted this ont to me that is a collection of some very nice Silverlight tips... cool examples and pictures too, thanks Alex!

Silverlight Offline documentation as up to date as the web?

The Silverlight SDK announced the release of a new Silverlight chm file.

John Stockton has a post up explaining the Inline Silverlight he did a while back... and thanks for the shout out on your blog, John!

Page Brooks has two articles up... this first is about using resharper with Silverlight... including a video to tweak the imagination:)... the second is on tweaking also, but this is tweaking the OnApplyTemplate Event timing, with regard to custom controls:

Silverlight Tip of the Day #76 - Animating objects with DoubleAnimation.

Mike Snow got two up on me, this first is a good discussion of double animation, and the second is on a random generator class he built and is sharing: Silverlight Tip of the Day #77 - Creating an Efficient Random Generator

Silverlight vs Flash: Local Storage

Terence Tsang also had two posts up before I got to them... this first is on Isolated Storage and the second is a cool little intro to games: Flash vs Silverlight: Simple Game System

Adam Kinney has a post up about DeepEarth... this is pretty darned cool.

Using Content in ControlTemplates

Shawn Wildermuth gives a good detailed example of the ContentPresenter in ControlTemplates... making sense of the tricky stuff.

Simple Expander – Silverlight Toolkit

Jesse Liberty gives us a neat intro to the expander... code and all, and it's all xaml!

Silverlight 2 Datagrids RowDetailsTemplate and databinding radiobuttons

Jonathan van de Veen has a good informative post up on the DataGrid and RowDetailsTemplate, oh, and also databinding radio buttons:)

Stay in the 'Light!


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