Silverlight Cream for December 16, 2008 - 2 -- #458

December 16, 2008 · 2 min read

In this issue: Rob Houweling, Damon Payne, Bart Czernicki, Timmy Kokke, James Bacon, Katrien De Graeve, Adam Kinney, Alex Golesh, Terence Tsang, John Papa, and Jesse Liberty.

Shoutouts:

I thought this Overnight Website Challenge - Looking for Developer Teams now! looked like it would be fun... if you're in the area consider it!

Adam Kinney reports a flash of Silverlight on Zune.net:.

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Rob Houweling has a very cool Christmas Card up for our enjoyment... I thought all the graphics definitely deserved a look! and Merry Christmas to you as well, Rob!

A Designer and Spatial Visualization tool for Silverlight 2

Damon Payne not only has a bunch of stuff on his site that I'll be blogging about, but he posted a cool layout tool to CodePlex... lots of possibilities there Damon!

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Bart Czernicki has a good descriptive article up on part 2 of his prediction for Silverlight 3.

Sending queryparameters to Silverlight

Timmy Kokke sent me this, and amazingly, I had just found it while cruising around on GWB... the idea of sending your Silverlight some setup parameters has been discussed, but I'm not sure I've seen Query strings... cool ideas, thanks Timmy!

James Bacon explains a problem with XAML in Blend and how it's just a bit more sensitive than VS... and gives examples of doing so.

Unity for Silverlight by P&P group has been released

Katrien De Graeve announces the Patterns and Practices group release of Unity for Silverlight.

Adam Kinney talks about the "Less than 10K" of Silverlight or WPF challenge for MIX09... think you can win?... well, do ya?... looks like it's definitely worth a try!

Alex Golesh is entering the Less than 10K of code challenge with the Game of Life in Silverlight... take a look.

Flash vs Silverlight: Loading External Assembly/Library Dynamically

Terence Tsang's latest outing is loading external assemblies, and he used a previous sample for the code.

John Papa is going to be doing a GeekSpeak tomorrow (Wednesday)... check the time in your time zone.

Podcast interview on animation

Jesse Liberty's latest Podcast with Erik Mork at Sparkling Client is up -- this one is on Animation... Jesse Liberty + Silverlight PodCast... gotta be good!

Stay in the 'Light!

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

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