Silverlight Cream for January 05, 2009 -- #476

In this issue: Quadra ODC Silverlight Outsourcing, Jeff Paries, Terence Tsang, and Damon Payne.


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Quadra ODC Silverlight Outsourcing has some samples up to 'strut their stuff', and this page-turning control works very nicely! I'll work my way through their other examples and have them on my big list now... thanks!

Shrinking XAP Size

Jeff Paries posted this article about shrinking the XAP and I thought... wow another one?... but... Jeff is shrinking it by shrinking PNG files... now that's a new one on me:)

Flash vs Silverlight: Theming and Styling

Terence Tsang tackles theming this go-around, and uses the Implicit style manager to style the Silverlight app in the code behind. Be sure to read everything, because this isn't as intuitive as it may seem!

Run time is design time for AGT[16]

I'm now only one behind on Damon Payne with this post from November 6, 2008. In this one Damon continues with his property editing scheme, and handles some refactoring issues.

Stay in the 'Light!


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