Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2009 -- #488

January 17, 2009 · 1 min read

In this issue: Jim Lynn, Shawn Wildermuth, Jeff Weber, and Terence Tsang.

Shoutouts:

Walt Ritscher reported on an interesting Web Design judging site: CommandShift3 - You be the judge of good Web Design.

Scott Barnes reports that Silverlight is all over The Moment..... looks like lots of Silverlight involved in the inauguration!

From:

Funky Popups using Tweener

Jim Lynn sent me this one, and I've added Jim to my big list... he is using the Tweener class from Silverlight Contrib to create some popups on clicking or MouseOver events.

Another DevReach Video is Available - Silverlight Control Customization

Shawn Wildermuth announces the release of another video of him sepaking at DevReach in Bulgaria. This one is all about Customizing controls.

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Jeff Weber has posted the game he announced he was working on for the MIX 10K challenge. This is fun... didn't get very far, only 5, but it is clever.

Silverlight vs Flash: Accordion Banner

Terence Tsang has an accordion banner up this time, in response to a reader request. I'm going to agree with Shawn Wildermuth's comments on this one...

Stay in the 'Light!

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

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