Silverlight Cream for July 18, 2009 -- #645

July 18, 2009 · 2 min read

In this Issue: Nikhil Kothari, Christian Schormann, Damon Payne, Jeff Blankenburg(2), Scott Marlowe(2), David Poll, Alex Golesh, John Papa, Janete, and Alex Knight.

Shoutouts:

For all you bloggers, check out Jonathan van de Veen's CodeEmbed4Web Beta 1 Release.

Sergey Barskly sent me this link for a on July 28th... you've still got time to register:)

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Nikhil Kothari announces a new release of Silverlight.FX, gives an overview of some of the new goodies and how about "Float" and "Spin3D"??

Christian Schormann had a quick post to give us links to a couple SketchFlow demos on YouTube.

Damon Payne discusses the fact that animating the clipping path while advantageous, isn't necessarily straightforward. He then goes on to describe his method of accomplishing it.

Jeff Blankenburg discusses downloading the Toolkit and then concentrates on the AutocompleteTextbox, and has a great example running on the post.

After getting some good examples underway, Jeff Blankenburg concentrates on the layout options for a Silverlight application with this post... specifically the Canvas, StackPanel, and Grid.

Scott Marlowe's next post is about the SL2 to SL3 transition. He's got a bunch of good links to resources, and information based on his experience of doing this.

Scott Marlowe not only talks about using the object tag in Silverlight 3, but he gives detailed instructions and code on doing so.

David Poll responds to queries from his readers with this post and has come up with a way to do navigation with dynamically-loaded assemblies.

Alex Golesh discusses external zip files and manifests and has a link out to an article about the subject by Tim Heuer, then provides a download of a utility he wrote to create the manifests.

John Papa got some excellent advice for problems he was having with Blend and Prism apps from guys like Peter Blois, Bob Brumfield, and Glenn Block. And you get to share in the knowledge he acquired from them:)

Janete has a great overview of Expression Blend 3 up detailing the fun new features: Prototyping, Importing Design Assets, Design Time Data, and Behaviors.

Alex Knight demonstrates importing files from Photoshop into Blend. He also has some great hints like naming your layers and embedding fonts.

Stay in the 'Light!

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