Silverlight Cream for August 09, 2009 -- #666

In this Issue: Jeff Handley, John Papa, and Pete Blois.

Shoutouts:

Koen Zwikstra announced

Brian Genisio has a Adventures in MVVM – MVVM Interview with him and David Giard.

From:

Jeff Handley reworks a post based on a reader's comment and great addition to his ValidationException post.

John Papa turns a swivel effect into a Behavior, gives some props to Joel Neubeck and provide us the code!... very cool John, thanks!

Pete Blois gives a nice recap on what a nine-grid is if you don't know, then demonstrates by video how to put together a quick nice-looking sample in Blend.

Stay in the 'Light!

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