Friday, July 03, 2009 Silverlight Cream for July 03, 2009 -- #628 In this Issue: Andrej Tozon ( 2 ), Walt Ritscher , Chris Klug , Timmy Kokke ( 2 ), Koen Zwikstra , and Dan Wahlin . From SilverlightCream.com : Countdown to Silverlight 3 #6: System colors Andrej Tozon continues his Countdown discussing the ability to get to system colors with Silverlight 3B. Countdown to Silverlight 3 #7: Navigation In his latest, Andrej Tozon discusses the Silverlight Navigation aspects of Silverlight 3B and a quick walk-through of it's use. Disable Autoplay on Silverlight Video in Expression Encoder 2 SP1 Walt Ritscher shows us a 'hidden' setting in Expression Encoder that allows us to turn off autopl ...

Thursday, July 02, 2009 Silverlight Cream for July 02, 2009 -- #627 In this Issue: Erik Mork ( 2 ), Michael Washington , Faisal ( 2 ), Andrej Tozon ( 2 ), and Jose Fajardo . I feel like I went through a time-warp or something because there is a flurry of SL out there right now. And a couple of folks are just flooding me! Hopefully I can catch up this weekend. From SilverlightCream.com : Downloading Prism Prism apparently is not straightforward to get up on your machine (oops, kinda lets you know I'm not running it eh?) oh well.. Erik Mork has a great tutorial links and all, no more excuses! 10 Things to Know About Silverlight Prism When I first saw Erik Mork's 10 things post I thought ok, a list ... but nope .. each of thse i ...

Wednesday, July 01, 2009 Silverlight Cream for July 01, 2009 -- #626 In this Issue: Cristian Merighi , Walt Ritscher , Al Pascual , Vijay , and Faisal ( 2 ). Shoutouts: The Mashooo folks have the winning entries up for their S Prize contest. I'd like to thank them for the honor of participating as a judge. I didn't look at any of the games prior to going through the 10 finalists because I didn't want to be swayed. Since I was a judge I won't comment on the winners, but I will say I'm not disappointed :) Check them out ... the other 7 are all winners also! Mashooo S Prize Silverlight Games Contest Danijel Stulic sent me a link to this awesome school timetable software completely done in Silverlight: School timetabling just got better using Silverlight . I did a trial, and it looks and works great. I hope you get time to blog about this, and if you do, let me know!

Wednesday, July 01, 2009 Sure Cure for the Blahs: MVP Re-Award! First congratulations to everyone else that got awarded or re-awarded today! The only one I'm aware of so far is John Stockton -- a first-time awardee in Silverlight -- very cool John!  I'm sure Twitter is alive with all the info, but I can't get to it from here. Just after getting to work, I got my re-award email and it made the muggy gray day here in Phoenix much brighter :) Thanks to everyone involved... I know it's a tough thankless job sifting through all the information and there are so many people to choose from. I'm proud and humbled at the same time (is that possible??). Thanks a bunch to my lead, Suzanna Moran-- a tireless lady that is always watching out for all of us. And thanks to all of you that are involved with either developing Silverlight or making it what it is by developing using Silverlight. As always Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Silverlight Cream for June 30, 2009 -- #625 In this Issue: Davide Zordan , Erik Mork ( 2 ), Walt Ritscher , Peter Bromberg , and Lee . Shoutouts: Are you up for showing off?? Tim Heuer has announced a Silverlight Coding Competition – win USD $10,000! ... and check that list of judges... wow :) Remember Chris Klug's FlickR ViewR? Well, check out the problems he had putting it on the blog: And then Firefox does it differently…reloading the Silverlight control when the css changes… . From SilverlightCream.com : Multi Touch enabling your WPF application Yeah I know this is WPF, but it's just cool, check out Davide Zordan's Windows 7 RC multi-touch app... and check out the link to David Kelley's Silverlight version ...

Monday, June 29, 2009 Silverlight Cream for June 29, 2009 -- #624 In this Issue: Andrej Tozon ( 2 , 3 ), Jonathan van de Veen , Corey Schuman , and Al Pascual . Shoutouts: I'm with Jesse on this one: So Much Is Happening The Silence Is Deafening! Remember when Mike Snow said he was writing a book on Silverlight Game Programming? Have you noticed his blog has slowed down? Well... the book is NOW: Game Programming with Silverlight. Shawn Wildermuth announces that My Sillveright-Prism Article is Live! -- in MSDN Magazine... very cool, Shawn! What a weekend... essentially 3-1/2 days trying to finish off my part of the book. Hopefully I've got that behind me now :) From SilverlightCream.com : Countdown to Silverlight 3 #3: Merged resource dictionaries Andrej Tozon's third post in ...

Friday, June 26, 2009 Silverlight Cream for June 26, 2009 -- #623 In this Issue: Erik Mork , Colin Eberhardt , Nigel Sampson , and Alex Golesh . Shoutouts: Pavan Podila has a post up about a great-looking TreeMap he's done. He may post source later, I'll watch for it. Meanwhile read the post and watch the video. A SilverLight TreeMap control From SilverlightCream.com : Commanding in Prism Erik Mork interviews P&P members Bob Brumfield and David Hill along with Shawn Wildermuth all discussing Commanding in Prism ... another great Prism Podcast Erik! Silverlight MultiBindings, How to attached multiple bindings to a single property I first looked at this and thought so... but oh... Colin Eberhardt has the aggregation of two bound properties not on the sample as a string but as a bound aggregate of ...

Friday, June 26, 2009 Phoenix Silverlight User Group Meeting July 1 The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Phoenix Silverlight User Group will be next Wednesday, July 1 at 6pm at Interface Technical Training in downtown Phoenix (Central and Thomas, NW corner). Steele Price will follow-up last month's excellent presentation with a full LOB presentation this time around. He showed us a little of this last time, but come prepared to learn all about it on Wednesday. Hope to see you there! Phoenix Silverlight User Group ...

Thursday, June 25, 2009 Silverlight Cream for June 25, 2009 -- #622 In this Issue: Corey Schuman , and Pete Brown . Shoutouts: Jonathan van de Veen is working on a new project: The birth of CodeEmbed4Web . I'm looking forward to the post saying it's ready :) From SilverlightCream.com : ToggleButton Command for Prism Are you working with Prism and chafing that you don't have Checked and Unchecked commands for a ToggleButton? Well, Corey Schuman has resolved that and along the way gives us insight into how to perform that magic, along with all the code. From Silverlight in Action 2nd Edition: UI Element Binding Pete Brown shares an excerpt from "Silverlight in Action 2nd Edition" ... the excerpt being on UI element binding. This ...

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 Silverlight Cream for June 24, 2009 -- #621 In this Issue: Erik Mork , Fons Sonnemans , Ian Blackburn , Lee , and Timmy Kokke . From SilverlightCream.com : Commanding and Adding Commands in Prism Erik Mork has his latest Prism Hypervideo up ... this one is on Commands and commanding ... great job on all these, Erik! ImageSlider in Silverlight 2.0 Fons Sonnemans came across a blog of cool JQuery tutorials and decided to give one of them a shot in Silverlight ... looks like he stuck the dismount to me ... keep them coming, Fons! Pushing Data From the Server to Silverlight 3 using a Duplex Wcf Service Ian Blackburn took on a challenge after a class and put together a Duplex WC ...

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Silverlight Cream for June 23, 2009 -- #620 In this Issue: Erno de Weerd , Colin Eberhardt , Thanigainathan Siranjeevi , Stefan Olson ( 2 ), Dan Wahlin , Chris Klug , and Alex Golesh . Shoutouts: Tim Greenfield has entered the NewCloudApp Windows Azure contest with a Silverlight app and asks us to Look what Silverlight can do ... for now he has his submittal, a cool jigsaw puzzle, but he promises to write all about it. From SilverlightCream.com : Silverlight, Windows Live Writer and WordPress Erno de Weerd blogged this and it's been picked up by others. If you're blogging on WordPress, now you can embed your Silverlight... of course my client has WordPress blocked, but that's not your problem :) Exposing Bindings as Properties of a Control Colin Eberhardt has an e ...

Sunday, June 21, 2009 Silverlight Cream for June 21, 2009 -- #619 In this Issue: Brian Genisio , Cristian Merighi , Terence Tsang , Gavin Wignall , and Alex Golesh ( 2 ), Shoutouts: The Expression Blend and Design blog announced Deep Zoom Composer - June 2009 Preview! Unni posted a set of links on Blend 3 Databinding From SilverlightCream.com : Adventures in MVVM -- Ball of Mud vs MVVM Brian Genisio discusses a demo he's doing of the contrast between a messy untested app and a good componentized one all of which is a twitter search app in WPF. Parametric Shader Effect in Silverlight 3 Beta1 Cristian Merighi takes us step-by-step through writing a .fx file using HLSL, compiles it into a .ps f ...

Friday, June 19, 2009 Silverlight Cream for June 19, 2009 - 2 -- #618 In this Issue: Ian T. Lackey , and Al Pascual . Shoutouts: Don't forget it is Time to rate the Silverlight games on the Mashooo S Prize From SilverlightCream.com : DotNetNuke Silverlight Chat v2 – Gravatar Support Ian T. Lackey approaches adding Gravatar support to a Silverlight application with a perspective of if it's not there, make it so... read his code and comments. IIS Security Settings for Silverlight 2.0 Al Pascual walks us through some of the problems we might encounter with Silverlight accessing files on servers. He then follows with a bunch of good advice on how to set things up properly.

Friday, June 19, 2009 Silverlight Cream for June 19, 2009 -- #617 In this Issue: Erik Mork , Nigel Sampson , Jonathan van de Veen , Steve Strong , and Kevin Dockx . From SilverlightCream.com : Which comes first the View or the ViewModel? Erik Mork and Shawn Wildermuth attempt to unravel the chicken/egg debate as it relates to MVVM... what, you didn't think Shawn had an opinion on that one ?? :) Attaching Silverlight 3 Behaviors in C# If you're not familiar with Microsoft.Expression.Interactivity.Interaction or dealing with Attached Behaviors in your C#, then Nigel Sampson has some good information for you. Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #13 Jonathan van de Veen explores the good and bad of his decision to use EF in the application he's building. Good insigh ...

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 Silverlight Cream for June 17, 2009 -- #616 In this Issue: Alex Golesh , Chris Klug ( 2 ), Gavin Wignall , Peter Bromberg , and Al Pascual . Shoutouts: Shawn Wildermuth is on Deep Fried Bytes: Listen to me on Deep Fried Bytes! ... listen to him discuss OSLO and DSLs in general. Updated with Chris Klug's real last name... sorry Chris! From SilverlightCream.com : Silverlight 2 applications: a day after Silverlight 3 release Alex Golesh puts himself in the position of being 1 day after the release of Silverlight 3 and what we all need to do with out code to make it work... good advice, and there's still a lot of 1.1 code broken out there :) flickrVIEWR – A flickr viewer in Silverlight – Part 1