Tuesday, January 06, 2009 Silverlight Cream for January 06, 2009 -- #477 In this issue: James Bacon, Chris Anderson, Jesse Liberty, Expression Blend and Design Blog, Laurent Bugnion, John Stockton, Alex Golesh, Gerard Leblanc, Lee, Andy Beaulieu, Jonathan van de Veen(3), Jobi Joy, and Damon Payne. I think everybody was working on stuff over the holidays and dumped it onto the interweb last night! Shoutouts: Jeff Wilcox has aggregated A bunch of AutoCompleteBox posts ... save you some search time. Jeff also asks Using the Silverlight Toolkit? Let us know! . Here's your chance to get onto Jeff's blog :) It's not exactly Silverlight, but it's dang cool, Adam Kinney reports TEWON35 prototype for Microsoft Surface from 2ndFactory . Bill Reiss reports that they are Looking for Silverlight/Cloud/Online Services speakers at South Florida Code Camp 2009 ... so if you're in Florida, or would rather ...

Tuesday, January 06, 2009 Silverlight Write and Win Contest It's a new year, so why not make getting on with learning and writing about Silverlight one of your resolutions, and what better way to kick it off than to enter the contest the guys at SilverlightShow are running? Just click the logo above, and check out all the cool prizes they have waiting. Pay no attention to the other entries... you know you've got it in you, just go for it :) You've got until January 31, 2009 to enter, so start planning and writing!   Silverlight     ...

Tuesday, January 06, 2009 DevTeach / SQLTeach Vancouver (June 8-12,2009) I've not been to the Vancouver event , but I did attend and speak at the Montreal event in December, and I have to say I liked it! The venue and gang was smaller, so sessions were smaller and more shall I say intimate? It fostered more of a conversational-style than presentations you'll find at  MIX. The speaker list isn't up yet, but they plan on 136 sessions and if you look at the list of speakers that talked in Montreal, you'll get an idea. 17 are Silverlight! If you want a reason to plan a vacation in Vancouver June 8-12, 2009, then DevTeach/SQLTeach is your reason! If you go to the site today, you'll see a note about a secret rebate code that is good for 50% off the price. This code can only be used 30 times prior to February 10th. If you're interested, the code is: DEVT50OFFVAN Be one of the first 30 to use thi ...

Monday, January 05, 2009 Silverlight Cream for January 05, 2009 -- #476 In this issue: Quadra ODC Silverlight Outsourcing, Jeff Paries, Terence Tsang, and Damon Payne. From SilverlightCream.com : Quadra Silverlight Flipbook Control 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 Silverli ...

Sunday, January 04, 2009 Silverlight Cream for January 04, 2009 -- #475 In this issue: Steve Commisso, Jobi Joy, and Damon Payne. From SilverlightCream.com : Run time is design time for AGT [15] In the latest Damon Payne entry (from October 30, 2008), Damon is taking on property editing ... properties of the objects he's moving around... good stuff! Mix 10K smart coding challenge Jobi Joy has an entry for the MIX09 10K challenge, and considering the size limitations, he did a LOT! MIX09 10K Smart Coding Challenge Steve Commisso is another Phoenix Silverlight User's Group member that has entered the MIX09 10K challenge. Take a look at what he's done, and read how he accomplished it! Stay in the 'Light! Twitter ...

Friday, January 02, 2009 Silverlight Cream for January 02, 2009 -- #474 In this issue: Jesse Liberty, Terence Tsang, Hannes Preishuber, Tim Heuer, and Damon Payne. Shoutouts: Michael Washington discusses the upcoming enhancements for the Silverlight Desktop. Mike Snow takes a step back and give us a Silverlight Tips of the Day - Summary Outline . From SilverlightCream.com : Silverlight Toolkit WrapPanel Jesse Liberty takes a side-excursion from HyperVideo and gives a great tutorial on the wrap panel in the toolkit... good stuff, Jesse! Silverlight vs Flash: Driving Game with hit test Terence Tsang returns from the holidays with a hit-testing example... and here I was trying to avoid the 'food' ... :) Silverlight 2.0 Compression Rate Hannes Preishuber takes a look at the re-compression thoug ...

Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Happy New Year from SilverlightCream! Happy New Year everyone, from SilverlightCream! I hadn't decided if I was going to do a retrospective post this year, I've done a couple, and if you haven't read them, they shouldn't be hard to find on my blog :) Going through my blog list, however, I came across a year-ender by Chris Alcock of "The Morning Brew", and taking his lead, I thought I'd put out some metrics on SilverlightCream. I have a list of 210 blogs I scan every day. This is an ever-growing list. As someone submits something to the site, or I find them some other way, I add them. Some of these are aggregations such as 4Guys or Silverlight.net, so the fan-out is greater than the actual number. If I don't list your work, please send me an email or su ...

Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Silverlight Cream for December 31, 2008 -- #473 In this issue: Laurent Bugnion, Jeff Paries, Robby Ingebretsen, and Damon Payne. Shoutout: If you have a 30G Zune and you haven't turned it on today, don't (for now) as reported by Guy Barrette : Zune Y2K9 . From SilverlightCream.com : New Year's Greetings and Silverlight Greeting Card Laurent Bugnion sent me the link to this earlier today, and wow... what a bunch of work... very cool slideshow, Laurent... awesome pictures and remembrances! Seattle Waterfront 1907-2002 Jeff Paries has a cool post up as usual... he reworked (with permission) another site in Silverlight to give a very cool time-change effect on the Seattle waterfront. MoustachR Robby Ingebretsen is going to MIX09 no matter what... ...

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Silverlight Cream for December 30, 2008 - 2 -- #472 In this issue: Guy Ellis, Jonathan van de Veen, Jesse Liberty, Beatriz Stollnitz, Justin Angel, Manish Dalal, and Damon Payne. Shoutout: Earlier today I left out a shoutout to Laurence Moroney because he announced the availability of his Silverlight 2 Book – In Russian/u> ! From SilverlightCream.com : BMI Calculator Guy Ellis is one of Phoenix' own, and decided to enter the MIX09 10K competition. He has a very clever BMI calculator with and expanding/contracting person showing... pretty clever, really! Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #2 Jonathan van de Veen is running a series on Silverlight programming and while this one isn't into code ...

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Silverlight Cream for December 30, 2008 -- #471 In this issue: Pete Brown, Damon Payne, Agata Staniak, Justin Angel, and David Anson. Shoutout: John Papa responded to some of the Silverlight security posts lately: Security and Silverlight . From SilverlightCream.com : Dealing with the “Project file must include the .NET Framework assembly …” Error I missed this one from just before Christmas by Pete Brown detailing how to resolve the error in the title... pretty simple, actually! Run time is design time for AGT [11] Episode 11 of Damon Payne's coding articles is on my list today. This article details his issues with RC0... yeah remember, I'm playing catch-up on his articles! Silverlight Basics #3: All roads lead to Rome - mixing XAML and C# Agata Stan ...

Monday, December 29, 2008 Silverlight Cream for December 29, 2008 -- #470 In this issue: Steve Commisso, Damon Payne, and Tim Greenfield(2). Shoutout: Koen Zwikstra has uploaded a new (signed) version of SilverlightSpy. You'll have to uninstall the previous version to install this one, but don't think about it... just go get it... you'll like it! Silverlight Spy 2.0.0.39 available . From SilverlightCream.com : Consuming RESTful Web Services in Silverlight Steve Commisso gives credit to Rob Bagby for the foundation for this post, and extends it... good stuff, Steve, thanks! Run time is design time for AGT [10] Continuing to work my way through Damon Payne's articles on the application he's building, we get to the point of selecting items on the design surface. RIA security 101: Logins, web servi ...

Sunday, December 28, 2008 Silverlight Cream for December 28, 2008 -- #469 In this issue: Maurice de Beijer, Damon Payne, Expression Blend and Design BLog, Bart Czernicki, Ning Zhang, and Jesse Liberty. Shoutout: If you haven't seen Silverlight Solution Center, check it out: Microsoft Help and Support From SilverlightCream.com : Unit testing in Silverlight part 1 Maurice de Beijer sent me this link to part one of a series he's doing on Silverlight Unit Testing. I'll catch up with him, but if you're more interested, you can read ahead on his blog :) Run time is design time for AGT[9] This is my latest of Damon Payne's postings in his AGT-building series. In this one, Damon bemoans the look-and-feel he's achieved and discusses his future visual needs for the program. Creating Falling Snow in Silverlight! If you ar ...

Saturday, December 27, 2008 Silverlight Cream for December 27, 2008 -- #468 In this issue: Al Pascual, Damon Payne, Laurent Bugnion, Shawn Wildermuth, Jesse Liberty, and Jobi Joy. Shoutout: Shawn Wildermuth has announced that Silverlight Tour Now includes Coverage of the Silverlight Toolkit . From SilverlightCream.com : Vote NO on the crossdomain.xml file, use the cloud to bypass errors. Al Pascual opens up a way to cause himself and everyone else some problems with Cross-Domain issues, but I looked at his post of combining his Azure proxy with Silverlight as being more interesting than the whole Cross-Domain 'problem'. Run time is design time for AGT[8] In Damon Payne's latest post that I'm reporting on, he is discussing a shopping list of refactoring issues he wants to take care of. Silverlight toolkit: Problem with the Vi ...

Friday, December 26, 2008 Silverlight Cream for December 26, 2008 -- #467 In this issue: Brad Abrams, Justin Angel, Damon Payne, David Betz, and Adam Kinney. From SilverlightCream.com : Resolution Randomizer Brad Abrams has a link to this New Year's Resolution site in Silverlight. I can't see who the author is, but there's some fun resolutions come out of it :) Custom VSM VisualStateManagers in Silverlight 2.0 Justin Angel has a seriously interesting article up on building a custom VSM... no, really... I told you it was seriously interesting! Run time is design time for AGT [7] Continuing with Damon Payne's application-building exercise, he's now into the stage where he's wiring up allowing the users to drag to his design surface. Reusing .NET Assemblies in Silverlight I missed this one from David ...

Wednesday, December 24, 2008 Silverlight Cream for December 24, 2008 -- #466 In this issue: Jim Lynn, Silverlight Girl, Microsoft Natal, Damon Payne, Lutz Gerhard, Tamir Khason, Imran Shaik, Ning Zhang, and Joe Stegman. Shoutout: Cameron Albert is almost to the Alpha stage on Parenthia. Check it out: Almost Alpha Time! From SilverlightCream.com : Christmas in Silverlight Jim Lynn sent me this admittedly no-code Christmas card. Cool Deep Zoom demo though... I like it :) Create shadow effect in Expression Blend - Part 2 Silverlight Girl Continues with her Expression Blend Shadow effects, enhancing and refining her efforts from last time... cool tutorial, thanks! Microsoft eCard Ok, I admit I don't know what the 'Natal' part is, but this Silverlight eCard from Microsoft Natal is very cool. Run time i ...