Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2010 - 2 -- #811

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Published on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:06:43 GMT Indexed on 2010/03/11 17:20 UTC
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In this Issue: AfricanGeek, Phil Middlemiss, Damon Payne, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Jobi Joy(-2-), Fredrik Normén, Bobby Diaz, and Mike Taulty(-2-).

Shoutouts:

Shawn Wildermuth blogged that they posted My "What's New in Silverlight 3" Video from 0reDev Last Fall

Shawn Wildermuth also has a post up for his loyal followers: Where to See Me At MIX10

Jonas Follesø has presentation materials up as well: MVVM presentation from NDC2009 on Vimeo

Adam Kinney updated his Favorite Tool and Library Downloads for Silverlight

From SilverlightCream.com:

Styling Silverlight ListBox with Blend 3: In his latest Video Tutorial, AfricanGeek is animating the ListBox control by way of Expression Blend 3.
Animating the Silverlight Opacity Mask: Phil Middlemiss has written a Behavior that lets you turn a FrameworkElement into an opacity mask for it's parent container... check out his tutorial and grab the code.
AddRange for ObservableCollection in Silverlight 3: Damon Payne has a post up discussing the problem with large amounts of data in an ObservableCollection, and how using AddRange is a performance booster.
Easily rotate the axis labels of a Silverlight/WPF Toolkit chart: David Anson blogged a solution to rotating the axis labels of a Silverlight and WPF chart.
Persisting the Configuration (Updated): Jesse Liberty has a good discussion on the continuation of his HyperVideo Platform talking about what all he is needing from the database in the form of configuration information... including the relationships.
Animations and View Models: IAnimationDelegate: Check out Jeremy Likness' IAnimationDelegate that lets your ViewModel fire and respond to animations without having to know all about them.
Button Style - Silverlight: Jobi Joy converted a WPF control template into Silverlight... and you'll want to download the XAML he's got for this :)
A Simple Accordion banner using ListBox: Jobi Joy also has an Image Accordian created in Expression Blend... and it's a 'drop this XAML in your User Control' kinda thing... again, go grab the XAML :)
WCF RIA Services Silverlight Business Application – Using ASP.NET SiteMap for Navigation: Fredrik Normén has a code-laden post up on RIA Services and the ASP.NET SiteMap. He is using the Silverlight Business app template that comes with WCF RIA Services.
A Simple, Selectable Silverlight TextBlock (sort of)...: Bobby Diaz shares with us his solution for a Text control that can be copied from in the same manner 'normal' web controls can be. He also includes a link to another post on the same topic.
Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 11 - WCF and TCP: Mike Taulty has another pair of video tutorials up in his Networking series. This one is on WCF over TCP
Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 12 - WCF and Polling HTTP: Mike Taulty's 12th networking video tutorial is on WCF with HTTP polling duplex.