Silverlight Cream for March 20, 2010 -- #815

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Published on Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:21:12 GMT Indexed on 2010/03/20 20:31 UTC
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In this Issue: Andy Beaulieu(-2-, -3-), Alex Golesh, Damian Schenkelman, Adam Kinney(-2-), Jeremy Likness, Laurent Bugnion, and John Papa.

Shoutouts:

Adam Kinney has a good summary up of where to go for all the tools and toys: Install checklist for Silverlight 4 RC, Blend 4 Beta and Windows Phone Developer tools from MIX10 ... tons of links

Laurent Bugnion had a few announcements at MIX10: MVVM Light V3 released at #MIX10, and he followed that with What’s new in MVVM Light V3 ... now for Windows Phone!

Laurent Bugnion also has announced Sample code for my #mix10 talk online

From SilverlightCream.com:

Physics Games in Silverlight on Windows Phone 7: Andy Beaulieu has the Physics Helper working for WP7 already... read his post, check out all the links and get going on something fun... was great seeing you at MIX, too, Andy!
Silverlight 4: GPU Accelerated PlaneProjection: Andy Beaulieu has a comparison up of Plane Projection with and without the new GPU acceleration... be sure to read his notes section.
Silverlight 4 PathListBox for Motion Path Animation: Have you heard of the PathListBox? Well, showing is better than telling, so check out Andy Beaulieu's post on it
Silverlight at Windows Phone 7: Alex Golesh has a quick overview on developing a Windows Phone 7 app in Silverlight using the new toys, and executiting it in the emulator
Prism v2.1: Creating a Region Adapter for the Accordion control: Damian Schenkelman shows how to use the Accordian control from the toolkit as a region in a Prism app.
Expression Blend 4 Beta Feature Overview available for download: Adam Kinney announced the presence of an Expression Blend whitepaper as well... you should go grab that too
.toolbox – Free online Silverlight and Expression Blend training: Want to improve your Silverlight chops or gain some Expression Blend chops? Check out .toolbox post that Adam Kinney posted
Introducing the Visual State Aggregator: Jeremy Likness describes the basic panel A/panel B problem, describes ways he and other folks have flipped between them, then describes his Visual State Aggregator ... and it's downloadable for you to give it a dance!
Multithreading in Windows Phone 7 emulator: A bug: Laurent Bugnion found a bug wit multi-threading on the Windows Phone emulator. He confirmed this with the team, and has a workaround you'll be needing... thanks Laurent.
Silverlight Overview - Technical Whitepaper: John Papa has reiterated the existence of this Silverlight 4 whitepaper ... it was updated this week, and we all should be aware of it.