Silverlight Cream for March 23, 2010 -- #818

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Published on Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:09:53 GMT Indexed on 2010/03/24 5:23 UTC
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In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Jeremy Likness, Mark Tucker, Christian Schormann, Page Brooks, Brad Abrams(-2-), Jeff Wilcox, Unnir, Bea Stollnitz, John Papa and Adam Kinney, and Bill Reiss(-2-).

Shoutouts:

Ashish Shetty posted his material from his MIX10 presentation: Stepping outside the browser with Silverlight 4

Not Silverlight, but dang useful, Karl Shifflett posted a Visual Studio 2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter Extension

Yavor Georgiev posted his MIX10 material: Two samples from today's MIX talk

From SilverlightCream.com:

GroupBox Sketching Control for WPF applications Using Blend: Max Paulousky creates a GroupBox control for SketchFlow for WPF. He includes a link to an example of doing the same for Silverlight.
Sequential Asynchronous Workflows in Silverlight using Coroutines: Jeremy Likness' latest post begann with a post on the Silverlight.net forum and Rob Eisenburg's MVVM presentation from MIX10 resulting in the use of Wintellect's PowerThreading library (downloadable), and Coroutines.
Windows Phone 7 UI Templates: Mark Tucker has been putting a lot of thought into WP7 apps and produced 5 templates for building apps, downloadable in PowerPoint format. He's also looking to discuss this concept.
Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part I: Christian Schormann has a great tutorial up about Expression Blend 4 and path layout ... this is lots of great info, and it's only part 1!
Custom Splash Screen for Windows Phone: Page Brooks makes very quick work of showing how to add a splash screen to your WP7 app... very nice, Page!
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Exposing Data from Entity Framework: Brad Abrams next post in the series is is on pulling your data from wherever it lives, and uses a DomainService to shape it for your Silverlight app.
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Consuming Data in the Silverlight Client: Brad Abrams then discusses consuming that data in a Silverlight app. Not much code involvement at all.. great ROI :)
Building Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 applications on a .NET 3.5 build machine: Jeff Wilcox talks about building Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4B both on a .NET 3.5 machine. He then adds in the Toolkit, and even WCF RIA Services.
Expression Blend 4 - XAML generation tweaks: Unnir demonstrates a few changes to Expression Blend 4 that produce more compact XAML. He's also asking for other examples you'd like to see tightened up.
How can I sort a hierarchy?: Bea Stollnitz posts plausible solutions to sorting data items at each level of a hierarchical UI, with descriptions of why they don't work, followed by the real deal... Silverlight and WPF.
Silverlight Training Course (Silverlight 4): John Papa and Adam Kinney have posted a huge body of work to get us up-to-speed on Silverlight 4 -- a WhitePaper, hands-on labs, and an 8-unit course with 25 accompanying videos... geez...
Silverlight game development on Windows Phone 7: Bill Reiss has a post up discussing game development on WP7 in general and then discusses his SilverSprite library, with a link to it.
XNA or Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 game development?: Bill Reiss next discusses the advantage of using Silverlight or XNA for your WP7 game development, and who better to discuss both?