Silverlight Cream for March 25, 2010 -- #820

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Published on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:01:51 GMT Indexed on 2010/03/26 5:13 UTC
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In this Issue: René Schulte, Jeremy Likness, Hassan, Victor Gaudioso, SilverLaw, Mike Taulty, Phani Raj, Tim Heuer, Christian Schormann, Brad Abrams, David Anson, Diptimaya Patra, and Daniel Vaughan.

Shoutouts:

Last week, Koen Zwikstra announced Silverlight Spy at MIX10

Anand Iyer announced this for students on the Windows Team Blog: Be a Windows Phone 7 “Rockstar”

Justin Angel blogged that Silverlight Isn't Fully Cross-Platform ... let him know if you think it's a yawn or important.

On behalf of SilverlightShow, Cigdem Patlak posted MIX10: Laurent Bugnion on Silverlight adoption, WP7 and the EcoContest

From SilverlightCream.com:

Coding4Fun - Silverlight Real Time Face Detection: René Schulte has a Coding 4 Fun article posted on facial recognition. Who better to be manipulating graphics like this than René?
Sequential Asynchronous Workflows Part 2: Simplified: Jeremy Likness follows up his previous post with another one that is 'simplified'. Remember his previous post began with a post on the Silverlight.net forum and Rob Eisenburg's MVVM presentation from MIX10
Windows Phone 7 Video Tutorial: Hassan has a new video up on his AfricanGeek site, and that's a continuation of his previous WP7 video tutorial, adding a listbox and databinding it to the selected index of another listbox.
The Los Angeles Silverlight Usergorup will be Streaming its March Meeting LIVE in Silverlight – Tonight!: Victor Gaudioso used his Live Streaming knowledge to stream his User Group meeting last night from LA where Michael Washington presented on MVVM followed by Victor himself. That was last night. Today he has a couple of the videos up to view.
Shining 3D Font Design - Silverlight 3: SilverLaw has a "Shining 3D Font" tutorial up, and a video on it here: New Video: How to create a 3D effect on a Silverlight 3 Textblock ... this is also available in the Expression Gallery.
Silverlight 4 RC – Signing trusted apps with home made certificates: Mike Taulty has a post up about building a hand-rolled cert to test out the XAP signing features, and then gives a nod to John Papa with a link to the Silverlight White Paper I've posted about before, because this info is in there as well.
Developing a Windows Phone 7 Application that consumes OData: Phani Raj has a tutorial up on consuming the NetFlix OData catalog on the WP7 emulator ... now *that* is cool!
Make your Silverlight applications Speak to you with Microsoft Translator: Tim Heuer used Silverlight to demonstrate Microsoft Translator as a speech synthesis tool using the Speak API included ... pretty cool, Tim ... lots of external links and code.
Blend 4: About Path Layout, Sidebar – More About ListBox Than You Ever Wanted To Know: Christian Schormann has another outstanding tutorial up on the ListBox and PathLayout in Expression Blend ... just check out the screen shots and you'll wanna read it!
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services: Ready for Business: Updating Data in the Client: This is the continuation of Brad Abrams' series on WCF RIA Services and is a tutorial on setting up to deal with updating the data.
Tip: The CLR wrapper for a DependencyProperty should do its job and nothing more: David Anson is posting some "Development Tips", and this is the first ... discussing making sure your DependencyProperty CLR wrapper stays on point...
Create and Apply Theme Silverlight Application: Diptimaya Patra has a tutorial up on creating and using themes. He states that "Themes are nothing but some predefined styles" ... check it out and see if it's really that easy :)
Building a Windows Phone 7 Puzzle Game: Daniel Vaughan has a great post up starting with installing all the tools and ending with a maze game for WP7 using XNA for sound... this is the first I've seen that integrates XNA (I think).