Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2010 -- #823

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Published on Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:10:12 GMT Indexed on 2010/03/29 4:13 UTC
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In this Issue: Michael Washington, Andy Beaulieu, Bill Reiss, jocelyn, Shawn Wildermuth, Cameron Albert, Shawn Oster, Alex Yakhnin, ondrejsv, Giorgetti Alessandro, Jeff Handley, SilverLaw, deepm, and Kyle McClellan.

Shoutouts:

If I've listed this before, it's worth another... Introduction to Prototyping with SketchFlow (twelve video series) and on the same page is Creating a Beehive Game with Behaviors in Blend 3 (ten video series)

Shawn Oster announced his Slides + Code + Video from ‘An Introduction to Developing Applications for Microsoft Silverlight’ from MIX10

Tim Heuer announced earlier this week: Silverlight Client for Facebook updated for Silverlight 4 RC

Nikhil Kothari announced the availability of his MIX10 Talk - Slides and Code

András Velvárt backed up his great MIX09 effort with MIX10.Zoomery.com... everything in one DZ effort... thanks András!

Andy Beaulieu posted his material for his Code Camp 13 in Waltham: Windows Phone: Silverlight for Casual Games

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight MVVM - The Revolution Has Begun: Michael Washington did an awesome tutorial on MVVM and Silverlight creating a simple Silverlight File Manager. The post has a link to the tutorial at CodeProject... great tutorial.
Windows Phone 7 + Silverlight Performance: Andy Beaulieu has a post up we should all bookmark... getting a handle on the graphics performance of our app on WP7. Great examples, and external links.
Space Rocks game step 6: Keyboard handling: Bill Reiss has a post up about keyboard input for the WP7 game he's building ... this is Episode 6 ... you're working along with him, right?
Panoramic Navigation on Windows Phone 7 with No Code!: jocelyn at InnovativeSingapore (I found this by way of Shawn's post), has a Panoramic Navigation template out there for WP7 for all of us to grab... great post about it too.
My First WP7 Application: Shawn Wildermuth has been playing with WP7 development and has his XBOX Game library app up on the emulator... all with source of course
Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Game: Cameron Albert built a web-based game called 'Shape Attack' and also did it for WP7 to compare the performance... check it out for yourself, but hey, it's game source for the phone... cool :)
Changing the Onscreen Keyboard layout in Silverlight for Windows Phone using InputScope: Shawn Oster has a cool post on changing the keyboard on WP7 to go along with what you're expecting the user to type... how cool is that??
Deep Zoom on WP7: Check out the quick work Alex Yakhnin made of putting DeepZoom on WP7... all source included.
How to: Create a sketchy Siverlight GroupBox in Blend/SketchFlow: ondrejsv has the xaml up to take Tim Greenfield's GroupBox control and insert it into SketchFlow.
Silverlight / Castle Windsor – implementing a simple logging framework: Giorgetti Alessandro posted about CastleWindsor for Silverlight, and a logging system inherited from LevelFilteredLogger in the absence of Log4Net.
DomainDataSource in a ViewModel: Jeff Handley responds to a common forum post about using DomainDataSource in a ViewModel. Read his comments on AutoLoad and ElementName Bindins.
Digital Jugendstil TextEffect (Art Nouveau) - Silverlight 3: SilverLaw has a cool TagCloud demo and a UserControl he calls Art Nouveau up at the Expression Gallery... not for a business app, I don't think :)
Configuring your DomainService for a Windows Phone 7 application: deepm discusses RIA Services for WP7 and how to enable a WP7 app to communicate with a DomainService.
Writing a Custom Filter or Parameter for DomainDataSource: Kyle McClellan by way of Jeff Handley's blog, is discussing how to leverage the custom parameter types you defined in the previous version of RIA Services.