Silverlight Cream for March 31, 2010 -- #826

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Published on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:47:34 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/01 4:53 UTC
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In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Radenko Zec, Andrej Tozon, Bobby Diaz, Brad Abrams, Wolf Schmidt, Colin Eberhardt, Anand Iyer, Matthias Shapiro, Jaime Rodriguez, Bill Reiss, and Lee.

Shoutouts:

Cigdem has a post up about here MIX10 Interviewing experiences: MIX10 SilverlightShow Interviews

Ian T. Lackey has his material up from his talk Silverlight SEO at the St. Louis .Net Users Group

Not Silverlight but definitely WP7 cool, Michael Klucher reports that there are New Windows Phone Samples on Creators Club Online

Tim Heuer posted a survey: What tools are the minimum to get started in Silverlight?

From SilverlightCream.com:

A RoleManager to apply roles declaratively to user interface: Andrea Boschin also has a new post at SilverlightShow discussing the use of a RoleManager in WCF RIA Services to apply user roles to elements of the UI... good stuff, Andrea.
Virtualization in Silverlight 4 RC: Radenko Zec has a post out at SilverlightShow where he explains UI and Data Virtualization then gives some examples of their use in Silverlight 4RC, and some issues as well.
MS Word Mail Merge with Silverlight 4 COM Automation: Andrej Tozon has a post up at SilverlightShow that I missed in the rush of MIX10. He's doing MailMerge with COM automation and Silverlight 4... actually prett cool stuff and all the source!
KISS and Tell - MVVM and the ViewModelLocator: Bobby Diaz is blogging about a very popular subject right now: ViewModelLocator. He's not showing production code, but it's a thought... check it out.
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Validating Data: I'm running behind, but Brad Abrams' next post in his series is about validating data in the business application. He also discusses setting up shared code validation.
A One-stop Shopping XAML Namespace for Silverlight Client SDK Controls: Wolf Schmidt at the Silverlight SDK has a post up highlighting the SL4 XAML namespace prefix. He starts with SL3 then demonstrates the feature's use in SL4.
Binding a Silverlight 3 DataGrid to dynamic data via IDictionary (Updated): Colin Eberhardt has an update to his previous article of the same title. This one is a bug fix on an upgrade to SL3 and also an expansion of the previous post.
Demo Apps from MIX10 on Windows Phone 7: Anand Iyer posted links to all the WP7 demos used at MIX10 and at least in the case of FourSquare, the source is on CodePlex.
XAML Files for Location Visualizations in Silverlight and WPF: Matthias Shapiro has graciously provided XAML for us for Silverlight and WPF for a bunch of different US maps... too cool, now we don't have to be asking 'where did you get that map?'... thanks Matthias!
Theming in Windows Phone: Jaime Rodriguez has a post up that deep-dives theming in general and demonstrates using it on WP7... end-user configurations and developer stuff.
Space Rocks game step 7: Moving the ship: It appears that in the heat of battle (blogging) I said Bill Reiss' Space Rocks game he's building is for WP7... obviously it's not, but it's a game folks... :) THis is Episode 7 and he's moving the ship now.
SL4(RC) RichTextBox and Access Violation: Lee has some code that looks like it should work for a RichTextBox in SL4RC, and it's throwing an error... see if you have a solution for him... or is it a bug?