Silverlight Cream for April 01, 2010 -- #827

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Published on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:54:23 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/02 21:03 UTC
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In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Hassan, Viktor Larsson, Fons Sonnemans, Jim McCurdy, Scott Marlowe, Mike Taulty, Brad Abrams, Jesse Liberty, Scott Barnes, Christopher Bennage, and John Papa and Ward Bell.

Shoutouts:

Tim Heuer posted a survey: What tools are the minimum to get started in Silverlight?... have you responded yet?

Don't want to miss this discussion: Channel 9 Live at MIX10: Bill Buxton & Erik Meijer - Perspectives on Design

Bookmark this... Jesse Liberty has moved his site: Silverlight Geek

I stand with Tim Heuer on this: Congratulations to latest 2nd quarter Silverlight MVPs

From SilverlightCream.com:

Wizards. Prototype of sketching Wizard for WPF - 1: Max Paulousky is creating a SketchFlow WPF wizard in Expression Blend... looks like good Expression Blend and SketchFlow no matter what the target is
Windows Phone 7 Navigation: Hassan has another WP7 Video up, and this one is on Navigation and passing data from page to page.
Silverlight 4 PathListBox: Viktor Larsson is blogging about the PathListBox, and definitely had a good time doing so.. lots of fun examples.
CountDown Clock in Silverlight 4: Fons Sonnemans has reworked his Sivlerlight 3 FlipClock to be this Silverlight 4 CountDown Clock utilizing the Viewbox control to make it scalable.
Generic class for deep clone of Silverlight and CLR objects: Jim McCurdy has a Silverlight 3 and 4-tested CloneObject class that he's using for creating a deep copy of an object and all it's properties... think drag/drop or undo/redo.
Animating the Fill Color of a Silverlight Ellipse: Scott Marlowe has a tutorial up that animates a pass/fail indicator with a smooth transition from a red to a green state... all with code.
Silverlight 4, Blend 4, MVVM, Binding, DependencyObject: Mike Taulty has a great tutorial up on Blend4 and binding... he's got a somewhat contrived example going, but it certainly looks good to me :)
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Authentication and Personalization: Next up in Brad Abrams' series is Authentication and Personalization. RIA Services makes this easy to do... let Brad show you!
An Annotated Line of Business Application: Jesse Liberty is walking through the design and delivery of his HyperVideo project with this mini tutorial. Want to understand the thought process behind the LOB app, check this out.
How to hack Expression Blend: Seems like there was just some discussion about some of this today and here Scott Barnes posts this hack job for Expression Blend... pretty cool actually :)
d:DesignInstance in Blend 4: Christopher Bennage has a follow-on post about using d:DesignInstance in Blend 4, and this is a very nice tutorial on the subject
Silverlight TV 19: Hidden Gems from MIX10, UFC's Multi-Touch App: John Papa and Ward Bell front and center for Silverlight TV number 19... and check out those threads!