Silverlight Cream for April 02, 2010 -- #828

Posted by Dave Campbell on Geeks with Blogs See other posts from Geeks with Blogs or by Dave Campbell
Published on Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:30:13 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/03 5:33 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 736

Filed under:

In this Issue: Phil Middlemiss, Robert Kozak, Kathleen Dollard, Avi Pilosof, Nokola, Jeff Wilcox, David Anson, Timmy Kokke, Tim Greenfield, and Josh Smith.

Shoutout:

SmartyP has additional info up on his WP7 Pivot app: Preview of My Current Windows Phone 7 Pivot Work

From SilverlightCream.com:

A Chrome and Glass Theme - Part I: Phil Middlemiss is starting a tutorial series on building a new theme for Silverlight, in this first one we define some gradients and color resources... good stuff Phil
Intercepting INotifyPropertyChanged: This is Robert Kozak's first post on this blog, but it's a good one about INotifyPropertyChanged and MVVM and has a solution in the post with lots of code and discussion.
How do I Display Data of Complex Bound Criteria in Horizontal Lists in Silverlight?: Kathleen Dollard's latest article in Visual Studio magazine is in answer to a question about displaying a list of complex bound criteria including data, child data, and photos, and displaying them horizontally one at a time. Very nice-looking result, and all the code.
Windows Phone: Frame/Page navigation and transitions using the TransitioningContentControl: Avi Pilosof discusses the built-in (boring) navigation on WP7, and then shows using the TransitionContentControl from the Toolkit to apply transitions to the navigation.
EasyPainter: Cloud Turbulence and Particle Buzz: Nokola returns with a couple more effects for EasyPainter: Cloud Turbulence and Particle Buzz ... check out the example screenshots, then go grab the code.
Property change notifications for multithreaded Silverlight applications: Jeff Wilcox is discussing the need for getting change notifications to always happen on the UI thread in multi-threaded apps... great diagrams to see what's going on.
Tip: The default value of a DependencyProperty is shared by all instances of the class that registers it: David Anson has a tip up about setting the default value of a DependencyProperty, and the consequence that may have depending upon the type.
Building a “real” extension for Expression Blend: Timmy Kokke's code is WPF, but the subject is near and dear to us all, Timmy has a real-world Expression Blend extension up... a search for controls in the Objects and Timelines pane ... and even if that doesn't interest you... it's the source to a Blend extension!
XPath support in Silverlight 4 + XPathPad: Tim Greenfield not only talks about XPath in SL4RC, but he has produced a tool, XPathPad, and provided the source... if you've used XPath, you either are a higher thinker than me(not a big stretch), or you need this :)
Using a Service Locator to Work with MessageBoxes in an MVVM Application: Josh Smith posted about a question that comes up a lot: showing a messagebox from a ViewModel object. This might not work for custom message boxes or unit testing. This post covers the Unit Testing aspect.