Silverlight Cream for April 04, 2010 -- #830

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Published on Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:29:13 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/05 3:43 UTC
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In this Issue: Michael Washington, Hassan, David Anson, Jeff Wilcox, UK Application Development Consulting, Davide Zordan, Victor Gaudioso, Anoop Madhusudanan, Phil Middlemiss, and Laurent Bugnion.

Shoutouts:

Josh Smith has a good-read post up: Design-time data is still data

Shawn Hargreaves reported his MIX demo released

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight MVVM: Enabling Design-Time Data in Expression Blend When Using Web Services: Michael Washington has a tutorial up on MVVM and using a web service to get design-time data that works in Blend also... lots of information and screenshots.
WP7 Transition Animation: Hassan has a new WP7 tutorial up that demonstrates playing media and adding transition animation between pages.
Tip: For a truly read-only custom DependencyProperty in Silverlight, use a read-only CLR property instead: David Anson's latest tip is in response to comments on his previous post and details one by Dr. WPF who points out that a read-only DependencyProperty doesn't actually need to be a DependencyProperty as long as the class implements INotifyPropertyChanged.
Template parts and custom controls (quick tip): Jeff Wilcox has posted a set of tips and recommendations to use when developing control development in Silverlight ... this is a post to bookmark.
Flexible Data Template Support in Silverlight: The UK Application Development Consulting details a 'problem' in Silverlight that doesn't exist in WPF and that is data templates that vary by type... and discusses a way around it.
Multi-Touch enabling Silverlight Simon using Blend behaviors and the Surface sample for Silverlight: Davide Zordan brought Multi-Touch to the Silverlight Simon game on CodePlex using Blend Behaviors.
New Video Tutorial: How to Use a Behavior to Fire Methods from Objects in Styles: Victor Gaudioso has a video tutorial up responding to a question from a developer. He demonstrates development of a Behavior that can be attached to objects in or out of Styles that allows you to specify what Method they need to fire.
Creating a Silverlight Client for @shanselman ’s Nerd Dinner, using oData and Bing Maps: Anoop Madhusudanan took Scott Hanselman's post on an OData API for StackOverflow, and has created a Silverlight client for Nerd Dinner, including BingMaps.
A Chrome and Glass Theme - Part 2: Phil Middlemiss has the next part of his Chrome and Glass Theme up. In this one he creates a very nice chrome-look button with visual state changes.
MVVM Light Toolkit V3 SP1 for Windows Phone 7: Laurent Bugnion has released a new version of MVVM Light for WP7. Included is an installation manual and information about what was changed.