Silverlight Cream for April 05, 2010 -- #831

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Published on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:02:41 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/06 5:13 UTC
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In this Issue: Rénald Nollet, Davide Zordan(-2-, -3-), Scott Barnes, Kirupa, Christian Schormann, Tim Heuer, Yavor Georgiev, and Bea Stollnitz.

Shoutouts:

Yavor Georgiev posted the material for his MIX 2010 talk: what’s new in WCF in Silverlight 4

Erik Mork and crew posted their This Week in Silverlight 4.1.2010

Tim Huckaby and MSDN Bytes interviewed Erik Mork: Silverlight Consulting Life – MSDN Bytes Interview

From SilverlightCream.com:

Home Loan Application for Windows Phone: Rénald Nollet has a WP7 app up, with source, for calculating Home Loan application information. He also discusses some control issues he had with the emulator.
Experiments with Multi-touch: A Windows Phone Manipulation sample: Davide Zordan has updated the multi-touch project on CodePlex, and added a WP7 sample using multi-touch.
Silverlight 4, MEF and MVVM: EventAggregator, ImportingConstructor and Unit Tests: Davide Zordan has a second post up on MEF, MVVM, and Prism, oh yeah, and also Unit Testing... the code is available, so take a look at what he's all done with this.
Silverlight 4, MEF and MVVM: MEFModules, Dynamic XAP Loading and Navigation Applications: Davide Zordan then builds on the previous post and partitions the app into several XAPs put together at runtime with MEF.
Silverlight Installation/Preloader Experience - BarnesStyle: Scott Barnes talks about the install experience he wanted to get put into place... definitely a good read and lots of information.
Changing States using GoToStateAction: Kirupa has a quick run-through of Visual States, and then demonstrates using GoToStateAction and a note for a Blend 4 addition.
Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part IV: Christian Schormann has the next tutorial up in his series on Path Layout, and he's explaining Motion Path and Text on a Path.
Managing service references and endpoint configurations for Silverlight applications: Helping solve a common and much reported problem of managing service references, Tim Heuer details his method of resolving it and additional tips and tricks to boot.
Some known WCF issues in Silverlight 4: Yavor Georgiev, a Program Manager for WCF blogged about the issues that they were not able to fix due to scheduling of the release
How can I update LabeledPieChart to use the latest toolkit?: Bea Stollnitz revisits some of her charting posts to take advantage of the unsealing of toolkit classes in labeling the Chart and PieSeries