Silverlight Cream for April 06, 2010 -- #832

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Published on Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:57:36 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/07 5:03 UTC
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In this Issue: Alex van Beek, Gill Cleeren, SilverlightShow, Michael Sync, Rénald Nollet, Charles Petzold, The-Oliver, and Max Paulousky.

Shoutouts:

Denislav Savkov of SilverlightShow ported his Slider control to WP7: Windows Phone 7 Series Sample Image Viewer

SilverlightShow interview: The Silverlight Tour - what, where and why. Interview with one of the Tour organizers Laurent Duveau

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight 4: using the VisualStateManager for state animations with MVVM: Alex van Beek has an approach to resolving the MVVM issue of Animations without keeping a reference to the ViewModel by way of VisualStateManager
Leveraging the ASP.NET Membership in Silverlight: Gill Cleeren's post at SilverlightShow talks about using ASP.NET authentication inside your Silverlight making membership not only something you know and understand, but now the transition from your ASP.NET apps to Silverlight is simple as well.
Windows Phone 7 Series RSS reader: SilverlightShow has a demo RSS Reader for WP7 up... no text, but the code is there.
Step by Step Tutorial : Installing Multi-Touch Simulator for Silverlight Phone 7: Michael Sync actually has a multi-touch simulator working for WP7 ... it involves a bunch of moving parts and one of the requirements is Windows 7, but if that works for you, this will too :)
Element Property Binding Improvements in Blend 4 Beta and Visual Studio 2010 RC: Rénald Nollet demonstrates new Blend and VS2010 features that assists you in Element Property binding with real examples.
Projection Transforms Sans Math: Charles Petzold is writing about Silverlight and 3D and specifically in this post 3D without math which becomes PlaneProjection... good long tutorial on it and code to back it all up.
Daily Demo: Silverlight Install out of browser & Check for Update Behaviors: The-Oliver has a post up about OOB and checking for updates using behaviors with only a slight change to your xaml... cool!
Wizards. Prototype of sketching Wizard for WPF – 2: Max Paulousky has part 2 of his tutorial on a sketchflow Wizard for WPF ... yes WPF, but check it out... source too.