Silverlight Cream for April 07, 2010 -- #833

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Published on Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:06:06 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/07 23:13 UTC
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In this Issue: Alan Mendelevich, Siyamand Ayubi, Rudi Grobler(-2-), Josh Smith, VinitYadav, and Dave Campbell.

Shoutouts:

Jordan Knight has a demo up of a project he did for DigiGirlz: DigiGirlz, Deep Zoom and Azure, hopefully we'll get source later :)

Jeremy Likness has a must-read post on his Ten Reasons to use the Managed Extensibility Framework

I put this on another post earlier, but if you want some desktop bling for WP7, Ozymandias has some: I Love Windows Phone Wallpaper

If you're not going to be in 'Vegas next week, Tim Heuer reminds us there's an alternative: Watch the Silverlight 4 Launch event and LIVE QA with ScottGu and others

From SilverlightCream.com:

Ghost Lines in Silverlight: Alan Mendelevich reports an issue when drawing lines with odd coordinate values. He originated it in Silverlight 3, but it is there in SL4RC as well... check it out and leave him a comment.
A Framework to Animate WPF and Silverlight Pages Similar to the PowerPoint Slides: Siyamand Ayubi has an interesting post up on animating WPF or Silverlight pages to make them progress in the manner of a PPT slideshow.
And it can also make phone calls…: Rudi Grobler has a list of 'tasks' you can do with WP7 such as PhoneCallTask or EmailComposeTask ... looks like this should be plasticized :)
Using the GPS, Accelerometer & Vibration Controller: Rudi Grobler is also investigating how to use the GPS, Accelerometer, and Vibration in WP7 with a bunch of external links to back it up.
Assembly-level initialization at design time: Josh Smith has a solution to the problem of initializing design-time data in Blend (did you know that was an issue?) ... the solution is great and so is the running commentary between Josh and Karl Shifflett in the comments!
ySurf : A Yahoo Messenger Clone built in Silverlight: VinitYadav built a Yahoo Messenger app in Silverlight and has detailed out all the ugly bits for us on the post, plus made everything available.
Your First Silverlight Application: Dave Campbell's first post at DZone cracking open a beginner's series on Silverlight. If you're expecting something heavy-duty, skip this. If you're wanting to learn Silverlight and haven't jumped in yet, give it a try.