Silverlight Cream for April 11, 2010 -- #836

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Published on Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:18:27 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/12 4:23 UTC
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In this Issue: Rénald Nollet, Roboblob, Laurent Bugnion, Timmy Kokke, Michael Sync(-2-), Victor Gaudioso, and Bill Reiss.

Brought to you from a tiny table in my no-tell-motel^TM in 'Vegas AKA "cheaper than anywhere else" and the WiFi is free and smokin'...

From SilverlightCream.com:

Sync your Silverlight out-of-browser application data without service but with Dropbox: Rénald Nollet is in good company (Walt Ritscher) because he's demo'ing synching OOB apps with dropbox.
Unit Testable WCF Web Services in MVVM and Silverlight 4: Roboblob is discussing calling WCF Web Services from a Silverlight MVVM app... something he's been avoiding up to now. Good long code and text-filled article, with the project to download.
Using commands with ApplicationBarMenuItem and ApplicationBarButton in Windows Phone 7: I almost missed this post by Laurent Bugnion, on how to get around the problem of not being able to attach commands to the ApplicationBarMenuItem and ApplicationBarButton in WP7. He gets around it with (gasp) code behind :)
Introducing jLight – Talking to the DOM using Silverlight and jQuery.: Oh boy... if you haven't been using jQuery yet, this should get it going for you... Timmy Kokke has produced jLight which brings jQuery into Silverlight for ease of DOM interaction... and it's on CodePlex!
Test-Driven Development in Windows Phone7 – Part 1: Unit Testing with Silverlight for Phone7: Michael Sync's starting a series on TDD with Silverlight on WP7. Great tutorial and all the code is available.
Tip: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” Error in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: Michael Sync also has a tip up for the resolution of an error we've all seen in all sorts of development, but now in WP7, and the workaround is deceptively simple.
New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to Create Gradients: Victor Gaudioso has a new video tutorial up for creating gradients in Expression Blend... don't fumble around in Blend... learn from the master!
Space Rocks game step 8: Hyperspace: Bill Reiss is up to episode 8 in his Silverlight game series now... this latest is on Hyperspace ... don'cha wish you could just do that? My trip to 'Vegas would have been a lot faster :)