Silverlight Cream for April 20, 2010 -- #842

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Published on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:35:21 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/21 5:43 UTC
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In this Issue: Zoltan Arvai, Svetla Stoycheva, Alexey Zakharov, Chris Rouw, David Anson(-2-), Bill Reiss, John Papa and Adam Kinney, Chris Klug, CorrinaB, and Mike Snow.

Shoutouts:

Pete Brown interviewed David Kelley at MIX10: Pete at MIX10: David Kelley on the Prototype WPF and Silverlight Retail Experience

Pete Brown also interviewed Emil Stoychev at MIX10: Pete at MIX10: Emil Stoychev on the CompletIT Silverlight Site

SilverlightShow has a MIX10 Review by SilverlightShow Live Reporter Cigdem Patlak

SilverlightShow also has an Interview with SilverlightShow Article Author Andrej Tozon

From SilverlightCream.com:

Implementing Push Notifications in Windows Phone 7: Zoltan Arvai has a post up on SilverlightShow discussing Push Notification on WP7 ... what it is, and how to use it.
Completit.com - the challenges behind building a corporate website in Silverlight: Svetla Stoycheva shows off the new CompleteIT corporate website which is pretty darn cool... and disucusses some of the challenges and solutions
Introducing to Halcyone - Silverlight Application Framework: Silverlight Rest Extensions: Alexey Zakharov has a tutorial up on a Silverlight application framework he's working on called Halcyone which is available on CodePlex
Using the Tag Property during Silverlight Binding: Chris Rouw details his SL3 to SL4 conversion and some issues he had, and how he was able to resolve a binding problem using the tag property.
Using ContextMenu to implement SplitButton and MenuButton for Silverlight (or WPF): David Anson has a cool discussion up of using the ContextMenu code he put up previously to build a Split button, and includes all the code as usual.
Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 4 and Windows Phone 7 Charting sample!: David Anson updated his Data Visualization because of the new releases, and this time he's including WP7... charting in WP7... !
Space Rocks game step 10: More fun with rocks: In episode 10, Bill Reiss shows how to deal with multiple asteroids and all the interaction.
Silverlight Training Course (Silverlight 4): Get your serious Silverlight 4 Mojo on with a new SL4 Training kit on Channel 9 ... buncha folks, spearheaded (it looks like) by John Papa and Adam Kinney...
Plug-ins and composite applications in Silverlight – pt 3: Chris Klug is back with part 3 of his series on extensions and plug-in loading. So far he's covered a roll-your-own concept and MEF, now he digs into Prism.
Transitions, Animations, and Effects with Blend - Part One: How cool to have CorrinaB speak at your User Group meeting! ... She did just that in Portland, and instead of simply dropping a deck and some code in her blog, she's giving the run-down on her presentation... always good stuff, Corrina!
Tip of the Day #110 – Using Static Resources in Class Libraries: Mike Snow's latest tip is about how to create and use a Resource Dictionary.