Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2010 -- #847

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Published on Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:57:55 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/26 6:14 UTC
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In this Issue: Michael Washington, David Poll, Andrea Boschin, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Lee, and Chad Campbell.

Shoutout:

Not at all Silverlight, but Kirupa has a great article up about Elastic Collisions

From SilverlightCream.com:

Easily decouple your MVVM ViewModel from your Model using RX Extensions: Michael Washington continues with his Simplified MVVM and uses Rx to allow him to put web service methods in the model and call them from the ViewModel.
A “refreshing” Authentication/Authorization experience with Silverlight 4: David Poll expands on his previous post and demonstrates returning the user to the page prior to the login, just the way you'd like it.
Using a PollingDuplex service to handle long running activities: Andrea Boschin is back discussing PollingDuplex again, this time is discussing getting updates from a long-running process.
Introduction to Silverlight - Silverlight tutorials Chapter 1: Kunal Chowdhury has an intro to Silverlight Tutorial that looks good... if you're just getting started, here's a place to look.
Introduction to Silverlight Application Development - Silverlight tutorial Chapter 2: In his 2nd introductory tutorial, Kunal Chowdhury gets into code and discusses User Controls.
Drag and Drop grouping in Datagrid: Lee has a post up where he's taken a DataGrid and produced some of the features of some of the 3rd-party controls, specifically dragging column headers to a place above the grid to sort the grid.
Silverlight – HTTP request to [Url] was aborted. …local channel being closed while the request was still in progress: Chad Campbell is addressing timeout problems you may hit with connecting up to your WCF service.