Silverlight Cream for May 02, 2010 -- #854

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Published on Mon, 03 May 2010 03:58:20 GMT Indexed on 2010/05/03 5:18 UTC
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In this Issue: Michael Washington, Jason Young(-2-, -3-), Phil Middlemiss, Jeremy Likness, Victor Gaudioso, Kunal Chowdhury, Antoni Dol, and Jacek Ciereszko(-2-).

Shoutout:

Victor Gaudioso has aggregated All of My Silverlight Video Tutorials in One Place (revised again 05.02.10)

From SilverlightCream.com:

Unit Testing A Silverlight 'Simplified MVVM' Modal Popup: Michael Washington's latest 'Simplified MVVM' post is published at The Code Project and is on Unit Testing with MVVM.
Input Localization in Silverlight without IValueConverter: Jason Young sent me some links to posts I've not seen... this first one is on localization by using the Language property of the Root Visual.
MVVM – The Model - Part 1 – INotifyPropertyChanged: Jason Young's next archive post is the first of a series on MVVM and Silverlight 4 ... implementing a simple ViewModel base class.
Silverlight, WCF, and ASP.Net Configuration Gotchas: Jason Young worked at tracking down the answers to some forum questions and in the process has produced a post of 'gotchas' with using WCF in Silverlight.
A Chrome and Glass Theme - Part 5: Phil Middlemiss has part 5 of his Chrome and Glass Theme tutorial up ... in this one, he's looking at the Progress Bar and Slider. Download the files and play along.
Silverlight Out of Browser (OOB) Versions, Images, and Isolated Storage: Jeremy Likness has a post up responding to his 3 major questions about OOB apps, and he has to code up for the sample too.
New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to Make a Slide In/Out Navigation Bar – All in Blend: Victor Gaudioso's latest video tutorial is on building a Behavior for a Slide in/out Navigation bar... kinda like the menu sliders on my GlyphMap Utility... only easier!
Command Binding in Silverlight 4 (Step-by-Step): Kunal Chowdhury has another post up at DotNetFunda, and this time he's talking about Command Binding in Silverlight 4 with an eye toward MVVM usage.
The Silverlight PageCurl implementation: Antoni Dol has a post up about doing a Page Curl effect in Silverlight. He has a manual up on the effect and full application code.
How to center and scale Silverlight applications using ViewBox control: Jacek Ciereszko has a couple posts up about centering and scaling your app with the ViewBox control. This first one is a code solution. Source is available, as is a Polish version.
Silverlight Center And Scale Behavior: Jacek Ciereszko's 2nd post, he provides a Behavior that handles the scaling and centering of the previous post.