Silverlight Cream for May 08, 2010 -- #858

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Published on Sat, 08 May 2010 19:55:33 GMT Indexed on 2010/05/11 2:55 UTC
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In this Issue: Phil Middlemiss, Jaime Rodriguez, Senthil Kumar, Mike Snow, DaveDev, Gergely Orosz, Kirupa, Cheryl Simmons, András Velvárt, Dan Wahlin, Michael D. Brown, and Ben Rush.

Shoutouts:

Erik Mork and crew have their latest up: This Week In Silverlight – Where’s the Tablet?

Chris Rouw has a good link post and instructions on WCF RIA services: Deploying and Configuring Silverlight 4 and WCF RIA Services

From SilverlightCream.com:

Quick and Easy Sscalable Rounded Bevels: Phil Middlemiss duplicates some bevel-edged rectangles in Blend, and they look great. Now you don't have to import all the other PhotoShop bits to get those things looking the way you want!
A transparent Windows PHONE FAQ: Jaime Rodriguez combined a bunch of information into a WP7 FAQ that he's going to keep up to date, so bookmark the page. He also has links to the Training Kit, on and offline versions.
Windows Phone Developer Training Kit April Refresh is now available for Download: Thanks to Senthil Kumar, I found out there is an April refresh of the WP7 Training kit at Channel 9 -- go get yours now --- I'll still be here when you get back!
Silverlight Tip of the Day #16 – Working with IgnoreImageCache: Mike Snow's Tip of the day #16 covers IgnoreImageCache and like many other things in life, until you read Mike's post you may be surprised at how it works.
DoodlePad – A fun, free, sketching application for Windows Phone 7: DaveDev has a new WP7 App up that lets you or your kids 'Doodle' on the phone... could be a note, or could be a drawing... good post with all the links you need to get this cranked up on the emulator.
Printing in Silverlight: Printing Charts and Auto Scaling: Gergely Orosz's latest post is a very useful one on auto-scaling charts to fit a printed page and then getting them to print.
Smoothly Scrolling a ListBox: Check out the smooth scrolling Kirupa has on the ListBox near the top of his post... all good stuff... you wanna know how to do that! Plus... it's dead simple and all in Blend :)
http://www.sparklingclient.com/wheres-the-silverlight-tablet/: Cheryl Simmons has a great tip up at the SilverlightSDK if you haven't burned through to figure it out yet ... changing the watermark on a DatePicker control... looks great!
The story of a wicked bug: András Velvárt tells a story of a bug that just defied logic or being found. Read how he tracked it down and what it actually was... could save you some time. Story learned: if I have a problem that bad, I'm calling András :)
Text Trimming in Silverlight 4: Dan Wahlin gives a quick run-through of what TextBox trimming is, and then by a good real example... check it out and start using it in your projects.
Enterprise Patterns with WCF RIA Services: Michael D. Brown has an article in MSDN Magazine on RIA Services. Great information and link-packed article, with all the source avialable for download.
Building Custom Players with the Silverlight Media Framework: Ben Rush has a nice long tutorial on the Silverlight Media Framework up on the MSDN Magazine site ... lots of information in there.