Silverlight Cream for May 11, 2010 -- #859

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Published on Wed, 12 May 2010 03:53:02 GMT Indexed on 2010/05/12 5:14 UTC
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In this All Submittal Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Ken Johnson, Alan Beasley, Pencho Popadiyn, Phil Middlemiss, Khawar(-2-), Levente Mihály, Alex van Beek, Bart Czernicki, Michael Washington, and Mark Monster.

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Not Silverlight necessarily, but definitely VS2010, read what Brett Balmer has to say In Defense of Portrait Mode

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight MultiBinding solution for Silverlight 4: Colin Eberhardt updated his Silverlight Multibinding solution to Silverlight 4. Great article with explanatory graphics, and links to the code... congrats on the use in the FaceBook Client too!
Spirograph Shapes: WPF Bezier shapes from math formulae: Wow... I haven't seen this much math since my Master's Thesis! ... Check out all the shapes Ken Johnson has built... don't let the math scare you... just use it :)
Busy Dizzy Bee-sley Spirographic Animation in Expression Blend and Silverlight: This is just fun... I saw Michael Washington playing with this yesterday at the Arizona Day of .NET but didn't have a chance to ask what it was.. Alan Beasley had a good time building this, and is sharing a very detailed tutorial with us.
ModalDialogs, IEditableObject and MVVM in Silverlight 4: Pencho Popadiyn said the 'M' word over at SilverlightShow... actually the 'MVVM' word :) ... he's discussing Modal dialogs with no code in the View ... check out how he did it.
A Chrome and Glass Theme - Part 6: Phil Middlemiss is up to episode 6 in his Theme-building tutorial... this time out, he's giving the TabControl and TabItem new clothes ... specifically discussing what to change and what to allow to inherit ... good stuff!
Silverlight 4 Fonts gotcha: Check out Khawar's ATM Machine demo -- there's a link on the page for this post... he had an issue with fonts, ratted it out, and explains it for all of us... thanks Khawar
Demystifying Silverlight Obfuscation: Khawar also has a good post up on Obfuscating your Silverlight... definitely showing that it's not all that difficult to do.
geoGallery, a WinPhone7 sample: OK this is interesting... using the geoLocation feature of WP7, Levente Mihály hits Google Picasa to find pictures... good write-up and all the code.
Silverlight 4: Digitally signing a XAP with Visual Studio 2010: Alex van Beek has a nice tutorial on Signing your XAP file using Visual Studio 2010... of course you may want to visit Tim Heuer's blog (search at SC) to find the two good deals on certificates that are still in play.
Creating Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in Expression Blend 4 for Business Intelligence applications: In an interesting post, Bart Czernicki describes using the shape assets in Blend 4 to produce a KPI display in Silverlight or WPF. A discussion of the shape's evolution for KPI is included as well as some alternate shape uses.
A DotNetNuke Silverlight 4 Drag and Drop File Manager: Michael Washington has blogged about his Drag and Drop File Manager using the View Model Style pattern. This is covered in two CodeProject articles listed in the post. The design work was done by Alan Beasely and links to his work is there as well as covered in other SC posts.
How to select a ListItem on Hover: Mark Monster had a Use Case for Selecting a ListBox entry by hovering ... but he did it with a Behavior and for a ListBox and PathListBox and it works with DataBinding...