Silverlight Cream for June 08, 2010 -- #877

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In this Issue: Miroslav Miroslavov, Chris Klug, Beau, Christian Schormann(-2-), Dan Wahlin, Pete Brown, Michael S. Scherotter, Philipp Sumi, Andy Wigley, and Phil Middlemiss.

Shoutouts:

Mark Tucker set about learning Caliburn, and in the process is writing a Caliburn Book: Chapters 1-3

Jesse Liberty has a great link-laden post up about why we should all be learning/using Blend: Why Developers Should, Must, Do Care About The New Expression Blend be sure to read what he says about WP7 development, however!

Charlie Kindel announced an Install problem with the Developer Tools CTP Refresh and the WP7 tools... check this out if you're having problems.

John Papa has a good post up on the happenings yesterday: Expression Studio 4 Launch of Blend, SketchFlow, Encoder and More!

Erik Mork & Company's latest "This Week in Silverlight" is titled First Drop: Prism v4 – First Drop is Available

From SilverlightCream.com:

Animated navigation between Pages: Miroslav Miroslavov has Part 8 of his "Silverlight in Action" series up, detailing cool things from the CompleteIT site... this one is on Animated navigation between pages.
Subtitling videos: Chris Klug got a gig adding subtitles to videos for Microsoft (sweet) ... and no, not *that* kind of subtitles... read how he approached the final solution.
Silverlight Watermark TextBox: I'm not sure we can have too many Watermark TextBoxes, and neither does Beau
Blend 4: Collaborative SketchFlow Feedback with SharePoint: With the new Blend release, Christian Schormann has a post up describing the lashup to Sharepoint for sharing Sketchflow and getting feedback.
New Utility, Links, and Tutorials for Path-Based Layout: Christian Schormann also has a collection of resources for Path-Based Layouts, including a utility "that lets you apply a whole bunch of position-specific effects without having to write any code"... lots of links to resources here.
Tales from the Trenches – Building a Real-World Silverlight Line of Business Application: Dan Wahlin draws on his recent experience and lays out some of the fun and pitfalls of building LOB apps in Silverlight... WCF, MVVM, slides, and code included
WPF (and Silverlight): Choose your Fonts and Text Rendering Options Wisely: Pete Brown has a great post up on using fonts wisely across multiple platforms... lots of info and good discussion in the comments as well.
Ball Watch USA: Remember the awesome watch Michael S. Scherotter did in Silverlight 1 and then converted to Updated Ball Trainmaster Cannonball Watch to Silverlight 2? Well... there's now a contest underfoot and 8 videos to help you get started... all good stuff, and good luck! ... Michael has a post up about the contest: Enter to Win a Ball Watch by Creating One in Silverlight
Announcing Sketchables – Rapid Mockup Creation with SketchFlow: By way of Jesse Libertyhttp://jesseliberty.com/2010/06/08/why-developers-should-must-do-care-about-the-new-expression-blend/, this is a cool production by Philipp Sumi about a simple mockup framework he's created.
Perst - a database for Windows Phone 7 Silverlight: I think one of my first comments to Michael Washington back at the MVP Summit 2010 was that we'd need a database engine, and too cool, but we've got one, Andy Wigley discusses Perst in this post... to save you some time, here's the Perst site
A Chrome and Glass Theme - Part 7: Phil Middlemiss has part 7 of his great theme-building series up... this time he's giving the accordian control a once-over.