Silverlight Cream for June 10, 2010 -- #879

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Published on Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:16:54 GMT Indexed on 2010/06/11 5:23 UTC
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In this Issue: Emiel Jongerius, Nokola, Christian Schormann, Tim Heuer, David Poll, Mike Snow(-2-), John Papa, and Charles Petzold.

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Viktor Larsson has a frank look at WP7 based on information from MIX10 and what was said this week in his post: Licking Windows Phone 7... yeah licking, not liking :) .. my guess is even that didn't allow him to keep it!

If you haven't already noticed, the CodeProject reader's choice awards are out this week and Telerik won for their RadColorPicker and RadCalendar for Silverlight

Telerik also needs congratulations for winning Telerik wins “Best of TechEd” award in the “Components and Middleware” category... check out that trophy... Steven Forte has a picture up of the Telerikers after getting the award.

Koen Zwikstra has a new release of Silverlight Spy up that supports the latest release: Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.12

From SilverlightCream.com:

Localization of XAML files in Silverlight: Emiel Jongerius is back with another post, this time discussing Localizing XAM files... external links and source included.
Coolest Silverlight Sound Library for Games I've Seen Yet: Nokola talks up a Sound Library for Silverlight 4 Games ... and has links to a great demo, plus the source.
SketchFlow: Firing Actions when a Storyboard is Complete: Christian Schormann responded to some Twitter questions and demonstrates using the StoryboardCompleted trigger with a Navigate action.
Hosting cross-domain Silverlight applications (XAP): Tim Heuer responds to a question from a reader and demonstrates how to host a XAP from a domain other than the one you're working on.
Taking Microsoft Silverlight 4 Applications Beyond the Browser (TechEd WEB313): David Poll has all his material up from his TechEd presentation earlier this week on Silverlight OOB... and he covered some pretty extensive material ... check it out!
Silverlight Tip of the Day #29 – Configuring Service Reference to Back to LocalHost: Mike Snow has a couple new tips up... this first one is quick, but very useful... how to switch your service reference back to localhost without pulling out your hair.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #30 – Sending Email from Silverlight: In Mike Snow's latest tip, he shows how to send email from your Silverlight app... using a WCF service... and a step-by-step set of instructions.
Creating Rich Interactions Using Blend 4: Transition Effects, Fluid Layout and Layout States (Silverlight TV #32): John Papa has Silverlight TV #32 up, and he's talking with Kenny Young of the Expression Blend team while Kenny uses some built-om effects and also creates some impressive examples from scratch -- code included.
Simulating Touch Inertia on Windows Phone 7: Charles Petzold has a post up on simulating inertia on WP7... demos in WPF and then moves into WP7... math, source, and external links.