Silverlight Cream for June 12, 2010 -- #880

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Published on Sun, 13 Jun 2010 02:03:43 GMT Indexed on 2010/06/13 3:23 UTC
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In this Issue: Michael Washington, Diego Poza, Viktor Larsson, Brian Noyes, Charles Petzold, Laurent Bugnion, Anjaiah Keesari, David Anson, and Jeremy Likness.

From SilverlightCream.com:

My MEF Rant: Read Michael Washington's discussion about MEF from someone that's got some experience, but not enough to remember the pain points... how it works, and what he'd like to see.
Prism 4: What’s new and what’s next: Diego Poza
Why Office Hub is important for WP7: Viktor Larsson has another WP7 post up and he's talking about the Office Hub ... good description and maybe the first I've seen on the Office Hub.
WCF RIA Services Part 1: Getting Started: Brian Noyes has part 1 of a 10-part tutorial series on WCF RIA Services up at SilverlightShow. This first is the intro, but it's a good one.
CompositionTarget.Rendering and RenderEventArgs: Charles Petzold talks about CompositionTarget.Rendering and using it for calculating time span ... and it works in WPF and WP7 too... cool example from his WPF book, and all the code.
Two small issues with Windows Phone 7 ApplicationBar buttons (and workaround): Laurent Bugnion has a post up from earlier this week that I missed describing problems with the WP7 ApplicationBar ... oh, and a workaround for it :)
Animation in Silverlight: Anjaiah Keesari has a really extensive post up on Silverlight animation, and this is an all-XAML thing... so buckle up we're going old-school :)
Two fixes for my Silverlight SplitButton/MenuButton implementation - and true WPF support: David Anson revisits and revises his SplitButton code based on a couple problem reports he received. Source for the button and the test project is included.
Tips and Tricks for INotifyPropertyChanged: Jeremy Likness is discussing INotifyPropertyChanged and describes an extension method. He does bring up a problem associated with this, so check that out. He finishes the post off with a discussion of "Observable Enumerables"