Silverlight Cream for June 17, 2010 -- #885

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Published on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:49:33 GMT Indexed on 2010/06/18 4:54 UTC
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In this Issue: Zoltan Arvai, Antoni Dol, Jeff Prosise, David Anson, and John Papa.

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Rob Davis has a World Cup Football Stadium tour in Silverlight, Azure, and Bing Maps up: The World Cup Map... cruise around this... tons of features.

The Silverlight Team Blog reports that NBC sports is streaming the US Open in Silverlight

Adam Kinney announced Expression Studio 4 Launch keynote videos are available

Data Driven Applications with MVVM Part III: Validation, Bringing the UI Closer: Zoltan Arvai's 3rd (and final) part of the Data-Driven MVVM apps is up at SilverlightShow. In this final section he is focusing on validation, and discussion of closer integration to the view.
Focus on FocusVisualElement in Silverlight buttons: Antoni Dol has a cool post up about the FocusVisualElement, and uses a button to demonstrate how it can be used.
Dynamic XAP Discovery with Silverlight MEF: Jeff Prosise is discussing Silverlight and MEF ... but better than the normal loading XAP files ... he's doing dynamic discovery of XAP files ... and makes it look easy!
Updated analysis of two ways to create a full-size Popup in Silverlight: David Anson revisits a prior post with an eye toward Silverlight 4. The feature he's discussing is that you can now hook the Resized event without having browser zoom disabled... and he demonstrates it's use in the code from the old post.
Silverlight as a Transmedia Platform (Silverlight TV #33): Jesse Liberty joins John Papa this week with Silverlight TV #33, discussing Transmedia and Silverlight as a Transmedia Platform.