Silverlight Cream for February 23, 2011 -- #1051

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In this Issue: Ian T. Lackey, Kevin Hoffman, Kunal Chowdhury, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Page Brooks, Deborah Kurata(-2-), and Paul Sheriff.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Building a Radar Control in Silverlight–Part 2" Page Brooks
WP7:	"Reactive Drag and Drop Part 2" Jesse Liberty
Expression Blend:	"Simple RadioButtonList and / or CheckBoxList in Silverlight Using a Behavior" Ian T. Lackey

Shoutouts:

Kunal Chowdhury delivered a full day session on Silverlight at the Microsoft Imagine Cup Championship event in Mumbai... you can Download Microsoft Imagine Cup Session PPT on Silverlight

Dennis Doomen has appeared in my blog any number of times... he's looking for some assistance: Get me on stage on the Developer Days 2011

Steve Wortham posted An Interview with Jeff Wilcox

From SilverlightCream.com:

Simple RadioButtonList and / or CheckBoxList in Silverlight Using a Behavior: Ian T. Lackey bemoans the lack of a RadioButtonList or CheckBoxList, and jumps into Blend to show us how to make one using a behavior... and the code is available too!
WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Introduction to XAML and Silverlight: Continuing his series at SilvelightShow for iPhone and Android devs, Kevin Hoffman has part 2 up getting into the UI with an intro to XAML and Silverlight.
Day 1: Working with Telerik Silverlight RadControls: Kunal Chowdhury kicked my tires that I had missed his Telerik control series... He's detailing his experience getting up to speed with the Silverlight RadControls. Day 1 is intro, what there is, installing, stuff like that. Part 2 continues: Day 2: Working with BusyIndicator of Telerik Silverlight RadControls, followed (so far) by part 3: Day 3: Working with Masked TextBox of Telerik Silverlight RadControls
Reactive Drag and Drop Part 2: Jesse Liberty has his 7th part about Rx up ... and the 2nd part of Reactive Drag and Drop, and oh yeah... it's for WP7 as well!
Yet Another Podcast #25–Glenn Block / WCF: Next Jesse Liberty has Glenn Block on stage for his Yet Another Podcast number 25... talking WCF with Glenn.
Building a Radar Control in Silverlight–Part 2: Page Brooks has part 2 of his 'radar' control for Silverlight up... I don't know where I'd use this, but it's darned cool... and the live demo is amazing.
Silverlight Charting: Setting Colors: Deborah Kurata is looking at the charting controls now, and how to set colors. She begins with a previous post on charts and adds color definitions to that post.
Silverlight Charting: Setting the Tooltip: Deborah Kurata next gets into formatting the tooltip you can get when the user hovers over a chart to make it make more sense to your user
'Content' is NOT 'Text' in XAML: Paul Sheriff discusses the Content property of XAML controls and how it can be pretty much any other XAML you want it to be, then goes on to show some nice examples.