In this Issue: Victor Gaudioso, Antoni Dol(-2-), Brian Genisio, Shawn Wildermuth, Mike Snow, Phil Middlemiss, Pete Brown, Kirupa, Dan Wahlin, Glenn Block, Jeff Prosise, Anoop Madhusudanan, and Adam Kinney.
Shoutouts:
Victor Gaudioso would like you to Checkout my Interview with Microsoft’s Murray Gordon at MIX 10
Pete Brown announced: Connected Show Podcast #29 With … Me!
From SilverlightCream.com:
New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to Create Fast Forward for the MediaElement
Victor Gaudioso's latest video tutorial is on creating the ability to fast-forward a MediaElement... check it out in the tutorial player itself!
Overlapping TabItems with the Silverlight Toolkit TabControl
Antoni Dol has a very cool tutorial up on the Toolkit TabItems control... not only is he overlapping them quite nicely but this is a very cool tutorial...
QuoteFloat: Animating TextBlock PlaneProjections for a spiraling effect in Silverlight
Antoni Dol also has a Blend tutorial up on animating TextBlock items... run the demo and you'll want to read the rest :)
Adventures in MVVM – My ViewModel Base – Silverlight Support!
Brian Genisio continues his MVVM tutorials with this update on his ViewModel base using some new C# 4.0 features, and fully supports Silverlight and WPF
My Thoughts on the Windows Phone 7
Shawn Wildermuth gives his take on WP7. He included a port of his XBoxGames app to WP7 ... thanks Shawn!
Silverlight Tip of the Day #20 – Using Tooltips in Silverlight
I figured Mike Snow was going to overrun me with tips since I have missed a couple days, but there's only one! ... and it's on Tooltips.
Animating the Silverlight opacity mask
Phil Middlemiss has an article at SilverZine describing a Behavior he wrote (and is sharing) that turns a FrameworkElement into an opacity mask for it's parent container... cool demo on the page too.
Breaking Apart the Margin Property in Xaml for better Binding
Pete Brown dug in on a Twitter message and put some thoughts down about breaking a Margin apart to see about binding to the individual elements.
Building a Simple Windows Phone App
Kirupa has a 6-part tutorial up on building not-your-typical first WP7 application... all good stuff!
Integrating HTML into Silverlight Applications
Dan Wahlin has a post up discussing three ways to display HTML inside a Silverlight app.
Hello MEF in Silverlight 4 and VB! (with an MVVM Light cameo)
Glenn Block has a post up discussing MEF, MVVM, and it's in VB this time... and it's actually a great tutorial top to bottom... all source included of course :)
Understanding Input Scope in Silverlight for Windows Phone
Jeff Prosise has a good post up on the WP7 SIP and how to set the proper InputScope to get the SIP you want.
Thinking about Silverlight ‘desktop’ apps – Creating a Standalone Installer for offline installation (no browser)
Anoop Madhusudanan is discussing something that's been floating around for a while... installing Silverlight from, say, a CD or DVD when someone installs your app. He's got some good code, but be sure to read Tim Heuer and Scott Guthrie's comments, and consider digging deeper into that part.
Using FluidMoveBehavior to animate grid coordinates in Silverlight
Adam Kinney has a cool post up on animating an object using the FluidMotionBehavior of Blend 4... looks great moving across a checkerboard... check out the demo, then grab the code.
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