Silverlight Cream for March 06, 2010 -- #808
- by Dave Campbell
In this Issue: András Velvárt, felix corke, Colin Eberhardt, Christopher Bennage, Gergely Orosz, Entity Spaces Team Blog, Mike Taulty(-2-), Jit Ghosh, and Jesse Liberty.
Shoutouts:
Jeremy Likness expands on the Silverlight Team's post Vancouver Olympics - How'd We Do That?
Gavin Wignall has a post up Creating a 360 photograph of an object with Silverlight Photosynth
From SilverlightCream.com:
Transforming an Ugly Duckling into a Graceful Swan With Expression Blend and Silverlight - Part 2 Intro Animation
András Velvárt has part 2 of his Transformation series up at SilverlightShow... he's taking the initro animation to a new length, allowing playback even... cool video tutorial!
Free Silverlight 4 beta skin!
felix corke has a Silerlight 4 theme up for us all to use. If you like a dark theme like Blend, you'll like this... I like it!
Linq to Visual Tree
Colin Eberhardt has a great tutorial up for using LINQ to query the WPF or Silverlight Visual Tree while retaining the tree structure. He also has links out to other techniques.
XAML Attributes on Separate Lines
Christopher Bennage has a post up showing how to easily get all your XAML attributes on separate lines using a VS menu option... I didn't know that!
Using built-in, embedded and streamed fonts in Silverlight
Gergely Orosz has a post up at ScottLogic going over Fonts in Silverlight -- built-in, embedded, or streamed, and examples with code.
EntitySpaces 2010 Two Part Series on Silverlight and WCF
Entity Spaces Team Blog has a pair of videos up on Entity Spaces 2010, WCF, and Silverlight. Part 1 is the intro and explanation, part 2 is a full-up app demonstrating it.
MEF, Silverlight and the DeploymentCatalog
In an attempt to respond fully to a query, Mike Taulty literally pushed the record button and took off on what became a tutorial video on building a real Silverlight app utilizing MEF.
Silverlight 4, Experiment with Pluggable Navigation and a WCF Data Service
Mike Taulty has an experiment detailed on his blog about pluggable navigation and Silverlight 4. He walks through the history of how we got to this point then takes on in an example... good external links too
Enhancing Silverlight Video Experiences with Contextual Data
This is a post on the MSDN Magazine site where Jit Ghosh has a great long post about not only Smooth Streaming with Silverlight, but also adding context data to your video.
When Is It OK To Hack?
Read what all Jesse Liberty gets involved in when he's trying to get something out the door and has to work around a problem. Just about as interesting are the comments ... check it out and leave your own!
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