Silverlight Cream for March 11, 2010 -- #812
- by Dave Campbell
In this Issue: Walter Ferrari, Viktor Larsson, Bill Reiss(-2-, -3-, -4-), Jonathan van de Veen, Walt Ritscher, Jobi Joy, Pete Brown, Mike Taulty, and Mark Miller.
Shoutouts:
Going to MIX10? John Papa announced Got Questions? Ask the Experts at MIX10
Pete Brown listed The Essential WPF/Silverlight/XNA Developer and Designer Toolbox
From SilverlightCream.com:
How to extend Bing Maps Silverlight with an elevation profile graph - Part 2
In this second and final tutorial, Walter Ferrari adds elevation to his previous BingMaps post. I'm glad someone else worked this out for me :)
Navigating AWAY from your Silverlight page
Viktor Larsson has a post up on how to navigate to something other than your Silverlight page like maybe a mailto ...
SilverSprite: Not just for XNA games any more
Bill Reiss has a new version of SilverSprite up on CodePlex and if you're planning on doing any game development, you should check this out for sure
Space Rocks game step 1: The game loop
Bill Reiss has a tutorial series on Game development that he's beginning ... looks like a good thing to jump in on and play along. This first one is all about the game loop.
Space Rocks game step 2: Sprites (part 1)
In Part 2, Bill Reiss begins a series on Sprites in game development and positioning it.
Space Rocks game step 3: Sprites (part 2)
Bill Reiss's Part 3 is a follow-on tutorial on Sprites and moving according to velocity... fun stuff :)
Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part No. 32
Jonathan van de Veen is discussing debugging and the evil you can get yourself wrapped up in... his scenario is definitely one to remember.
Streaming Silverlight media from a Dropbox.com account
Read the comments and the agreements, but I think Walt Ritscher's idea of using DropBox to serve up Streaming media is pretty cool!
UniformGrid for Silverlight
Jobi Joy wanted a UniformGrid like he's familiar with in WPF. Not finding one in the SDK or Toolkit, he converted the WPF one to Silverlight .. all good for you and me :)
How to Get Started in WPF or Silverlight: A Learning Path for New Developers
Pete Brown has a nice post up describing resources, tutorials, blogs, and books for devs just getting into Silveright or WPF, and thanks for the shoutout, Pete!
Silverlight 4, MEF and the DeploymentCatalog ( again :-) )
Mike Taulty is revisiting the DeploymentCatalog to wrap it up in a class like he did the PackageCatalog previously
MVVM with Prism 101 – Part 6b: Wrapping IClientChannel
Mark Miller is back with a Part 6b on MVVM with Prism, and is answering some questions from the previous post and states his case against the client service proxy.
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