Silverlight Cream for June 03, 2010 -- #875
- by Dave Campbell
In this Issue: Ben Hodson, Fons Sonnemans, SilverLaw, Mike Snow, John Papa, René Schulte, Walt Ritscher, and David Anson.
Shoutouts:
René Schulte announced a whole batch of new features for WriteableBitmap that are now available: Filled To The Bursting Point - WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.5.0
Check out John Papa's Sticky Seesmic Desktop Plugin ... download it, play with it... he's going to blog about building plugins later
Tim Heuer reported a Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010
Erik Mork and Crew have a new Podcast up: This Week in Silverlight: Redmond Exodus?
From SilverlightCream.com:
Tutorial for Configuring Silverlight 4, Entity Framework and WCF RIA Services in Separate Component Assemblies (DLL’s)
Ben Hodson is a new author(to me) that submitted his post at SilverlightCream.com... this is a good-looking tutorial on configuring separate component assemblies for all your project pieces.
SpiralText in Silverlight 4
Fons Sonnemans had a good time playing with the PathListBox in Blend and produced a demo of text on a Spiral... you can run it right on the post, then grab the code.
How To: Starting A Storyboard Not Before The Application Has Completed Loading - Silverlight 4
SilverLaw takes a look at the problem of having a Storyboard start too early, and demonstrates code to avoid the problem.
Silverlight Tip of the Day#27 – Displaying Special Characters in XAML
Mike Snow's latest Tip of the day is on encoding 'special' characters for use in XAML... simple looking at it, frustrating to debug if you don't do it right.
Diving into the RichTextBox (Silverlight TV #31)
John Papa talks about the RichTextBox with Mark Rideout in this edition of Silverlight TV. Mark provides a great video tutorial for the control.
Push and Pull - Silverlight Webcam Capturing Details
Boy, René Schulte doesn't slow down does he?... his latest is (in his words from a section heading) "Silverlight Webcam 101" ... and he means it... this is one to save to OneNote or as a PDF!
Looking for Silverlight BiDi or RTL? Use the FlowDirection property
If you need RTL or BiDi in Silverlight and you haven't checked it out yet, Walt Ritscher has a nice intro up on using the FlowDirection property, with demos and code.
How to: Show text labels on a numeric axis with Silverlight/WPF Toolkit Charting
David Anson has another charting puzzle resolved on his site... putting text labels on the dependent axis.
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