Silverlight Cream for April 02, 2010 -- #828
- by Dave Campbell
In this Issue: Phil Middlemiss, Robert Kozak, Kathleen Dollard, Avi Pilosof, Nokola, Jeff Wilcox, David Anson, Timmy Kokke, Tim Greenfield, and Josh Smith.
Shoutout:
SmartyP has additional info up on his WP7 Pivot app: Preview of My Current Windows Phone 7 Pivot Work
From SilverlightCream.com:
A Chrome and Glass Theme - Part I
Phil Middlemiss is starting a tutorial series on building a new theme for Silverlight, in this first one we define some gradients and color resources... good stuff Phil
Intercepting INotifyPropertyChanged
This is Robert Kozak's first post on this blog, but it's a good one about INotifyPropertyChanged and MVVM and has a solution in the post with lots of code and discussion.
How do I Display Data of Complex Bound Criteria in Horizontal Lists in Silverlight?
Kathleen Dollard's latest article in Visual Studio magazine is in answer to a question about displaying a list of complex bound criteria including data, child data, and photos, and displaying them horizontally one at a time. Very nice-looking result, and all the code.
Windows Phone: Frame/Page navigation and transitions using the TransitioningContentControl
Avi Pilosof discusses the built-in (boring) navigation on WP7, and then shows using the TransitionContentControl from the Toolkit to apply transitions to the navigation.
EasyPainter: Cloud Turbulence and Particle Buzz
Nokola returns with a couple more effects for EasyPainter: Cloud Turbulence and Particle Buzz ... check out the example screenshots, then go grab the code.
Property change notifications for multithreaded Silverlight applications
Jeff Wilcox is discussing the need for getting change notifications to always happen on the UI thread in multi-threaded apps... great diagrams to see what's going on.
Tip: The default value of a DependencyProperty is shared by all instances of the class that registers it
David Anson has a tip up about setting the default value of a DependencyProperty, and the consequence that may have depending upon the type.
Building a “real” extension for Expression Blend
Timmy Kokke's code is WPF, but the subject is near and dear to us all, Timmy has a real-world Expression Blend extension up... a search for controls in the Objects and Timelines pane ... and even if that doesn't interest you... it's the source to a Blend extension!
XPath support in Silverlight 4 + XPathPad
Tim Greenfield not only talks about XPath in SL4RC, but he has produced a tool, XPathPad, and provided the source... if you've used XPath, you either are a higher thinker than me(not a big stretch), or you need this :)
Using a Service Locator to Work with MessageBoxes in an MVVM Application
Josh Smith posted about a question that comes up a lot: showing a messagebox from a ViewModel object. This might not work for custom message boxes or unit testing. This post covers the Unit Testing aspect.
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