Silverlight Cream for April 22, 2010 -- #844
- by Dave Campbell
In this Issue: Miroslav Miroslavov, David Anson, Mike Snow, Jason Alderman, Denis Gladkikh, John Papa, Adam Kinney, and CrocusGirl.
Shoutout:
Mike Snow is moving his blog to Silverlight Tips of The Day... his first is a repeat of number 110 of the last list, but you'll want to bookmark the page.
Falling in the 'too cool not to mention' category... Pete Brown posted another MIX10 interview: New Channel 9 Video: Josh Blake on NaturalShow Multi-touch in WPF
Adam Kinney announced that the Upgrade to Expression Studio v4 for free – now in writing!
From SilverlightCream.com:
Visuals staring at the mouse cursor
Miroslav Miroslavov at SilverlightShow has a first part post up on the design of the CompleteIT site... going through the 'follow the mouse' effect that is so cool on the main page... with source.
Today's DataVisualizationDemos release includes new demos showing off stacked series behavior
Falling squarly into the category of "when does he sleep"... David Anson has another Visualization post up today... adding a stacked series and Text-to-Chat sample.
Silverlight: Unable to start Debugging. The Silverlight managed debugging package isn’t installed.
Mike Snow has a tip up about what to do if you get an "Unable to start debugging" box when you crank up VS ... not a great solution, but it's a solution.
Introducing Pillbox for Windows Phone
The folks at Veracity definitely have way too much fun with technology :) ... check out the WP7 app that Jason Alderman blogged about... he has a link out to another page with screenshots... oh, AND the code...
Export data to Excel from Silverlight/WPF DataGrid
Denis Gladkikh demonstrates using COM Interop to export to Excel from both WPF and Silverlight. He discusses isses he had and has all the source for both platforms available.
Silverlight TV 21: Silverlight 4 - A Customer's Perspective
John Papa has Silverlight TV number 21 up and he's chatting with Franck Jeannin of Ormetis, Ward Bell of IdeaBlade, and Dave Wolf of Cynergy Systems, all presenters in the Keynote at DevConnections.
Avatar Mosaic -Experimenting with the Artefact Animator
Adam Kinney spent enough time with Artefact Animator to put up a lengthy post about it including his project. Artefact Animator itself is available on CodePlex, and Adam has the link... this looks like good stuff.
Windows Phone 7 Design Notes – Part2: Metro + Adrian Frutiger
CrocusGirl continues her WP7 Metro discussion with a great long post on background she's researched and some of her own work with typography... a great read.
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