Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2010 -- #810

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Published on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:47:01 GMT Indexed on 2010/03/11 4:40 UTC
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In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Jeremy Likness(-2-), Andrew Veresov, Nokola, SilverLaw, Gill Cleeren, Jim Wightman and Jeremy Likness, Viktor Larsson(-2-), and Walter Ferrari.

Shoutouts:

Viktor Larsson has a post up about Silverlight Market Penetration ... hope to meet you at MIX10, Viktor!

Gergely Orosz has posted the Slides and code for the presentation “An Introduction to Silverlight”

It appears that if I miss a day, I can pretty much do an all-submittal post :)

From SilverlightCream.com:

Writing an AsyncLoader to enqueue long running operations: Andrea Boschin has a tutorial on SilverlightShow where he's building up an asynch service to deal with a long-running app on the server.
MVVM with MEF in Silverlight: Video Tutorial: Jeremy Likness has a video tutorial up for helping beginners wire up MVVM and MEF to Silverlight. Source code for the app in the video is downloadable.
MVVM with MEF in Silverlight Video Tutorial Part 2: Plugins and Metadata: In part 2, Jeremy Likness redesigns the app using metadata to turn the shapes into objects, and then show how easy it is to add a new plugin... and the source for the app is downloadable.
Binding a Converter Parameter: Andrew Veresov has a nice code-filled solution up for those times that you need to bind a ConverterParameter value.
EasyPainter: Lion Hair styling: Nokola has not been idle with Easy Painter... now he's added "Lion Hair" to the list of stylings you can apply... guess if you want to change someone's 'mane' ... sorry!
Twisting Navigation - Silverlight 3: SilverLaw has another control up - a "Twisting Navigation" control... very cool :) ... and since I'm behind the curve, he already has an update in the Expression Gallery as noted in his post, and a video tutorial on implementing it in an application... and if you understand German, turn up the sound :)
Uploading and downloading images using a WCF service with Silverlight: Gill Cleeren has a tutorial up at SilverlightShow on uploading and downloading images using WCF Services in Silverlight
New Windows Phone 7 Community Developer Hub: Jim Wightman and Jeremy Likness have a very cool Silverlight page up where you can paste the URL of your XAP in and have it display in a "Windows 7 Series Phone" ... and that's all I'm saying about that.
XAML Transformation 101: Viktor Larsson is discussing Transforms in XAML and has a nice tutorial up that is easily the beginning of a carousel... you may also want to check out his other posts... I'm adding him to my list.
Silverlight 4 Webcam Demo: In this post, Viktor Larsson has a tutorial up for using the WebCam. This is from a beginner perspective, so if you haven't jumped in, now's a good time.
How to extend Bing Maps Silverlight with an elevation profile graph - Part 1: Walter Ferrari has a post up at SilverlightShow discussing extensions to BingMaps such as creating routes using GeoCoding and Route Services plus drawing lines on the maps and getting coordinates of the points.