Silverlight Cream for March 08, 2010 -- #809

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Published on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:34:12 GMT Indexed on 2010/03/11 4:40 UTC
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In this Issue: Michael Washington, Tim Greenfield, Bobby Diaz(-2-), Glenn Block(-2-), Nikhil Kothari, Jianqiang Bao(-2-), and Christopher Bennage.

Shoutouts:

Adam Kinney announced a Big update for the Project Rosetta site today

Arpit Gupta has opened a new blog with a great logo: I think therefore I am dangerous :)

From SilverlightCream.com:

DotNetNuke Silverlight Traffic Module: If it's DNN and Silverlight, it has to be my buddy Michael Washington :) ... Michael has combined those stunning gauges you've seen with website traffic... just too cool!... grab the code and display yours too!
Cool demonstration of Silverlight VideoBrush: This is a no-code post by Tim Greenfield, but I like the UX on this Jigsaw Puzzle page... and you can make your own.
Introducing the Earthquake Locator – A Bing Maps Silverlight Application, part 1: Bobby Diaz has an informative post up on combining earthquake data with BingMaps in Silverlight 3... check it out, the grab the recently posted Live Demo and Source Code
Adding Volcanos and Options - Earthquake Locator, part 2: Bobby Diaz also added volcanic activity to his earthquake BinMaps app, and updated the downloadable code and live demo.
Building Hello MEF – Part IV – DeploymentCatalog: Glenn Block posted a pair of MEF posts yesterday... made me think I missed one :) .. the first one is about the DeploymentCatalog. Note he is going to be using the CodePlex bits in his posts.
Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel: Glenn Block's part V is about MEF and MVVM -- no, really! ... he is refactoring MVVM into the app with a nod to Josh Smith and Laurent Bugnion... get your head around this...
The Case for ViewModel: Nikhil Kothari has a post up about the ViewModel, and how it facilitates designer/developer workflow, jumpstarts development, improves scaling, and makes asynch programming development simpler
MMORPG programming in Silverlight Tutorial (12)Map Instance (Part I): Jianqiang Bao has part 12 of his MMORPG game up... this one is showing how to deal with obstuctions on maps.
MMORPG programming in Silverlight Tutorial (13)Perfect moving mechanism: Jianqiang Bao also has part 13 up, and this second one is about sprite movement around the obstructions.
1 Simple Step for Commanding in Silverlight: Christopher Bennage blogged about Commanding in Silverlight, he begins with a blog post about commands in Silverlight 4 then goes on to demonstrate the Caliburn way of doing commanding.