Silverlight Cream for March 21, 2010 -- #816

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Published on Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:50:24 GMT Indexed on 2010/03/21 23:01 UTC
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In this Issue: Michael Washington, John Papa(-2-, -3-, -4-), Jonas Follesø, David Anson, Scott Guthrie, Andrej Tozon, Bill Reiss(-2-), Pete Blois, and Lee.

Shoutouts:

Frank LaVigne has a Mix10 Session Downloader for us all to use... thanks Frank!

Read what Ward Bell has to say about MVVM, Josh Smith’s Way ... it's all good.

Robby Ingebretsen posts on his 10 Favorite Open Source Fonts You Can Embed in WPF or Silverlight

Mike Harsh posted Slides and Demos from my MIX10 Session . The download link at Drop.io is down for maintenance until Sunday evening, March 21.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Blend 4: TreeView SelectedItemChanged using MVVM: Michael Washington has a post up about doing SelectedItemChanged on a TreeView with MVVM, oh and he's starting out in Blend 4...
Silverlight TV 14: Developing for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight: John Papa hit Silverlight TV pretty hard at the beginning of MIX10. This first one is with Mike Harsh talking about WP7. (Hi Mike ... wondered where you'd run off to!), and you can go to the shoutout section to get Mike's session material from MIX as well.
Silverlight TV 15: Announcing Silverlight 4 RC at MIX 10: In this next Silverlight TV(15), John Papa and Adam Kinney discuss Silverlight 4RC ... thank goodness it's out, we can all let go of the breath we've been holding in :)
Silverlight TV 16: Tim Heuer and Jesse Liberty Talk about Silverlight 4 RC at MIX 10: Silverlight TV 16 has John Papa sharing the spotlight with Jesse Liberty and Tim Heuer ... geez... can you find 3 more kowledgable Silverlight folks to listen to? No? then go listen to this :)
Silverlight TV 17: Build a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight: The latest Silverlight TV has John Papa bringing Mike Harsh back to produce a Twitter Client for WP7.
Simulating multitouch on the Windows Phone 7 Emulator: Jonas Follesø has a great post up about simulating multi-touch on WP7 using multiple mice ... yeah, you read that right :)
Using IValueConverter to create a grouped list of items simply and flexibly: David Anson demonstrates grouping items in a ListBox using IValueConverter. I think I can pretty well guarantee I would NOT have thought of doing this.. :)
Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight: In the MIX10 first-day keynote, Scott Guthrie did File->New Project and built a WP7 Twitter app. He has that up as a tutorial with all sorts of external links including one to the keynote itself.
Named and optional parameters in Silverlight 4: Andrej Tozon delves into the optional parameters that are now available to Silverlight developers... pretty cool stuff.
Space Rocks game step 4: Inheriting from Sprite: Bill Reiss continues with his game development series with this one on inheriting from the Sprite class and centering objects
Space Rocks game step 5: Rotating the ship: Bill Reiss's episode 5 is on rotating the ship you setup in episode 4. Don't worry about the transforms, Bill gives it all to us :)
Labyrinth Sample for Windows Phone: Wow... check out the sample Pete Blois did for the Phone... Silverlight coolness :)
PathListBox in SL4 – firstlook: Lee has a post up on the PathListBox. I think this is going to catch on quick... it's just too cool not to!