Silverlight Cream for March 22, 2010 -- #817

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Published on Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:04:09 GMT Indexed on 2010/03/23 6:13 UTC
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In this Issue: Bart Czernicki, Tim Greenfield, Andrea Boschin(-2-), AfricanGeek, Fredrik Normén, Ian Griffiths, Christian Schormann, Pete Brown, Jeff Handley, Brad Abrams, and Tim Heuer.

Shoutout:

At the beginning of MIX10, Brad Abrams reported Silverlight 4 and RIA Services Release Candidate Available NOW

From SilverlightCream.com:

Using the Bing Maps Silverlight control on the Windows Phone 7: Bart Czernicki has a very cool BingMaps and WP7 tutorial up... you're going to want to bookmark this one for sure! Code included and external links... thanks Bart!
Silverlight Rx DataClient within MVVM: Tim Greenfield has a great post up about Rx and MVVM with Silverlight 3. Lots of good insight into Rx and interesting code bits.
SilverVNC - a VNC Viewer with Silverlight 4.0 RC: Andrea Boschin digs into Silverlight 4 RC and it's full-trust on sockets and builds an implementation of RFB protocol... give it a try and give Andrea some feedback.
Chromeless Window for OOB applications in Silverlight 4.0 RC: Andrea Boschin also has a post up on investigating the OOB no-chrome features in SL4RC.
Windows Phone 7 and WCF: AfricanGeek has his latest video tutorial up and it's on WCF and WP7... I've got a feeling we're all going to have to get our arms around this.
Some steps for moving WCF RIA Services Preveiw to the RC version: Fredrik Normén details his steps in transitioning to the RC version of RIA Services.
Silverlight Business Apps: Module 8.5 - The Value of MEF with Silverlight: Ian Griffiths has a video tutorial up at Channel 9 on MEF and Silverlight, posted by John Papa
Introducing Blend 4 – For Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone: Christian Schormann has an early MIX10 post up about te new features in Expression Blend with regard to Silverlight, WPF, and WP7.
Building your first Silverlight for Windows Phone Application: Pete Brown has his first post up on building a WP7 app with the MIX10 bits.
Lookups in DataGrid and DataForm with RIA Services: Jeff Handley elaborates on a post by someone else about using lookup data in the DataGrid and DataForm with RIA Services
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Starting a New Project with the Business Application Template: Brad Abrams is starting a series highlighting the key features of Silverlight 4 and RIA with the new releases. He has a post up Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Index, including links and source. Then in this first post of the series, he introduces the Business Application Template.
Custom Window Chrome and Events: Watch a tutorial video by Tim Heuer on creating custom chrome for OOB apps.