Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2010 -- #819

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Published on Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:57:54 GMT Indexed on 2010/03/25 0:13 UTC
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In this Issue: Nokola, Tim Heuer, Christian Schormann, Brad Abrams, David Kelley, Phil Middlemiss, Michael Klucher, Brandon Watson, Kunal Chowdhury, Jacek Ciereszko, and Unni.

Shoutouts:

Michael Klucher has a short post up For Love of the Game (Development)…, where he's looking for some input from the developer community.

Shawn Hargreaves has a link post up of all the Windows Phone MIX10 presentations

Chris Cavanagh has a Soft-Body Physics for Windows Phone 7 post up that goes along with one he did 1-1/2 years ago!

Jeff Weber posted An Open Letter To Microsoft Regarding The Silverlight Game Development Community

Pete Brown posted his MIX10 Recap ... lots of information, and discussion of what he was up to ... I liked the Trivia app Pete... glad to hear that was yours :)

I've changed my mind and added a WP7 tag to SilverlightCream. I'll straighten out all the Mobile plus Silverlight links to point at the WP7 tab hopefully tonight.

From SilverlightCream.com:

EasyPainter Source Pack 3: Adorners, Mouse Cursors and Frames: Nokola has been busy with EasyPainter adding in Custom, Extensible Mouse Cursors and Customizable Adorners with extensible adorner frames, and best of all... all with source code!
Simulate Geo Location in Silverlight Windows Phone 7 emulator: Among the things we don't have in our WP7 emulators is Geo Location... Tim Heuer comes to the rescue with a simulator for it... too cool, Tim!
Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part II: Christian Schormann is back with Part 2 of his tutorial sequence on the new Path Layout. Really good info and definitely cool presentations of the control.
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Exposing OData Services: Brad Abrams continues his series with a post on exposing OData services. This looks like a great tutorial on the topic... will probably resolve some questions I've been having :)
No Silverlight and Preloader Experience(ish) - in 10 seconds...: David Kelley exposes the code he uses on his site, designed to be friendly to Silverlight and non-Silverlight users alike.
Merged Dictionaries of Style Resources and Blend: Phil Middlemiss has a nice article up on Merged Dictionaries and using multiple resource dictionaries that the app chooses, but also be compatible with Prism and Blend while not eating your system resources out of house and home.
XNA Game Studio and Windows Phone Emulator Compatibility: Michael Klucher has a definitive post up about getting your XNA and system up-to-speed for WP7... a must-read if you've been running any of the other XNA drops.
Windows Phone 7 301 Redirect Bug: Brandon Watson reports a 301 Redirect bug on WP7 ... see the code and how he got it, then follow along as he explains all the debug paths he took and what the resolution (?) really is :)
Silverlight 4: How to use the new Printing API?: Kunal Chowdhury has a tutorial up on printing with Silverlight 4 RC... from the project layout to printing and then printing a smaller section... all good
Printing problem in Silverlight 4.0 RC - loading images in code behind: Jacek Ciereszko also is writing about printing, and in his case he had problems with loading an image dynamically and printing it... plus he provides a solution to the 'blank page' problem.
ToolboxExampleAttribute - a new extension point in Blend 4 (and a few other extensibility related changes): Unni has an article up about Expression Blend 4's new ToolboxExampleAttribute which allow you to have multiple examples of the same type resulting in different XAML produced.