Silverlight Cream for April 03, 2010 -- #829

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Published on Sun, 04 Apr 2010 01:06:29 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/04 2:13 UTC
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In this Issue: Scott Marlowe, Nokola, SilverLaw, Brad Abrams, Jeff Wilcox, Jesse Liberty, Alexey Zakharov, ondrejsv, Ward Bell, and David Anson.

Shoutouts:

Bart Czernicki has a post up about the latest with HTML5: HTML 5 is Born Old - Quake in HTML 5

I was sent a link to shoebox360 a while back and had to sign up to see the Silverlight use, but it does work very nice. I like the panoramic carousel in the viewer: shoebox360

Jeff Handley has a post up on RIA Services - Documentation Guidance and Community Samples... the team is looking for feedback from all of us

Shawn Wildermuth posted his My MIX Talks' Source Code

Laurent Bugnion posted his Sample code and slides for my TechDays10 (Belgium) talks

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight to WCF Cross Domain SecurityException: Scott Marlowe wrote an article about an often-encountered security exception having to do with cross-domain policies. He details the problem, the response, the solution, and yet another problem/solution associated... good stuff, Scott!
Simple Functions for HTML Interop: You've seen Nokola's graphic work... how about some HTML Interop from him? He's exposing the code he uses in his work.
New Video: ChildWindow Styling - Silverlight 3: SilverLaw has a new video tutorial on Silerlight 3 ChildWindow Styling up - in German - but the video is language-agnostic :)
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Exposing WCF (SOAP\WSDL) Services: Brad Abrams' continuation in his RIA series is this one demonstrating exposing RIA Services as a Soap\WSDL service
Silverlight 4: New parser implementation. New parser features.: Jeff Wilcox has a post up highlighting some of the new features in Silverlight 4 such as a new parser implementation with new XAML features.
New Video Series – Getting Started With Silverlight: Jesse Liberty is starting a new video tutorial series that's going to build out to be a "complete survey of Silverlight programming". The first two are in this post and are Getting Started and Adding Controls to a Silverlight App... looks like good material, Jesse, and all the source is there for the taking as well.
Silverlight layout hack: Centered content with fixed maxwidth: Alexey Zakharov has a quick tip up on creating centered content with fixed maxwidth. He calls it a dirty trick... looks like code to me :)
Silverlight DataForm’s autogenerated fields send empty strings to database: ondrejsv points up a problem he had with the Toolkit's DataForm, and his solution to it... with code for all of us following along behind :)
DevForce Extensibility With MEF InheritedExport: Ward Bell has a post up describing how they got DevForce MEF'd up, and looks like a good post to get you all excited about MEF as well... lots of external links and good info.
Tip: Read-only custom DependencyProperties don't exist in Silverlight, but can be closely approximated: David Anson's latest Tip is about Read-only custom DependencyProperties in Silverlight -- which strictly is not possible, but he has a code example up that gets close.