Silverlight Cream for April 16, 2010 -- #838

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Published on Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:07:34 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/16 23:23 UTC
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In this Issue: Alan Beasley(-2-, -3-, -4-, -5-), Brian, Rishi, Pete Brown, Yavor Georgiev, and David Anson.

Shoutouts:

As usual, Tim Heuer has all the scoop on all the hot-off-the-presses releases: Silverlight 4 released. Availability of tools announcement. He covers all the main parts of interest.

Tim Heuer also discusses Backward Compatibility with Silverlight 4 applications

And before you ask, Tim Heuer announced the Silverlight Client for Facebook updated for Silverlight 4 release

If you're having trouble with the install, Peter Bromberg has a post up to help bail you out: Get Silverlight 4 Installed: Tips and Tricks

Christian Schormann has a link to probably the fastest intro to SketchFlow I've seen: Video: SketchFlow in 90 seconds, with Jon Harris

Chris Rouw has a Summary of Silverlight at DevConnections on his site. I had the opportunity to spend some time with Chris and we had some good discussions.

Rene Schulte describes how to get started with the new final Silverlight 4 RTW build and announces that he updated his samples and open source projects. He also shares what he wishes for the next Silverlight version: Silverlight 4 Up and Running

From SilverlightCream.com:

Building Better Buttons in Expression Blend and Silverlight: I generally end up missing articles embedded at CodeProject, so Alan Beasley emailed me a link to these, they were new to me. In this first one, he's got a very nice tutorial up on making some awesome buttons in Expression Blend
Arcade Button in Expression Blend and Silverlight: Alan Beasley's second Expression Blend Button tutorial is the classic 'arcade button' ... this is great stuff.. check it out.
Picture Frame Control in Expression Blend and Silverlight: I wasn't going to do the full list Alan Beasley had sent me in one post, but they're all so good! This third takes an excursion away from buttons to do a Picture Frame control. Styled to the max, and another great Blend tutorial!
The last building buttons article (Part1), in Expression Blend and Silverlight: Alan Beasley finishes what may be a definitive work on buttons in Blend... even if you don't want to follow the tutorials (and why wouldn't you??) ... he's got 10 buttons you can download!
ListBox Styling (Part1-ScrollBars) in Expression Blend & Silverlight: In Alan Beasley's 5th post at Code Project, He has a great long tutorial on Styling Listbox Scrollbars in Expression Blend ... the ScrollBars are Part 1 of a series.
Some Notes on DRM in Silverlight 4: Brian at Silverlight SDK has a post up on DRM ... WMDRM and PlayReady. If you're planning on utilizing this, Brian's post looks like a good starting point.
nRoute: Now, More Wholesome: Rishi has a detailed post up explaining the latest nRoute release now supporting Silverlight 4, WP7, and WPF. What a piece of work!
Scanning an Image from Silverlight 4 using WIA Automation: Pete Brown demonstrates using VS2010 and SL4 to lash up to his scanner. Lots of code and external links... all good stuff, Pete!
Dealing with those pesky WCF CommunicationException “NotFound” errors in Silverlight: Yavor Georgiev has a quick post up discussing WCF CommunicationException errors in Silverlight with a couple external links to explain the solution.
New Silverlight 4 Toolkit released with today's Silverlight 4 RTW!: David Anson blogged about the new Toolkit release that is live right now along with the Silverlight 4 Release, and has some release notes up on the Toolkit.