Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2010 -- #839

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Published on Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:04:55 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/18 5:13 UTC
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In this Issue: ITLackey, SilverLaw, Max Paulousky, Alex Yakhnin, Paul Sheriff, Douglas, Jeremy Likness, Tomasz Janczuk, Anoop Madhusudanan, Adam Kinney, and Ashish Shetty.

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If you haven't already seen it, CrocusGirl did a great job of summarizing Day 2 of DevConnections with her Silverlight 4 Launch Notes

From SilverlightCream.com:

RIA Services - IIS6 Virtual Directory Deployment: ITLackey has a post up building on his previous post on Windows Authentication with RIA Services and discusses deploying to an IIS Virtual Directory.
How To: Determine ChildWindow Position At Runtime - Silverlight 3: SilverLaw has a post up about determining the position of a ChildWindow at run-time, for example after the user moves it.
Modularity in Silverlight Applications - An Issue With ModuleInitializeException – Part 2: Max Paulousky has part 2 of his series up on Modularity in Silverlight... he discusses using XAML as a catalog and registering modules at runtime, and compares to WPF.
Creating LINQ Data Provider for WP7 (Part 1): Alex Yakhnin has a first cut at a LINQ Data Provider for WP7 ... I was expecting this to hit pretty soon, because we're all going to want it... check out the code and d/l the project.
Synchronize Data between a Silverlight ListBox and a User Control: Paul Sheriff demonstrates databinding in XAML between local data in a ListBox and a UserControl.
The beginnings of Silverlight development with Expression Blend: Douglas has a good post up on beginning your Silverlight development with Expression Blend. He covers a lot of ground in this post.
Converting Silverlight 3 to Silverlight 4: Jeremy Likness has a video up demonstrating converting Silverlight 3 to Silverlight 4 with download links and also using commanding on buttons.
Debugging WCF RIA Services with WCF traces: Tomasz Janczuk has a post up discussing the use of WCF RIA Services traces to help diagnose and debug problems in a deployed service.
Bing Maps + oData + Windows Phone 7 - Nerd Dinner Client For Windows Phone 7: Check out what Anoop Madhusudanan has provided... Nerd Dinner for WP7, including OData and BingMaps... just very cool!
A few cool new features added in Expression Blend 4 RC: Adam Kinney announced the availability of the new Expression Blend and highlights some of the new features... like MakeLayoutPath... FTW!
Of Crashing and Sometimes Burning: Ashish Shetty has a discourse posted about where the causes of errors might come from, what to expect from the platform, where to find crash dumps, and links to more reading.