Silverlight Cream for April 18, 2010 -- #840

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Published on Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:58:37 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/19 6:13 UTC
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In this Issue: CrocusGirl, Giorgetti Alessandro(-2-), smartyP, Pete Brown, David Poll, David Anson, and Bill Reiss.

Shoutouts:

Yasser Makram has a post up discussing Human Centered ALM with Telerik TeamPulse and Team Foundation Server. I saw this demo'd at DevConnnections and it definitely deserves a look.

Shawn Wildermuth posted his materials from DevConnections all on one post: Back from DevConnections with SourceCode

Shawn Wildermuth also posted an Updated RIA Services + MVVM Example

Laurent Bugnion announced a Small change in MVVM Light Toolkit templates for Blend 4 RC

Laurent Bugnion also announced Crowdsourcing MVVM Light Toolkit support

The Expression Blend and Design Blog announced Expression Blend 4 Release Candidate Available!

Dan Wahlin posted Slides and Code from my Silverlight MVVM Talk at DevConnections

From SilverlightCream.com:

Windows Phone 7 Design Notes – Part#1: Metro Resources: CrocusGirl has blogged about WP7 and the Metro design concept. She has a bunch of resources up and information about Metro and the design methodology. Stay tuned for Part 2.
Silverlight, M-V-VM ... and IoC - part 1: Giorgetti Alessandro has part 1 of a multi-parter up on IoC and MVVM for LOB apps in Silverlight ... a pretty quick into to MVVM.
Silverlight, M-V-VM … and IoC – part 2: Giorgetti Alessandro also posted part 2 of his series, and this one digs deeper into the code and discusses what goes into the view and the model.
Using the Facebook Developer Toolkit With Windows Phone 7: smartyP has a post addressing using the Facebook Developer toolkit with WP7... it took some hacking, and he explains it, and provides it for download.
Silverlight and WPF Tip: Fitting items in a ListBox: Having trouble fitting items into a Listbox in Silverlight or WPF without getting horizontal scrollbars? Pete Brown has a solution for you in 4 steps.
Making printing easier in Silverlight 4: David Poll has a great detailed post up about printing in SL4, taking it to building a higher-level API that allows printing of collections... all demos and source included.
Detailed information about the Silverlight Toolkit's new stacked series support: David Anson details the improvements to Data Visualization in the Toolkit release from last week.
Space Rocks game step 9: the asteroid sprite: Bill Reiss has his latest game episode up and this time he's putting asteroid sprites in play. No placement, movement, or collisions yet, but it's a beginning. And, he's updated all his code to Silverlight 4.