Silverlight Cream for April 26, 2010 -- #848

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Published on Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:44:35 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/27 4:54 UTC
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In this Issue: Viktor Larsson, Mike Snow(-2-), Jeff Brand, Marlon Grech(-2-, -3-), Jonathan van de Veen, Phil Middlemiss.

Shoutout:

Justin Angel wants everyone to know he is Joining the Vertigo Team!... congratulations, Justin!

From SilverlightCream.com:

Learning Silverlight – Advanced Color Animations: Viktor Larsson is demonstrating small pieces of Silverlight he's picked upon in the course of his work project. This first one is on ColorAnimations using KeyFrames
Silverlight Tip of the Day #4 – Enabling Out of Browser Applications: Mike Snow has Tip #4 up and it's all about OOB... from what you have to do to what your user sees, including how to check to see if you're running OOB... source project included.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #5 – Debugging Out of Browser Applications: Following a fine tradition he started with his first series, Mike Snow is putting out more than one Tip per day :) ... Number 5 is up and is all about debugging OOB apps.
Simplifying Page Transitions in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications: Jeff Brand has a WP7 post up discussing Page Transitions. He first discusses the most common brute-force method, then moves into the TransitioningContentControl from the Toolkit.
An introduction to MEFedMVVM – PART 1: Marlon Grech, Peter O’Hanlon, and Glenn Block worked together to produce an MEF and MVVM library that works for WPF and Silverlight and allows Design-time goodness and a loosely-coupled bridge between the View and ViewModel ... and it's on CodePlex ... they're also looking for comments/additions, so check it out.
Leveraging MEFedMVVM ExportViewModel – MEFedMVVM Part 2: In Part 2, Marlon Grech demonstrates using MEFedMVVM and shows off some of the basics such as Importing services, Design-Time data and DataContextAware ViewModels
IContextAware services to bridge the gap between the View and the ViewModel – MEFedMVVM Part 3: Marlon Grech's 3rd post about MEFedMVVM is about IContextAwareService -- bridging the gap betwen the View and ViewModel -- a service that knows about it's context.
Building a Web Setup that configures your Silverlight application: Jonathan van de Veen has a post up at SilverlightShow on using a Web Setup Project to configure your Silverlight when things startup... if you're not familiar with doing this... take note!
A Chrome and Glass Theme - Part 4: Phil Middlemiss has part 4 of his great tutorial series up on creating a theme in Expression Blend ... this time tackling the listbox.