Silverlight Cream for April 27, 2010 -- #849

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Published on Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:01:07 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/27 23:13 UTC
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In this Issue: Mike Snow, Kunal Chowdhury, Giorgetti Alessandro, Alexander Strauss, Corey Schuman, Kirupa, John Papa, Miro Miroslavov, Michael Washington, and Jeremy Likness.

Shoutouts:

Erik Mork and crew have posted their latest This Week In Silverlight April 23 2010

The Silverlight Team announced Microsoft releases Silverlight-powered Windows Intune beta

Jesse Liberty has posted his UK and Ireland Slides and Links

The Expression Blend and Design Blog reports a Minor Update to The Expression Blend 4 Release Candidate

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight Tip of the Day #6 – Toast Notifications: Mike Snow has Tip #6 up today and it's about Toast notifications in OOB apps: Restrictions, creation, showing, and the code.
Silverlight Tutorials Chapter 2: Introduction to Silverlight Application Development: Part 2 of Kunal Chowdhury's Introductory tutorial set is up ... he's covering how to create a Silverlight project, what's contained in it, and creating a User Control.
Silverlight, M-V-VM ... and IoC - part 3: Giorgetti Alessandro has part 3 of his Silverlight, IOC, and MVVM series up... this one with an example using the code discussed previously. The project is on CodePlex, and he's not done with the series.
Application Partitioning with MEF, Silverlight and Windows Azure – Part I: Alexander Strauss is discussing Silverlight and MEF for loosely-coupled and partitioned apps. He's also using Azure in this discussion.
geekSpeak Recording - Five Key Developer Features in Expression Blend with Corey Schuman: Check out the latest geekSpeak on Channel 9 where Corey Schuman talks about the 5 key Developer Features in Expression Blend that will improve your productivity.
Using the ChangePropertyAction: Kirupa is discussing and demonstrating ChangePropertyAction. Check out the demo near the top of the post, then read how to do it, and download the source.
3 Free Silverlight Demos: John Papa blogged about the 2 demos (with source) that have been updated to SL4, and a new one all by Microsoft Luminaries Karen Corby, Adam Kinney, Mark Rideout, Jesse Bishop, and John Papa: "ScrapBook", "HTML and Video Puzzle", and "Rich Notepad".
Floating Visual Elements: I like Miro Miroslavov's comment: "every Silverlight application “must” have some objects floating around in a quite 3D manner" :) ... well they do that on the CompletIT site, and this is part 2 of their explanation of how all that goodness works.
MVVM – A Total Design Change Of Your Application With No Code: With some Blend goodness, Michael Washington completely reorganizes the UI of an MVVM application without touching any code ... project included
MVVM with Transaction and View Locator Example: Jeremy Likness responded to reader requests and has an example up, with explanation, of marrying his last two posts: transactions with MVVM and View Model Locator.