Silverlight Cream for April 28, 2010 -- #850

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Published on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:02:15 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/29 5:07 UTC
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In this Issue: Giorgetti Alessandro, Alexander Strauss, Mahesh Sabnis, Andrea Boschin, Maxim Goldin, Peter Torr, Wolf Schmidt, and Marlon Grech.

Shoutout:

Koen Zwikstra announced a SL4 update: Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.11

Adam Kinney posted a WTF Step by Step guide to installing Silverlight Tools

David Makogon posted his materials from a presentation: RockNUG April 2010 Materials: Silverlight 4

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight, M-V-VM ... and IoC - part 4: Giorgetti Alessandro isn't wasting any time... he's already gotten Part 4 of his MVVM, IoC, and Silverlight series up. He's discussing commanding. He gives some good external links and develops in his own direction as well.
Application Partitioning with MEF, Silverlight and Windows Azure – Part II: Alexander Strauss has the second and final part of his MEF/Silverlight/Azuer posts up, describing getting XAP information from Azure Blob storage.
Simple Databinding and 3-D Features using Silverlight in Windows Phone 7 (WP7): Mahesh Sabnis has a post up combining DataBinding and 3D displays on WP7 ... good long tutorial and source.
Keeping an ObservableCollection sorted with a method override: Andrea Boschin details the reasons behind his need for having a sorted ObservableCollection, then hands over the code he used to do so.
VS2010: Silverlight 4 profiling: Maxim Goldin posted about profiling Silverlight 4 in VS2010. It's not overly straightforward but once you do it a couple times, not a big deal ... check out the comments as well.
Peter Torr: Mock Location APIs from my Mix10 Talk: A discussion came up on the insider's list this morning asking about Location Service in the emulator. Laurent Bugnion pointed us at Peter Torr's Mock Location from his MIX10 talk.
Finding the "real" templates and generic.xaml in Silverlight core or library assemblies, by using .NET Reflector: Wolf Schmidt at the Silverlight SDK has a post up about using .NET Reflector to rat around in Silverlight core or library assemblies.
How does MEFedMVVM compose the catalogs and how can I override the behavior? – MEFedMVVM Part 4: Marlon Grech has Part 4 of his MEFedMVVM series up and this one is for advanced use of MEFedMVVM... where you're writing a composer and how that would be different for Silverlight and WPF... oh yeah, and what is a composer as well :)