Silverlight Cream for May 04, 2010 -- #855

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Published on Wed, 05 May 2010 04:25:37 GMT Indexed on 2010/05/05 5:29 UTC
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In this Issue: John Papa, Adam Kinney, Mike Taulty, Kirupa, Gunnar Peipman, Mike Snow(-2-, -3-), Jesse Liberty, and Lee.

Shoutout:

Jeff Wilcox announced Silverlight Unit Test Framework: New version in the April 2010 Silverlight Toolkit

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight TV 23: MVP Q&A with WWW (Wildermuth, Wahlin and Ward): John Papa has Silverlight 23 up which is a panel discussion between Shawn Wildermuth, Dan Wahlin, Ward Bell and John... wow... what a crew!
Design-time Resources in Expression Blend 4 RC: Adam Kinney reports on the new feature of Expresseion Blend RC to load resources at design time. Adam also has a project available to demonstrate the concepts he's explaining.
Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (1 - Overview): Mike Taulty is starting a series on WCF RIA Services. This first one is an overview and looks to be a good series as expected.
Introduction to Sample Data - Page 1: Kirupa has a great 5-part post up about sample data in Expression Blend.
Windows Phone 7 development: Using WebBrowser control: Gunnar Peipman posted about using the web browser control in WP7 to display RSS data. Good stuff, and all the code too.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #10 – Converting Client IP to Geographical Location: Mike Snow's Tip #10 is about taking an IP address and getting a geographical location from it. Combine this with his Tip #9 that retrieves the IP address.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #11 – Deploying Silverlight Applications with WCF web services.: Mike Snow's Tip #11 is much bigger than most ... it's almost an end-to-end solution for creating and deploying a WCF service, including resolving problems.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #12 – Getting an Images Source File Name: Mike Snow also has tip #12 up, and it's a quick one on getting the original source file name for an image you've loaded.
Screen Scraping – When All You Have Is A Hammer…: Jesse Liberty posted his solution to a self-imposed problem and ended up writing a 'mini tutorial on using Silverlight for creating desk-top utilities' ... all with source.
RIA services and combobox lookups: Lee has a post up about RIA Services and setting up comboboxes for lookups. Lots of source in the post and full project download.