Silverlight Cream for May 06, 2010 -- #857

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Published on Fri, 07 May 2010 04:07:23 GMT Indexed on 2010/05/11 2:55 UTC
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In this Issue: Alan Beasley, Josh Twist, Mike Snow(-2-, -3-), John Papa(-2-), David Kelley, and David Anson(-2-).

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John Papa posted a question: Do You Want be on Silverlight TV?

From SilverlightCream.com:

ListBox Styling (Part 3 - Additional Templates) in Expression Blend & Silverlight: Alan Beasley has part 3 of his ListBox styling tutorial in Expression Blend up... another great tutorial and all the code.
Securing Your Silverlight Applications: Josh Twist has a nice long post up on Securing your Silverlight apps... definitions, services, various forms of authentication.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #13 – Silverlight Mobile Development: Mike Snow has Tip of the Day #13 up and is discussing creating Silverlight apps for WP7.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #14 – Dynamically Loading a Control from a DLL on a Server: Mike Snow's Tip #14 is step-by-step instructions for loading a UserControl from a DLL.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #15 – Setting Default Browse in Visual Studio: Mike Snow's Tip #15 is actually a Visual Studio tip -- how to set what browser your Silverlight app will launch in.
Silverlight TV 24: eBay’s Silverlight 4 Simple Lister Application: Here we are with Silverlight TV Thursday again! ... John Papa is interviewing Dave Wolf talking about the eBay Simple Lister app.
Digitally Signing a XAP Silverlight: John Papa has a post up about Digitally signing a Silverlight XAP. He actually is posting an excerpt from the Silverlight 4 Whitepaper he posted... and he has a link to the Whitepaper so we can all read the whole thing too!
Hacking Silverlight Code Browser: David Kelley has a very cool code browser up to keep track of all the snippets he uses... and we can too... this is a tremendous resource... thanks David!
Simple workarounds for a visual problem when toggling a ContextMenu MenuItem's IsEnabled property directly: David Anson dug into a ContextMenu problem reported by a couple readers and found a way to duplicate the problem plus a workaround while you're waiting for the next Toolkit drop.
Upgraded my Windows Phone 7 Charting example to go with the April Developer Tools Refresh: David Anson also has a post up describing his path from the previous WP7 code to the current upgrading his charting code.