Silverlight Cream for May 12, 2010 -- #860

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Published on Thu, 13 May 2010 04:50:37 GMT Indexed on 2010/05/13 5:55 UTC
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In this Issue: Miroslav Miroslavov(-2-), Mike Snow(-2-, -3-), Paul Sheriff, Fadi Abdelqader, Jeremy Likness, Marlon Grech, and Victor Gaudioso.

Shoutouts:

Andy Beaulieu has a cool WP7 game up and is looking for opinions/comments: Droppy Pop: A Windows Phone 7 Game

Karl Shifflett has code and video tutorials up for the app he wrote for the WPF LOB tour he just did: Stuff – WPF Line of Business Using MVVM Video Tutorial

From SilverlightCream.com:

Flipping panels: I had missed this 3rd part of the CompleteIT explanation. In this post Miroslav Miroslavov describes the page flipping they're doing. Great explanation and all the code included.
Flying objects against you: The 4th part of the CompleteIT explanation is blogged by Miroslav Miroslavov where he is discussing the screen elements 'flying toward' the user.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #17 – Double Click: Mike Snow's Tip of the Day 17 is showing how to implement mouse double-clicks either for an individual control or for an entire app.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #18 – Elastic Scrolling: In Mike Snow's Tip of the Day 18, he's talking about and showing some 'elastic' scrolling in his image viewer application. He's asking for opinions and suggestions.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #19 – Using Bing Maps in Silverlight: Mike Snow's Tips are getting more elaborate :) ... Number 19 is about using the BingMap control in your Silverlight app.
Control to Control Binding in WPF/Silverlight: Paul Sheriff demonstrates control to control binding... saving a bunch of code behind in the process. Project included.
Your First Step to the Silverlight Voice/Video Chatting Client/Server: Fadi Abdelqader has a post up at CodeProject using the WebCam and Mic features of Silverlight 4 to setup a voice & video chatting app.
MVVM Coding by Convention (Convention over Configuration): Jeremy Likness discusses Convention over Configuration and gives up some good MVVM nuggets along the way... check out his nice long post and grab the source for the project too... and also check out the external links he has in there.
MEFedMVVM changes >> from cool to cooler: Marlon Grech has refactored MEFedMVVM, and in addition is working with other MVVM framework folks to use some of the same MEF techniques in theirs... code on CodePlex
New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to Create a Silverlight Paging System to Load new Pages: In Victor Gaudioso's latest video tutorial he builds a ContentHolder UserControl that will load any page on demand into your MainPage.xaml