Silverlight Cream for May 17, 2010 -- #863

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Published on Tue, 18 May 2010 03:48:04 GMT Indexed on 2010/05/18 5:11 UTC
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In this Issue: Christian Schormann, Vladimir Bodurov, Pete Brown, Justin Angel, John Papa(-2-), Fons Sonnemans, Miroslav Miroslavov, and Jeremy Likness.

Shoutouts:

Jeff Brand has been doing WP7 presentations and posted Windows Phone 7 Presentation and Sample Code

Mark Tucker posted about his Windows Phone 7 Presentation at Desert Code Camp 2010

John Allwright discusses 4 New case Studies on Silverlight at the Winter Olympics

From SilverlightCream.com:

New Video by Jon Harris: Blend 4 for Windows Phone in 90 Seconds: Christian Schormann is discussing a second 90-second Expression Blend video tutorial by Jon Harris... this second one is about Blend 4 for WP7.
XmlCodeEditor – Silverlight 4 control for editing XML and HTML on the browser: Vladimir Bodurov has a post up extending the RichTextBox control to add coloring for HTML and XAML ... it colors as you type, and he plans on adding Intellisense!
Creating a Simple Report Writer in Silverlight 4: While working on his book, Pete Brown decided to share some Silverlight 'Report Writer' work with us... check out that list of goals near the top that are all met... looks great to me!
Windows Phone 7 - Unlocked ROMs: Justin Angel has a good long post about a subject I've stayed away from until now that someone of Justin's level of knowledge has approached it: WP7 ROMs.
Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 Launch: New Designer Capabilities (Silverlight TV 27): John Papa has Silverlight TV 27 up today and is talking about the Silverlight 4 Tools for VS2010 launch with Mark Wilson-Thomas ... the video would be a great place to pick up some of the new features (hint, hint)
WCF RIA Services v1.0 Launch! (Silverlight TV 28): John Papa also has Silverlight TV 28 up, talking with Nikhil Kothari and Dinesh Kulkarni about the v 1.0 release of WCF RIA Services.
RightMouseTrigger: Fons Sonnemans updated his MineSweeper game and has it posted at Silver Arcade, this version supports right mouse click via RightMouseTrigger code that he is sharing.
Smoke effect: The 'Smoke Effect' menus at the CompleteIT site are awesome, and this time out, Miroslav Miroslavov discusses how that was done and gives up the code...!
WebClient and DeploymentCatalog gotchas in Silverlight OOB: Jeremy Likness has a post up to give you some relief if you hit the same MEF/Silverlight gotcha he did when running OOB... like not running in OOB for instance.