Silverlight Cream for May 27, 2010 -- #871

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Published on Fri, 28 May 2010 04:39:29 GMT Indexed on 2010/05/28 5:53 UTC
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In this Issue: Phil Middlemiss, Max Paulousky, Jeff Wilcox, David Anson, René Schulte, Xianzhong Zhu, Jeff Handley, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, and Marlon Grech.

Shoutouts:

SilverLaw has a great demo at the Expression Gallery, and we're all going to look forward to the blog post explaining it: Flexible Surface Effect

SilverLaw> has another use for the above in this text morphing Effect: Morphing Text Effect

Matthias Shapiro contributed a chapter for a book on Visualization and it's available as a free download: Free Chapter From Beautiful Visualization

Andy Beaulieu has a demo up as almost a spoiler for a future Coding4Fun app... and how cool is this: Shuffleboard: A Windows Phone 7 Sample Game

From SilverlightCream.com:

Separating Content and Presentation with the ContentControl: Phil Middlemiss' latest is out on SilverlightShow and is all about the ContentControl and separating layout and content ... demo project source included
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Silverlight Applications. Part 1: Max Paulousky has part one of a long series he's starting on a demo project to explain a bunch of MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA concepts. This first one contains the overview and also discusses SEO. There is a link to the app and material in the post if you read Russian :)
Updated Silverlight Unit Test Framework bits for Windows Phone and Silverlight 3: Jeff Wilcox has available updated Unit Test bits for Silverlight 3 -- read that as WP7... read the rest of the information on his post.
Easily animate orientation changes for any Windows Phone application with this handy source code: David Anson has some code up that you're going to want if you're programming WP7 ... just watch the video ... you'll be downloading the code just like I did :)
SilverShader – Introduction to Silverlight and WPF Pixel Shaders: René Schulte has a post up at Coding4Fun about PixelShaders... how to write them and an application that uses them... this is a great long tutorial... a must read.
Developing Freecell Game Using Silverlight 3 Part 2: Xianzhong Zhu has part 2 of his FreeCell game development posted ... lots of detailed descriptions and code, plus all the code of course!
Async Validation with RIA Services: Jeff Handley has a post up that is sort of a follow-on to a year-old post on async validation with RIA services and DataForm and how it's all much easier now in SL4.
Learning Blend with .toolbox (Silverlight TV #29): John Papa and Arturo Toledo discuss .toolbox in Silverlight TV #29 -- have you made yourself an avatar yet? ... well go get on-board with this great learning tool!
Silverlight Out of Browser Dynamic Modules in Offline Mode: OOB isn't difficult, dynamic modules can become a bit more, but what if you're OOB... ok what if you're OOB and offline? ... Jeremy Likness has a possible solution for this with an OfflineCatalog.
MEFedMVVM v1.0 Explained: Marlon Grech has a great into to MEFedMVVM in this post. If you're trying to get your head around MEF and MVVM in either WPF or Silverlight, here's a good starting point.