Silverlight Cream for May 29, 2010 -- #872

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Published on Sun, 30 May 2010 04:33:02 GMT Indexed on 2010/05/30 5:53 UTC
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In this Issue: Michael Washington, Chris Koenig, Kunal Chowdhury, SilverLaw, Shayne Burgess, Ian T. Lackey, Alan Beasley, Marlon Grech.

Shoutouts:

Ozymandias has a post up that's not Silverlight necessarily, but it's pretty cool: Typeface Selection Flowchart

Damian Schenkelman posted about the latest: Prism 2.2 Release available. Get it at Codeplex.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight 4 OData Paging with RX Extensions: Michael Washington continues with this OData and Rx post using the View Model Style. Michael has some good external links, good info, and all the code.
WP7 Part 4: Morphing and Mapping: Chris Koenig has the 4th in his WP7 series he's doing, and this one is on MVVMLight and BingMaps ... code included.
Silverlight 4: Interoperability with Excel using the COM Object: Kunal Chowdhury has a post up about Excel Interoperability using the COM object including opening an Excel Workbook and writing data out, then modifying the data in the spreadsheet and seeing it updated in the app.
Creating A Flexible Surface Effect – Silverlight 4 (Part 1): SilverLaw put up a demo of an awesome 'water ripple' SL4 demo a couple days ago, and now he's got part 1 of a great tutorial explaining it all.
Service Operations and the WCF Data Services Client: Shayne Burgess has a post up about Service Operations and how they can be used by the WCF Data Services client.
Role Based Silverlight Behaviors: Also from the Open Light Group, Ian T. Lackey has a post up about Behaviors that takes a list of roles and updates the UI appropriatetly.
How to Toggle (Show/Hide) using Behaviours (Behaviors) between Visual States or Storyboards in Expression Blend for Windows Phone: Alan Beasley has a quick post up talking about the solution he found to a problem he was having with state switching in a WP7 app.
MEFedMVVM: Testability: Marlon Grech has another MEFedMVVM post up and he's discussing Testability all rolled in there with everything else :)