Silverlight Cream for May 30, 2010 -- #873

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Published on Sun, 30 May 2010 22:19:48 GMT Indexed on 2010/05/30 23:43 UTC
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In this Issue: Matthias Shapiro, Colin Blair(-2-), Mike Snow, Marlon Grech, Victor Gaudioso.

Shoutout:

If you're going to be anywhere near Mission Viejo, California on June 19th, set your calendar for this Victor Gaudioso event: New Speaking Event: Microsoft Book Signing/Silverlight 4 Presentation

SilverLaw has another example of his Flexible surface app up: Drag & Drop Flexible Surface - Silverlight 4

Silverlight 4 Binding and StringFormat in XAML: Matthias Shapiro has a discussion posted about StringFormat binding in Silverlight 4 ... he dug in hard on this... well worth a read.
View Model Collection Properties for WCF RIA Services: Colin Blair is discussing some possibilities for exposing collections of entities from the ViewModel... his favorite: PagedCollectionView. The next post discusses this deeper.
Advanced Paged Collection View: Colin Blair continues in more depth on the PagedCollectionView, this time handling paging, sorting, and multiple loads.
Silverlight Tip of the day #25 – Detecting Validation Errors on Submit: Mike Snow's latest Tip of the Day is up and is about validation - specifically validating after your user has pressed "OK"
INotifyPropertyChanged… I am fed up of handling events just to know when a property changed: Marlon Grech has an Rx-less solution to code notifications of properties changing... this is a WPF and Silverlight solution and all the code is downloadable.
New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to Add Multiple BitmapEffects to One Object: Victor Gaudioso's latest outing is in response to a query from a reader and is a video tutorial showing how to add multiple bitmap effects to one object.