Silverlight Cream for June 01, 2010 -- #874

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Published on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:34:16 GMT Indexed on 2010/06/02 5:44 UTC
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In this Issue: Michael Washington, Alan Beasley and Michael Washington, Miroslav Miroslavov, Max Paulousky, Teresa and Ronald Burger, Laurent Duveau, Tim Heuer, Jeff Brand, Mike Snow, and John Papa.

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To pay homage to the Advanced Options button in Expression Blend, Adam Kinney posted: Expression Blend Advanced Options square wallpaper

SilverLaw stood his drag and drop ripple on it's head for this one: Silver Soccer - A Case Study for the Flexible Surface Effect (Silverlight 4)

From SilverlightCream.com:

Expression Blend DataStore - A Powerful Tool For Designers: Michael Washington dug into the documentation and with some Microsoft assistance has figured out how to use the SetDataStoreAction in SketchFlow... good tutorial and a game to demonstrate it's use.
Windows Phone 7 View Model Style Video Player: Alan Beasley and Michael Washington teamed up again to produce a ViewModel-Style Video Player for WP7 ... very nice interface I might add... very detailed tutorial and all the code... oh, and did you notice it uses MVVMLight... on WP7? ... just thought I'd mention that :)
Navigation in 3D world of 2D objects: In part 7 of the CompleteIT code explenation, Miroslav Miroslavov is discussing some of the very cool animation they did... 3D, moving camera... cool stuff!
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Silverlight Applications. Part 2: Max Paulousky has part 2 of his Silverlight 4 and SEO series up. In part 2 he's discussing sitemaps and html content providing. He also has good links showing where to submit your sitemaps and information.
Mousin’ down the PathListBox: Teresa and Ronald Burger (not sure which) has a post up about the PathListBox and how they drew the path that they ended up using, and the code used to enable animation.
Dynamically apply and change Theme with the Silverlight Toolkit: We've all had fun playing with themes, but Laurent Duveau has an example up of letting your users change the theme at run-time.
Microsoft Translator client library for Silverlight: Tim Heuer has been playing with the Microsoft Translator for Silverlight and he has a "Works on My Machine" license on what he's making available .. but considering his access to resources... I'd say go for it :)
Custom Per-Page Transitions in Windows Phone 7: Jeff Brand has a follow-on to his other WP7 post about page transitions and is now discussing per-page transitions
Silverlight Tip of the Day #26 – Changing the Startup Class: Mike Snow's latest 'tip' is a little more involved than a tip ... changing the startup class and actually removing (in his example), the page and app classes... code and xaml! I've seen this before but never explained as clean... fun stuff.
Behaviors in Blend 4 (Silverlight TV #30): Episode 30 of Silverlight TV (now a tag at Silverlight Cream) finds John Papa talking to Adam Kinney about Behaviors in Blend 4... not only using them but creating a custom one.