In this Issue: Mike Snow, Victor Gaudioso, Ola Karlsson, Josh Twist(-2-), Yavor Georgiev, Jeff Wilcox, and Jesse Liberty.
Shoutouts:
Frank LaVigne has an interesting observation on his site: The Big Take-Away from MIX10
Rishi has updated all his work including a release of nRoute to the latest bits: nRoute Samples Revisited
Looks like I posted one of Erik Mork's links two days in a row :) ... that's because I meant to post this one: Silverlight Week – How to Choose a Mobile Platform
Just in case you missed it (and for me to find it easy), Scott Guthrie has an excellent post up on Silverlight 4 Tools for VS 2010 and WCF RIA Services Released
From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight Tip of the Day #23 – Working with Strokes and Shapes
Mike Snow's Silverlight Tip of the Day number 23 is up and about Strokes and Shapes -- as in dotted and dashed lines.
New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to Fire a Visual State based upon the value of a Boolean Variable
Victor Gaudioso's latest video tutorial is up and is on selecting and firing a video state based on a boolean... project included.
Simultaneously calling multiple methods on a WCF service from silverlight
Ola Karlsson details a problem he had where he was calling multiple WCF services to pull all his data and had problems... turns out it was a blocking call and he found the solution in the forums and details it all out for us... actually, a search at SilverlightCream.com would have found one of the better posts listed once you knew the problem :)
Securing Your Silverlight Applications
Josh Twist has an article in MSDN on Silverlight Security. He talks about Windows, forms, and .NET authorization then WCF, WCF Data, cross domain and XAP files. He also has some good external links.
Template/View selection with MEF in Silverlight
Josh Twist points out that this next article is just a simple demonstration, but he's discussing, and provides code for, a MEF-driven ViewModel navigation scheme with animation on the navigation.
Workaround for accessing some ASMX services from Silverlight 4
Are you having problems hitting you asmx web service with Silverlight 4? Yeah... others are too! Yavor Georgiev at the Silverlight Web Services Team blog has a post up about it... why it's a sometimes problem and a workaround for it.
Using Silverlight 4 features to create a Zune-like context menu
Jeff Wilcox used Silverlight 4 and the Toolkit to create some samples of menus, then demonstrates a duplication of the Zune menu.
You Already Are A Windows Phone 7 Programmer
Jesse Liberty is demonstrating the fact that Silverlight developers are WP7 developers by creating a Silverlight and a WP7 app side by side using the same code... this is a closer look at the Silverlight TV presentation he did.
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