Silverlight Cream for March 05, 2010 -- #807

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Published on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:28:59 GMT Indexed on 2010/03/07 23:28 UTC
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In this Issue: Phil Middlemiss(-2-, -3-), Pencho Popadiyn, John Papa(-2-, -3-), Jim Lynn, and SilverLaw(-2-).

Shoutouts:

Walt Ritscher has added more shaders and features: Shazzam 1.2 – Feature Overview

I hope you're getting as excited as I am about MIX10. You should be reading MIX10 News and checking out the sessions and the directory of attendees.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Watermarked TextBox Part I: Phil Middlemiss's Orb Radio Button hit number two in the Silverlight Cream Skim page, in 2 days... now Phil has a very nice 3-part tutorial up on creating a Watermarked TextBox with lots of cool features. This is part 1 and starts the series off.
Watermarked TextBox Part II: In Phil Middlemiss's Part II of the Watermarked TextBox tutorial, he's concentrating on visual elements of the control began in the last episode... you're paying attention, right? ... this is a cool control :)
Watermarked Textbox Part III: In the final part of Phil Middlemiss's tutorial series, he's wiring all the pieces together in the UserControl. Go grab the control, then leave Phil some love on his blog!
Using Reactive Extensions in Silverlight: Pencho Popadiyn has a great tutorial up on SilverlightShow about Rx ... if you want to get your arms around this... this tutorial is a good place to begin.
Silverlight TV 10: Silverlight Hyper Video Platform with Jesse Liberty: Running a little behind here, but check out John Papa and THE Silverlight Geek^TM Jesse Liberty discussing Jesse's Hyper Video Platform on Silverlight TV
Silverlight TV 11: Dynamically Loading XAPs with MEF: In Silverlight TV episode 11, John Papa talks to Glenn Block about MEF and partitioning and dynamically loading XAPs ... good stuff.
Silverlight TV 12: The Best Blend 3 Video Ever!: And the latest Silverlight TV episode, number 12, has John Papa and Adam Kinney giving "The Best Blend 3 Video ever (or at least on Silverlight TV)"... check out the list of topics and you'll want to watch :)
InvalidOperation_EnumFailedVersion when binding data to a Silverlight Chart: Read Jim Lynn's post about a problem found while deploying his app, the very confusing (long) error, and the workaround.
Leather Stamped Style Series For Silverlight Controls - Part 1: SilverLaw contued after his 'leather stamped' textbox and has added TextBlock, Button and some template bindings... check it out then get it at the Expression Gallery
Circular Accordion Style Silverlight 3: SilverLaw also built a Circualar Accordian style... interesting idea and once again it, in the Expression Gallery. He's also looking for feedback.