This Week in Silverlight – March 4 2010
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Application of the Week
FlickrLight is an interesting application for browsing images. It has some nice transitions, but the navigation could use some work. Make sure to click on the username in the bottom to dive deeper into the application.
Silverlight Rumors
Interesting Windows Phone Development blog on MSDN. Rumors are starting to become reality.
We-Dig meeting: http://we-dig.org/ Brian attended a we-dig meeting and got to see a WM7 phone in the flesh.
New Windows Mobile twitter people to follow:
Silverlight News
- Example article in a series on MMORPG development in Silverlight.
- File Differencing application written in Silverlight is now on Codeplex.
- Interested in WCF RIA Services from the perspective of Microsoft? Jeff Handley has a great blog.
- Rich Griffin gives a thought provoking post on how Designers and Developers view Resource Dictionaries differently.
- Silverlight Training on Lynda.com (see last week’s show for info on Walt the instructor).
- Want to call Native/CLR code from a Silverlight 4 Elevated Access OOB application? Mr. Morrill has code to let you do just that.
- John Papa is saying that Mix is going to be huge.
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Brian Hendersonis a Silverlight Designer/Architect and INETA Community Champion. A few of the activities Brian can be found participating are flying (pilot), kayaking, hiking, or just taking video/photos.
Kelly White is a Senior Software Engineer with MyContent.com. He previously lead the PDXUX.Net user group, and now runs the Portland Silverlight User Group with Erik Mork. Kelly has presented at user groups and code camps throughout the northwest on both Silverlight and WPF.
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