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Loek van den Ouweland has created a UserControl with some rectangles to mimic a design grid for WP7.

Source: Loek's Blog

In an ASP.NET application I usually place an image of a grid on my canvas div to see if everything is positioned correctly in all browsers. In Silverlight this can be solved even more nicely.

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 Google has just announced a new browser - Google Chrome. My first impression from Chrome is that it is blazing fast. First thing I tried, of course, is to check whether Silverlight is working. Well, it seems to render, but the interaction is horrible. Google Chrome is based on WebKit as well as Safari so I expected Silverlight to work properly. There is no info why Silverlight is not working, but I guess Microsoft will make it work with the final version (which is actually expected soon). 

If you are curios about Google Chrome go download it. We will keep you up to date with the status of Silverlight and Chrome working together.

UPDATE:

Although, Flash seems to be working properly.

This post is about one Silverlight based Facebook application called Picturize.me that you can use to revamp your new Facebook Profile look.

Source: MicrosoftFeed

Have you got the new Facebook layout yet, if you did? Don’t settle for an ordinary profile look. Revamp your new profile’s look using picturize.me

Picturize.me is a Silverlight Based Facebook application developed by Monir Abu Hilal, inspired by the new profile look and the way ‘tagged’ pictures appear in it. What Picturize Me does is basically take one (or more) picture and split them between the profile picture and the pictures bar on the right so the overall look eventually is one big picture for the whole profile.

Today I got this error “XAML Namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008 is not resolved.” in a Silverlight 4 project. I happened right after I added some VisualStates in Blend 4. I could remove the VisualState XAML and everything would then build again fine. As meantioned I googled the error but couldn’t find a solution.

The third edition of "Silverlight: Write and Win!" contest ended and today is the judgment day. Our jury with members Adam Kinney, Chris Anderson, Dave Campbell, Emil Stoychev, Michael Sync, Shawn Wildermuth and Tim Heuer carefully read each article and nominated the winners.

And the winners are:

1st  Build an Image HotSpot Designer in Silverlight by Damon Payne

Damon will enjoy the Telerik Premium Collection for .NET, ComponentOne Studio For Silverlight, Divelements SandDock for Silverlight and $100 in Amazon Gift certificate.

2nd  The invisible Silverlight Application – The local DropDownList-Cache by Thomas Kirchmair

Thomas will take Telerik RadControls for Silverlight and WPF, Divelements SandDock for Silverlight and $100 in Amazon Gift certificate.

3rd  Custom Animations in Silverlight by Gozzo Smith

And Gozzo will receive Telerik RadControls for Silverlight, Divelements SandDock for Silverlight and $100 in Amazon Gift certificate.

Congratulations to the winners! and thanks to all participants for their cool articles.

Hi Silverlighters,

We are proud to announce that Chris Anderson has joined the team of authors writing for SilverlightShow.net. This means that you are going to see articles written by him more often. For those of you who do not know who Chris is, we will just mention that he won the second place award in the Silverlight Write & Contest with the amazing article Building a Framework for Silverlight Line-Of-Business Applications.

In the next weeks he will stick to the following schedule to extend his LOB application:

Part 1: Building a Framework for Silverlight Line-Of-Business Applications - published;
Part 2: Implementing the complete product list screen - including paging, sorting, and searching the list.  Using dynamic lambda expressions to query the Entity Framework - published;
Part 3: Implementing secure web services.  Structuring projects to share business logic between the client and the server.  Discussion of ADO.NET data services and cslalight - published;
Part 4: Creating the needed business objects - published;
Part 5: Creating a form to view and edit the details of a product.  Topics include generating the form, implementing validation rules, implementing drop down lists and caching the data for these in isolated storage - published;
Part 6: Implementing reporting (including HTML DOM interoperability) - published; 
    Part 7.1: Building a Silverlight Line-Of-Business Application – Styling Part 7.1 - published;
    Part 7.2: Building a Silverlight Line-Of-Business Application – Silverlight Styling Concepts 7.2 - published;
    Part 7.3: Design Tools and Usage Hints;
    Part 7.4: Restyling The Framework;
    Part 7.5: Restyling The Login and Summary List pages;
    Part 7.6: Restyling The Product Details pages (including coverage of the ImplicitStyleManager control.

Chris, thank you once again for doing this and good luck with the articles, we know you will do it perfectly!

Sincerely Yours
SilverlightShow Team

We are happy to announce the first version of the free Silverlight RSS control. It is a very light and simple control meant to display the items of a certain RSS feed in a convenient manner. You can easily integrate it in any existing web site (blog, community, portal etc.) by just pasting an HTML code snippet. Moreover you can customize it and localize it via the initialize parameters explained in details in the table below.

Samples: (download source code)

To integrate the RSS control just copy and paste the following HTML into your web site:

<div style="width: 175px; height: 175px">

    <object height="175" width="175" data="data:application/x-silverlight-2," type="application/x-silverlight-2">

        <param name="source" value="http://www.silverlightshow.net/showcase/SilverlightNewsWidget.xap"  />

        <param name="onerror" value="onSilverlightError"  />

        <param name="background" value="white"  />

        <param name="minRuntimeVersion" value="2.0.31005.0"  />

        <param name="autoUpgrade" value="true"  />

        <param name="initParams" value="pageSize=3,feedUrl=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/silverlightshow,readMoreLink=http://www.silverlightshow.net/News.aspx,submissionsLink=mailto:editorial@silverlightshow.net"  />

        <a style="text-decoration: none" href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=124807">

            <img style="border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none" alt="Get Microsoft Silverlight" src="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108181"  /> 

        </a>

    </object>

    <iframe style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; visibility: hidden; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px">

    </iframe>

</div>

Initialize parameters:

If you want to display the RSS feed with the latest news, articles, videos and more published on SilverlightShow use the following RSS feed url http://feeds2.feedburner.com/silverlightshow or read more about it here 'Stay up-to-date with the latest Silverlight news!'

Have comments or questions? Do not hesitate to contact us, that is what we are living for :)!