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Thomas Martinsen has blogged about some of the new features of Silverlight 5:

• Silverlight 5: Multiple Windows Support - Silverlight 5 supports the ability to open multiple top level windows. It is required that the application run with elevated permissions.
• Silverlight 5: ClickCount - Silverlight 5 enables support for multi-click input on left and right mouse button making it easier to implement features like double click. ClickCount is available on MouseButtonEventArgs.
• Silverlight 5: Implicit DataTemplates - With Silverlight 4 came implicit styles. With Silverlight 5 comes implicit DataTemplates. Implicit DataTemplates allow DataTemplates for ContentPresenters to be selected based upon the type of its content.

In this post, Thomas Martinsen first discusses how to use linked classes in Silverlight and then talks about partial classes on the client and the server.

Source: XAMLGEEK

One of the challenges of writing managed components for Silverlight is the fact that it is not possible to use a normal .NET assembly in Silverlight projects. One way to get around this issue is to use linked and partial classes in Silverlight projects.

Here are the slides and samples from the talk of Thomas Martinsen and Martin Jespen about Silverlight patterns and framework at the monthly Silverlight Usergroup meeting in Denmark.

Source: XAMLGeek

I the first part of the talk, Martin showed the differences between MEF and Unity and wrapped up by showing some of the possibilities in PRISM. [...]

In the second part of the talk, I showed how to expose an OData feed using a WCF DataService and access the data from a Silverlight application.

In this post, Thomas Martinsen shows how to expose data from an existing data source and access the data in a Silverlight application.

Source: XAMLGeek

OData (Open Data Protocol) is a web protocol for querying and updating data build upon web technologies such as HTTP, AtomPub and JSON. OData can be used to expose and access data from a several types of data source like databases, file systems and websites.

OData can be exposed by a variety of technologies – first and foremost .NET but also Java and Ruby. On the client side OData can be accessed by .NET, Silverlight, WP7, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby and Objective-C just to mention some of them. This makes OData very attractive to solutions where data need to be accessed by several clients.

In this post, Thomas Martinsen explains how to create a ResourceDictionary for Windows Phone 7.

Source: XAMLGEEK

WP7 is based on Silverlight 3+ and by default it’s not possible to create a new resource dictionary. However it’s pretty easy to work around – just follow the same guidelines as if it was in Silverlight 3.