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Source: Kyle McClellan's Blog

In Authorization Sample 301 I explained the ins-and-outs of the authorization sample and offered a few hints as to how it could be used. In this post, I will show a specific example where I put together an authorized form using the Model-View-ViewModel pattern.

Source: Beyond Relational

As you may figure out, There is No Life Cycle. If you have a button control on the Silverlight app and press it, there will never we a post back, back to the server. The click event will just simply be fired of on the client-side; it's where the code is executed. To get data from a server, you can for use a WCF service, Web Service, Web Client, .NET RIA Services etc... They will make the call to the server from the client side for you.

Source: Sandrino Di Mattia's Blog

In large companies / governments / ... most of the time the application architecture needs to follow a set of rules (focused on maintainability and security).
These could be rules like the following:

• The applications need to be developed following a Multitier architecture
• Each tier should be physically separated for security.
• The business logic tier is the only one that can connect to the data tier.
• The presentation tier only connects to the business logic tier.
• The presentation tier may not directly connect to the data tier.
• The presentation tier is located in a DMZ, other tiers are heavily secured.
• ...

Each project / company will have its own rules but the concept stays the same.

Source: Designer Silverlight

The scenario we wanted went something like this: We wanted the user to tap a button and launch the camera task. This would close (tombstone) the application until the camera task was complete (the user took a picture and returned to the app). Upon completion, the application is re-initiated and the camera task hands the application an image stream that we can use to determine the bar code number. We then navigate to a screen that will show all the information about the product the user just scanned.

Source: Peter Torr's Blog

These are the latest revs of the “Building WP7 Apps in Silverlight” talks that have been given at Mix and TechEd US in the past. They should run on the current beta tools (and not long now until the RTM tools are released!). A lot of the demos use device features so you will not get the full benefit in the emulator. I will also post the “no code; all Blend” panorama apps in a separate post (they will have to wait until September 16th).

Source: Method ~ of ~ failed

You can find all the details in KB2164913. Here are the relevant highlights:

• SDK feature to enable Add New Row capabilities in DataGrid control
• Improving startup performance of Silverlight applications
• Adding mouse wheel support for out-of-browser applications on the Mac platform
• Various media-related fixes around DRM content
• Fixed memory leak when MouseCapture is used
• Fixed memory leak for DataTemplate usage

Source: Silverlight Team Blog

There's been a lot of discussion lately around web standards and HTML 5 in particular. People have been asking us how Silverlight fits into a future world where the <video> tag is available to developers. It's a fair question—and I'll provide a detailed answer—but I think it's predicated upon an oversimplification of the role of standards that I'd like to clear up first. I'd also like to delineate why premium media experiences and "apps" are better with Silverlight and reveal how Silverlight is going beyond the browser to the desktop and devices.

Source: Sigurd Snørteland

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One of the new demos, a 3D space arcade game, which can be seen at the Postvision website, has its source code included in the Silvermotion product packages, including that of the Free edition, and is available for modifications and customization for building more elaborate games on top of it.

Source: Timmy Kokke's Blog

The only downside of these actions is that they aren’t fully implemented. So you’ll have to extend the PivotViewer control yourself. If you haven’t worked with the PivotViewer before, you might want to have a look at the Building your first PivotViewer application tutorial I wrote earlier first. This tutorial continues on that.