Silverlight news for July 30, 2008

Laurance Moroney adapts the Silverlight XPS reader in order to provide to us the first 3 chapters of his book about Silverlight 2 using a Silverlight/XPS experience.

Nikhil Kothari continues his series of posts about creating declarative views. This time the post is about Effects and Transitions for Silverlight.

Here is the second article of the series about Controlling your Treadmill from Silverlight by Page Brooks. If you missed the first one you can read it here.

Here is another very useful tip from Mike Snows. It explains how to capture the mouse wheel event.

Frank La Vigne share some interesting thoughts about Silverlight and 3D and also gives some information about the 3D as a concept. Robby Ingebretsen also wrote an article about Silverlight and 3D - A Survey of Silverlight 3D. You don’t want to miss it.

Dr. Z has encoded all videos from the one-day Microsoft TechFest Silverlight Event. Here you can find links to the videos.

Silverlight : More than one default template in generic.xaml? - Azret Botash explains how to add and use more than one default template.

Have a problem with an Uri property and an AG_E_PARSER_BAD_PROPERTY_VALUE error message? Synerginst has found a solution to this problem.

Mark Monster shares his thoughts about Silverlight and Mocking Frameworks.

Here is another two articles from Mike Monster about Silverlight Networking. He has already written a few articles about this. The one is called Being Responsive to the WebRequest, a WebResponse and the other - Using a proxy to overcome cross-domain-scripting troubles.

Here is a very useful tip about TabStrip placement and vertical text.

And last but not least here is the very cool portfolio Silverlight web site of the klaklak group. They did a really great job! :)