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Check out the new book “Silverlight 4 User Interface Cookbook” by Vibor Cipan:

This is the overview taken from the publisher site:

The first and only book to focus exclusively on Silverlight UI development.
Have your applications stand out from the crowd with leading, innovative, and friendly user interfaces.
Detailed instructions on how to implement specific user interface patterns together with XAML and C# (where needed) code, and explainations that are easy-to-understand and follow.
Real world projects which you can explore in detail and make modifications as you go.
Written by Vibor Cipan – Microsoft MVP for Expression Blend and WPF, and Silverlight UX specialist.

I’ve just received my copy and I’m looking forward to read it in the next days!

I had the honor to be interviewed by MicrosoftFeed, you can read it here :

Meet Davide Zordan – Silverlight MVP from Italy

Check out the new book “Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration” by Gastón C. Hillar:

This is the overview taken from the publisher site:

A sample chapter is available for download here: Chapter No. 1 – Integrating Silverlight 4 with Share Point 2010

I’ve just received my copy and I’m looking forward to read it in the next days!

Today I’ve finally found some time to make modifications in the “MEF MVVM” project on Codeplex in order to:

• create a new module using WCF RIA Services and dynamically load this it inside the “MEF module container” described in the previous post;
• use the INavigationContentLoader interface and MEF Metadata to share the same container for the various “MEF Modules”;
• use the new Cosmopolitan theme available for Silverlight Navigation applications;
• refactor the code of the ViewModel base class using the one available in the latest Prism drops;
• refactor unit tests inserting an apposite Mock service.

The source code is available for download on Codeplex.

Happy Silverlighting!

It’s now available a great technical whitepaper that highlights the usage of Silverlight Smooth streaming technology to stream live and on demand content for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

This Whitepaper goes into the technical details on how NBC in US inserted midstream ads and monetized the online content.

This is a follow on to the 4 case studies that were published in May 2010 on how NBC USA, CTV Canada, France TV, and NRK Norway  have used Silverlight and Smooth Streaming technologies during the Winter Olympics.

The Technical Whitepaper covers the following topics:

- A Solution Overview;

- Clip Creation and Ad Insertion;

- Rough Cut Editor;

- Inserting Ads, Ad Templates, Ad Logic;

- Ads delivered in VOD;

- Monitoring Ads.

Click here to read the article and… Happy Silverlighting!