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!

It includes code that uses the Gestures API to enable hold, drag, tap, flick, pinch gestures.

Meet Davide Zordan – Silverlight MVP from Italy

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!

This new implementation, now available for download in the Expression Gallery, permits to enable Multi-Touch gestures (the usual translation, rotation, zoom and inertia) on separate User Controls available in the same container.

In this way you can apply distinct Multi-Touch manipulations (inertia included) to single elements using a single code in xaml:

<Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1">
  <Canvas>
      <Image Source="Images/Desert.jpg" x:Name="image1">
          <interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
               <WP7:MultiTouchManipulationBehavior IsInertiaEnabled="True" IsRotateEnabled="True" IsTranslateEnabled="True" IsScaleEnabled="True" MinimumScaleRadius="1" MaximumScaleRadius="720"/>
          </interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
      </Image>

      <Image Source="Images/Jellyfish.jpg" x:Name="image2">
          <interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
             <WP7:MultiTouchManipulationBehavior IsInertiaEnabled="True" IsRotateEnabled="True" IsTranslateEnabled="True" IsScaleEnabled="True" MinimumScaleRadius="60" MaximumScaleRadius="360"/>
          </interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
      </Image>
  </Canvas>
</Grid>

Alternatively you can use Blend inserting a reference to the project MultiTouch.Behaviors.Silverlight.WP7 and then dragging the MultiTouchManipulationBehavior from the Assets section to the  control to be touch-enabled:

Considerations

This one has been an interesting exercise in porting code written for Silverlight to Windows Phone: I had only to create a Windows Phone 7 project and add to it the code already available for the Silverlight version and all worked well quite quickly.

Limitations

At this time the behavior works only in the fixed Portrait orientation of Windows Phone: if you change to Landscape the manipulation doesn’t work well. I’ll have to investigate further and currently I don’t have a physical device to test (I’d really love to have a device to try it ).

Happy Silverlighting!

• 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!

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!

The goal of this project is to provide an unified interface for Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone 7 in order to provide multi-touch support using a visual approach via the concept of Behavior available in Expression Blend.

Recently I had the honor to welcome in the project a pillar of the Silverlight community, Laurent Bugnion, who is working on the Windows Phone 7 version of the Behavior:

Laurent has just published on his blog two awesome videos to get started with this new Behavior, and has created a specific section on his site http://www.galasoft.ch/touch to announce updates and publish content.

A special thanks to Pete Blois of the Expression Blend team for his help and contributions.

Stay tuned as we’ll be posting updates very soon

Happy Silverlighting!

This is a powerful and simple approach which is now available in WPF using Expression Blend 4 RC and the TranslateZoomRotateBehavior.

Let’s try to build a simple example:

1 – Open Expression Blend and create a new WPF project:

 2 – Drag a Rectangle in the MainWindows.xaml:

3 – Let’s add multi-touch gestures and inertia effects to the rectangle selecting the Assets->Behavior tab and dragging the TranslateZoomRotateBehavior inside the rectangle:

4 – Let’s examine the Properties:

It’s possible to set the supported gestures (All, None, TranslateX, TranslateY, Rotate, Scale), the constrainToParentBounds modality, the Minimum, Maximum Scale and the Rotational and Translate Friction associated to the inertia.

Let’s select the constrainToParentBounds check box and run the project using the Project->Run Project menu:

Cool, Multi-touch and inertia effects are now enabled for the rectangle without writing a line of code!

And this is the generated xaml:

<Window
	xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/ 2006/xaml/presentation"
	xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/ 2006/xaml"
	xmlns:i="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/ 2010/interactivity"
	xmlns:ei="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/ 2010/interactions"
	x:Class="WpfApplication1.MainWindow"
	x:Name="Window"
	Title="MainWindow"
	UseLayoutRounding="True"
	Width="640" Height="480">

	<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
		<Rectangle Margin="149,106,133,191" Stroke="Black">
			<i:Interaction.Behaviors>
				<ei:TranslateZoomRotateBehavior ConstrainToParentBounds="True"/>
			</i:Interaction.Behaviors>
			<Rectangle.Fill>
				<LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.5,1" StartPoint="0.5,0">
					<GradientStop Color="Black" Offset="0"/>
					<GradientStop Color="#FF8F98CA" Offset="1"/>
				</LinearGradientBrush>
			</Rectangle.Fill>
		</Rectangle>
	</Grid>
</Window>

The source code of the project is available for download here.

Read the original posts by Scott Guthrie, Tim Heuer, John Papa and don’t forget to take a look at these new themes.

Enjoy!