In this Issue: Michael Washington, SilverLaw, Nigel Sampson(-2-), Mohamed Mosallem, Vikram Pendse, Ward Bell, Gill Cleeren, Jag Reehal, and Enrico Gebauer. Shoutouts:

Victor Gaudioso announces a Texas-sized event: Sharing in the Light – I dive into Silverlight Development with Blend – Two day event in Dallas Sept. 25 & 26

From SilverlightCream.com:

Simple Silverlight Configurator/Pivot (View Model/MVVM)

Michael Washington has a cool app up using ViewModel/MVVM that allows users to query a collection via a set of sliders... all the code, instructins, and even some goodness from Adam Kinney.

HyperlinkButton Style - Silverlight 4

SilverLaw has a very nice-looking Hyperlink button up in the Expression Gallery for us to download and use....

WP7 - Quick Mail

Nigel Sampson has two more WP7 tutorials up ... this first looks like a winner... a quick email app... just the thing to snap up when you have to send a quick email out.

WP7 - Snowfall

Nigel Sampson's second WP7 tutorial is more for the 'works' than the product... UserControl snowflakes and some wind thrown in.

Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (7 of N): Visual States

Mohamed Mosallem has his next installment (of N) up on the Registration Booth app he's building ... spending a bunch of time in this one in Blend with Visual States.

Silverlight On Mobile : Application Bar for your Windows Phone 7 Application

Vikram Pendse has a post up about the AppBar on WP7 with tons of information, hints, and tips... definitely one to read if you're doing WP7 work.

DevForce Meets Mvvm Light

Ward "Loud LasVegas Jacket Guy" Bell took aim at Laurent Bugnion's MVVMLight as a demo of Ward's DevForce product ... go grab a copy of DevForce, Laurent's MVVMLight, and Ward's implementation and curl up for some good reading...

Building an app marketplace with MEF (MEF/Silverlight 4 tutorial)

Gill Cleeren shares and discusses the app he built for a presentation... a marketplace app in Silverlight 4 using MEF.

How To Refactor And Build Better Microsoft Silverlight Applications

I can't say enough about this article by Jag Reehal from June ... read it, build the app, get your head around the concepts... good stuff... thanks Jag!

Binding EventArgs to Command

I found this post by Enrico Gebauer rattling around in a folder, and after looking, I realized I'd never posted it... it's about Behaviors and Blend and ViewModels and handling UI events without slamming a bunch of code in the codebehind file.

Silverlight

Silverlight 3

Silverlight 4

Windows Phone

MIX10

In this Issue: Peter Bromberg, Derik Whittaker(-2-), Paul Patterson, Michael Crump(-2-), Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx, Gergely Orosz, Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios, Jaime Rodriguez, and Georgi Atanasov. Shoutouts:

My friend Koen Zwikstra poses the question How can we improve Silverlight Spy?... log into the forum and give him ideas.

SilverlightShow announced Free SilverlightShow Webinar: Sketchflow in Real Scenarios

Senthil Kumar announced Microsoft Patterns & Practices – Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide – Drop2

I saw Sara Ford do this webcast the other day, and now The Rematch – Webcast of my 101 VS tips in 55 mins via O’Reilly is now available

This was announced on the Public Sector Developer Weblog Windows Phone 7 DPE National Events... and I don't see any in Phoenix, folks!!

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight Binary Serialization and Compression with WCF Services

Peter Bromberg has a WCF post up on Silverlight Binary Serialization with all the code and a great example... good post Peter!

Catching the Back Button action on WP7

Derik Whittaker has a couple new WP7 posts up... this first one is on 'catching' the BackButton in case you have something you need to do inside your app when that happens.

Performing Back Navigation w/out adding a page to the Back Stack in WP7

The 2nd post by Derik Whittaker is on using the NavigationService provider to navigate back to a calling page properly to remove a page from the backstack ... check his example to clear that up :)

Microsoft LightSwitch – Creating and Using a Query

Paul Patterson is really digging into Lightswitch... and yeah I know I'm a little out of sequence on his posts, but hopefully I'll catch up and fill in the holes... check out his blog for lots of tutorials

Easy way to generate sample data for your Silverlight 4 Applications

Michael Crump decided to start using Expression Blend to insert 'live' sample data into his apps, and is sharing how to do that with us.

Silverlight 4 Application Template Themes by Microsoft

Michael Crump was inspired by Silverlight TV 42 and played with the themes enough that he has more info to share with us than the original documentation has.

Silverlight Development: Build Your Business Apps on Silverlight

Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx have an article posted at TechNet where they compiled a short list of what they thought a real LOB app should have, and then expanded on their thoughts of Silverlight 4 handling them all.

Setting the StrokeDashArray using a Style in Silverlight

Gergely Orosz ran head-long into a problem that's been in Silverlight since V2 -- really! -- and he provides a workaround for it that works very nice... check out his samples.

Frogger game on Windows Phone 7 using XNA

Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios produces my daughter's favorite game, Frogger, on WP7 in XNA and uses the accelerometer to control the frog... pretty cool!

Introducing the Inside Windows Phone Show in Channel 9

Jaime Rodriguez announced a new "Inside Windows Phone" show on Channel 9 and it kicks off with 3 Episodes: Intro, Insider scoop on the beta, and creating fast WP7 apps -- looks like another one for my Zune :)

Building a Windows Phone 7 control from the ground up - Part Two - the “Date ListBox”

Georgi Atanasov at the Telerik blog has part 2 of the WP7 control-building tutorial up -- concentrating on the 'date' listbox this time out.

Silverlight

Silverlight 3

Silverlight 4

Windows Phone

MIX10

In this Issue: Sergey Barskiy, Tim Heuer, Shawn Wildermuth, Patrick Cauldwell, David Anson, Michael Sync, Jeremy Likness, Victor Gaudioso, René Schulte, John Papa, and Todd Knudsen. Shoutouts:

Telerik's Premium Collection for .NET wins Jolt Product Excellence Awards: App Libraries and Frameworks

SilverlightShow announced a Free SilverlightShow Webinar: Running Silverlight Outside the Browser and with Elevated Trust... see you there... I'll be the one in shorts with no shoes :)

John Papa has a two-part post up on Keeping Up with Silverlight ... how he stays in touch.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Modular Silverlight Development, App.xaml, Blend and Resources

Sergey Barskiy explains how he created a project for his styles but then Blend didn't like them... and how he got around that problem too.

Silverlight 4 service release (September 2010)

This is a couple-days old news, but I wanted to get it in the database, and also Tim Heuer has some helpful information on the post beyond the announcement.

HTML5, XAML and Declarative User Interfaces

Read Shawn Wildermuth's take on HTML5 and how in his opinion, it could impact RIA.

Default button semantics in Silverlight, once more

Patrick Cauldwell revisits his default Button sample again with an update from a reader ... how cool is that?

LowProfileImageLoader helps the Windows Phone 7 UI thread stay responsive by loading images in the background

David Anson shares some code that might not work until the 16th... so check it out... this is a couple things to help us out in the WP7 performance department, and he's not talking new valve-lifters... how about LowProfileImageLoader and DeferredLoadListBox (next time)?

Encoding MP4 Problem in Expression Encoder 4 Pro

Michael Sync reports an Expression Encode 4 issue that he's having: "This functionality is only available in the fully-featured Expression Encoder Pro" when he has the Ultimate... check out the reason... mine is the same as Michaels

Hello, MEF Silverlight

Jeremy Likness has another Quickstart up at MEFContrib, and is about creating a MEF 'part' in Silverlight

New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to Style a Hyperlink Button

Victor Gaudioso's latest video tutorial is up and is on styling a Hyperlink button in Blend... and he's got the code for the sample available too.

Rect and Point Extension Methods

Here's a couple extension methods from René Schulte that are downright useful for extending the information you can glean from Points and rectsk.

Applying Animations and States to your Silverlight Application

In the latest Silverlight TV, John Papa has John Stockton in to talk about animation and storyboards in Blend and all sorts of other animation goodness.

Marquee Text Block Demo

Todd Knudsen has a demo page up for a Marquee control that works very nicely... source available by clicking the the appropriate text.

Stay in the 'Light!
 

Technorati Tags: Silverlight    Silverlight 3    Silverlight 4    Windows Phone MIX10

In this Issue: Anton Polimenov, Paul Patterson, Beth Massi(-2-), Derik Whittaker, Dinesh Sodani, jbaird, priozersk, Kyle McClellan(-2-), Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios, and Matthias Shapiro. Shoutouts:

Koen Zwikstra amazingly enough has the latest Silverlight already in Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.13 ... get the download

SilverLaw has a cool Silverlight game up: SilvAir Strike - A Silverlight 4 Game

The Silverlight Team Blog posted this article: The Future of Silverlight

Peter Torr posted his Sample code from TechEd New Zealand talks... WP7 goodness.

From SilverlightCream.com:

WP7: Windows Phone 7 Application Platform

Anton Polimenov discusses the WP7 application platform ... Silverlight and XNA, the architecture components, and the tools needed.

Microsoft LightSwitch – Using the Is Computed Field Property

Paul Patterson has a lot of Lightswitch material up on his "Wrench in the Cog" blog... this is only a taste of it all... and is about putting a computed field on a customer table.

Validating Collections of Entities (Sets of Data) in LightSwitch

Beth Massi has a post up on the validating framework in Lightswitch with some good examples and guidance.

Using the Is Computed Field Property

Beth Massi also has 3 more Lightswitch training videos up, and this post has all 8 listed so you don't have to go find the first post.

Changing the Background and Foreground Colors for an Application Bar on WP7

Derik Whittaker demonstrates the XAML necessary to 'spice up' the Application Bar in a WP7 app even though it's not bindable or skinnable with templates.

Silverlight Application Life Cycle

Let Dinesh Sodani guide you through the Silverlight application life-cycle, or keep this at-hand when you're having problems.

Building a Windows Phone 7 App – Sudoku (Part 3)

jbaird completes the game board and game page in this 3rd part of his Sudoku for WP7 series

Creating List Picker for WP7

priozersk has a WP7 post on Alex Yakhnin's blog about a 'list picker' -- select a single item from a small list, and then he posted an update also: Update to List Picker Control

Authorization Sample 304 – MVVM Authorization for Silverlight

Kyle McClellan continues from his previous authorization sample with a couple new ones. This one is an authorization form in MVVM.

Authorization Sample 305 – Permission-Based Authorization for Silverlight

Kyle McClellan's next post is demonstrating extending the authorization library to support read and write permissions.

Emulating the Accelerometer in Windows Phone 7 emulator using Freescale Semiconductor accelerometer

OK I admit I had to look up what a 'Freescale Badge' was ... and that means I don't have one :) ... but if you do... Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios has a great post up on using it to simulate the accelerometer in your great new WP7 app.

Windows Phone 7: Navigating After A Picture/Camera Task

Matthias Shapiro talks through the forensics of chasing down a WP7 error message received after taking a picture.

Stay in the 'Light!
 

Technorati Tags: Silverlight    Silverlight 3    Silverlight 4    Windows Phone MIX10

In this Issue: Benjamin Gavin, Haruhiro Isowa, Scott Fletcher, Georgi Atanasov, Timmy Kokke, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Anoop Madhusudanan, Mike James, Beat Kiener, Rudi Grobler, Lightswitch Tutorial, Jeff Brand, Manfred Pohler, Indrajit, Levente Mihály, and Erik Klimczak.

  Shoutouts:

Jesse Liberty has posted The Great Silverlight Competency Test [2]

Michael S. Scherotter posted BALL Watch Silverlight Contest Winners Announced ... and wow... do those look great!! ... congratulations everyone!

Max Paulousky announced an update: Xaps Minifier. A Step Forward. New Options and New Features

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight TreeView Case Study - FAQ Maintenance - Part 2

Benjamin Gavin has Part 2 of his editable FAQ application utilizing MVVM, Drag & Drop, and the Silverlight TreeView control

Silverlight Behavior : HisowaModPopUpBehavior

Haruhiro Isowa has a new post up with a different variation on his Popup Behavior of the last post... lots of Blend goodness, and a very nice popup... plus source.

Windows Phone 7 ‘Bar napkin’ template PDFs

I love this... 'SketchFlow' for the pencil-and-paper set... Scott Fletcher has some great WP7 templates you can print out and have at it with the ol' markers... too cool

Building a Windows Phone 7 control from the ground up - Part one - the “Infinite ListBox”

Georgi Atanasov is starting a series at the Telerik blog of building a WP7 control from the ground up... the first part is an 'inifinite listbox'

PivotViewer – Custom Actions

Timmy Kokke is progressing is way through his list of PivotControl features to highlight... this time out is 'Custom Actions' ... and custom is the word... you have to extend the control for these guys.

Making your Content Scrollable

I've got just the use for this 'scroll through a boatload of data' on WP7 article by Kirupa Chinnathambi... hope I can make mine look as clean as his does!

A Convention based Approach for wiring your Views to ViewModels in MVVM - AutoViewModelLocator

Anoop Madhusudanan has a somewhat older post describing an 'AutoViewModelLocator' that he builds in the post and it works just that easy... check it and the code out.

Advanced Silverlight bitmaps

Mike James has a post up on creating bitmaps programmatically -- we've seen other similar posts, but if you haven't looked before, try this one on for size.

Listening to DependencyProperty changes in Silverlight

Beat Kiener has a Dependency Property post up demonstrating getting notifications when a Dependency Property changes ... yep, in Silverlight.

TimeslotPanel

Rudi Grobler is dissecting his Outlook Calendar control he did for WPF -- check out his links -- and in the process is writing some posts on some of the cool features that he's making work in WPF and Silverlight... beginning with this TimeslotPanel.

LightSwitch Tutorial – Creating a Basic Application

Couldn't find a name other than 'Admin', so I went with the site... Lightswitch Tutorial has cranked up with their first tutorial of creating a basic app... looks like a good place to jump on board.

Managing Trial Applications for Windows Phone 7

Jeff Brand offers up 'TrialManager' which will help in managing trial versions of your WP7 apps, but also will make it easier to simulate trial versions.

wFace – windows phone 7 facebook integration part 1

Manfred Pohler has part 1 of a two-parter he's going to do on WP7 and the Facebook graph_API... think posting game results on a user's wall... cool!

Windows Phone 7 ListBox Pagination with MVVMLight & ApplicationBar

Indrajit combines some work with MVVMLight and some specific requirements on ListBox pagination, then threw in the App Bar... check out what he ended up with and download the code.

Exploring Silverlight-XNA integration on Windows Phone 7

Levente Mihály has a great Silverlight/XNA post at SilverlightShow with 4 demos worth of code to d/l and lots of good XNA info to squeeze into your new best-seller.

Building the Elusive Windows Phone Panorama Control

This article is a tad old, but Erik Klimczak at Clarity Consulting shared the Panorama control they built for WP7, but more importantly is they shared the how and reasoning...

Stay in the 'Light!
 

Technorati Tags: Silverlight    Silverlight 3    Silverlight 4    Windows Phone MIX10

In this Issue: Michael Washington, Erik Klimczak(-2-), Kevin Marshall, Mike Ormond, Chris Anderson, Derik Whittaker, Michael Crump, Peter Torr(-2-), Ryan Alford, Amyo Kabir, and Kunal Chowdhury.

Shoutout:

Emiel Jongerius announced he has Update postings on Datagrid for a couple of his recent posts. From SilverlightCream.com:

A DotNetNuke Silverlight Expense Report Module

Michael Washington is back on ViewModel code, and also DNN with this end-to-end expense report module sporting Silverlight inside DNN... plus all the code... oh, and scroll down past the live demo to see the article... I failed that the first time out :)

WP7 Missing Control: WP7 Jump List

Erik Klimczak shares code to produce a nice jump list for WP7 since we seem to be missing one... great examples and will pose the code later, and somehow I've missed Clarity's blog up to now.

Smooth…Springy…Scrunchy - WP7 List behavior

Erik Klimczak has another post up dealing with lists for WP7, but this one is duplicating the 'scrunchy' list behavior that we also don't get shipped, at least yet.

WP7 Gesture Recognizer and Behavior / Triggers

Kevin Marshall has a post up on a gesture recognizer that he wrote for WP7 ... good example and all the code, plus he used MVVMLight in the sample code.

XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 – The Microphone

Mike Ormond discusses XNA and Silverlight for WP7, specifically getting access to the microphone... hmm... I can think of a few uses for that :)

TechEd Australia 2010 (+ Upcoming SilverlightShow.net Webcast) Sample Application

Chris Anderson has the source up for his TechEd Australia and upcoming SilverlightShow Webcast all about PivotViewer and OOB, and a pot full of other SL4 goodness.

Creating a Toast Like Notification Popup on WP7

Derik Whittaker has code up to give you the capabilit of popping a 'toast' message to your user without having to make a round-trip to do a 'push' ... this can probably be over-used, but I think it's a good idea to have *something* like this.... and Derik's looks great.

Flashing Text (using behavior/storyboard) in Silverlight 4

A little flashing text can generally go a long way, and you need to be careful with flashing on a site anyway because some folks are susceptible to problems with that, but if you have a valid need to do so, Michael Crump has instructions on getting it setup using Blend

Introducing the concept of “Places”

If you're doing (or going to do) any WP7 dev, you need to read and absorb this post by Peter Torr... discussing 'Places', and how to know what should be a page, and avoid an infinitely growing back stack... see, I told you that you need to read it :)

Redirecting an initial navigation

Another post by Peter Torr also discussing the backstack ... and this is another one you need to get your head around... he gives two examples with code for each and reasons why.

WP7 – Context Menu From Listbox

This might be a little non-standard, but users would catch on quickly - Ryan Alford built his own long press action to pop a context menu... I like it!

Silverlight dynamic point to point animation with EasingFunction

Amyo Kabir has a post up on animating graphics around the screen using easing functions... great demo on the page, good Blend instructions too.

Tips & Tricks: How to get the Screen Resolution in Silverlight?

Bookmark this post and when you need to find your user's screen resolution in your Silverlight app, Kunal Chowdhury has the solution for you.

Silverlight

Silverlight 3

Silverlight 4

Windows Phone

MIX10

In this Issue: Benjamin Gavin, Richard Waddell, Kunal Chowdhury, Chris Koenig, Timmy Kokke, cherylws, David Anson, Jeremy Likness, David Kelley, Andy Beaulieu, and Walt Ritscher.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight TreeView Case Study - FAQ Maintenance - Part 1

Benjamin Gavin is pulling together the posts he's recently done and producing an updatable FAQ file app -- something I find useful -- and this is part 1 ... good stuff!

Extending Central Silverlight Business Rules to Client and Server Side Field-Level Validation

Richard Waddell has a big ol' tutorial up that covers a lot of ground in Silverlight 4: ViewModel, Validation (Client & Server validation and Exception handling), Error message binding, and business rule violations being displayed at field level as reported back from the server just to name a few things...

First Guide to MEF and Silverlight (Part–III)

Kunal Chowdhury has part 3 of his MEF/Silverlight tutorial series up at CodeProject and is again using a console app to give visibility into the process.

Chris Koenig - My “Hello World” Windows Phone 7 Application

Chris Koenig gives up his MVVMLight-ified Netflix Catalog Sample that he's been demo'ing for a while ... grab it and learn...

Handling PivotViewer events

Timmy Kokke continues his exploration and explanation of the PivotViewer control, and is discussing the various events you'll want to become familiar with this time.

Loading a static XML file to your Windows Phone/Silverlight App

Read how cherylws from the SilverlightSDK loaded static XML data into a WP7 app... not difficult at all, and a great solution for a small amount of data.

LayoutTransformer works great on the Windows Phone platform

David Anson responds to a bunch of email about the possibility of using LayoutTransform on WP7 by producing and offering up LayoutTransformer for us!

Fluent Validation with MEF and PRISM

Jeremy Likness is still diggin' MEF and Prism, and his latest post is building a validation library shared between Silverlight and the server, then integrated via MEF and Prism... tired yet? :)

Getting the Root Visual in Phone7

David Kelley gives up the answer to a question that was bugging him for a while in hopes it will save you some time as well.

DroppyPop for WP7 Update

Andy Beaulieu's one of the most creative guys I know... and he has a new version of "DroppyPop" that he'd like everyone to give a dance and some feedback... check it out!

Silverlight 4 New Features

Walt Ritscher has some training videos up at Lynda.com on Silverlight 4 New Features such as OOB, Elevated Trust, new controls, peripherals, API changes, and Blend 4 new features

Silverlight

Silverlight 3

Silverlight 4

Windows Phone

MIX10

In this Issue: John Papa, Beth Massi, Simon Jackson, Rob Miles, Pete Brown(-2-), Senthil Kumar, Don Burnett(-2-), and Brian Noyes.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Apply and Customize the New Silverlight Themes

Tsitsi Gora joins John Papa on the latest Silverlight TV to discuss the new Silverlight themes -- did you know about them? -- how about tips on customizing them from one of the devs?? cool stuff.

Visual Studio LightSwitch How Do I Videos

5 Lightswitch training videos from Beth Massi ... and more to come... what more can be said but thanks Beth!

WCF on the Windows Phone 7–The How to Guide

Yikes.... WCF on WP7 ... this is sort of an intro and Simon Jackson will post more later, but there's lots of information here to check out.

Windows Phone Screen Stealing Status Bar

Losing space in your XNA WP7 game because of the status bar? ... Rob Miles gives up the one-liner to take care of that for you.

10 things Beginning Silverlight and WPF Developers Need to Know

Pete Brown posted his slide deck and WPF app for his 10-things talk ... download the zip and read his post...

Dual Targeting WPF and Silverlight (and Windows Phone 7)

Pete Brown's words of wisdom on multi-targetting not only WPF and Silverlight but throw WP7 into the mix as well!

Getting started with Windows Phone Development in F#

Senthil Kumar and Justin Angel are on the same wavelength apparently, developing WP7 apps in F# ... Senthil shows off a template for that purpose written by Daniel Moll that's available in the Visual Studio Gallery

Windows Phone Design Days Presentations

Don Burnett has a list up of links to the Windows Phone Design Days videos... if you haven't seen them, here's a good one-stop spot.

Saving State: Execution Model Best Practices for Windows Phone 7

Don Burnett also has a great list of Execution Model best practices for WP7 developers.

WCF RIA Services Part 6 - Validating Data

Brian Noyes has tutorial 6 up in his series on WCF RIA Services at SilverlightShow, and is discussing validation this time out. q

Silverlight

Silverlight 3

Silverlight 4

Windows Phone

MIX10

In this Issue: Phil Middlemiss Justin Angel, Kunal Chowdhury, Emiel Jongerius, Microsoft, Channel 9, András Velvárt, Timmy Kokke, Microsoft Expression Blog, Jesse Liberty, and Jeremy Likness.

Shoutouts:

Jeff Weber announced Farseer Physics Engine 3.0 RELEASED, has a link to it and information about it.

Jesse Liberty has posted The Great Silverlight Competency Test – Part 1

Chris Koenig announced Sharing the Light – Silverlight Development with Expression Blend... DFW Silverlight training with Victor Gaudioso

From SilverlightCream.com:

Redial – A Dial Custom Control

Phil Middlemiss revisited his awesome Dial control and turned it into a custom control this time ... love those controls!

Windows Phone 7 supports VB.Net and F#

Justin Angel has a post up to dispell the WP7==C# myth big-time by using VB.NET and F#... and he's asking for comments :)

First Guide to MEF and Silverlight (Part–II)

Kunal Chowdhury has part 2 of his MEF and Silverlight tutorial series up on Code Project. In this tutorial, he's builging a simple Silverlight/MEF app.

Drag and Drop grouping in Datagrid

Emiel Jongerius has a post up demonstrating dragging column headers to group data in a DataGrid.

Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 Training Kit

Microsoft announced the release of a training kit for Visual Studio Lightswitch Beta... no time to start like the present!

Steve Anonsen and John Rivard: Inside LightSwitch

Channel 9 has a video interview with Steve Anonsen and John Rivard talking about Lightswitch, "going deep and diving into the rabbit hole"

Extending the Music + Video Hub on Windows Phone 7

This will require the unlocked emulator, but András Velvárt is giving up knowledge from his investition of the Music and Video Hub on WP7

PivotViewer – Working with Facets

Timmy Kokke is continuing to dig into the PivotViewer and is discussing Facets this time out ... what they are and how they're used.

Styling tips for common Silverlight controls

The Microsoft Expression Blog has a good detailed post on styling Silverlight controls ... template-binding, visual states, and links out to tips for the 'common' controls

iPhone to Windows Phone 7 Tutorial – #0

Jesse Liberty is beginning a series for iPhone devs wanting to port their apps to WP7... this is the initial setup entry with lots of info about where he's headed ... should be a great series!

Coroutines for Asynchronous Sequential Workflows using Reactive Extensions (Rx)

Jeremy Likness has an avowed "Here's what can be done" post using Rx to perform a sequential set of asynchronous activities ... cool example demonstrating it as well.

Silverlight

Silverlight 3

Silverlight 4

Windows Phone

MIX10

In this Issue: Emiel Jongerius, Michael Washington, Kevin Dockx, Alex van Beek, and Alex Golesh. Sorry for being silent, but dealing with an imploding contract and training my replacement is sucking the energy out of me.

Here is a Submittal only post...

From SilverlightCream.com:

Postponing actions

Emiel Jongerius has a new post up on a utility class that can be used to limit the calls to internal synchronization methods of objects... think DeferRefresh.

Dynamically Loading Silverlight Video Players using MEF

I don't know where Michael Washington finds all the time, but here's a CodeProject post on loading Silverlight video players using MEF with a bit of designer luv thrown in...

Debugging SL apps with WinDebug or the Immediate Window to track memory leaks on a 64 bit machine

Read Kevin Dockx's issues debugging a Silverlight app... he first had to debug why he couldn't debug... and it may help you also!

Using self tracking entities with Silverlight 4 and Entity Framework 4

Alex van Beek has a post up on the new self tracking entities from Entity Framework 4, and he's modifying the T4 template to get finer control over what is tracked

Create Games for Windows Phone 7!

Alex Golesh has definitely been quiet on his blog, and knowing he's been doing wp7dev, it's nice to see that come to light with this new XNA Creators Club for WP7

Silverlight

Silverlight 3

Silverlight 4

Windows Phone

MIX10

In this Issue: Rénald Nollet, Michael Washington, Mingfei Yan, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Roger Peters, Rob Eisenberg, and Microsoft.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Use the ASP.NET Authentication Service with Windows Phone 7

Rénald Nollet has a cool post up combining the ASP.NET Security Service with WP7... this was getting a lot of play on twitter last night...

Printing With LightSwitch

Michael Washington's latest Lightswitch post is a tutorial on printing from Lightswitch culminating in a very professional-looking app by the time you hit the bottom of the page... and he coughs up all the source too :)

Windows Phone 7 : Style it using Expression Blend

Check out this post by Mingfei Yan and get some Blend chops for WP7 from someone that knows what they're doing!

wp7dev: Passing Data Between Pages - Page 1

Kirupa Chinnathambi has an example of passing data between WP7 pages. This is the link to Page 1... never fear, Page 2 is a follow-on and linked at the bottom of Page 1, all the source is a link on page 2.

How to Customize Your XNA Game Tile on the Windows Phone 7 Start Page

Roger Peters continues a prior discussion of XNA games on your WP7 device ... you *have* one, don't you :) ... anyway... he shows how to update the name displayed in the start menu, and also the image for the tile.

Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 5 – IResult and Coroutines

Rob Eisenberg continues his deep examination of Caliburn.Micro this time out he's discussing coroutines and begins with a Wikipedia quote about what the heck they are.

Creating High Performance Silverlight Applications for Windows Phone

I thought I'd posted this Microsoft post before, and last night saw Scott Gu post it, so what the heck :) ... this is a white paper plus samples to demonstrate making your WP7 app perform better.

Silverlight

Silverlight 3

Silverlight 4

Windows Phone

MIX10

In this Issue: Michael Washington, Timmy Kokke(-2-), Jeremy Likness, Chris Koenig, Rob Miles(-2-), Bob Caswell, and Alex Yakhnin(-2-).

Shoutouts:

Shawn Wildermuth adds a video to go along with his last post Developing for the Windows Phone 7 - Part 4: Tombstoning

Scott Hanselman talks to Jeff Wilcox about WP7 performance: Hanselminutes Podcast 228 - Performance of Silverlight on Windows Phone 7

Indrajit AKA indifromoz is keeping a page of WP7 resources you may want to bookmark: Windows Phone 7 Resources

Jonathan van de Veen poses a question and asks for comments: Microsoft introduces LightSwitch: Game changer or gadget showoff?

From SilverlightCream.com:

Creating A LightSwitch Custom Silverlight Control

Michael Washington is continuing to investigate LightSwitch, with this episode adding Colin Eberhart's awesome gauge control to a project.

Runtime PivotViewer collection creation

Timmy Kokke has two good posts up on the PivotViewer control... this first is the basics on where to get it, and how to get one running.

Building your first PivotViewer application

Timmy Kokke's 2nd PivotViewer control post is on consuming a webservice in the PivotControl and building a collection at runtime... as many of us with large data collections are going to be doing.

Simplifying Silverlight Web Service Calls with Reactive Extensions (Rx)

Jeremy Likness has been digging into Rx lately, and has a post up describing how to simplify web service calls using Rx. He even states "In fact, even if you don't use Reactive Extensions, you may benefit from the proxy wrappers that I'll describe"

Customizing WP7 Push Notification Tiles

Chris Koenig has a great post that I somehow missed on altering the push notification tiles that arrive on your behalf.

XNA Games and Windows Phone Screens

Rob Miles has a quick post up on WP7 Screens and XNA... all good to know information... like disabling the time-out...

Windows Phone Phone Calls

Do you know the best way to handle what happens when the phone rings and your user is in the middle of your fabulous game?? ... Rob Miles has a post about just that

Calling All Phone Developers: Free On Demand Training for Windows Phone 7

Bob Caswell posted links to all of the WP7 JumpStart videos (in HD), and all the material that was originally available, so go for it!

Creating Round Image Button for WP7 (part 3)

Alex Yakhnin has the final (3rd) episode of his round WP7 button creation series posted.

Creating a Splash Screen with a progress bar for WP7 applications.

Alex Yakhnin also has a solution up to the question many people are having of displaying a progress bar with the splash screen image.

Silverlight

Silverlight 3

Silverlight 4

Windows Phone

MIX10

In this Issue: Anton Polimenov, Shawn Wildermuth, Gergely Orosz, Chris Koenig, Tim Heuer(-2-), Tim Greenfield, Nigel Sampson(-2-), Shawn Oster, and John Papa.

Shoutouts:

Telerik has announced The Telerik Eastern Canada User Group Tour is Coming... ... check out the cities and don't miss it!

Erik Mork and company have my buddy Walt Ritscher on this week: Show 103: Windows Phone 7 Development Hardware with Walt Ritscher

From SilverlightCream.com:

WP7: Screen Considerations for Developers

Anton Polimenov has part 6 of his WP7 series up at SilverlighShow and is discussing Screen resolutions and considerations... what's good for you, the user, and of course the device.

Debugging Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7

Here's a quick and useful piece of information from Shawn Wildermuth that he found buried in a comment that will help you if you're debugging your WP7 app during tombstoning.

Styles In Silverlight: Further Advanced Topics

Gergely Orosz has the 4th post up in his series on Silverlight and styles, and this one covers data binding, change notification, declaring styles in code behind and some useful information on styles.

InputScopes for Windows Phone 7

Chris Koenig has been presenting on WP7 and found that his Input Scope demos were not working as he expected with the latest bits... so he set about to figure out why and shares code with all of us.

Storing and playing media on Windows Phone 7

Tim Heuer is discussing storing and playing media on WP7 ... this is cool because while it's also a Zune, I can see apps also wanting to do this... great post, and thanks for the shoutout!

Debugging Silverlight with Visual Studio and Firefox

Tim Heuer also has a post up about debugging your Silverlight if FireFox is your browser of choice. We've seen other posts on this, but hey... this is from 'the man' :)

Turn your photos into a pivot collection with PhotoPivot

Tim Greenfield has a post up that uses a very cool app he wrote called PhotoPivot that lets you produce a Pivot of all your photos on your hard disk... wow... that's pretty cool.

wp7dev: Count Me In

Nigel Sampson has two more WP7 tutorials up... this first one is a 'Counter' app and uses the simple View Model pattern. He has a video up showing the Blend part of the tutorial as well.

wp7dev: Reaction Time

Nigel Sampson's next WP7 tutorial is on VSM and WP7, and again he has a video showing the complex Blend bits of the app.

Improving ListBox Performance in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: Data Virtualization

Shawn Oster has a post up that you need to read on data virtualization on WP7... and check out the very similar post he references by Peter Torr: Virtualizing Data in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications

Top Tips for WCF RIA Services: Silverlight TV 41

In the latest Silverlight TV -- number 41!! -- John Papa and Dinesh Kulkarni discuss "top tips for creating streamlined and performant WCF RIA Services applications"

Silverlight

Silverlight 3

Silverlight 4

Windows Phone

MIX10

In this Issue: Emiel Jongerius, Rui Marinho, Johnny Tordgeman, and Colin Eberhardt.

Shoutout:

Arnie Rowland has a very worthy effort going on: Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes ... ... read it and if you need the support, give it a shot.

Bart Czernicki has a fun announcement: Announcing my new book: Silverlight 4 Business Intelligence Software

In this all-submittal Issue --

From SilverlightCream.com:

Synchronizing group row headers with column headers in Silverlight DataGrid

Did you know you can change the caption of the column name on a group row in a Silverlight DataGrid? ... check out Emiel Jongerius' work, and you'll know how!

Export data from Silverlight PivotViewer to WPF or Excel

Rui Marinho has a post up, with accompanying video, that describes taking Pivot data out to WPF or Excel ... the top half of the post is Portuguese and the English is on the bottom!

Getting SharePoint's user properties in your Silverlight 4 application

Johnny Tordgeman has been working with Sharepoint and Silverlight, and sent me a link to his blog this morning... In this first post I'm highlighting, he's reading from the Sharepoint user profile service and getting that info into Silverlight.

Developing a (very) Lookless Silverlight Radial Gauge Control

Colin Eberhardt has a gorgeous gauge control tutorial up on his site... but even better is all the under-the-covers work to make it viewless... a definite good read.

Stay in the 'Light!
 

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In this Issue: Michael Washington, Brian Noyes, Rudi Grobler, Benjamin Gavin, Walter Ferrari, Shawn Wildermuth, Jeff Wilcox(-2-), David Anson, Jeremy Likness, and Manuel Felício.

Shoutout:

Cigdem Patlak announced a SilverlightShow Webinar: Data binding in action by Gill Cleeren... check out Cigdem's post and sign up... it's tomorrow, August 19th!

Shawn Wildermuth shares What I learned about Windows Phone 7 from Android

From SilverlightCream.com:

The First Hour With Lightswitch –BETA-

Curious about 'Lightswitch' and want to know what it's about? ... check out Michael Washington's first hour's worth of work with hit in this post.

WCF RIA Services Part 5 - Metadata and Shared Classes

Brian Noyes is up to tutorial 5 at SilverlightShow in his WCF RIA Services series... he's going over the metadata and shared code facilities.

WP7 Splash Screen Tips & Tricks

Rudi Grobler has a quick post up discussing the WP7 Splash screen, how to add one, and how to use one to make your app appear to have a quick startup

Silverlight MVVM Drag & Drop – TreeView, Meet ListBox

Benjamin Gavin submitted this post and it is the 3rd in a series on Drag and Drop and the culmination of some cool concepts. Check out his links to the prior posts, and then come back to this one.

Building a DataGrid Control for Silverlight for Windows Phone - Part 1

Walter Ferrari has a post up at SilverlightShow that is part 1 of a series on building a DataGrid for WP7... he offers up 3 possible suggestions, and will expand his choice in the next part.

Using ChildWindow in Windows Phone 7 Projects

Check out the ChildWindow work Shawn Wildermuth is doing instead of MessageBox for WP7 ... very cool!

Windows Phone performance progress bar update: part 2, remember to turn IsIndeterminate off when not needed!

Jeff Wilcox has a follow-on to his high performance progressbar post... check out how you can drag down your frame rate even with the progress bars collapsed.

Exploring List capacities and growth on the Windows Phone

Jeff Wilcox also has a post up about the memory challenges WP7 developers face and how to use generic .NET lists more effectively.

Code to easily animate orientation changes for Windows Phone applications now supports fade, too!

David Anson follows up a prior post on animating orientation changes with one that is less costly in terms of overhead on the device.

Hello, MEF

Jeremy Likness has a quick-start video he's calling Hello, MEF up at MEFContrib ... I'm giving the link to MEFContrib where the full article also lives.

Architecting Enterprise LOB Silverlight applications – Part 3

Manuel Felício continues his series on architecting an Enterprise LOB app with Silverlight by creating a domain layer around a simple business domain model.

Silverlight

Silverlight 3

Silverlight 4

Windows Phone

MIX10

In this Issue: Michael Washington, Michael Crump, Don Burnett, John Papa, Jeremy Alles, Rob Miles(-2-), and David Gadd.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight Open File Dialog Behavior (MVVM)

Michael Washington has a cool post up on building a Behavior in Blend to produce an Open File Dialog.

“Fade in” Screen in Silverlight 4

Michael Crump responds to some questions about a 'fade-in' screen effect built with Expression Blend, and has a tutorial up on that and a demo page.

Windows Phone Design Days Videos on Channel 9

I've seen a few folks post some of the "Windows Phone Design Days" videos, but Don Burnett has gathered a great list of them on his blog.

Problem Resolution: Installing Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta

Even John Papa can have issues installing the WP7 dev tools, so why not you? ... read how he got his problems ironed out... might help you too!

[WP7] Sound effect in a Silverlight Windows Phone 7 application

Jeremy Alles has a post up discussing sound in WP7, specifically sound effects, and how to do so using some XNA...

Getting Diagnostic Output from your Windows Phone programs

If you haven't figured out how to write debug messages out in WP7, this quick post from Rob Miles will resolve that for you.

Understanding Windows Phone Orientation in XNA

I had a second post to list of Rob Miles', but when I refreshed the page, this one on WP7 Orientation in XNA popped up and looked like a winner.

Building a Windows Phone 7 app with MVVM pattern, using TDD and mock objects

I found David Gadd's post via another link this morning. I'm definitely adding his blog to my list... here's a good one on TDD and WP7.

Silverlight

Silverlight 3

Silverlight 4

Windows Phone

MIX10

In this Issue: Michael Washington, Alex Yakhnin(-2-), Vikram Pendse, Kunal Chowdhury, Braulio Diez, Antoni Dol, Nigel Sampson(-2-), Tim Heuer, and Jeff Wilcox.

Shoutout:

Erik Mork & Co. have their latest podcast up: Show 102: Windows Phone 7 Development Heats Up

Einar Ingebrigtsen has a demo before and after of Balder - vertex colors

From SilverlightCream.com:

A Simple DataGrid Delete Button Using View Model / MVVM

Michael Washington has another post up discussing the DataGrid Delete Button, and he worked around a lot of the confusion by having only one button... check out the detailed Blend instructions... good stuff, Michael!

Creating Image Round Button for WP7 (part 1)

Alex Yakhnin has two posts up about creating your own round image buttons for WP7. In this first one, Alex explains how to crank up Blend an create one from a regular Button control.

Creating Round Image Button for WP7 (part 2)

In his 2nd round image button post, Alex Yakhnin shows how to change the button you're creating based on the theme in use.

Silverlight On Mobile : Ink Capabilities on Windows Phone 7

Vikram Pendse has taken his Ink experience into the WP7 arena with a pretty cool Paint app... with source.

First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–I)

Kunal Chowdhury has a nice intro tutorial on MEF and Silverlight up on his blog... lots of descriptive info to get you going in MEF.

SketchFlow from a developer point of view - Part II - Dev Stuff

Braulio Diez has part 2 of his series on Sketchflow from a developer point of view up at SilverlightShow... and discusses many of the points you may have questions on including "can I use any of this for my production code?"

Structuring XAML in Blend

For anyone that's looked at or had to work on the XAML produced by Blend, Antoni Dol's post of ways to get all that under control is a good thing!

Windows Phone 7: Tasks

Nigel Sampson has two more WP7 tutorials up while I've been *busy* ... this first one is 'Tasks' aptly named for the Tasks namespace which holds Launchers, Choosers, and Tasks. He then demonstrates using tasks, and has all the code available too.

Windows Phone 7: My IP Address

Nigel Sampson's next tutorial is about finding the IP address of your device even though that's not directly possible... and it works!

Pano versus Pivot: Windows Phone Design Days content available

You say 'pano', I say 'panorama', or do I say 'pivot'... yikes which do I use... check out Tim Heuer's post for some discussion of this, and a good link to a video from 'design days'

Blend tip: finding default styles using “Edit a Copy”

Wanna be a 'Blend "Voodoo Master"?? ... check out Jeff Wilcox's tutorial on cracking open default styles and templates...

Silverlight

Silverlight 3

Silverlight 4

Windows Phone

MIX10

In this Issue: Michael Washington, Mickael Chambaud, Colin Eberhardt, Jeff Wilcox, John Papa, Jesse Liberty, Karsten Januszewski, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), and Tim Heuer.

Shoutout:

David Anson posted his Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF/Windows Phone Data Visualization resources!

From SilverlightCream.com:

Using the “Hisowa Simple PopUp Behavior” in a DataGrid

Michael Washington has a tutorial up showing how to use the "Hisowa simple popup Behavior" that he assisted on getting to codeproject a few days ago.

Navigation in Windows Phone 7 Application

Mickael Chambaud is discussing navigation in WP7 and all the ways that can be accomplished. I haven't seen Mike's blog before, so he gets added to my Big List-O-BlogsTM

Silverlight MultiBinding updated, adding support for ElementName and TwoWay binding

Colin Eberhardt has another great post up on Multibinding. He starts by recapping what he has already posted and then moves into ElementName and TwoWay binding.

Looking ahead: Panorama and Pivot controls for Windows Phone developers

If you haven't read it yet, Jeff Wilcox has a great post up on the Panorama and Pivot controls for WP7

You Are Already a Windows Phone Developer

Jesse Liberty joins John Papa this week on Silverlight TV as a follow-on to his blogpost of a similar title.

Random Walks For Windows Phone 7

Jesse Liberty's latest WP7 offering is his ADHD market-prediction app, with source... check it out and you'll see what I'm talking about :)

Windows Phone 7 Development Tip: Discovering and Using Default Styles

Karsten Januszewski displays the styles available for text on WP7 ... this is a good way to keep those in mind while working on an app.

Tips & Tricks: How to change the output location of the Silverlight XAP?

If you've ever had need to move your XAP file to some other location than the default, you might have found you need to touch a few spots... Kunal Chowdhury shows how to do that as the project is built.

Silverlight Tutorials Chapter 4: Introduction to Controls

Kunal Chowdhury also has Part 4 of his Silverlight Tutorials series up and discusses 9 of the more commonly-used controls that you have in your toolbox.

StringFormat and CurrentCulture in Silverlight

Tim Heuer demonstrates how to get locale information into your XAML string formatting. Be sure to read the comments and Tim's response to make sure you put the solution in the correct place.

Silverlight

Silverlight 3

Silverlight 4

Windows Phone

MIX10

In this Issue: René Schulte, Haruhiro Isowa, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Shawn Wildermuth, Evan Hutnick, Don Burne, Mark Tucker, On Ali Tinwala, Derik Whittaker, and Mark Arteaga.

Shoutouts:

Chris Cavanagh has converted his Soft Body Physics Demo to WP7: JelloPhone for Windows Phone 7

Joe Healy has his list of 7 Steps to Get You Going on Windows Phone 7 Dev ... I might add a couple more links to item 5, but I'm prejudiced :)

If you're in the mood for purchasing a WP7 Toolkit for building apps, you may want to look into Resco Announces Resco MobileLight Toolkit

Currently culling entries from 568 bloggers -- are you on my list?

From SilverlightCream.com:

Coding4Fun - Part 1 of the Windows Phone Picture Effects App and Roadmap

René Schulte has his new article for Coding4Fun up and it's a WP7 Phone Picture Effects app. This first post covers the basic app and some basic effects and discusses the direction he's going with the app.

Silverlight : Simple PopUp Behavior for VM, MVVM

Haruhiro Isowa has a tutorial up at CodeProject with the assistance of Michael Washington which displays a simpler alternative to MVVM / VM style PopUps. behaviors are easier to be used by designers and this one does not need any code for basic use.

WP7 Mini-Tutorial Lists & Master/Detail

Jesse Liberty has the first real tutorial of his WP7 series up, and he's aggregating a list of data, and browsing to a details page when one is selected. MVVM and ViewModel-friendly, all code, all good!

Sharing Silverlight Commands with the Managed Extensibility Framework

Jeremy Likness has a post up describing how to 'share' commands in Silverlight, or if you are a WPF'er... global commands. Jeremy is doing this via MEF.

Using OData with Windows Phone 7 SDK Beta

Shawn Wildermuth gives you a step-by-step of consuming OData on WP7 ... good stuff.

Return of the Silverlight Recruiting Application

If you didn't see Evan Hutnick's Silverlight series on the Telerik blog, no worries... he's updating it to Silverlight 4 and the other goodness. This first is a setup, but would be good to start watching for the others.

Recording Audio in Windows Phone 7

As you might expect, recording sound on WP7 involves a bit of XNA, but Don Burne has a post up showing how... now you can proceed with the app that plays back weird sounds... or maybe something more useful :)

Visual Studio Project Template for Caliburn.Micro WP7

Mark Tucker has a VS2010 project template for Caliburn.Micro (WP7), and a short post showing getting a project started with it... too cool.

GPS Simulator for WP7 development

On Ali Tinwala has a solution for all of us without devices, which as near as I can figure out is well, almost everyone! ... he's got a GPS Simulator up so you can just have at it with your new best-seller using GPS on WP7

Getting the Silverlight Toolkit Controls to work on WP7

Derik Whittaker has instructions for getting the Silverlight Toolkit into a usable form for WP7.

VanGuide for Windows Phone 7

Mark Arteaga has a great-looking WP7 app up at CodePlex called VanGuide. The screenshots look great, so grab the code and give it a dance!

Stay in the 'Light!

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In this Issue: Rénald Nollet, Xianzhong Zhu, Joost van Schaik, Dan Wahlin, and Sergey Barskiy.

Shoutouts:

Jason Zander posted a Sample Update: Windows Phone 7 Example Application for Beta Tools

Jesse Liberty has a great post up this morning: Ten Rules For Moving Your Blog Without Falling Off The Edge Of The Web

A handfull of postings left over from last night, but I know I'll not get any added on during the day today, so I'm pushing these out early.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Sharepoint 2010 SilverXplorer V 0.1

Rénald Nollet has a post up dealing with a Silverlight application that targets Sharepoint 2010 file operations.

Using Custom Effect to Create Silverlight 4 Animation

This is very cool... Xianzhong Zhu shows how to build a custom effects library using either roll-your-own or effects from Shazzam... seriously cool Silverlight.

A Windows Phone 7 multi touch pan/zoom behaviour for Multi Scale Images

Joost van Schaik did what most of us do... don't like what we see, write it yourself, and he's produced a pretty cool multi-touch behavior for manipulating Multi-Scanle images... was that one multi too many :) ... oh did I forget to say this was for WP7??

Understanding the Role of Commanding in Silverlight 4 Applications

Dan Wahlin is sharing some of his knowledge about Commanding in Silverlight 4 apps based on his experience and questions he gets asked when giving presentations.

Encryption in Silverlight and .NET Applications

Sergey Barskiy has an interesting encryption post up... encrypting data in a Silverlight front-end, pass the data to the server, decrypt and consume it.

Stay in the 'Light!

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