Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2010 -- #856

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Published on Wed, 05 May 2010 22:26:31 GMT Indexed on 2010/05/05 23:38 UTC
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In this Issue: Jeremy Alles(-2-), Kunal Chowdhury, anand iyer, Yochay Kiriaty(-2-, -3-), Max Paulousky, David Kelley, smartyP, Tim Heuer, and Dan Wahlin.

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Tim Heuer provides links for all the Ways to give feedback on Silverlight

From SilverlightCream.com:

[WP7] Bug when using NavigationService in Windows Phone 7: Jeremy Alles has blogged about a bug he found using the Navigation service in WP7. He gives the steps to reproduce and a couple possible workarounds.
[WP7] Using the camera in the emulator: Jeremy Alles is also digging into the camera functionality in the emulator. He has code demonstrating launching a camera task, and a list of other tasks available.
Silverlight Tutorials Chapter 3: Introduction to Panels: Kunal Chowdhury has Chapter 3 of his Silverlight 4 Tutorial series up and he's talking about Panels this time out.
Push Notifications in Windows Phone 7 developer tools CTP April Refresh: anand iyer is discussing the Push Notifications, only from a code perspective. Good information and good additional links to follow.
Windows Phone Application Life Cycle: Yochay Kiriaty talks with Tudor Toma and Jaime Rodriguez about the WP7 application lifecycle on Channel 9.
Understanding Microsoft Push Notifications for Windows Phones: Yochay Kiriaty has a 2-part post up on WP7 Push Notifications. The first part is explaining what Push Notifications are and why we need them... as a developer and as an end user viewing Toast or Tile notifications.
Understanding How Microsoft Push Notification Works – Part 2: In the 2nd part of his Push Notification series, Yochay Kiriaty discusses how the Push Notification works under the covers.
To Remember: Deployment of Silverlight Applications With Wcf Ria Services: Max Paulousky has a post up for reference on what to look into when you get "Load Operation Failed" in WCF RIA services.
Launching a URL from an OOB Silverlight Application: David Kelley has a quick post up on launching URLs from an OOB app. If you haven't tried it, you may be surprised as he was at first.
Creating a Windows Phone 7 XNA Game in Landscape Orientation: smartyP is looking at recreating a landscape WP7 game in XNA and is detailing some of the issues he's been dealing with, and is also sharing a project file.
New Silverlight 4 Themes available–get the raw bits: Tim Heuer provided 'raw' versions of 3 new themes. Read his post to see exactly what he means by 'raw' ... they're definitely good looking, and are going to get a lot of play.
Handling WCF Service Paths in Silverlight 4 – Relative Path Support: Dan Wahlin shares his technique for avoiding the pain involved with ServiceReferences.ClientConfig by using Silverlight 4 relative path support.