Silverlight Cream for June 16, 2010 -- #884

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Published on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:03:13 GMT Indexed on 2010/06/17 5:24 UTC
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In this Issue: Zoltan Arvai, Emiel Jongerius, Charles Petzold, Adam Kinney, Deepesh Mohnani, Timmy Kokke, and Damon Payne.

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Andy Beaulieu reported his Coding4Fun: Shuffleboard Game for WP7 has been posted -- Big ol' Tutorial and 6 videos of WP7 goodness

Karl Shifflett announced Three New WPF and Silverlight Designer Videos Posted

Charles Petzold has a cool Flip-Number Clock in Silverlight posted... cool demo, and the source.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Data Driven Applications with MVVM Part II: Messaging, Unit Testing, and Live Data Sources: Zoltan Arvai has part 2 of his Data-Driven Apps with MVVM up, and this one is also including Messaging, Unit Testing, and Live WCF Data... good tutorial and all the code.
Silverlight DataContext Changed Event and Trigger: Emiel Jongerius takes a hard swing at the lack of DataContextChanged... his solution involves two attached properties instead of one... check it out and see what you think!
Orientation Strategies for Windows Phone 7: Charles Petzold is discussing WP7 Orientation... showing the problems you can get involved in, and how to work through them... and you might be surprised at how he does it :) ... pretty cool as usual, Charles!
Debugging the TranslateZoomRotate WPF Behavior in Blend: Adam Kinney talks through a bug reported about the WPF TranslateZoomRotate Behavior. Again, it's WPF, but it's in Blend, and ya never know when the solution might apply.
I want my app to look like the Zune client: Deepesh Mohnani demonstrates using the Cosmopolitan theme to get his app to have the same look as the Zune client.
MVVM Project and Item Templates: Timmy Kokke is continuing with his cool SilverAmp media player, using it to expand upon the new Blend and Silverlight 4 features. This episode touches very lightly on cranking up a new MVVM project in Blend.
Great Features for MVVM Friendly Objects Part 0: Favor Composition Over Inheritance: Damon Payne has the first part up of a series he's working on with 'MVVM Friendly' features... he's building out a lot of the infrastructure in this post for the ones that follow... all good stuff.