Silverlight Cream for December 07, 2010 -- #1004

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Published on Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:12:27 GMT Indexed on 2010/12/08 5:40 UTC
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In this Issue: András Velvárt, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), AvraShow, Gill Cleeren, Ian T. Lackey, Richard Waddell, Joe McBride, Michael Crump, Xpert360, keyboardP, and Pete Vickers(-2-).

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Grouping Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView" Kunal Chowdhury
WP7:	"Phone 7 Back Button and the ListPicker control" Ian T. Lackey

Shoutouts:

Colin Eberhardt has some Silverlight 5 Adoption Predictions you may want to check out.

Michael Crump has a post up showing lots of the goodness of Silverlight 5 from the Firestarter... screenshots, code snippets, etc: Silverlight 5 – What’s New? (Including Screenshots & Code Snippets)

Kunal Chowdhury has a pretty complete Silverlight 5 feature set from the Firestarter and an embedded copy of Scott Guthrie's kenote running on the page: New Features Announced for Silverlight 5 Beta

From SilverlightCream.com:

Just how productive is WP7 development compared to iOS, Android and mobile Web?: András Velvárt blogged about a contest he took part in to build a WP7 app in 1-1/2 hours without any prior knowledge of it's funtion. He and his team-mate were pitted against other teams on Android, IOS, and mobile Web... guess who got (almost) their entire app running? ... just too cool Andras! ...
Grouping Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView: Kunal Chowdhury has a couple good posts up, this first one is on using the PagedCollectionView to group the records in a DataGrid... code included.
Filtering Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView: Kunal Chowdhury then continues with another post on the PagedCollectionView only this time is showing how to do some filtering.
DeepZoom Tips and Techniques: AvraShow has a post up discussing using DeepZoom to explore, in his case, a Printed Circuit Board, with information about how he proceeded in doing that, and some tips and techniques along the way.
The validation story in Silverlight (Part 2): Gill Cleeren has Part 2 of his Silverlight Validation series up at SilverlightShow. This post gets into IDataErrorInfo and INotifyDataErrorInfo. Lots of code and the example is available for download.
Phone 7 Back Button and the ListPicker control: Ian T. Lackey has a post up about the WP7 backbutton and what can get a failure from the Marketplace in that area, and how that applies to the ListPicker as well.
Very Simple Example of ICommand CanExecute Method and CanExecuteChanged Event: Richard Waddell has a nice detailed tutorial on ICommand and dealing with CanExecute... lots of Blend love in this post.
Providing an Alternating Background Color for an ItemsControl: Joe McBride has a post up discussing putting an alternating background color on an ItemsControl... you know, how you do on a grid... interesting idea, and all the code...
Pimp my Silverlight Firestarter: Michael Crump has a great Firestarter post up ... where and how to get the videos, the labs... a good Firestarter resource for sure.
Adventures with PivotViewer Part 7: Slider control: Xpert360 has part 7 of the PivotViewer series they're doing up. This time they're demonstrating taking programmatic control of the Zoom slider.
Creating Transparent Lockscreen Wallpapers for WP7: I don't know keyboardP's name, but he's got a cool post up about getting an image up for the WP7 lock screen that has transparent regions on it... pretty cool actually.
Windows Phone 7 Linq to XML 'strangeness': Pete Vickers has a post up describing a problem he found with Linq to XML on WP7. He even has a demo app that has the problem, and the fix... and it's all downloadable.
Windows Phone 7 multi-line radio buttons: Pete Vickers has another quick post up on radio buttons with so much text that it needs wrapping ... this is for WP7, but applies to Silverlight in general.