Silverlight Cream for December 09, 2010 -- #1006

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Published on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:08:22 GMT Indexed on 2010/12/10 22:19 UTC
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In this Issue: Adam Kinney, Jonathan van de Veen, René Schulte(-2-), Vikas, Chad Campbell, Chris Koenig, John Papa, and Martin Krüger.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Silverlight TV #54: Introducing 11 Brand New Labs" John Papa
WP7:	"Gestures in Windows Phone 7" Chris Koenig
Training:	"New Windows Phone 7 tutorials for Designers on toolbox!" Adam Kinney

Shoutouts:

Jesse Liberty posted ways to get help when you get stuck: Top 10 Tips To Getting Help With Silverlight

From SilverlightCream.com:

New Windows Phone 7 tutorials for Designers on toolbox!: Adam Kinney posted about some WP7 design goodness he's had the opportunity to take part in putting together that is now available for all of us on the Microsoft design Toolbox site.... detailed info about what's there.
Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #39: Jonathan van de Veen has his latest Silverlight coding adventure detailed on his blog... in the final throes of releasing, he came across some issues surrounding CRUD operations...
Windows Phone Unplugged - How to Detect the Zune Software: René Schulte has a post up about my two favorite devices: Zune and WP7 ... and how to detect if the Zune software is running when the device is connected to the PC.
Issue with the WP7 PictureDecoder and Workaround: René Schulte has a second post up today about strange behavior with the PictureDecoder DecodeJpeg method... he describes the problem and a workaround for it.
Performance Wizard for Silverlight: Vikas reports some Silverlight goodness in the VS2010 SP1 beta that's out ... a Performance Wizard... and he's ratted out it's use and sharing that info...
Submitting an App to the Windows Phone Marketplace: Chad Campbell details the user experience of getting an app through the marketplace to users... from the standpoint of someone that's been there.
Gestures in Windows Phone 7: Chris Koenig is talking about Gestures in WP7, documenting how he used some XNA to get some side-to-side image scrolling going on... and gave us the source!
Silverlight TV #54: Introducing 11 Brand New Labs: John Papa has his latest Silverlight TV up and he's talking to two great guys: Dan Wahlin and Corey Schuman who have produced the labs you've seen referenced... awesome stuff guys...
WP7: precisely position the text cursor when writing text: Martin Krüger has a quick WP7 usage tip up for precisely positioning the text cursor in a textbox ... I could have used that today when "Nick's Frame Shop" came up as "Nix Frame Shop" in a search.