Silverlight Cream for December 11, 2010 -- #1007

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Published on Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:58:21 GMT Indexed on 2010/12/12 6:22 UTC
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In this Issue: Mike Wolf, Colin Eberhardt, Mike Snow(-2-, -3-), David Kelley(-2-, -3-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), Erik Mork, Jeff Blankenburg, Laurent Duveau, and Jeremy Likness(-2-).

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"The definitive guide to Notification Window in Silverlight 4" Laurent Duveau
WP7:	"Making the MS Adcontrol REALLY work on phone 7" David Kelley
Silverlight 5:	"Silverlight 5: In the Trenches" Mike Wolf

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight 5: In the Trenches: How many people can discuss Silverlight 5 'In the Trenches' ... apparently Mike Wolf can, and that's just what he's done in the post to whet your whistle (do people say that any more?) for when we can all get our hands on the bits.
Visiblox, Visifire, DynamicDataDisplay – Charting Performance Comparison: Colin Eberhardt responds to reader requests, and revisits his Charting Performance after also some discussion with David Anson about the Silverlight Toolkit. This time including Dynamic Data Display which is quite impressive in the ratings... check out the post and the code.
Win7 Mobile Back Arrow Key Interception: The simple fact is heavy bloggers rise, like Cream, to the top of my list, and I've been missing some goodness from Mike Snow... he's blogging WP7 stuff now... first up of the 'missed' ones is this one on intercepting the Back Arrow Key.
Animating the Color of an Object: Switching back to Silverlight in general, Mike Snow's next post is on Animating color of an object, such as text foreground.
Tombstoning on the Win7 Mobile Platform: And now back to WP7, Mike Snow is discussing Tombstoning... discussing the various aspects of it, and some code to use, if you haven't gotten your head around this one yet.
What I tell Designers to give me... Integrating and Digital Zen: David Kelley has a post up describing what he needs from designers to get his job done... I heard him discussing this at the Firestarter, and didn't realize he had written it up... these 8 items are things learned by doing, and should be discussed with your designers.
Making the MS Adcontrol REALLY work on phone 7: David Kelley also has a post up discussing how to really get the Ad control working on WP7 apps... since I've seen lots of posts about this, having a definitive explanation from someone that's doing it is a good thing.
Performance Optimization on Phone 7: In a break from his norm of discussing UX, David Kelley is talking about performance on WP7 devices in this post.
Windows Phone From Scratch #10 – Visual State Part 2: When I saw Jesse Liberty's latest post, I realized I had missed his Part 2 of VSM for WP7 ... don't you miss it... this completes the good stuff from number 9 :)
Windows Phone From Scratch #11 – Behaviors: Jesse Liberty's latest Windows Phone from Scratch is up... and he's talking about Behaviors this time out... more of an overview or introduction to behaviors, but all good
Show 112: Scott Guthrie on Silverlight 5: Erik Mork's latest Sparkling Client podcast is up and he was able to get some time with Scott Guthrie at the Firestarter.
What I Learned in WP7 – Issue #1: Jeff Blankenburg decided to do another series, only this one isn't promised as every day... it's "What I Learned in WP7" ... and the first is up... good interesting bits found surrounding the WP7 device.
The definitive guide to Notification Window in Silverlight 4: Laurent Duveau has a great post up that will have you doing Silverlight 'toast' notifications in no time... good descriptions and source.
Lessons Learned in Personal Web Page Part 1: Dynamic XAML: Jeremy Likness has rebuilt his personal website in Silverlight and is sharing some of that experience on his blog. This first post discusses the dynamic content. He used Jounce, of course, and included the Silverlight Navigation Framework, and... you can download all the source
Lessons Learned in Personal Web Page Part 2: Enter the Matrix: Jeremy Likness's second post about building his website is all about the 'Matrix' page ... pretty cool stuff... check it out... I think it looks great