Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2010 - 2 -- #1013

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Published on Sun, 19 Dec 2010 04:53:13 GMT Indexed on 2010/12/20 17:49 UTC
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In this Issue: Michael Washington, Pete Brown, Robby Ingebretsen, Bill Reiss, Jordan Knight, Mike Taulty, Justin Angel, Jeff Blankenburg.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Creating the Silverlight View Model (MVVM) Control: Calendar Icon" Michael Washington
WP7:	"United Nations News for Windows Phone 7" Justin Angel
Silverlight, WP7/WPF:	"CameraPanel: A Parallax Panel for Silverlight, WP7 or WPF" Robby Ingebretsen

Shoutouts:

Michael Scherotter produced a Silverlight Webcam photo app that he's providing as a free install: A Free Webcam Photo Application in Silverlight

From SilverlightCream.com:

Creating the Silverlight View Model (MVVM) Control: Calendar Icon: Michael Washington has a stunning Calendar Control/Icon up on his blog... walking through how he built it and how you can easily use it in your Silverlight or WP7 app.
Strategies for Improving INotifyPropertyChanged in WPF and Silverlight: Pete Brown takes a look at INPC and some of the ways this is dealt with to avoid some of the tedius code-reuse errors we all make.
CameraPanel: A Parallax Panel for Silverlight, WP7 or WPF: Robby Ingebretsen gives up the code for that cool panel he's got on his homepage where the small panels move about seemingly in space.
Writing a Windows Phone 7 game? Have a fallback plan: Bill Reiss, who has a great WP7 game up - Popper 2 - has a very well-thought-out post up about WP7 'indie' games and the future thereof... great comments from reader/authors as well
Automatic template selection – marrying a view to a view model: Jordan Knight has the 2nd post of his series on MVVM up... he's talking about it in context of their XamlingCore, but concepts are all good.
Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 5): Mike Taulty's next episode in describing the development of the PDC10 app he wrote is up ... again lots of Blend goodness in this one where he's adding buttons to let the user (us) download whatever is available for the chosen session.
United Nations News for Windows Phone 7: In a munificent gesture, Justin Angel not only made his United Nation News app free on the marketplace, but he's posted the source to CodePlex! Justin had sent me a XAP a couple weeks ago, but for some reason, I can no longer sideload so wasn't able to try it until now... too cool, Justin!
What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #6: Jeff Blankenburg has his latest "What I learned in WP7" tip up ... and this is one about the marketplace written by someone that's been there and back a few times...