Silverlight Cream for December 26, 2010 -- #1015

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Published on Sun, 26 Dec 2010 23:04:19 GMT Indexed on 2010/12/26 23:54 UTC
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In this all-submittal Issue: Michael Washington(-2-), Ian T. Lackey(-2-, -3-), Sandrino Di Mattia, Colin Eberhardt(-2-), and Antoni Dol.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"A Style for the Silverlight CoverFlow Control Slider" Antoni Dol
WP7:	"Getting the right behaviors in your Phone 7 App – Part 1 Phone Home" (and the other two parts) Ian T. Lackey
Silverlight/WPF:	"A Simplified Grid Markup for Silverlight and WPF" Colin Eberhardt

Shoutouts:

Dennis Doomen has updated his Coding Guidelines and provided a new WhitePaper, A4 cheat sheet, and VS2010 rule sets: December Update of the Coding Guidelines for C# 3.0 and C# 4.0

From SilverlightCream.com:

Windows Phone 7: Saving Data when Keyboard is visible: MIchael Washington takes a possible desktop approach to a data-saving issue on WP7... good solution, and one of the commenters brought up another.
Windows Phone 7 View Model (MVVM) ApplicationBar: Since I'm catching up, there's another post by Michael Washington... this one is looking at the WP7 ApplicationBar, and issues if you're trying to stay MVVM-proper. Michael gets around that by creating the AppBar with a behavior, and shares with all of us!
Getting the right behaviors in your Phone 7 App – Part 1 Phone Home: Ian T. Lackey has begun a series where he's packaging common tasks into reusable behaviors. First up is a phone dialer launching action that can be dropped on any control in your app.
Getting the right behaviors in your Phone 7 App – Part 2 Binding & Browsing: In his next post, Ian T. Lackey digs into the WebBrowserTask and provides a behavior allowing you to launch a browser session straight to an URL from any WP7 control.
Getting the right behaviors in your Phone 7 App – Part 3 Email ‘em: In his last post (all in one day), Ian T. Lackey looks at EmailComposeTask, ending up with a behavior to pre-populate EmailAddress and Subject.
Cracking a Microsoft contest or why Silverlight-WCF security is important: Sandrino Di Mattia was working on an app while also having a page up for a MSDN/TechNet game, and noticed some interesting WCF traffic that he was easily able to get access to.
A Simplified Grid Markup for Silverlight and WPF: Colin Eberhardt built us all an attached property for the Grid control that bails us out from the ugly layout we always have to put into position... oh, also for WPF!
#uksnow #silverlight The Movie! – Happy Christmas: Colin Eberhardt also took some time to have fun with his Twitter/BingMaps mashup for the UKSnow hashtag... you can now playback the snowfall reports, and mouse-over the snowflakes to see the original tweet... very cool stuff, Colin!
A Style for the Silverlight CoverFlow Control Slider: Antoni Dol got tired of the Silverlight Slider in the CoverFlow control and crafted a very nice-looking style for the Slider ... check it out and grab the source.