Silverlight Cream for December 31, 2010 -- #1019

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Published on Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:39:19 GMT Indexed on 2011/01/01 5:54 UTC
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In this Issue: Michael Washington, Thomas Martinsen, Mike Ormond, William E. Burrows(-2-), Vangos Pterneas, Jesse Liberty, Diptimaya Patra, and Jeff Blankenburg(-2-).

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Drag from Multiple Source In Silverlight 4" Diptimaya Patra
WP7:	"What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 12" Jeff Blankenburg

Shoutouts:

Paul Thurrott posted a great phone comparison chart: Great Windows Phone comparison chart

Kunal Chowdhury announced his new Silverlight Site: Welcome to Silverlight-Zone - Site is Live Now ... Good Luck, Kunal!

From SilverlightCream.com:

MyStudioServer goes Open Source: Michael Washington decided to put his "MyStudioServer" on CodePlex... I saw this last spring and it's pretty darn cool... check out the post and examples.
UriMapping for WP7: Thomas Martinsen discusses UriMapping in WP7, details the steps you need to follow and has sample code to demonstrate.
More Monitoring Web Requests on Windows Phone: Mike Ormond revisits a post about monitoring WP7 web requests, and shows how to get the data via Fiddler.
New Tutorial – Windows Phone 7 (Getting Started): William E. Burrows has 2 parts of a video tutorial series on WP7 development up. This first gets things rolling, explains what is going on, and gets far enough to display golf courses stored in the database.
WP7 Tutorial – Part 2: Managing Courses: William E. Burrows's 2nd video tutorial is on building out the app to provide features to manage the gold courses for this gold handicap application.
Face detection in Windows Phone 7: Vangos Pterneas has a post up about a WP7 app he did using René Schulte's Facelight to do facial recognition. Source available and also on CodePlex.
Windows Phone From Scratch – Navigation II: Jesse Liberty has up his latest WP7 from Scratch and is the 2nd post in the Navigation series, which is combining the previous navigation with the animation from the one before to produce a better navigation experience.
Drag from Multiple Source In Silverlight 4: Diptimaya Patra has a post up at dotnetslackers on dragging into a drop area from multiple sources of different data templates and contexts.
What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 12: Jeff Blankenburg's number 12 is up and he's got all the RGB colors on WP7 charted out, name, HEX, RGB, and visual... looks like a good one to bookmark
What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 13: Jeff Blankenburg's number 13 is the chart I have listed in the Shoutout above... a complete phone comparison chart.