Silverlight Cream for January 30, 2011 -- #1037

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Published on Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:56:38 GMT Indexed on 2011/01/31 7:26 UTC
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In this Issue: Ollie Riches, Colin Eberhardt, Andrej Tozon, Arik Poznanski, Deborah Kurata(-2-), Jay Kimble, Yochay Kiriaty, Peter Kuhn, Mike Ormond, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), and Matthias Shapiro.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Missing Chart Legend" Deborah Kurata
WP7:	"XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 2 - Text rendering" Peter Kuhn

Shoutouts:

Timmy Kokke has a post up discussing What’s new in the Expression Design January 2011 preview?

From SilverlightCream.com:

WP7Contrib: Thread safe ObservableCollection<T>: Ollie Riches, one of the two originators of WP7Contrib, has a post up on the WP7C ObservableCollection... what and why.
Windows Phone 7 DeferredLoadContentControl: Colin Eberhardt's latest is one we should all take notice of... a content control that defers rendering to provide a better user experience... source code is available as are some good external links
Andrej Tozon on Hey weigh! WP7 application: SilverlightShow interviews WP7 Dev Andrej Tozon and gets his take on his app, challenges, tips, and the future of WP7.
A ProgressBar With Text For Windows Phone 7: Arik Poznanski demonstrates putting text up on the progress bar to let your users know what you're up to... and it looks great in the screenshots.
Charting in a Silverlight Application using MVVM: Deborah Kurata is checking out the Charting control this time around... using the charting control from the toolbox in the MVVM app she built in the last post... C# and VB code as always.
Missing Chart Legend: Deborah Kurata's latest in the world of Charting and MVVM involves using a custom theme and having your chart legend disappear... never fear, she's gonna tell you how to fix that!
Silverlight/WP7 tip: Detecting when in VS Design Mode: Jay Kimble has a post up that not only resolves a question you may need answered during development (are you in VS design Mode), but it also helps resolve a class of problem that Jay explains.
Windows Phone GPS Emulator: Yochay Kiriaty points out that while part of the issues of building a GPS-driven app for WP7 is getting your head around the tools, the next hurdle is testing... and that's what he's really discussing... "Windows Phone GPS Emulator" ... if you're playing with the GPS, you'll want this.
XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 2 - Text rendering: Peter Kuhn's latest tutorial in his XNA series for Silverlight developers is up at SilverlightShow... in this tutorial, Peter discusses text... it's a vastly different game displaying text in XNA as compared to Silverlight ... check it out and see.
OData and Windows Phone 7: Mike Ormond starts you off using OData on your WP7 by showing where to download the libraries, and not stopping until he has an app running that reads an OData feed, plus he plans on continuing the quest in future posts.
WP7 ProgressOverlay control in depth: features and customization: WindowsPhoneGeek has a couple new posts up. The first one is an in-depth look at the ProgressOverlay control in the Codeing4fun Toolkit... pretty cool to be able to put your logo or app logo up.
On Testing Windows Phone 7 Applications – Part II: Dealing with the WP7 Application Model: WindowsPhoneGeek also has 5 more WP7 testing tips... and these are a little more technical than the first set, and includes some good external links. Topics include: Tombstoning, Usability, Navigation, Capabilities, and Memory consumption.
Fun Theme-Friendly Windows Phone Icon: Matthias Shapiro explains how to have your WP7 icon change based on the theme your user has chosen... great examples, and XAML included