Silverlight Cream for February 02, 2011 -- #1039

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In this Issue: Tony Champion, Gill Cleeren, Alex van Beek, Michael James, Ollie Riches, Peter Kuhn, Mike Ormond, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Daniel N. Egan, Loek Van Den Ouweland, and Paul Thurott.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Using the AutoCompleteBox" Peter Kuhn
WP7:	"Windows Phone Image Button" Loek Van Den Ouweland
Training:	"New WP7 Virtual Labs" Daniel N. Egan

Shoutouts:

SilverlightShow has their top 5 most popular news articles up: SilverlightShow for Jan 24-30, 2011

Rudi Grobler posted answers he gives to questions about Silverlight - Where do I start?

Brian Noyes starts a series of Webinars at SilverlightShow this morning at 10am PDT: Free Silverlight Show Webinar: Querying and Updating Data From Silverlight Clients with WCF RIA Services

Join your fellow geeks at Gangplank in Chandler Arizona this Saturday as Scott Cate and AZGroups brings you Azure Boot Camp – Feb 5th 2011

From SilverlightCream.com:

Deploying Silverlight with WCF Services: Tony Champion takes a step out of his norm (Pivot) and has a post up about deploying WCF Services with your SL app, and how to take the pain out of that without pulling out your hair.
Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 3): Gill Cleeren's part 3 of getting ready for the Silverlight Exam is up at SilverlightShow... with links to the first two parts. There's so much good information linked off these... thanks Gill and 'The Show'!
A guide through WCF RIA Services attributes: Alex van Beek has a post up you will probably want to bookmark unless you're not using WCF RIA... do you know all the attributes by heart? ... how about an excellent explanation of 10 of them?
Using DeferredLoadListBox in a Pivot Control: Michael James discusses using the DeferredLoadListBox, and then also using it with the Pivot control... but not without some pain points which he defines and gives the workaround for.
WP7: Know your data: Ollie Riches' latest is about Data and WP7 ... specifically 'knowing' what data you're needing/using to avoid the 90MB memory limit... He gives a set of steps to follow to measure your data model to avoid getting in trouble.
Using the AutoCompleteBox: Peter Kuhn takes a great look at the AutoCompleteBox... the basics, and then well beyond with custom data, item templates, custom filters, asynchronous filtering, and a behavior for MVVM async filtering.
OData and Windows Phone 7 Part 2: Mike Ormond has part 2 of his OData/WP7 post up... lashing up the images to go along with the code this time out... nice looking app.
WP7 RoundToggleButton and RoundButton in depth: WindowsPhoneGeek is checking out the RoundToggleButton and RoundButton controls from the Coding4fun Toolkit in detail... of course where to get them, and then the setup, demo project included.
All about Dependency Properties in Silverlight for WP7: WindowsPhoneGeek's latest post is a good dependency-property discussion related to WP7 development, but if you're just learning, it's a good place to learn about the subject.
New WP7 Virtual Labs: Daniel N. Egan posted links to 6 new WP7 Virtual Labs released on 1/25.
Windows Phone Image Button: Loek Van Den Ouweland has a style up on his blog that gives you an imageButton for your WP7 apps, and a sweet little video showing how it's done in Expression Blend too.
Yet another free Windows Phone book for developers: Paul Thurott found a link to another Free eBook for WP7 development. This one is by Puja Pramudya and is an English translation of the original, and is an introductory text, but hey... it's free... give it a look!