Silverlight Cream for February 05, 2011 -- #1041

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Published on Sun, 06 Feb 2011 04:50:22 GMT Indexed on 2011/02/06 23:26 UTC
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In this Issue: Peter Kuhn, Mike Ormond(-2-, -3-), WindowsPhoneGeek, Daniel N. Egan, Phil Middlemiss(-2-), Max Paulousky, Michael Washington.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Designing for Browser-Zoom: Part 2" Phil Middlemiss
WP7:	"Talking about Converters in WP7 \| Coding4fun toolkit converters in depth" WindowsPhoneGeek
Lightswitch:	"LightSwitch: Can We Handle The Truth?" Michael Washington

Shoutouts:

András Velvárt has a video up of some awesome changes he has planned for SurfCube, check it out: SurfCube V2 - 3D Web Browser for Windows Phone 7, now with tabs!

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight for keyboard junkies: Peter Kuhn has a post up talking about the issues surrounding trying to use the tab key to navigate between controls... and follows it up with a behavior that resolves it.
Windows Phone 7 Content On Demand: Mike Ormond has a batch of WP7 Videos up... this first is "Windows Phone 7: A Different Kind of Phone" with Andrej Radinger.
Windows Phone 7 Content on Demand Pt 2: Mike Ormond's 2nd WP7 video is "Understanding the Windows Phone 7 Development Tools and Getting Started" with Maarten Struys
Windows Phone 7 Content on Demand Pt 3: Mike Ormond's 3rd WP7 Content on Demand is "Games Programming on Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight and XNA" with Rob Miles
Talking about Converters in WP7 | Coding4fun toolkit converters in depth: WindowsPhoneGeek is discussing value converters in his latest post... value converters for WP7... and the ones in the Coding4Fun toolkit to be exact... everything you wanted to know about them but didn't know to ask :)
WP7 Developer Tools–Jan Update: Daniel N. Egan has information up about the new WP7 Developer Tools release.
Designing for Browser-Zoom: Part 1: Phil Middlemiss has both parts of a series on Browser Zoom up... this first part covers the zoom and different pieces involved.
Designing for Browser-Zoom: Part 2: Phil Middlemiss's part 2 shows us some design considerations and visual states, including an attached behavior you can use in Blend to respond to the zoom event.
Windows Phone Copy-Paste: How It Looks and Works: Max Paulousky has the first post I've seen on WP7 Copy/Paste up... of course it's still in the emulator, but hey... that's better than nothing, right?
LightSwitch: Can We Handle The Truth?: Have you been playing with Lightswitch? Well... Michael Washington has, and it's got his interest up far enough that he's waving the flags trying to attract everyone else over there as well... see if you agree.