Silverlight Cream for February 21, 2011 -- #1049

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Published on Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:00:31 GMT Indexed on 2011/02/22 7:26 UTC
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In this Issue: Rob Eisenberg(-2-), Gill Cleeren, Colin Eberhardt, Alex van Beek, Ishai Hachlili, Ollie Riches, Kevin Dockx, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), and John Papa.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Silverlight 4: Creating useful base classes for your views and viewmodels with PRISM 4" Alex van Beek
WP7:	"Google Sky on Windows Phone 7" Colin Eberhardt

Shoutouts:

My friends at SilverlightShow have their top 5 for last week posted: SilverlightShow for Feb 14 - 20, 2011

From SilverlightCream.com:

Rob Eisenberg MVVMs Us with Caliburn.Micro!: Rob Eisenberg chats with Carl and Richard on .NET Rocks episode 638 about Caliburn.Micro which takes Convention-over-Configuration further, utilizing naming conventions to handle a large number of data binding, validation and other action-based characteristics in your app.
Two Caliburn Releases in One Day!: Rob Eisenberg also announced that release candidates for both Caliburn 2.0 and Caliburn.Micro 1.0 are now available. Check out the docs and get the bits.
Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 6): Gill Cleeren has Part 6 of his series on getting ready for the Silverlight Exam up at SilverlightShow.... this time out, Gill is discussing app startup, localization, and using resource dictionaries, just to name a few things.
Google Sky on Windows Phone 7: Colin Eberhardt has a very cool WP7 app described where he's using Google Sky as the tile source for Bing Maps, and then has a list of 110 Messier Objects.. interesting astronomical objects that you can look at... all with source!
Silverlight 4: Creating useful base classes for your views and viewmodels with PRISM 4: Alex van Beek has some Prism4/Unity MVVM goodness up with this discussion of a login module using View and ViewModel base classes.
Windows Phone 7 and WCF REST – Authentication Solutions: Ishai Hachlili sent me this link to his post about WCF REST web service and authentication for WP7, and he offers up 2 solutions... from the looks of this, I'm also putting his blog on my watch list
WP7Contrib: Isolated Storage Cache Provider: Ollie Riches has a complete explanation and code example of using the IsolatedStorageCacheProvider in their WP7Contrib library.
Using a ChannelFactory in Silverlight, part two: binary cows & new-born calves: Kevin Dockx follows-up his post on Channel Factories with this part 2, expanding the knowledge-base into usin parameters and custom binding with binary encoding, both from reader suggestions.
All about UriMapping in WP7: WindowsPhoneGeek has a post up about URI mappings in WP7 ... what it is, how to enable it in code behind or XAML, then using it either with a hyperlink button or via the NavigationService class... all with code.
Passing WP7 Memory Consumption requirements with the Coding4Fun MemoryCounter tool: WindowsPhoneGeek's latest is a tutorial on the use of the Memory Counter control from the Coding4Fun toolkit and WP7 Memory consumption.
Getting Started With Linq: Jesse Liberty gets into LINQ in his Episode 33 of his WP7 'From Scratch' series... looks like a good LINQ starting point, and he's going to be doing a series on it.
Linq with Objects: In his second post on LINQ, Jesse Liberty is looking at creating a Linq query against a collection of objects... always good stuff, Jesse!
Silverlight TV Silverlight TV 62: The Silverlight 5 Triad Unplugged: John Papa is joined by Sam George, Larry Olson, and Vijay Devetha (the Silverlight Triad) on this Silverlight TV episode 62 to discuss how the team works together, and hey... they're hiring!