Silverlight Cream for February 26, 2011 -- #1052

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Published on Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:26:08 GMT Indexed on 2011/02/26 23:26 UTC
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In this Issue: Mark Monster, Gill Cleeren, Pencho Popadiyn, Kevin Dockx, Joost van Schaik, Jesse Liberty, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, Arik Poznanski(-2-), Page Brooks, Deborah Kurata, Mike Snow, Alfred Astort, Samuel Jack, XAMLNinja, and Shawn Wildermuth.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Asynchronous Callbacks with Rx" Jesse Liberty
WP7:	"Phoney Windows Phone 7 Project Now Available!" Shawn Wildermuth
MVVM:	"Validating our ViewModel" Mark Monster

Shoutouts:

Shawn Wildermuth has a video up of his FadingMessage class to show it off: Introducing Phoney's FadingMessage Class

From SilverlightCream.com:

Validating our ViewModel: Mark Monster discusses Validation in his latest post... using INotifyDataErrorInfo and his own implementation of a ViewModel base that supports it and INPC.
Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 7): Gill Cleeren hits part 7 of his series at SilverlightShow on a great walk through Silverlight and getting ready for the exam. This is the final part and concentrates on deploying apps.
Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard: Pencho Popadiyn has a post at SilverlightShow discussing problems with WP7 keyboards in his native Bulgaria, and his solution to the problem... create his own.
360 Degrees Feedback by Kevin Dockx: Kevin Dockx produced a white paper for his company about an employee review solution they did in Silverlight. The white paper is available, and SilverlightShow interviewd Kevin to answer questions about the app.
Extended Windows Phone 7 page for handling rotation, focused element updates and back key press: Looks like Joost van Schaik has a few posts I've missed... and I'm not going to get to them all today! ... this one is about the base class he uses for WP7 apps... a bunch of utilities he uses... definitely worth a look (and a take).
Asynchronous Callbacks with Rx: Jesse Liberty has his 8th post in the Rx series up and this one's on Asynchronous Callbacks... if you haven't seen this before, you should definitely look into it... cool stuff, Jesse!
Silverlight TV 63: Exploring National Instruments' App Using Data and Business Features: John Papa has Silverlight TV number 63 up and is talking to Steve Lasker about National Instruments and their Lab View product. Great demo and discussion.
Jounce Part 11: Debugging MEF: Jeremy Likness's latest (number 11) in his series on his MVVM framework Jounce is out, and he's discussing how to debug MEF, which Jounce handles nicely through the logging he provides... and you can use it externally to Jounce.
Get Twitter Trends on Windows Phone 7: Arik Poznanski has a couple Twitter for WP7 posts up... first is one for pulling Twitter trends from whatthetrend.com... plus the code to do it.
Searching Twitter on Windows Phone 7: In his next post, Arik Poznanski shows how to search twitter from your WP7 ... again with code.
Tiled Background Control in Silverlight: Page Brooks shows how to get a tiled background control in Silverlight ... did you know there was one in the JetPack them?
Silverlight Charting: Displaying Data Above the Column: Deborah Kurata continues her charting posts with this one displaying the column value above the column. I like this... it has a clean look and all the data is available at a glance.
Silverlight: Tasks on the Win7 Mobile Phone: Mike Snow has a list of the WP7 tasks available and an example of using them... looks like a pretty good reference!
10 of 10 - Aesthetics and alignment matter: Alfred Astort discusses aesthetics and WP7 dev... looks like it's the same as any app development, but if you're not doing it, you should be.
Simon Squared – We have Multi-player: Days 4, 5 and (ahem!) 6: Samuel Jack details the completion of his multi-player game for WP7 utilizing Azure, in the hour-by-hour detail he's done the rest... plus a video of the final product!
Who ate all the pies!!: XAMLNinja has a very good discussion/link set of Charting posts all leading up to a portrait-only version of charting for WP7 with labels that looks looks great
Phoney Windows Phone 7 Project Now Available!: Shawn Wildermuth has a collection of classes he always uses with WP7 dev, and he's sharing them with all of us a "Phoney" Tools project on Codeplex... and now has a NuGet project also.