Silverlight Cream for March 06, 2011 -- #1054

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In this Back from the Summit Issue, I am overloaded with posts to choose from. Submittals go first, but I'll eventually catch up... hopefully by MIX :) : Ollie Riches(-2-), Colin Eberhardt, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, Martin Krüger, Joost van Schaik, Karl Shifflett, Michael Crump, Georgi Stoyanov, Yochay Kiriaty, Page Brooks, and Deborah Kurata.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"ClassifiedCabinet: A Quick Start" Georgi Stoyanov
WP7:	"Easy access to WMAppManifest.xml App properties like version and title" Joost van Schaik
Multiple:	"Flashcards.Show Version 2 for the Desktop, Browser, and Windows Phone" Yochay Kiriaty

Shoutouts:

Mohamed Mosallem delivered an online session at the Second Riyadh Online Community Summit: Silverlight 4.0 with SharePoint 2010

John-Daniel Trask posted about a release of a new set of tools released for WP7 development... there's a free trial, so definitely worth a look: Mindscape Phone Elements released!

From SilverlightCream.com:

WP7Contrib: Trickling data to a bound collection: Ollie Riches submitted a couple links... first up is this on a way they found to decrease the load on a data template in WP7 to get under the 90 mb limit and then added their solution to the WP7Contrib lib.
WP7Contrib: Why we use SilverlightSerializer instead of DataContractSerializer: Ollie Riches' next submittal compares the performance of the SilverlightSerializer & DataContractSerializer on the WP7 platform.
MVVM Charting – Binding Multiple Series to a Visiblox Chart: Colin Eberhardt sent me this post where he describes binding multiple series to a chart with no code-behind... great long multi-phase tutorial all with source.
Silverlight TV 64: Dive into 64bit Support, App Model and Security: John Papa has Nick Kramer of the Silverlight team up for his latest Silverlight TV episode, discussing some cool new Silverlight stuff: 64-bit support, multiple windows, etc.
Building a Windows Phone 7 Application with UltraLight.mvvm: Jeremy Likness has a pre-summit tutorial up on his UltraLight.mvvm project, and how he would use it to build a WP7 app... great to meet you, Jeremy!
How to: Storyboard only start with the conspicuousness of the application in the browser window: Martin Krüger continues his Storyboard startup solutions with this one about what to do if the Silverlight app is small or simply an island on an html page.
Easy access to WMAppManifest.xml App properties like version and title: Joost van Schaik posted about the WP7 manifest file and how you can get access to that information at runtime... why you ask? How about version number or title? Be sure to read the helpful hints in the last paragraph too!
Mole 2010 Released: Karl Shifflett, Josh Smith, and others have released the latest version of Mole... well worth the money in my opinion, if only it worked for Silverlight! (not their fault)
Changing the Default Windows Phone 7 Deployment Target In Visual Studio 2010: Michael Crump points out an annoyance with the 2011 WP7 tools update... VS2010 defaults to the device rather than the emulator... and he shows us how to get it pointed back to the emulator!
ClassifiedCabinet: A Quick Start: Georgi Stoyanov posted a QuickStart to a 'ClassifiedCabinet' control posted on CodePlex... check out the demo first, you'll want to read the article after that. He builds a simple project from scratch using the control.
Flashcards.Show Version 2 for the Desktop, Browser, and Windows Phone: Yochay Kiriaty has a post up about FlashCards.Show version 2 that he worked on with Arik Poznanski and has it now running on the desktop, browser, and WP7, plus you get the source... I've been wanting to write just such an app for WP7, so hey... this saves me some time!
A Simple Focus Manager for Jounce Applications: Page Brooks has a post up about Jeremy Likness' Jounce... how to set focus to a particular control when a view loads.
Silverlight Charting: Formatting the Axis: Deborah Kurata is continuing her charting series with this one on setting axis font color and putting the text at an angle... really dresses up the chart!