Silverlight Cream for November 20, 2011 -- #1169

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Published on Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:28:45 GMT Indexed on 2011/11/20 17:56 UTC
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In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Michael Crump, Michael Sync, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Sumit Dutta, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-), and Beth Massi.

Above the Fold:

WP7:	"Silver VNC 1.0 for Windows Phone "Mango"" Andrea Boschin
Metro/WinRT/W8:	"Lighting up your C# Metro apps by being a Share Source" Derik Whittaker
LightSwitch:	"Using the Save and Query Pipeline to “Archive” Deleted Records" Beth Massi

Shoutouts:

Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up

Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silver VNC 1.0 for Windows Phone "Mango": Andrea Boschin published the first release of his "Silver VNC" version 1.0 on CodePlex. Check out the video on the blog post to see the capabilities, then go grab it from CodePlex.
Fixing a broken toolbox (In Visual Studio 2010 SP1): Not Silverlight or Metro, but near to us all is Visual Studio... read how Michael Crump resolves the 'broken' toolbox that we all get now and then
Windows Phone 7 – USB Device Not Recognized Error: Michael Sync is looking for ideas about an error he gets any time he updates his phone.
Windows Phone Toolkit MultiselectList in depth| Part2: Data Binding: WindowsPhoneGeek has up the second part of his tutorial series on the MultiselectList from the Windows Phone Toolkit... this part is about data binding, complete with lots of code, discussion, pictures, and project to download
New Mini-Tutorial Video Series: Jesse Liberty started a new video series based on his Mango Mini tutorials. They will be on Channel 9, and he has a link on this post to the index. The firs of the series is on animation without code
Lighting up your C# Metro apps by being a Share Source: Derik Whittaker continues investigating Metro with this post about how to set your app up to share its content with other apps
Part 21 - Windows Phone 7 - Toast Push Notification: Sumit Dutta has part 21 of his WP7 series up and is talking about Toast Notification by creating a Windows form app for sending notifications to the WP7 app for viewing
31 Days of Mango | Day #6: Motion: Jeff Blankenburg's Day 6 in his Mango series is about the Motion class which combines the data we get from the Accelerometer, Compass, and Gyroscope of the last couple days of posts
31 Days of Mango | Day #7: Raw Camera Data: In Day 7, Jeff Blankenburg talks about the Camera on the WP7 and how to use the raw data in your own application
Using the Save and Query Pipeline to “Archive” Deleted Records: Beth Massi's latest LightSwith post is this one on tapping into the Save and Query pipelines to perform some data processing prior to saving or pulling data