Silverlight Cream for November 21, 2011 -- #1171

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Published on Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:06:58 GMT Indexed on 2011/11/22 9:56 UTC
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In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Sumit Dutta, Morten Nielsen, Jesse Liberty, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-), Brian Noyes, and Tony Champion.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"PV Basics : Client-side Collections" Tony Champion
WP7:	"Pushpin Clustering with the Windows Phone 7 Bing Map control" Colin Eberhardt

Shoutouts:

Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up

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

From SilverlightCream.com:

Pushpin Clustering with the Windows Phone 7 Bing Map control: Colin Eberhardt is back discussing Pushpins for a BingMaps app on WP7 and provides a utility class that clusters pushpins, allowing you to render 1000s of pins on an app ... all the explanation and all the code
Part 22 - Windows Phone 7 - Tile Push Notification: Part 22 in Sumit Dutta's WP7 series is about Tile Push Notification... nice tutorial with all the code listed
Correctly displaying your current location: Morten Nielsen demonstrates formatting the information from the GPS on your WP7 into something intelligible and useful
Spiking the Pomodoro Timer: Jesse Liberty put up a quick and dirty version of a Pomodoro timer for WP7.1 to explore the technical challenges of the Full Stack Phase 2 he's cranking up
31 Days of Mango | Day #11: Network: Jeff Blankenburg's Number 10 in his 31 Days quest of WP7.1 is about the NetworkInformation namespace which gives you all sorts of info on the user's device network connection availability, type, etc.
31 Days of Mango | Day #11: Live Tiles: Jeff Blankenburg takes off on Live Tiles for Day 11... big topic for a 1 day post, but he takes off on it... updating and Live Tiles too
Working with Prism 4 Part 2: MVVM Basics and Commands: Brian Noyes has part 2 of his Prism/MVVM series up at SilverlightShow... very nice tutorial on the basics of getting a view and viewmodel up, and setting up an ICommand to launch an Edit View... plus the code to peruse.
PV Basics : Client-side Collections: Tony Champion is startig a series on Silverlight 5 and Pivot Viewer... First up is some basics in dealing with the control in SL5 and talking about Client-side Collections... great informative tutorial and all the code