Silverlight Cream for January 14, 2011 -- #1027
- by Dave Campbell
In this Issue: Sigurd Snørteland, Yochay Kiriaty, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), Kunal Chowdhury, Martin Krüger(-2-), Jonathan Cardy.
Above the Fold:
Silverlight:
"Image Viewer using a GridSplitter control"
Martin Krüger
WP7:
"Implementing WP7 ToggleImageControl from the ground up: Part1"
WindowsPhoneGeek
VS2010 Templates:
"MVVM Project Templates for Visual Studio 2010"
Jonathan Cardy
From SilverlightCream.com:
BabySmash7 - a WP7 children's game (source code included)
Sigurd Snørteland not only brings Scott Hanselman's Baby Smash to WP7, but he's delivering the source to us as well as discussion of the app.
Windows Push Notification Server Side Helper Library
Yochay Kiriaty has a tutorial up on Push Notification... not explaining them, but a discussion of a WP7 Push Recipe that provides an easy way for sending all 3 kinds of push notification messages currently supported.
Implementing WP7 ToggleImageControl from the ground up: Part1
WindowsPhoneGeek has a great 2-part series up on building a useful WP7 custom control -- a ToggleImage control... this part 1 is definition, deciding on Visual states, etc... buckle up... this is good stuff
Implementing WP7 ToggleImageControl from the ground up: Part2
Part 2 in WindowsPhoneGeek's series is also up and where the real fun lives -- implementing the behavior of the control... and the source is available at the end of this post.
The Full Stack #5 – Entity Framework Code First
Jesse Liberty has episode 5 of the "Full Stack" series he and Jon Galloway are doing and are discussing Entity Framework Code First.
Windows Phone From Scratch #18 – MVVM Light Toolkit Soup To Nuts 3
Jesse Liberty also has part 3 of his MVVMLight and WP7 post up and is digging into messaging in this one... for example view <--> ViewModel communication.
Exploring Ribbon Control for Silverlight (Part - 1)
Kunal Chowdhury has part 1 of a series up on using the Silverlight Ribbon Control from DevComponents... lots of information and a great intro to a great control.
Image Viewer using a GridSplitter control
Martin Krüger has a very nice picture viewer up as a demo and code available that simply uses the GridSplitter to implement tha aperture... check it out.
How to: Gentle animation of a magnify effect
Martin Krüger's latest is a take-off on a prior post he links to called 'just for fun' in which he smoothly animates a magnify effect... just very cool animation... explanation and source.
MVVM Project Templates for Visual Studio 2010
Jonathan Cardy has a couple resources you probably wanna grab... two MVVM project templates for VS2010... one WPF and one Silverlight
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