Silverlight Cream for June 19, 2011 -- #1109
- by Dave Campbell
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Oren Gal, Rudi Grobler, Stephen Price, Erno de Weerd, Joost van Schaik, WindowsPhoneGeek, Andrea Boschin, and Vikram Pendse.
Above the Fold:
Silverlight:
"Multiple Page Printing in Silverlight4 - Part 3 - Printing Driving Directions"
Oren Gal
WP7:
"Prototyping Windows Phone 7 Applications using SketchFlow"
Vikram Pendse
Shoutouts:
Not Silverlight, but darned cool... Michael Crump has just what you need to get going with Kinect: The busy developers guide to the Kinect SDK Beta
Rudi Grobler replies to a few questions about how he gets great WP7 screenshots: Screenshot Tools for WP7
From SilverlightCream.com:
Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 14 - Detecting Network Information of the Device
Squeaking in just under the posting wire with 2 more WP7.1 posts is Kunal Chowdhury ... first up is this one on grabbing the mobile operator and othe rnetwork info in WP7.1
Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 15 - Detecting Device Information
Kunal Chowdhury's latest is on using the DeviceStatus class in WP7.1 to detect device information such as is there is a physical keyboard installed, Memory Usage, Total Memory, etc.
Multiple Page Printing in Silverlight4 - Part 3 - Printing Driving Directions
Oren Gal has the final episode in his Multiple Page Printing Tutorial Trilogy up... and this is *way* cool... Printing the driving directions.
AgFx hidden gem - PhoneApplicationFrameEx
Rudi Grobler continues his previous post about AgFX with this one talking about the PhoneApplicationFrameEx class inside AgFx.Controls.Phone.dll.. a RootFrame replacement.
Binding to ActualHeight or ActualWidth
Stephen Price's latest XAML snippet is about Binding to ActualHeight or ActualWidth... you've probably tried to without luck... check out the workaround.
Windows Phone 7: Drawing graphics for your application with Inkscape – Part I: Tiles
Erno de Weerd decided to try the 'free' route to Drawing graphics for his WP7 app, and has part 1 of a tutorial series on doing that with Inkscape.
Mogade powered Live Tile high score service for Windows Phone 7
Joost van Schaik expounds on his "Catch 'em Birds" WP7 game in the Marketplace... specifically the online leaderboard using the services of Mogade.
Building a Reusable ICommand implementation for Windows Phone Mango MVVM apps
WindowsPhoneGeek's latest post is discussing the ICommand interface available in WP7.1, and he demontstrates how to implement a reusable ICommand Implementation and how to use it.
A TCP Server with Reactive Extensions
Andrea Boschin is back posting about Rx, and promises this post *will be* Silverlight related eventually :) First up though is a socket server using Rx.
Prototyping Windows Phone 7 Applications using SketchFlow
Vikram Pendse has a tutorial up for prototyping your WP7* apps in Sketchflow including a 5 minute video
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