Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2010 -- #856
- by Dave Campbell
In this Issue: Jeremy Alles(-2-), Kunal Chowdhury, anand iyer, Yochay Kiriaty(-2-, -3-), Max Paulousky, David Kelley, smartyP, Tim Heuer, and Dan Wahlin.
Shoutout:
Tim Heuer provides links for all the Ways to give feedback on Silverlight
From SilverlightCream.com:
[WP7] Bug when using NavigationService in Windows Phone 7
Jeremy Alles has blogged about a bug he found using the Navigation service in WP7. He gives the steps to reproduce and a couple possible workarounds.
[WP7] Using the camera in the emulator
Jeremy Alles is also digging into the camera functionality in the emulator. He has code demonstrating launching a camera task, and a list of other tasks available.
Silverlight Tutorials Chapter 3: Introduction to Panels
Kunal Chowdhury has Chapter 3 of his Silverlight 4 Tutorial series up and he's talking about Panels this time out.
Push Notifications in Windows Phone 7 developer tools CTP April Refresh
anand iyer is discussing the Push Notifications, only from a code perspective. Good information and good additional links to follow.
Windows Phone Application Life Cycle
Yochay Kiriaty talks with Tudor Toma and Jaime Rodriguez about the WP7 application lifecycle on Channel 9.
Understanding Microsoft Push Notifications for Windows Phones
Yochay Kiriaty has a 2-part post up on WP7 Push Notifications. The first part is explaining what Push Notifications are and why we need them... as a developer and as an end user viewing Toast or Tile notifications.
Understanding How Microsoft Push Notification Works – Part 2
In the 2nd part of his Push Notification series, Yochay Kiriaty discusses how the Push Notification works under the covers.
To Remember: Deployment of Silverlight Applications With Wcf Ria Services
Max Paulousky has a post up for reference on what to look into when you get "Load Operation Failed" in WCF RIA services.
Launching a URL from an OOB Silverlight Application
David Kelley has a quick post up on launching URLs from an OOB app. If you haven't tried it, you may be surprised as he was at first.
Creating a Windows Phone 7 XNA Game in Landscape Orientation
smartyP is looking at recreating a landscape WP7 game in XNA and is detailing some of the issues he's been dealing with, and is also sharing a project file.
New Silverlight 4 Themes available–get the raw bits
Tim Heuer provided 'raw' versions of 3 new themes. Read his post to see exactly what he means by 'raw' ... they're definitely good looking, and are going to get a lot of play.
Handling WCF Service Paths in Silverlight 4 – Relative Path Support
Dan Wahlin shares his technique for avoiding the pain involved with ServiceReferences.ClientConfig by using Silverlight 4 relative path support.
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