In this Issue:        Rénald Nollet,            Benjamin Gavin,            Dennis Doomen,            Tim Greenfield,         Mike Taulty,            Jeff Blankenburg,            Michael Crump,                Laurent Duveau,            Dragos Manolescu,            KeyboardP,            Yochay Kiriaty.
            
        
    
   
Above the Fold: 
    
        
            Silverlight:
            "Silverlight RIA Services and Basic, Anonymous Authentication" 
            Benjamin Gavin
        
        
            WP7:
            "lving Circular Navigation in Windows Phone Silverlight Applications" 
            Yochay Kiriaty
        
        
            SQL Azure:
            "SQL Azure Database Manager – Part 1 : How to connect to your SQL Azure DB" 
            Rénald Nollet
        
    
   
Shoutouts:  
Yochay Kiriaty has a post up on the Windows Phone Devloper Blog about open source (MSPL) projects helping WP7 devs: Windows Phone Recipes – Helping the Community 
Jesse Liberty's latest Yet Another Podcast is up and thie time it's Joe Stagner: Yet Another Podcast #18 – Joe Stagner 
Josh Schwartzberg sent me this link to what is apparently his yearly web-only rock Christmas album: MetalXmas... done in Silverlight and RIA Services 
   
From SilverlightCream.com: 
  
                    SQL Azure Database Manager – Part 1 : How to connect to your SQL Azure DB            
    Rénald Nollet posted Part 1 of a series on a SQL Azure database manager all in Silverlight... has a live demo running, some description, and is making us wait for the next part!
                    Silverlight RIA Services and Basic, Anonymous Authentication             
    Benjamin Gavin has a quick post up resolving a basic RIA Services problem that I bet a lot of folks are looking for the answer on... like 500 series errors... cool little find he ferreted out...
                    A night of Silverlight, WPF, unit testing and Caliburn Micro            
    Dennis Doomen in concert with his employer gave a couple talks at the local DotNED user group, and covered literally a cornucopia of topics... slides, and example code for both talks... lotsa material here...
                    Tim Greenfield on PuzzleTouch WP7 Application            
    Tim Greenfield is the latest WP7 app developer to be interviewed by the SilverlightShow crew... lots of interesting comments and insight from Tim.
                     Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 4)             
    Mike Taulty has part 4 of his PDC 2010 Silverlight app construction project up and is taking the app into Blend, and the considerations that brought to the table.
                    What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #2            
    Jeff Blankenburg continues his "What I Learned" series with this discussion about fonts, the Non-Linear Navigation service I mention below, and possible WP7 jobs.
                    Part 3 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers            
    Michael Crump has Part 3 of his Tips/Tricks up today. Lots of goodies this time: underlining in a TextBlock, getting browser info, startup params, VisualTreeHelper, and child windows.
                    My Windows Phone 7 presentation in Montreal            
    Laurent Duveau gave a WP7 presentation in Montreal as part of the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Developer's Briefing, and has posted his materials and slide deck
                    WP7 Code: Mocking Event Streams with IEnumerable             
    Dragos Manolescu has a very cool post up on using IEnumerable to Mock event streams by leveraging the IObservable/IEnumerable duality, and uses the 2D bubble app that you can run and test in the emulator without needing an accelerometer
                    Transparent Wallpapers – Video Tutorial            
    KeyboardP has had so many queries about his Transparent wallpaper for WP7 that he produced a video tutorial for it... 
                     Solving Circular Navigation in Windows Phone Silverlight Applications            
    Yochay Kiriaty discusses the first recipe they are releasing ... see the shoutout above, a Nonlinear Navigation Service ... to help with apps that have loops in navigation.
    
    
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