Silverlight Cream for February 14, 2011 -- #1047
- by Dave Campbell
In this Issue: Mohamed Mosallem, Tony Champion, Gill Cleeren, Laurent Bugnion, Deborah Kurata, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Tim Heuer, Mike Taulty, John Papa, Martin Krüger, and Jeremy Likness.
Above the Fold:
Silverlight:
"Binding to a ComboBox in Silverlight : A Gotcha"
Tony Champion
WP7:
"An Ultra Light Windows Phone 7 MVVM Framework"
Jeremy Likness
Shoutouts:
Steve Wortham has a post up discussing Silverlight 5, HTML5, and what the future may bring
From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (12 of N): Collecting Attendees Feedback using Windows Phone 7
Mohamed Mosallem is up to number 12 in his Silverlight tutorial series. He's continuing his RegistrationBooth app, but this time, he's building a WP7 app to give attendee feedback.
Binding to a ComboBox in Silverlight : A Gotcha
If you've tried to bind to a combobox in Silverlight, you've probably either accomplished this as I have (with help) by having it right once, and continuing, but Tony Champion takes the voodoo out of getting it all working.
Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 5)
Gill Cleeren has Part 5 of his exam preparation post up on SilverlightShow. As with the others, he provides many external links to good information.
Referencing a picture in another DLL in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7
Laurent Bugnion explains the pitfalls and correct way to reference an image from a dll... good info for loading images such as icons for Silverlight in general and WP7 also.
Silverlight MVVM Commanding II
Deborah Kurata has a part 2 up on MVVM Commanding. The first part covered the built-in commanding for controls that inherit from ButtonBase... this post goes beyond that into other Silverlight controls.
Reactive Drag and Drop Part 1
This Drag and Drop with Rx post by Jesse Liberty is the 4th in his Rx series. He begins with a video from the Rx team and applies reactive programming to mouse movements.
Yet Another Podcast #24–Reactive Extensions
On the heels of his previous post on Rx, in his latest 'Yet Another Podcast', Jesse Liberty chats with Matthew Podwysocki and Bart De Smet about Reactive Extensions.
Silverlight 4 February 2011 Update Released Today
Tim Heuer announced the release of the February 2011 Silverlight 4 release. Check out Tim's post for information about what's contained in this release.
Blend Bits 25–Templating Part 3
In his 3rd Templating tutorial in BlendBits, Mike Taulty demonstrates the 'Make into Control' option rather than the other way around.
Silverlight TV 61: Expert Chat on Deep Zoom, Touch, and Windows Phone
John Papa interviews David Kelley in the latest Silverlight TV... David is discussing touch in Silverlight and for WP7 and his WP7 apps in the marketplace.
Simple Hyperlinkbutton style
Martin Krüger has a cool Hyperlink style available at the Expression Gallery. Interesting visual for entertaining your users.
An Ultra Light Windows Phone 7 MVVM Framework
Jeremy Likness takes his knowledge of MVVM (Jounce), and WP7 and takes a better look at what he'd really like to have for a WP7 framework.
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