Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2011 -- #1028
- by Dave Campbell
Note to #1024 Swag Winners: I'm sending emails to the vendors Sunday night, thanks for your patience (a few of you have not contacted me yet)
In this Issue: Ezequiel Jadib, Daniel Egan(-2-), Page Brooks, Jason Zander, Andrej Tozon, Marlon Grech, Jonathan van de Veen, Walt Ritscher, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Sacha Barber, William E. Burrows, and WindowsPhoneGeek.
Above the Fold:
Silverlight:
"Building a Radar Control in Silverlight - Part 1"
Page Brooks
WP7:
"Tutorial: Dynamic Tile Push Notification for Windows Phone 7"
Jason Zander
Training:
"WP7 Unleashed Session I–Hands on Labs"
Daniel Egan
From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight Rough Cut Editor SP1 Released
Ezequiel Jadib has an announcement about the Rough Cut Editor SP1 release, and he walks you through the content, installation and a bit of the initial use.
WP7 Unleashed Session I–Hands on Labs
Daniel Egan posted Part 1 of 3 of a new WP7 HOL ... video online and material to download... get 'em while they're hot!
WP7 Saving to Media Library
Daniel Egan has another post up as well on saving an image to the media library... not the update from Tim Heuer... all good info
Building a Radar Control in Silverlight - Part 1
This freakin' cool post from Page Brooks is the first one of a series on building a 'Radar Control' in Silverlight ... seriously, go to the bottom and run the demo... I pretty much guarantee you'll take the next link which is download the code... don't forget to read the article too!
Tutorial: Dynamic Tile Push Notification for Windows Phone 7
Jason Zander has a nice-looking tutorial up on dynamic tile notifications... good diagrams and discussion and plenty of code.
Reactive.buffering.from event.
Andrej Tozon is continuing his Reactive Extensions posts with this one on buffering: BufferWithTime and BufferWIthCount ... good stuff, good write-up, and the start of a WP7 game?
MEFedMVVM with PRISM 4
Marlon Grech combines his MEFedMVVM with Prism 4, and says it was easy... check out the post and the code.
Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #40
Jonathan van de Veen has a discussion up about things you need to pay attention to as your project gets close to first deployment... lots of good information to think about Silverlight or not.
Customize Windows 7 Preview pane for XAML files
Walt Ritscher has a (very easy) XAML extension for Windows 7 that allows previewing of XAML files in an explorer window... as our UK friends say "Brilliant!"
Entity Framework Code-First, oData & Windows Phone Client
From the never-ending stream of posts that is Jesse Liberty comes this one on EF Code-First... so Jesse's describing Code-First and OData all wrapped up about a WP7 app
Sterling Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Database Triggers and Auto-Identity
Sterling and Database Triggers sitting in a tree... woot for WP7 from Jeremy Likness... provides database solutions including Validation, Data-specific concerns such as 'last modified', and post-save processing ... all good, Jeremy!
A Look At Fluent APIs
Sacha Barber has a great post up that isn't necessarily Silverlight, but is it? ... we've been hearing a lot about Fluent APIs... read on to see what the buzz is.
Windows Phone 7 - Part 3 - Final Application
William E. Burrows has Part 3 of his WP7 tutorial series up... this one completing the Golf Handicap app by giving the user the ability to manage scores.
User Control vs Custom Control in Silverlight for WP7
WindowsPhoneGeek has a great diagram and description-filled post up on User Controls and Custom Controls in WP7... good external links too.
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