In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, Phil Middlemiss, Jag Reehal, Senthil Kumar, Andrew Marshall, Chris Koenig, Jimmy, Lee, Pete Brown, Brian, Mike Taulty, and Jeremy Likness(-2-).
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Damian Schenkelman announced the release of a Prism Training Kit he and Matias Bonaventura have put together. Read his description on the post, then go download the kit.
Phil Middlemiss has another great tutorial up at SilverlightShow on creating a custom control by inheriting from TextBox.
Jag Reehal continues with his Calculator app, and is discussing user input validation. He describes what he sees most devs do for this and why it's not the best, then describes his way.
OK everyone bookmark this page because I know you're going to run over to CodePlex and download the WP7 ActionPack that Senthil Kumar blogged about.
If you like, you can wade through the math on Andrew Marshall's page, or you can side-step all that, download the code and have yourself some geodesic curves fun with BingMaps.
Chris Koenig shows us how easy it is to backfill MVVMLight into an existing application... Silverlight, WPF, or WP7... and in only 4 steps!
It looks like I'm going to have to go read Jimmy's other 4 sections in this series -- he has the links -- this is a really nice write-up on navigation, error pages, role-based security, state management and MVVM.
If you want to get started with the Pivot control, check out what Lee has been up to... give yourself a leg up.
Pete Brown brings up an interesting thought about not naming everything with x:Name... now that I think about it, I guess I'm about halfway to that point with most of my code... but now I'll be paying attention!
I've thought it was cool that the SIP popped up when I needed it in WP7, but hadn't considered how to make it go away programmatically until Brian at the SilverlightSDK blogged about it.
Mike Taulty has part 5 of his series on WCF RIA Services up and this one is on Authorizing users... nice informative tutorial and lots of code.
Jeremy Likness has a post up describing how to use the underused IApplicationService and IApplicationLifetimeAware interfaces instead of abusing the Application Startup and Exit events.
Jeremy Likness also wades in at a very good time with another contender for WP7 database with his new CodePlex project 'Sterling'... definitely something to look at.
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