Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2010 -- #904

In this Issue: Charles Petzold, Nick Gravelyn, Andrea Boschin, John Papa, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Timmy Kokke, and Jeremy Likness.

Shoutouts:

Erik Mork and Co. have had this week's post up for a bit: This Week In Silverlight – Phones are here!

Einar Ingebrigtsen announced the result of some of his vacation tim: Balder on Windows Phone 7

Very useful app if you're doing anything Pivot, Andrew Cox has A tool to help diagnose problems setting up your PivotViewer app

PhaniRajuYN blogged that the Windows Phone OData sample application updated for July 2010 Beta release

As promised the other day by Walt Ritscher, Shazzam Version 1.3 Shipped

Manipulation Events Update for the WP7 Beta: Charles Petzold describes the good and less than good with the manipulation events in the WP7 beta drop.
Touch gestures on Windows Phone 7: Nick Gravelyn blogged about the new touch gestures in the WP7 Beta... he walks through them all and now has the source up as well.
Understanding control customization with templates: part #2: Andrea Boschin has part 2 of his Control series up at SilverlightShow and is discussing building a new control and doing so with templates in mind for future reuse.
Customize a ListBox Template with Silverlight: In the latest Silverlight TV, John Papa has Adam Kinney in his final episode as a MS employee discussing customizing ListBox templates... good luck at PixelLab, Adam :)
Designing for Multiple Orientations: Kirupa Chinnathambi is discussing addressing your WP7 orientation at design time... is your intent to support only one orientation or multiple? Check out his post for pointers.
Silverlight Databound Application Project Template: If you like the Silverlight Databound Application Template in Blend 4, you're going to want to thank Timmy Kokke for taking it into VS2010 for us.
Performance Profiling Silverlight 4 Step-by-Step: Jeremy Likness saw a marked lack of good info for profiling Silverlight apps, at least all in one place... so he ratted them all out into one nice post for all of us to enjoy.