Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2010 -- #905

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Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2010 -- #905

In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Kunal Chowdhury, Mark Arteaga(-2-), Shawn Hargreaves(-2-), Steve Strong, JOSUEYERAY, and Kyle McClellan.

Shoutouts:

Mason Brown has a post up that's a great read: Thoughts on User Exerience

Yochay Kiriaty announced Windows Phone Developer Training Kit – Beta Refresh

From SilverlightCream.com:

Understanding control customization with templates: part #2: Andrea Boschin has the 2nd of his tutorial series on writing a templated control up on SilverlightShow
How to Create a Silverlight OOB Installer Wrapper UI Library?: Kunal Chowdhury has a tutorial up that's going to save you the time of doing all that touchy-feely stuff with your users for every OOB app :)
More Windows Phone 7 Metro Style Icons: Did you know the 'metro' icon set was built into Blend for WP7? Mark Arteaga shows where and also includes some icons he designed as a download!
Custom Fonts In Windows Phone 7 With Expression Blend: Going backwards through Mark Arteaga's blog, here's one on using custom fonts in WP7 via Expression Blend.
Orientation and rotation on Windows Phone: Shawn Hargreaves is blogging XNA stuff for WP7, but you might want to check it out in case you decide to go all wild and crazy sometime :) ... this post is on how to control the Orientation and Rotation and get events for the same.
Resolution and scaling on Windows Phone: In another post by Shawn Hargreaves, he's talking about Resolution and Scaling ... things you should know and keep in mind when you're getting a new app started.
Silverlight: Know Your Parents and Grandparents: Steve Strong has a post up showing how to find a Silverlight object's parent (easy) and grandparent (not so much).
Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Silverlight development: Making a Off Line Rss Reader: I found this post by JOSUEYERAY via Frank LaVigne, and is an RSS reader for WP7, and is using an app bar, local storage, Object serialization and deserialization, WebClient Class, and the webBrowser control to load dynamic generated content... and all the source.
Mocking RIA Services Authentication and Authorization: Kyle McClellan is starting a series on Silverlight Authorization. In this first one he creates a MockAuthentication type that he'll be using throughout.