Silverlight Cream for July 18, 2010 -- #906

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Silverlight Cream for July 18, 2010 -- #906

In this Issue: Kirupa Chinnathambi, Sergey Barskiy, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Shawn Wildermuth, Djonatas Tenfen, Yochay Kiriaty(-2-), Jason Zander.

Shoutouts:

Jeremy Likness follows up his Silverlight Profiling post with this one: Silverlight Profiling Part 2: The Easy Way

Jeremy Likness also announced a release: Sterling OODB v0.1 Alpha Released!

The Silverlight Team Blog announced Ooyala and Silverlight Bring the Beach Volleyball Open to You, Live!

From SilverlightCream.com:

Optimizing the On-Screen Keyboard: Kirupa Chinnathambi has a post up talking about how to get the right keyboard up for the type of data you're expecting your users to enter.
Unit Testing Silverlight Applications: Sergey Barskiy is starting a series on Unit Testing your Silverlight apps. This first one gives links out to what he's using and sets up the project.
Events Under The Hood – Delegates and Events In Depth: Jesse Liberty gets back to the basics with Delegates and events in his latest post... looks like a good one to keep track of if you're just getting started.
Teaching An Old Control New Tricks With Templates: Jesse Liberty has part 4 of his series on Templates and DataValidation up ... this one is a cool re-template of a control to get some extra functionality.
Bring Back Page Transitions to the Windows Phone List Application Template: Shawn Wildermuth bemoans the loss of the page transitions in the WP7 Beta, and then proceeds to produce his own... and gives us the code!
Building an Airport Status Mashup with Silverlight and Bing Maps: Djonatas Tenfen has a nice tutorial up mashing up BingMaps and real-time status of US airports ... and includes all the source.
Understanding the Windows Phone Application Execution Model, Tombstoning, Launcher and Choosers, and Few More Things That Are on the Way – Part 1: Yochay Kiriaty has a 2-parter up discussing the new features available in the WP7 Beta... this one covers Application Launching, Application Closing, and Application Deactivated.
Understanding the Windows Phone Application Execution Model, Tombstoning, Launcher and Choosers, and Few More Things That Are on the Way – Part 2: This is the 2nd part of Yochay Kiriaty's post describing the new functionality available to us in the WP7 Beta drop, and this one covers Application Activated`
Tutorial: Updating your Windows Phone Splash Screen with Transparent Images: Jason Zander is using Paint.Net to create transparent WP7 Splash screen images, but of course you can use the tool of your choice :)