Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2010 -- #907

In this Issue: jbaird, Sl.ayer(-2-), Yochay Kiriaty, and René Schulte.

Shoutouts:

Silverzine announced a contest to get an MSDN subscription: Competition Time!!!!

Michael Washington and a crew of other folks have another giveaway going: Get a Free MSDN Ultimate subscription

SilverlightCream has a wp7dev page up that just lists the wp7dev posts tagged: wp7dev Tagged Articles ... this is the same as searching for wp7dev, but you can just save the link... you probably won't need this in a couple weeks, but here it is!

Erik Mork and Crew with some old guy as a guest have the latest up: This Week In Silverlight – Windows Phone tools in Beta -- thanks guys, that was fun!

Siaqodb announced Siaqodb 2.0 released

Dimaz Pramudya and his crew were winner of the Melbourne WP7 Bizspark Camp with Fuel My Car - Windows Phone 7 App

Tap and Double Tap gesture support for Windows Phone 7: jbaird is working on some WP7 games and needs some gestures. He started with the ones in the Training Kit, and is sharing what he has for Tap and Double Tap.
Free Comic Bubble Control: Sl.ayer has a cool control library available for download free for your non-commercial use... it looks great.
TipBubble Tutorial: Sl.ayer follows up with a tutorial using the TipBubble control included in the Comic Bubble control.
Understanding the Windows Phone Application Execution Model, Tombstoning, Launcher and more… – Part 3: Yochay Kiriaty finishes off his 3-part series on WP7 with one on transient states and page data that you have to read, print out, laminate :)
How To Save, Load And Iterate Pictures With Windows Phone 7: René Schulte shows us how to use the PhotoChooserTask to pull photos from the WP7 picture library, but also shows how to stuff them in there!