Silverlight Cream for July 24, 2010 -- #909

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Silverlight Cream for July 24, 2010 -- #909

In this Issue: Tony Champion, Vikas, Larry Larsen, Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios, Gergely Orosz, András Velvárt, Rishi, John Papa, David Rousset, David Anson, and Ozymandias.

Shoutout:

The Swiss MSDN Team Blog announced “Building a Newsreader Application using Silverlight for Windows Phone 7” Hands-On Lab – Now updated for July BETA Developer Tools

Laurent Bugnion posted an MVVM Light Hotfix for Windows Phone 7 developer tools beta

Fons Sonnemans posted a video of his WP7 game Sudoku for WP7 on YouTube... I'm going to want to buy that one :)

David Anson blogged that he Upgraded my Windows Phone 7 Charting example for the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta

The latest entries from SilverlightCream.com's 6,084 links:

Binding to an Indexed Property In Silverlight: Tony Champion had trouble submitting this binding article to me (not his fault)... I'm glad he wrote... good post and a blog to add to my Big List O' Blogs^TM ... besides, us Guitar men have to stick together :) ... thanks Tony!
Test custom silverlight installation without uninstalling silverlight: Vikas has a post up showing how to test a Silverlight install without uninstalling first.
PivotViewer Silverlight Control API Overview: Larry Larsen posted 4 videos from the Pivot Summit (who knew?) Channel 9. I'm going to link them all to this one entry: (2): Building a Compelling Design with a PivotViewer Collection, (3): Just-In-Time Pivot Collections, and (4): Building a Dynamic Collection Solution for PivotViewer
Arkanoid in Windows Phone 7 using XNA: Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios has ported an Araknoid game done by Prof. Kostas Anagnostou to WP7. The original tutorial links are there if you can read Greek, but all the WP7 source is shared.
Styles in Silverlight: an Introduction: Gergely Orosz has a very nice part 1 of a proposed 4-part series on everything about Styles in Silverlight -- a good one to check out even if you know it all :)
Windows Phone 7 Emulator tips and tricks: András Velvárt has some tips for using the WP7 emulator that he found, and also check out the comments... did I say this was the unlocked emulator?
Square Away: A Windows Phone 7 Game using nRoute: Rishi is showing off nRoute by building a cool WP7 game using it... grab the source and check it out.
The Value of Prism (Silverlight TV #37): John Papa has the latest Silverlight TV up and is talking with Brian Noyes about Prism... lots of good external links.
Silverlight 4 XNA Platformer Level Editor for Windows Phone 7: overview (1/4): David Rousset has a 'level editor' for his WP7 XNA game that stores/reads the levels from Azure. This is the first of 4 posts describing how this is accomplished. All code will be provided in the next episode.
How to: Leapfrog Bindings (bridge DataContexts) in Silverlight and WPF: David Anson has a post up describing how to 'bridge' two elements to get around the one DataContext issue... the example on the post clears up any confusion and he's got all the project source available.
Windows Phone 7 UI Design and Interaction Guide Updated/Design Templates for WP7: I would have listed this post by Ozymandias as a shoutout, but the inclusion of a link to 28 layered Photoshop template files and system fonts elevates this to something folks might want to find.