Silverlight Cream for July 27, 2010 -- #912

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Silverlight Cream for July 27, 2010 -- #912

In this Issue: Anton Polimenov, Gill Cleeren, Jeff Fansler, Hannah Watkins, paulio, Michael S. Scherotter, Mohamed Mosallem, and Xianzhong Zhu.

From SilverlightCream.com:

WP7: UI Concepts of Windows Phone 7: With hardware descriptions behind him, Anton Polimenov continues his 10-part series at SilverlightShow on WP7 with this one on UI Concepts
The duplex story: looking at duplex communication in Silverlight 4 - Part 3: Using Net.Tcp: Gill Cleeren has part 3 of his tutorial series on Polling Duplex with WCF and is discussing Net Tcp this time around
Introduction to the Windows Phone 7 Accelerometer: With a nod to Bill Reiss, Jeff Fansler takes off on a discussion of the accelerometer in WP7... good discussion, description, and links
A little interface animation fun: Hannah Watkins has some very nice-looking animation going on in her latest post. She describes building the background in Photoshop, then taking everything into Blend and doing some animation.
Can a developer simplify the Blend design process?: paulio (also of clearbreeze), took Hannas animation and decided to take a shot at streamlining the xaml some from a developer's perspective.
A Value Converter for the BALL Watch Silverlight Contest: Michael S. Scherotter's latest post is double -- not only describing the specific value converter for the Ball Watch contest, but also gives up his Value Converter template that you can get from the Visual Studio Gallery
Silverlight 4.0 Implicit Styles: Not so implicit after all!: Mohamed Mosallem describes why your styles might not be all they can be... and how to resolve that problem.
Write an Online Basketball Shooting Game Using Silverlight 4 and Farseer Engine - Part 1: Xianzhong Zhu is beginning a series of tutorials building an "Online Basketball Shooting Game" using Physics Helper ... check it out and download the code.