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In this Issue: Michael Washington, Benjamin Gavin Braulio Diez, Jeff Wilcox, Silverlaw, Mike Taulty(-2-), Shawn Wildermuth, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Gergely Orosz, and John Papa.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight: Why I feel “Design Is The Most Important Thing”

Michael Washington has a great post up on Design that says it much better than my normal comment: "No amount of pretty is going to make people wanna use a crappy app" :)

Silverlight TreeView - Drag & Drop with MVVM

Benjamin Gavin posted some solutions to common problems when using the TreeViewDragDropTarget wrapper control while using MVVM... good writeup and all the code.

SketchFlow from a developer point of view - Part I - Basics

Braulio Diez not only has a tutorial up on Sketchflow from a developer's standpoint, but he's got links out to a boat-load of videos along the way!

Frame rate counters in Windows Phone

Jeff Wilcox shows how to put up frame-rate counters on the WP7 device... there's a lot more to this than you may think... so check it out...

StoryboardEventHelper - Changing A VisualState At Certain Timeline Positions Of A Running Storyboard

Silverlaw built a helper class for storyboards to add OnStoryboardStarted and OnStoryboardPositionChanged... this post has a link to an example and the code, and he has a post describing the whole thing as well: Building A StoryboardEventHelper Class To Create Additional Events For A Silverlight 4 Storyboard

Silverlight and WebSockets

Responding to Tomek's recent post about Silverlight and Sockets, Mike Taulty has a great discussion about all things sockets.

Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (6–Validation)

Mike Taulty also has Part 6 of the series he's been doing on WCF RIA Services ... this one centers on Validation.

Developing for the Windows Phone 7 - Part 2: Debugging on the Phone

It looks like a boat-load of people have already hit Shawn Wildermuth's site for this video on debugging WP7 apps on the device ... wonder if that many people really have devices :)

Using the Accent Color [WP7]

Kirupa Chinnathambi has posted a page discussing the accent colors in WP7 and finishes with a chart of the accent colors defined for the device... not counting any custom ones you create, of course.

Styles in Silverlight – Inheritance, Precedence and Other Advanced Topics

Gergely Orosz has part 2 of his 4-part tutorial series on Styles in Silverlight up... This one focuses on re-using the same styles for different types, style inheritance, style precedence and style setter precedence.

Silverlight Navigation – Part 1

In the latest Silverlight TV, John Papa and David Poll discuss Navigation in Silverlight... how it integrates with the templates and how to expand on it.

Stay in the 'Light!

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