Silverlight Cream for August 15, 2010 -- #926

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Silverlight Cream for August 15, 2010 -- #926

In this Issue: Michael Washington, Michael Crump, Don Burnett, John Papa, Jeremy Alles, Rob Miles(-2-), and David Gadd.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight Open File Dialog Behavior (MVVM): Michael Washington has a cool post up on building a Behavior in Blend to produce an Open File Dialog.
“Fade in” Screen in Silverlight 4: Michael Crump responds to some questions about a 'fade-in' screen effect built with Expression Blend, and has a tutorial up on that and a demo page.
Windows Phone Design Days Videos on Channel 9: I've seen a few folks post some of the "Windows Phone Design Days" videos, but Don Burnett has gathered a great list of them on his blog.
Problem Resolution: Installing Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta: Even John Papa can have issues installing the WP7 dev tools, so why not you? ... read how he got his problems ironed out... might help you too!
[WP7] Sound effect in a Silverlight Windows Phone 7 application: Jeremy Alles has a post up discussing sound in WP7, specifically sound effects, and how to do so using some XNA...
Getting Diagnostic Output from your Windows Phone programs: If you haven't figured out how to write debug messages out in WP7, this quick post from Rob Miles will resolve that for you.
Understanding Windows Phone Orientation in XNA: I had a second post to list of Rob Miles', but when I refreshed the page, this one on WP7 Orientation in XNA popped up and looked like a winner.
Building a Windows Phone 7 app with MVVM pattern, using TDD and mock objects: I found David Gadd's post via another link this morning. I'm definitely adding his blog to my list... here's a good one on TDD and WP7.