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Friday, September 03, 2010 #

Silverlight Cream for September 03, 2010 -- #940

In this Issue: Peter Bromberg, Derik Whittaker(-2-), Paul Patterson, Michael Crump(-2-), Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx, Gergely Orosz, Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios, Jaime Rodriguez, and Georgi Atanasov.

Shoutouts:

My friend Koen Zwikstra poses the question How can we improve Silverlight Spy?... log into the forum and give him ideas.

SilverlightShow announced Free SilverlightShow Webinar: Sketchflow in Real Scenarios

Senthil Kumar announced Microsoft Patterns & Practices – Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide – Drop2

I saw Sara Ford do this webcast the other day, and now The Rematch – Webcast of my 101 VS tips in 55 mins via O’Reilly is now available

This was announced on the Public Sector Developer Weblog Windows Phone 7 DPE National Events... and I don't see any in Phoenix, folks!!

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight Binary Serialization and Compression with WCF Services: Peter Bromberg has a WCF post up on Silverlight Binary Serialization with all the code and a great example... good post Peter!
Catching the Back Button action on WP7: Derik Whittaker has a couple new WP7 posts up... this first one is on 'catching' the BackButton in case you have something you need to do inside your app when that happens.
Performing Back Navigation w/out adding a page to the Back Stack in WP7: The 2nd post by Derik Whittaker is on using the NavigationService provider to navigate back to a calling page properly to remove a page from the backstack ... check his example to clear that up :)
Microsoft LightSwitch – Creating and Using a Query: Paul Patterson is really digging into Lightswitch... and yeah I know I'm a little out of sequence on his posts, but hopefully I'll catch up and fill in the holes... check out his blog for lots of tutorials
Easy way to generate sample data for your Silverlight 4 Applications: Michael Crump decided to start using Expression Blend to insert 'live' sample data into his apps, and is sharing how to do that with us.
Silverlight 4 Application Template Themes by Microsoft: Michael Crump was inspired by Silverlight TV 42 and played with the themes enough that he has more info to share with us than the original documentation has.
Silverlight Development: Build Your Business Apps on Silverlight: Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx have an article posted at TechNet where they compiled a short list of what they thought a real LOB app should have, and then expanded on their thoughts of Silverlight 4 handling them all.
Setting the StrokeDashArray using a Style in Silverlight: Gergely Orosz ran head-long into a problem that's been in Silverlight since V2 -- really! -- and he provides a workaround for it that works very nice... check out his samples.
Frogger game on Windows Phone 7 using XNA: Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios produces my daughter's favorite game, Frogger, on WP7 in XNA and uses the accelerometer to control the frog... pretty cool!
Introducing the Inside Windows Phone Show in Channel 9: Jaime Rodriguez announced a new "Inside Windows Phone" show on Channel 9 and it kicks off with 3 Episodes: Intro, Insider scoop on the beta, and creating fast WP7 apps -- looks like another one for my Zune :)
Building a Windows Phone 7 control from the ground up - Part Two - the “Date ListBox”: Georgi Atanasov at the Telerik blog has part 2 of the WP7 control-building tutorial up -- concentrating on the 'date' listbox this time out.